Review of the year 2004 - April
2 Toby Studabaker, a former US marine who abducted and had sex with a 12-year-old British girl after ``grooming'' her on the internet, was jailed for four-and-a-half years.
5 The Queen took the Eurostar to Paris for a state visit to France to mark 100 years of the Entente Cordiale, set up in 1904 to improve diplomatic relations between the two countries.
6 Police and the security services foiled a terrorist plot to launch a poison gas attack in Britain.
14 Former TV presenter Caron Keating died at the age of 41 after losing her seven-year battle with breast cancer.
17 Abdel Aziz Rantisi, the newly-appointed leader of Hamas in the Gaza
Strip, was killed in an Israeli missile strike.
19 Plans were unveiled to pay sixth form students up to #30 a week as
an incentive to stay at school.
21 Soccer pundit Ron Atkinson quit his job as an ITV Sport commentator over a racist outburst was accidentally broadcast.
22 Hundreds of people were killed and injured in a massive explosion
following a train collision at Ryongchon station in North Korea.
27 Spain completed the withdrawal of its troops from Iraq, but Tony Blair indicated the UK will not fill the gap.
30 President George Bush expressed his ``deep disgust'' at photographs showing 11 US soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners.
