When was the last snap general election? October 1974, the second general election of that year. Here's Harold Wilson making the announcement on 18th September, 1974. | BBC Radio 4

A stage collapsed at a Mexican election campaign rally, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens as high winds tore apart the large, concert-style structure, scattering politicians and attendees. Some 70 people were hospitalized after the rally for the Citizens’ Movement party in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, Samuel Garcia, the state’s governor, said. He said he would meet with security and civil protection officials at the government palace. The victims were eight adults and