20 June

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 20 June:

1. On this date in 1837, William IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland died at the age of 71. He joined the Navy at 13 and was a close friend of Nelson, and so was nicknamed the Sailor King. His two older brothers all died without legitimate issue, and he'd inherited the throne at 64. He didn't have any legitimate issue either and so was succeeded in the United Kingdom by his niece, Victoria.
2. In 1999, a married man and his secretary were killed by Lightning while making love in a rubber dinghy in the middle of a lake near Osnabruck in Germany. Tomas Gormann, 32, and Maria Tlek, 22, were found by a forestry worker next day. Gormann's wife, Jan, said: "This was God's intervention".
3. In 1756, 145 British men and a woman, the captured defenders of Calcutta, were forced to spend the night in a prison cell, 18 x 14 feet wide with only two small windows. Only 22 men and the woman survived the night. It became known as the Black Hole of Calcutta.
4. In 1960, Nan Winton became the first woman to read the national news on BBC television.
5. In 1815, a giant sea serpent was spotted off Plymouth, Massachusetts, supposedly extending 100 feet above the water with a head which was 6-8 feet long.
6. In 1895, Caroline Baldwin earned a doctorate degree in science from Cornell University, becoming the first woman to be awarded a PhD.
7. In 1972, the Tallahatchie Bridge, made famous in Bobbie Gentry's 1967 hit, Ode To Billie Joe, collapsed.
8. In 1949, ‘Gorgeous Gussie’ Moran, US Tennis player, caused a sensation at Wimbledon by wearing lace-trimmed panties under her skirt.
9. In 1819, the paddle-wheel steamship Savannah arrived in Liverpool after a voyage lasting 27 days 11 hours. It was the first steamship to cross the Atlantic – or any ocean for that matter.
10. In 1987, Frank Sinatra lost his voice after singing Singing In The Rain in the rain in Verona, Italy, forcing him to cancel his appearance in Milan.

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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