Pulp Fiction This article is more than 14 years oldPulp Fiction writer jailed for fatal crashThis article is more than 14 years oldRoger Avary pleaded guilty to manslaughter and drunk-driving over the January 2008 crash that killed a honeymooning friendRoger Avary, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Pulp Fiction, was yesterday sentenced to a year behind bars and five years on probation for his role in a fatal crash in January last year.

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ObituaryGeorge CarmanThe most celebrated barrister of his generation, he enjoyed matchless success across all branches of the lawWhen George Carman, who has died aged 71, announced last August that he was retiring from the bar because of ill health, his home in Wimbledon was immediately besieged by the press. Carman, visibly sick and walking with difficulty, granted all an audience. He claimed to dislike the limelight, but he knew he was a star, and he enjoyed the fame that a string of sensational cases in the last 20 years of his career gave him.

First world war This article is more than 7 years oldHonour for factory where female workers died in first world warThis article is more than 7 years oldSite of Barnbow National Filling Factory where scores of women were killed in explosion becomes scheduled monument A century after an explosion in a Leeds munitions factory killed scores of female workers, whose deaths were kept secret for years after the first world war, the site is to be given official protection by the government as a historic monument.

Dr Ian Davis is an independent human security and arms control consultant and activist. He has a rich background in government, academia, and the non-governmental organisation sector. He received both his Ph.D. and BA in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford, in the United Kingdom. He was formerly executive director of the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) (2001-2007) and before that programme manager at another UK-based thinktank, Saferworld (1998-2001).