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    Starred in some great films,last one I saw was Last Orders.

    One of my favorite Actors RIP Hoskins!

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    Actor Bob Hoskins' life and career



    Bob at the beginning of his small screen career in the 1972 ITV drama Villains



    Banged up with James Cossins in ITV's On The Run



    Taking the lead in the original BBC version of Dennis Potter's drama Pennies from Heaven as sheet music salesman Arthur Parker



    Hoskins starred alongside a host of A-listers in the 1979 movie Zulu Dawn



    With Helen Mirren in the classic The Long Friday



    The Honorary Consul (Beyond The Limit) saw Hoskins star alongside Hollywood heartthrob Richard Gere



    In Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club



    Playing Italian dictator Benito Mussolini alongside Anthony Hopkins in The Decline and Fall of Il Duce



    Hoskins played the character Spoor in Terry Gilliam's futuristic 1985 film Brazil



    He then went on to win a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for his performance in Mona Lisa alongside Cathy Tyson



    With Dame Maggie Smith in The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne



    Playing the straight guy again, this time alongside the voluptuous Jessica Rabbit in the hit comedy Who Framed Roger Rabbit



    Sandwiched in between (left to right) Christina Ricci, Cher and Winona Ryder in Mermaids



    In Steven Spielberg's family blockbuster Hook



    Armed and dangerous in the 1991 movie Shattered



    More family fun alongside John Leguizamo in Super Mario Bros



    Directing and starring the the family adventure movie Rainbow



    Back to period drama in Cousin Bette with Jessica Lange



    As Mr Micawber with a very young Daniel Radcliffe in David Copperfield



    Down the pub with Michael Caine and Tom Courtenay in Last Orders



    Playing the straight guy in the 2002 rom-com Maid in Manhattan with Jennifer Lopez



    2004's Vanity Fair



    With Will Young and Doraly Rosen in Mrs Henderson Presents



    In the martial arts action thriller Unleashed



    Starring as Badger in the BBC production of the classic Wind in the Willows



    2007's Outlaw with Lennie James



    Starring alongside Frances Barber in the 2009 BBC drama The Street



    On the factory floor in the British comedy Made in Dagenham



    The 2012 film Snow White And The Huntsman was the last time Bob Hoskins (2nd from right) appeared in front of the camera. He played the character Muir alongside Chris Hemsworth (2nd from left).



    Robert William 'Bob' Hoskins. 1942 - 2014

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    Cathy Tyson who played the hot chick in Mona Lisa was on the TV here in the UK tonight paying tribute on the intensity of his acting in that film. I thought he was great, a real North London boy with tremendous menace in his looks when the part required. Subsequently found he was born outside of London and his granny was a Romani. See what a diverse lot we Brits are! RIP Bob, you were class.

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    She was married to Craig Charles out of Red Dwarf.

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    Hate to see this bad news. Seventy one isn't very old these days.

    A talented actor, he was.

    Goodbye, Bob.

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    I bet he comes back as a ghost though. After all ....


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    Quite a full life....



    He was a world-class marksman, a World War II veteran, a United States Army colonel, a father to five, an Olympian and a former FBI agent. He was also one of the men who, in 1937, shot Al Brady, public enemy No .1, on Central Street in Bangor.

    Col. Walter R. Walsh, a legend among marksmen, died at his home in Arlington, Virginia, on Tuesday, at the age of 106, just five days shy of his 107th birthday.

    Walsh’s son, Walter Walsh Jr., confirmed the death to multiple media outlets. At the time of his death, Walter R. Walsh was both the oldest living Olympian, surpassing gymnast Rudy Schrader, and the oldest living former FBI agent.

    Walsh was known for his work on several major FBI cases in the 1930s, including discovering the body of George “Baby Face” Nelson in 1934 after he was killed by fellow agents, and capturing on a frigid January day in 1935 Arthur “Doc” Barker, the son of Ma Barker, who was wanted for murder, kidnapping, a jailbreak and a slew of bank robberies.

    Walsh had traced Barker to an apartment building in New Jersey, and managed to catch the gangster unarmed, causing him to slip on an icy sidewalk.

    “I asked him, ‘Where’s your heater, Doc?’ He said, ‘It’s up in the apartment.’ I said, ‘Ain’t that a hell of a place for it?’” recalled Walsh, in a video interview conducted around the time of the FBI’s 100th anniversary in 2008. “He was ready to be shot if he tried to run. Lucky for him he didn’t, because he was close enough he’d be hard to miss.”

