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Sep 5 2007
HE WAS a British hero of the old tradition – modest, shy, highly disciplined and brave, tall with well-bushed brows....
Sep 4 2007
IN LATER life, there was something about his gait and manner, which suggested that he might have had one too many....
Sep 3 2007
IT WAS grand Sunday night TV and you could almost sense the sting of the salt spray in your eyes when that theme music opened....
Aug 30 2007
FLU had taken a grip on the chaplain to the mental hospital when he was told on a rain-swept night that a patient was on a tower threatening to jump....
Aug 29 2007
IT WAS a sullen, sweating day when the cleaner in the pretty frock stepped on the Greyhound bus. She sat in the section reserved for “coloured” people....
Aug 28 2007
HIS clients included some of the most temperamental and conceited people on earth, to whom “not a hair out of place” was not so much a casual compliment as a way of life....
Aug 24 2007
THE brave and beautiful girl from Ramsbottom, where people are proud of their black puddings and Lancashire moors, made her name writing about the pimps, prostitutes and racketeers in the Florence not hung in the galleries....
Aug 23 2007
AS A television writer possessed of perfect timing, a brimming imagination and an innate sympathy for eccentricity, seasoned by British humour, he gave new flesh to characters loved in books....
Aug 22 2007
THERE was sadness in their hearts yesterday, and thanks as well, when they sang and hummed the Teddy Bears’ Picnic, as the coffin of a little man with a big ambition was carried from the church....
Aug 21 2007
HIS wisdom came from experience. He had seen much as a reporter, a soldier, a government minister and a Fleet Street editor....
