Viscount misfires
NZPA-Reuter London Viscount Whitelaw, a senior British Government member, accidentally shot and wounded two men while grouse shooting in northern England during the weekend, his spokesman said yesterday. Lord Whitelaw, a former Home Secretary and now leader of the House of Lords, apparently slipped and his gun • fired prematurely. Shot pellets hit a prominent industrialist, Sir Joseph Nickerson, aged 70, and the party’s gun loader, Lindsay Waddell, who spent two days in hospital with leg wounds. “Lord Whitelaw is naturally deeply upset, but only relieved that no lasting damage was done ewher to Sir Joseph or to Mri Waddell,” the spokesmairsaid.
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