Weatherday: A 'scandalous trade'
View along the Seine in Paris from the top of the Eiffel Towner (2016). |
Cloudy with some patchy rain or drizzle to start. It should dry up in the afternoon, and there's a possibility of a little sun.
Temperature getting up to 9deg in light southerly winds veering later from the west.
On this day in 1740, a 'degraded' clergyman, Edward Sewell, was hanged in St Stephen's Green in Dublin for the offence of 'couple beggar', marrying a Protestant and Catholic.
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