a swing of 11.3% to the SNP. 12 November – Brazil's Supreme Court refuses to extradite the Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs to Britain. 17 November – Six Britons are among the 58 people killed by terrorists in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt. 20 November The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. 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 3 December – Andrew Evans, who was convicted of the 1972 murder of 14-year-old Judith Roberts in Tamworth, Staffordshire, has his conviction overturned by the Court of Appeal after the hearing is told he was being treated for depression when he confessed to the crime, and there is no other evidence against him. 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)". 11 December – The Royal Yacht Britannia is decommissioned after 44 years in service. 18 December – The bill to establish the Scottish Parliament unveiled by Secretary of State for Scotland Donald Dewar. 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 The government announces an independent inquiry into the BSE crisis. Twelve people are arrested during protests by disabled people outside Downing Street. 23 December – Rover Group produces the final Rover 100 after 17 years. 24 December – Will Straw, son of Cabinet minister Jack Straw, is arrested on suspicion of supplying cannabis. 27 December – Ulster Loyalist leader Billy Wright is shot dead in the Maze Prison. Prisoners of the Irish National Liberation Army are believed to have been responsible for Wright's murder. 31 December – Singer Elton John and football legend Tom Finney are among the men receiving knighthoods in the New Year's Honours List. Undated The Weare prison ship is berthed in Portland Harbour as a temporary overflow facility. The WOW! Awards organization is founded. The Tenants' and Residents' Organisations of England organization is officially recognised. Publications Iain Banks' novel A Song of Stone.