    It was Walsh’s expert involvement, however, in the October 1937 Al Brady shootout in Bangor that cemented his legacy. Brady was wanted for four murders, 200 robberies and a jailbreak, and he’d been traced by the FBI to Bangor, where he and his associates were trying to buy Thompson submachine guns at Dakin’s Sporting Goods — “Tommy” guns, a favorite weapon of 1930s gangsters.

    According to BDN archives and Bangor historian Richard Shaw, Walsh was the one who posed as a clerk at Dakin’s, waiting for Brady and his associates to arrive. The area was already teeming with FBI agents, stationed strategically around downtown to make sure they could take the gangster out, if needed.

    Walsh first apprehended Brady gunman James Dalhover, who came into the store before Brady and his other associate, Clarence Lee Shaffer.

    “[Dalhover] was asked, ‘Where are your pals?’ He said, ‘They’re outside,’ and I started towards the door,” recalled Walsh, in the FBI anniversary video. “[Shaffer] started in and he and I met in the doorway, and that’s where the shooting started happening.”

    Walsh began firing at Shaffer, who was still outside on the street, firing alongside several other FBI agents stationed in and around the store. Shaffer was killed. FBI agents surrounded Brady’s Buick, commanding him to step out of the vehicle, which Brady did — but then began firing at the agents, who returned fire. Walsh, who was wounded in the chest, shoulder and right hand from the gunfight with Shaffer, fired the bullet that finally killed Brady.

    In all, media outlets report that Walsh killed more than 10 gangsters during his FBI career.

    Walsh, a native of Hoboken, New Jersey, joined the FBI in 1934, after graduating from Rutgers Law School. He was already an accomplished marksman, having been a shooting enthusiast since the age of 12. According to a New York Times article, as a child Walsh shot rats in New Jersey’s Meadowlands and picked off clothespins from his grandmother’s clothesline; by the time he went to college, he was able to hit a bullseye from 75 yards and hit moving targets with a pistol in both hands.

    He competed in shooting tournaments throughout his FBI career, breaking a world record for centerfire pistol shooting in 1939, and eventually joining the U.S. Olympic shooting team at the 1948 Summer Games in London, where he placed 12th in the men’s 50-meter free pistol competition.

    Walsh joined the Marines in 1942 and spent two years training snipers, before being placed on combat duty in the South Pacific in 1944, joining the invasion of Okinawa in 1945. After the war, he rejoined the FBI briefly before returning to competitive shooting, winning many shooting competitions and training Marine marksmen until he retired from the military as a colonel in 1970.

    In 1987, Walsh returned to Bangor to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Brady shooting, helping to lay the plaque on Central Street marking the place where the shootout happened. He was the guest of honor at the re-enactment of the shooting, and was given the key to the city. In 1994, he was the captain of the U.S. team at the world muzzleloading championships in Switzerland.

    Walsh was predeceased by his wife, Kathleen Barber, who died in 1980, and five children, sons Walter and Gerald and daughters Kathleen, Rosemary and Linda.

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    RIP Bob Hoskins - top geeza, top fella and met him once with his lovely wife in Majorca

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    In just 9.2 seconds on June 24, 1961, Francis Joseph "Frank" Budd proved himself the fastest man on earth.

    Winning the gold medal in the 100-yard dash in the National AAU Championships at Downing Stadium on Randall's Island in New York, the Villanova junior took a tenth of a second off the world record that had been in the books for more than 14 years.

    It was the singular moment in the celebrated career of the athlete who died at age 74 Tuesday night at Virtua Hospital in Marlton. In recent years, Mr. Budd had been slowed by the effects of multiple sclerosis and renal failure. He often got around in a motorized wheelchair but was forever remembered as the onetime "world's fastest human."

    Mr. Budd was an Olympic sprinter as a Villanova sophomore (placing fifth in the 100-meter final at the 1960 Rome Games); a world-record dash man (at both 100 and 220 yards); and a three-time NCAA champion and seven-time IC4A winner as a star performer on coach Jumbo Elliott's powerful Wildcats teams. However, he was gone from track and field after his Villanova graduation in 1962.

