28 March

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 28 March:

1. On this date in 1942, Denis Thatcher married Margaret... no, not that one, but Margaret Kempson, his first wife. He was abroad so much during the war that they never actually lived together, and while he was away, she met someone else. When Denis returned to England after being demobbed in 1946, she asked for a divorce.
2. In 1930, Constantinople had its name changed to Istanbul by Kemal Atatürk, and the town of Angora (where the wool comes from) was changed to Ankara, the new capital of Turkey.
3. In 1976, Genesis began their first North American tour since Peter Gabriel left, in Buffalo, New York. Phil Collins was the new lead singer.
4. In 2011, French urban climber Alain Robert scaled the world's tallest building, Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
5. In 1912, both the Oxford and Cambridge boats sank in the Thames, so the boat race had to be rerun.
6. In 1995, in Japan, Mitsubishi Bank and the Bank of Tokyo agreed to a merger which would create the world's largest bank.
7. In 2018, human rights activist Malala Yousafzai returned to her native Pakistan for the first time since being shot in October 2012, to meet with Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.
8. In 1960, 20 firemen trying to put out a fire in a warehouse full of scotch Whiskey in Glasgow were crushed by a collapsing wall after the whiskey exploded.
9. In 1791 Mary Bryant and 8 male convicts escaped from the New South Wales penal colony in Australia in an open boat. They were eventually captured near Timor, thousands of miles away.
10. In 1970, Jane Berins, aged 16, set a world record when she go-go danced for 18 hours.

The Power of Love

Willow believes in crystal healing, cosmic  ordering  and the significance of chance  encounters. She believes there's a spiritual  explanation for everything. Except she struggles to find a reason why she can turn herself into  mist and create a wave of energy which can slam a would-be mugger into a wall. Or why the love of  her life left her for a mysterious woman in sunglasses, who then disappeared without trace.  

A chance encounter with Firebolt, leader of the Freedom League superhero team, in a Glastonbury coffee shop, does turn out to be significant. He offers her a new start and the chance to use her powers for good.

Servant is a Christian who has joined the Freedom League in order to use his teleporting power to serve God. He and Willow clash from the start, yet they are drawn inexorably to one another.

When Willow leaves the team abruptly for reasons unknown, Servant knows he must put her out of his mind and find a nice Christian girl to settle down with. He is about to propose to devout and straight-laced Ruth, when Willow returns and turns his entire world upside down.

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