22 DECEMBER 1990, page 20

Haven't You Got Homes To Go To?

Sandra Barwick discovers that reasons for homelessness are not at all straightforward ELEGANT euphemisms are particularly useful at Christmas. What was once a tramp or a beggar......

One Hundred Years Ago

THE efforts to secure a respite for Mrs Pearcey, the Kentish Town murderess, on the ground of her liability to epilep- tic attacks, failed, Mr Matthews, who as regards the......