    He never played football in college but became an NFL wide receiver with the Eagles and the Washington Redskins. He also played for three years in the Canadian Football League.

    At Villanova, the former star at Asbury Park (N.J.) High was honored as a member of the Wildcats' inaugural Wall of Fame. Mr. Budd was remembered by 'Nova track coach Marcus O'Sullivan as "a wonderful man and wonderful gentleman. He truly loved Villanova, the education and opportunities he got here and the friends he made, and Villanova truly loved him.

    "In his last visit to the campus last winter, he was introduced at halftime of a basketball game, and the reception he got was unbelievable. In a matter of seconds, everybody in the building was standing and cheering. It was all spontaneous - and overwhelming."

    Mr. Budd is survived by his wife, Barbara, and his children, Frank Jr. of Mount Laurel, Kimberly Arzillo of Willingboro, and Anitra Spreight of Acookeek, Md.; nine grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

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    Efrem Zimbalist Jr., a staple of 1960s and ’70s TV as the star of ABC dramas “77 Sunset Strip” and “The F.B.I.,” has died. He was 95.

    Zimbalist died Friday at his home in Solvang, Calif., according to a statement issued by his daughter, actress Stephanie Zimbalist, and son Efrem Zimbalist III.

    “We are heartbroken to announce the passing into peace of our beloved father, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., today at his Solvang, Calif. ranch. A devout Christian, he actively enjoyed his life to the last day, showering love on his extended family, playing golf, and visiting with close friends.”

    Tall, handsome and always well-dressed, Zimbalist starred as the smooth former OSS officer-turned private eye Stuart Bailey who ran a Los Angeles detective agency in “77 Sunset Strip.” The show, one of the first TV series hits from the Warner Bros. studio, ran on ABC from 1958-64.

    He returned to the Alphabet the following year as Inspector Lewis Erskine, the methodical leader of “The F.B.I.,” which ran through 1974. His real-life counterpart, FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, was a fan and supporter of the show, and a friend of Zimbalist’s. In 2009, the FBI saluted Zimbalist by making him an honorary agent, the highest honor the bureau can give to a civilian.

    Zimbalist was born to a show business family in New York City in 1918. His father was concert violinist and compositor Efrem Zimbalist Sr. while his mother, Anna Gluck, was a popular singer of the day. He studied at Yale as a teenager, then worked as a page at NBC before enlisting in the Army in WWII. After the war, he studied at Yale Drama School. According to his Turner Classic Movies bio, family friend Garson Kanin gave Zimbalist his first big acting role in the Broadway production of “The Rugged Path,” starring Spencer Tracy.

    Zimbalist had small roles in TV shows, worked on stage and as a producer of operas in the early 1950s before he hit big in television (he had been a tennis partner of WB chief Jack L. Warner, according to TCM). During his run on “Sunset Strip,” he made appearances on other Warner Bros. TV shows, including James Garner’s “Maverick” and “Hawaiian Eye.” He continued to log film roles, notably 1967′s “Wait Until Dark” and 1974′s “Airport 1975.”

    In the 1980s, he had a recurring role on the NBC dramedy “Remington Steele,” opposite his daughter, Stephanie, and he logged guest shots on ABC’s “Hotel” and CBS’ “Murder She Wrote.” He also co-starred in CBS’ 1980 miniseries “Scruples” and was featured in the 1991 action-movie spoof “Hot Shots.”

    In the 1990s, Zimbalist became a frequent guest on shows airing on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, and host his own program for TBN, “Word From the Holyland.” He also did voice-over work for numerous cartoon series, including “Spider-Man,” “The New Batman Adventures” and more recently, Cartoon Network’s “Justice League.”

    Zimbalist published a memoir in 2004, “My Dinner with Herbs,” and logged his last major film role in 2008′s “The Delivery.”

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    Richard Kershaw - obituary

    Richard Kershaw was a Panorama reporter whose knowledge of Africa gave him access to leaders across the continent





    Richard Kershaw, who has died aged 80, was a star reporter on BBC Television’s flagship Panorama current affairs programme during its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, and later became one of the regular presenters on the popular early evening magazine show Nationwide.

    Magnetically good-looking and telegenic, Kershaw developed a dashing on-screen persona reporting from the world’s troublespots for Panorama, and was described as “the poor man’s Tony Curtis” among some of his less glamorous colleagues.


