With the help of the Hopes, Capote and Harper Lee went on to inveigle themselves into the lives of other key figures in town, notably the Deweys with whom Capote became lifelong friends.

The critics accuse the prime minister, David Cameron, of having rushed into Libya in the naive belief that air power alone could remove Colonel Qaddafi.

Parker left home during his early teens, and while working at a dairy farm, he fell in with Mike Cassidy (whose name he would eventually take in his honor), a horse thief and cattle rustler.