Bamber said he did, that he alerted police, and that Sheila fired the final shot while he and the officers were standing outside the house.

Bamber said he did receive such a call, and that the line went dead in the middle of it, which would be consistent with the phone being found off the hook.

Bamber said: " You've got to help me.

" Bamber said he had tried to ring his father back, but there was no reply.

PC West then spoke to Bamber again, who apparently complained at the length of time West was taking, and said: " When my father rang he sounded terrified.

In his early witness statements, Bamber said he had telephoned the police immediately after receiving his father's call, then telephoned Mugford.

The White House Farm murders took place near the English village of Tolleshunt D ' Arcy, Essex, on 7 August 1985, when Nevill Bamber, a farmer and magistrate, his wife June, their adoptive daughter, Sheila Caffell, and her six-year-old twin sons, were shot and killed during the night inside the Bambers ' farmhouse.

One crucial issue was whether Bamber received a call from his father that night to say Sheila had gone " berserk " with a gun.

She had a poor relationship with Sheila, who felt June disapproved of her, and her relationship with Bamber was so troubled that he had apparently stopped speaking to her.

According to Bamber, the family discussed placing the boys in foster care over dinner on the night of the murders, with little response from Sheila.

Bamber disputed this, telling police that he and Sheila had gone target shooting together, though he acknowledged in court that he had not seen her fire a gun as an adult.

Bamber visited the farm on the evening of 6 August, and told the court his parents had suggested to Sheila that the boys be placed in foster care, because of her mental-health problems.

A central issue is whether Nevill telephoned Bamber before the murders to say Sheila had gone crazy and had a gun.

The log is headed " daughter gone berserk " and says: " Mr Bamber, White House Farm, Tolleshunt d ’ Arcy — daughter Sheila Bamber, aged 26 years, has got hold of one of my guns.

Sister Sheila Bamber age 27.

* Sheila Caffell, one of the alleged victims of Jeremy Bamber, in what became popularly known as the " Bambi " murder case

Bamber Gascoigne, having been asked by Williams to witness the burial of the hare and to document the contest from beginning to end, did so in his book Quest for the Golden Hare.

** In London, Jeremy Bamber is found guilty of the murder of his adoptive parents, sister and twin nephews, and sentenced to life imprisonment, with a recommendation by the trial judge that he should serve at least 25 years before being considered for parole.

Williams appeared in West End revues including Share My Lettuce with Maggie Smith, written by Bamber Gascoigne, and Pieces of Eight with Fenella Fielding.

The program, presented by Bamber Gascoigne, produced by Granada Television and broadcast across the ITV network, was very popular and ran until it was taken off the air in 1987.

Produced by Granada Television and filmed at Granada Studios in Manchester since its inception, University Challenge aired for 913 episodes on ITV from 1962 to 1987, presented by quiz master Bamber Gascoigne.

From its inception in 1962, University Challenge was hosted by Bamber Gascoigne.

It was presented by Bamber Gascoigne, and screened on BBC2 on 28 December 1992.

The original, jauntier version from the Bamber Gascoigne era is no longer used, and has been replaced by a version recorded by The Balanescu Quartet.

The show has seen numerous specials, including those for specific professions and celebrity editions, such as Universe Challenge, presented by former host and Red Dwarf fan, Bamber Gascoine, where the cast of Red Dwarf challenged a team of their " ultimate fans " to celebrate Red Dwarfs 10th anniversary on the air.

This appearance was satirized by cartoonist Jim Bamber for the Yumping Yarns cartoon of Car & Car Conversions magazine, when he depicted McRae driving his Vivio underneath an elephant.

Hatch / Zarek spends most of his first episode in heated debate with Captain Apollo ( played by Jamie Bamber ), the role that Hatch had played in the original series.

According to the prosecution, the log discusses a call known to have been made by Bamber ( see below ).

" It adds: " Message passed to CD by the son of Mr Bamber after phone went dead.

On 9 April 2008, Bamber Bridge conceded two goals in the first 47 seconds of their 0 – 3 defeat by Newcastle Blue Star, which is believed to be a world record.

Woolton then passed to Isaac Green, and through his daughter to her son Bamber Gascoyne of Childwall ( MP for Liverpool 1780-96 and an ancestor of Bamber Gascoigne who hosted University Challenge for many years ), and is presently owned by the Marquis of Salisbury.

" Hitler was also portrayed in the film Valkyrie by David Bamber, which tells the story of the July 1944 bomb attempt on his life.

According to the Encyclopedia of Britain by Bamber Gascoigne ( 1993 ), it was Catherine Winkworth who, learning of General Charles James Napier's ruthless, unauthorized, and successful campaign to conquer the Indian province of Sind, "... remarked to her teacher that Napier's despatch to the governor general of India, after capturing Sind, should have been Peccavi ( Latin for ' I have sinned ').

On August 7, 1979, Williams ( accompanied by celebrity witness Bamber Gascoigne ) buried the casket at a secret location within England.

Double yellow lines were first used in Yorkshire by George Bamber ( 1822-1903 ), a farmer of Masham, North Yorkshire.

The design of the two yellow lines came from the markings used by Bamber to identify his sheep, and they were originally used as ' boundary markers ' to protect his land, He also used the ' two yellow lines ' to identify the access routes to his farm on the road, which on market days were sometimes clogged up with carts from surrounding villagers who were attending the regular markets.

But weeks after the murders, the ex-girlfriend of Nevill and June's adoptive son, Jeremy Bamber — the only surviving member of the immediate family — told police that Bamber had implicated himself.

It became a central plank of the prosecution's case that the father had made no such call, and that the only reason Bamber would have lied about it — indeed, the only way he could have known about the shootings — was that he was the killer himself.

The prosecution's case was that Bamber had killed his family to inherit their estate, which included £ 436, 000, the farmhouse where the murders took place, of land, and a caravan site in Maldon, Essex, called Osea Road Camp Sites Ltd. Because of his conviction, the estate passed instead to his cousins, some of whom were involved in finding the crucial evidence against him — the gun's silencer in the farm's gun cupboard with a fleck of blood on it.

This was the one found with its receiver off the hook, the implication being that someone — Nevill, according to Bamber — had been interrupted mid-call.

Explaining why he had called a local police station and not 999, Bamber told police that night that he had not thought it would make a difference in terms of how fast they arrived.