    In The Sunday Times, the critic Cyril Connolly likened him to “an impossibly handsome young prefect striding among the presidents”. But far from being recruited for his looks, Kershaw was hired for his expertise on Africa, a continent which by the early 1960s, when he first worked for the programme, was emerging from colonial rule.


    Kershaw had come down from Cambridge in the late 1950s to take a post at the Commonwealth Relations Office and went on to edit the newsletter Africa Confidential, a position that afforded unprecedented access to the new rulers of independent Africa. His first television film was for ITV’s This Week, shot in post-independence Congo in 1960 when the new nation descended into chaos. In his subsequent films for This Week, he covered southern Sudan (his first war), Ethiopia (where he interviewed the Emperor Haile Selassie) and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where he reported on UDI.


    When he started making films for Panorama, Kershaw continued to add to his impressive roll-call of English-speaking African leaders whom he had interviewed, among them Jomo Kenyatta, Julius Nyerere, Kenneth Kaunda, Hastings Banda, Ian Smith and Joshua Nkomo. “Panorama was senior, proconsular,” Kershaw recalled. “You travelled around with the country’s leaders, wherever you were.”

    Crises and hotspots continued to be Kershaw’s stock-in-trade, including the Middle East wars of 1968 and 1973, a return visit to southern Sudan, and the conflict in the then Southern Rhodesia. On the outbreak of violence in Northern Ireland, he was beaten up by the RUC at a Peace March in Armagh in 1968. In spite of official denials, Kershaw secured a legal judgment which resulted in damages being awarded to the BBC, although not to him personally.

    His other area of expertise was the United States where, in 1963, Kershaw had spent a year travelling on a scholastic fellowship. He made a television profile of Bobby Kennedy in 1966 when it was becoming clear that he was planning to succeed his murdered brother as President.

    Two years later Kershaw produced another prescient report, on Ronald Reagan, then embarking on a political career as Governor of California, in which he forecast that the former film star would become the new Republican icon, even before the ascendancy of Richard Nixon. He reported on the assassination of Martin Luther King, whom he had interviewed for BBC Radio.

    The son of an Australian banker who had won an MC in the Great War, Richard Ruegg Kershaw was born on April 16 1934 at Wargrave, Berkshire .

    From Cheltenham College, where he excelled at sport, he did National Service in Germany as a second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery and won an exhibition to Clare College, Cambridge, to read History. Although he passed the Foreign Office and Civil Service entry examinations, he was denied permission to take up his graduate fellowships at Yale and Virginia; so in 1957 Kershaw opted to join the less grand Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO), which allowed him to spend a year at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

    Returning to London, he was assigned to the CRO’s South Africa desk, where he prepared briefs for the British delegation to the United Nations. As Resident Clerk, he was given a huge flat at the Foreign Office overlooking St James’s Park, and put in charge of all FO overnight telegraph traffic as well as Cabinet boxes including those of Lord Home, the Foreign Secretary, for whom he performed numerous duties, “some odder than others”.

    A year later he was rewarded with a posting to South Africa, but finding himself out of sympathy with British government policy towards that country he resigned, realising that he was not cut out for a bureaucratic career. Instead he joined the Financial Times as a feature writer in Nigel Lawson’s office.

    A year later he moved to The Scotsman as Commonwealth Correspondent, subsequently becoming its Diplomatic Correspondent, a post that offered greater opportunities for travel in the Middle East and Africa.

    Awarded the first British Eisenhower Fellowship in 1963, Kershaw and his first wife spent a year in the United States, starting with a month in Washington, DC, as guests of the Supreme Court judge Felix Frankfurter. Immersing himself in the political and intellectual life of the American capital, Kershaw recalled that on his first day at the Frankfurters, they lunched with the economist Jean Monnet, took tea with President Roosevelt’s daughter Alice Longworth, and dined with President Truman’s Secretary of State, Dean Acheson.

    On his return to Britain, Kershaw took over as editor of Africa Confidential, a private fortnightly newsletter with a tiny circulation which he transformed into the authoritative, influential and profitable publication which it remains. As almost every African head of state was numbered among his readers, Kershaw enjoyed excellent access, which he exploited to the full .

