Re-enactors upset by ban on taking UK spec deacts to France

[Racalman]

Went to visit the family last week and thought I'd ask about the mad axeman episode (I was very young at the time).

Frank Ellis (he changed his name to Mitchell later) escaped from Rampton Hospital with another man in January 1957. The got through three locked doors with keys they'd made from gramophone parts and coat hangers ...

They threatened several people in the village with a shotgun and axe, and beat up my school teacher's husband with an iron bar. Then they stole a motorbike and made off to Newark, where they were arrested 60 hours after escaping.

Mitchell was sent to Dartmoor and was sprung by the Kray twins in 1965. He disappeared, presumed murdered.

[Nick Hulme]

I saw a very nice Lee Enfield that had been converted to 410 shotgun last year, I know a lot of Civil War re-enactors use musket replicas proofed only for shot but I haven't met any WW re-enactors to ask about the popularity of shotgun conversion of .303 rifles,

- Nick