The panicked Liverpool groom who staged a bomb scare at St Gearge’s Hall on his wedding day to cover up the fact that he had failed to book it has been jailed for 12 months. (See Event Organisers Update, October, OLD GRIT’S DIARY, Thursday)

In a telephone call to the venue Neil McArdle, 36, told them “This is not a hoax call. There’s a bomb in St George’s Hall and it will go off in 45 minutes”.