    After 10 years with Panorama, he joined Robin Day and Ludovic Kennedy as a presenter on the daily Newsday programme, which later mutated into Newsnight. Among world leaders he interviewed were Col Gaddafi, Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin and the Shah of Iran . Kershaw also conducted one of the few interviews with Ayatollah Khomeini just before his return to Tehran.

    In 1980 Kershaw was surprised to be invited to join Sue Lawley and Frank Bough as a presenter on the popular nightly Nationwide programme, a miscellany of news, serious current affairs and lighter items about such British eccentricities as the infamous “skateboarding duck”. Kershaw was told that his appointment, insisted on by the BBC’s Board of Management, would change his life, and it did.

    It raised his public profile to the extent that he was regularlyinvited to chair conferences and corporate meetings by banks and similar organisations, a sideline that he developed into a profitable business which ensured financial security .

    In 1983 Kershaw left Nationwide to become one of the presenters of The World Tonight on Radio 4. The post left him time to pursue other interests. For 20 years he served on the boards of the Overseas Development Institute and the Minority Rights Group. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society .

    Richard Kershaw’s first marriage, in 1962, to Venetia Murray, ended in divorce in 1967. In 1994 he married his long-time partner, Jann Parry, a former dance critic of The Observer, who survives him with a daughter and a stepson of his first marriage.


    Richard Kershaw, born April 16 1934, died April 28 2014

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    Certainly had a full life. I remember him vaguely.

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    Doris Pilkington Garimara - obituary

    Doris Pilkington Garimara was an Aboriginal author whose story of Australia’s 'Stolen Generation’ inspired a film starring Kenneth Branagh




    Doris Pilkington Garimara, who has died aged 76, was an author whose account of her mother and aunt’s forced removal from their Aboriginal family and their subsequent 1,200-mile trek home was among the most powerful testimonies to Australia’s Stolen Generation; translated into 11 languages, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996) inspired Phillip Noyce’s award-winning film Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), starring Everlyn Sampi and Kenneth Branagh.

    In the six decades after the Australian government passed the 1905 Aborigines Act, ostensibly drawn up “for the better protection and care of the Aboriginal inhabitants of Western Australia”, some 100,000 children were removed from their families and tribal lands under state policies of assimilation.


    Most were sent to special-purpose institutions to train as domestic servants for middle-class households; children of mixed-race heritage were often placed with non-indigenous families, where it was hoped that a process of “racial outbreeding” would absorb them into the white community.


    Directing the policy was AO Neville, designated Western Australia’s Chief Protector of Aborigines, from 1914 to 1940, and later Commissioner of Native Affairs.

    Portrayed in the film by Kenneth Branagh, Neville brought zeal and organisational power to his solution for the “Aboriginal problem”. According to Western Australian law, he was authorised to seize native Australians under the age of 21 and place them in the care of the state. At the time, the grief of the Aboriginal family over such a loss was regarded as scarcely more than animal instinct.

    Because the aim was to prevent the birth of further children to the native tribes, girls tended to be a more urgent priority for removal than boys. Doris Pilkington Garimara’s mother, Molly, was therefore around 14 years old when, in 1931, she, her younger sister Daisy and 10-year-old cousin Gracie were taken from their settlement in the remote Pilbara community of Jigalong and transported to the Moore River Native Settlement 80 miles north of Perth



    Left to right, Daisy, Gracie and Molly, as depicted in Rabbit-Proof Fence by Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan and Evelyn Sampi

    The girls escaped the next day and began the walk home, navigating the last 800 kilometres by the rabbit-proof fence that stretched north along the Australian desert. They slept in burrows and scavenged for birds’ eggs and lizards to supplement their meagre diet of wild bananas and potatoes. Though Gracie was recaptured en route and sent back to Moore River, Molly and Daisy pressed on, returning to Jigalong after a nine-week journey.

    To evade the authorities the family moved further out into the desert, and official attempts to reclaim Molly were abandoned when she turned 16. By the mid-1930s she was married to a stockman, Toby Kelly, and working for the owners of Balfour Downs cattle station in the East Pilbara, where her first daughter was born prematurely. Molly cut the umbilical cord herself with a butcher’s knife and named the baby Nugi Garimara. At her employers’ insistence, however, the child was known as Doris. Since the birth was unregistered, the Department of Native Affairs later assigned her the birth date of July 1 1937.

