On This Day — 8 August

Publication Date 6 August 1981 For The Week Ending 8 August 1981

• ——: Titbits - Under the heading 'My Kidnap Terror', Lena describes how she was abducted by students in Johannesburg during rag week. She tells how her manager paid a £250 ransom for her release.

8 August 2002

• ——: BBC News - An anorexia sufferer, who has taken the name of a singing star who died of the disease, is fighting for better respite care. Ellie Zavaroni, who took the name of her friend Lena Zavaroni after the singer died in 1999, is battling againt the debilitating disease...