16th July 1931
Bergerac creator Robert Banks Stewart is born
Edinburgh-born screenwriter and producer Robert Banks Stewart devised the Jersey-set BBC police drama, Bergerac. He had previously worked on The Sweeney, The Avengers and Doctor Who. The end of the 1970s saw him working on two series of Shoestring and, between 1981 and 1991, he was occupied with his best-known work, Bergerac. Stewart died in 2016, aged 84.
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Other events that occured in July
Jersey gets its first ever local bank notes
- When Jersey needed to raise funds, it came up with a profitable wheeze: it would issue its first ever peacetime banknotes.
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Reform Jersey registered as a political party
- The centre-left Reform Jersey political party was registered at the Royal Court on 4 July and contested the 15 October election.
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A dying man confesses to murder
- A dying man confessed to having killed a woman for which the victim's brother had earlier been tried, convicted, and hanged.
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Record-breaking Jersey cow finds fame
- A Jersey cow found fame when she produced more than her own weight in butter in a single year.
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