Robin Cook: Last News

Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A journalist who reported from Paris on the night the Princess of Wales was killed in a car crash has told how he had to "decode" the details of her condition from the French authorities.Diana was 36 when she died on August 31, 1997 - 24 years ago today - in a fatal accident in a Paris tunnel.Kevin Connolly, who was one of the first journalists to arrive at the scene after the accident, said it dawned on him only "quite slowly" that Diana had been killed, and it was hard to get firm information from the authorities about what had happened.News of the incident originally came from the other side of the world, via reporters who were on a flight with then-Foreign Secretary Robin Cook in the

funeral at Glasgow Cathedral a week later, amid scenes of mourning for a politician in the city not seen for generations. Over a year before, on the day our newly devolved Scottish Parliament met for the first time on July 1, 1999, Donald proclaimed it as “the day when democracy was renewed in Scotland”.