care in the US. She is jailed for life with a minimum of 20 years. November 10 November – Louise Woodward's second degree murder conviction is reduced to manslaughter on appeal, and her life sentence is replaced by one of 279 days – the amount of time she had already spent in custody on remand. She is released from prison. 12 November – Brazil's Supreme Court refuses to extradite the Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs to Britain. 18 November – Tottenham Hotspur, the struggling Premier League club, appoint Swiss coach Christian Gross as their new manager. 20 November – At the Beckenham by-election, Jacqui Lait holds the seat for the Conservatives. 20 November – At the Winchester by-election, Mark Oaten holds the seat for the Liberal Democrats. 24 November – The British Library opens its first public reading room at its new London site on the Euston Road. December 5 December – Chester man John O'Shaughnessy, 31, is jailed for life after admitting the rape and murder of nine-year-old Kayleigh Ward in the Blacon area of the city 12 months ago. The trial judge recommends that he should serve at least 30 years before being considered for parole. 10 December – John E. Walker wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Paul D. Boyer "for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)". 19 December William Hague marries Ffion Jenkins. Moors murderer Myra Hindley loses a High Court appeal against the whole life tariff which was imposed on her by Home Secretary David Waddington in 1990 and later confirmed by Waddington's successor Michael Howard. 22 December Twelve people are arrested during protests by disabled people outside Downing Street. German striker Jürgen Klinsmann, who spent the 1994–95 season at Tottenham Hotspur, returns to the club in a £175,000 move from Sampdoria of Italy as new manager Christian Gross attempts to drag the North London side clear of relegation trouble. 24 December – Will Straw, son of Cabinet minister Jack Straw, is arrested on suspicion of supplying cannabis. 31 December – Singer Elton John and football legend Tom Finney among the men receiving knighthoods in the New Year's Honours List. Births 1 October – Aimee Challenor, politician and transgender activist Deaths 10 January – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (born 1907 in Scotland) See also 1997 in