Review of the year 2004 - October
7 The high court ruled that desperately ill premature baby CharlotteWyattshould be allowed to die.
9 The Queen and the Prime Minister led a massive outpouring of public sympathy for the family of Ken Bigley while his birthcity of Liverpool observed a two-minute silence in his memory.
10 Prince Harry vigorously denied claims by a former teacher that he
cheated in his A-Level art coursework.
15 Drug addict Ian Previte was jailed for life after being found guiltyof murdering British backpacker Caroline Stuttle in Australia.
19 A video of British charity worker Margaret Hassan is shown after she is kidnapped in Iraq.
22 Prince Charles gave his support to his son after Prince Harry was involved in a fracas with photographers outside a nightclub.
25 The mayor of Pitcairn and his son were among five men found guilty of a series of rapes and sexual assaults against girls on the island stretching back over four decades.
28 Nine British tourists on a pilgrimage tour of Jordan died when their coach overturned near the ancient city of Petra.