    When Doris was about three, Molly suffered an attack of appendicitis, and the new Commissioner for Native Affairs, FI Bray, saw an opportunity to act. Molly, Doris and Doris’s infant sister Annabelle were to board a train for a hospital in Perth. All three were then committed to Moore River, with Doris in the kindergarten section, separated from her mother and sister by a steel interlock fence.

    Yet in 1941 Molly escaped a second time, tracing the now-familiar route of the rabbit-proof fence. Unable to take both her children, she left Doris in the care of Gracie, now a long-standing Moore River inmate.

    Transferred to the Roelands Mission Farm near Bunbury at the age of 12, Doris grew up imbibing the philosophy of its Anglican missionaries. “We were told that our culture was evil and those that practised it were devil worshippers,” she wrote.

    “The blacker your skin was, the worse individual you were.”

    Too young at the time of her removal to retain clear memories of Pilbara, she relied largely on accounts from Gracie for an idea of her origins. Aged 18 she became the first person from the mission to qualify for Royal Perth Hospital’s nursing aide training program, before settling at Geraldton with her husband, Gerry Pilkington, and their young children.



    As a man of one-eighth Aboriginal descent (or “octoroon”), Gerry was exempt from the restrictions imposed by the 1936 Native Administration Act, and his family regarded his choice of wife with hostility. The marriage suffered under the pressure and Gerry turned increasingly to alcohol; meanwhile, Doris yearned to reestablish contact with her mother, but a subsequent reunion at an outback camp in 1962 proved fraught. “It was a godforsaken place,” she recalled. “I was shocked by the poverty and the brutality of the culture.”

    In 1981 Doris Pilkington Garimara left her husband and travelled back to Perth to complete her education, studying journalism at Curtin University. Still eager to reclaim her heritage, she moved to Jigalong two years later. It was there, for the first time, that the truth of her mother’s experiences began to emerge, through conversation with her aunt Daisy.

    Having verified the facts using official records, Doris began to translate the notes from their evening storytelling sessions into a narrative, and to coax further information from her mother. Meanwhile, she tried her hand at fiction.

    Her first novella was Caprice: A Stockman’s Daughter, published in 1991 after it won the 1990 David Unaipon National Award for aspiring Aboriginal writers.

    Centring around one woman’s attempt to trace her family’s Aboriginal roots, its themes of prescribed identity and the oppression of the Christian value system over the indigenous people were given further emphasis in Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, five years later.

    The sequel, Under the Wintamarra Tree (2002), described Doris Pilkington Garimara’s experiences at Moore River and subsequently at the Roelands Mission Farm. Her final book was Home to Mother (2006), an adapted version of her bestselling 1996 novel aimed at younger readers.



    Molly Kelly died in 2004, aged about 86. Three weeks before her own death, Doris Pilkington Garimara travelled with relatives to the Pilbara region, so that she could say goodbye to the land of her birth.

    She is survived by four children, 31 grandchildren and 80 great-grandchildren. Two other daughters predeceased her.

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    Ray Colledge - obituary

    Ray Colledge was a climber who survived a cliffhanger on the Eiger and helped Edmund Hillary prepare to tackle Everest




    Ray Colledge, who has died aged 91, was a British climber who, in the summer of 1969, survived a storm-lashed ascent of the north face of the Eiger during which his partner fell and hurtled past him.

    A Himalayan veteran and dedicated Alpinist, Colledge was already a fixture in British climbing circles by the time he made three major ascents during a fortnight of heady climbing. At 47 he was also distinctly long in the tooth by climbing standards. The first ascent was of the Walker Spur on the Grandes Jorasses; this was shortly followed by the Pear Buttress on Mont Blanc’s Brenva Face (a route now rarely climbed due to its severity). These routes were to be crowned by the ascent of the north face of the 13,000ft high Eiger in the company of his climbing partner Dan Boone (real name James Fullalove – but known in the climbing community as Boone, after the American explorer).

    Colledge was unaware of Boone’s lack of ice-climbing experience. On one of the ice fields, Boone began laybacking a corner of ice that had melted away from the rock. This strenuous manoeuvre for tackling vertical cracks in the rock using opposing pressure from hands to feet and letting the climber’s skeleton take the strain is meant for rock. Boone should have used his axe and crampons — he fell from a position high above with no protection apart from the rope linking him to Colledge.

    Fortunately this caught over a rock spike, allowing Colledge to hold Boone’s fall. The impact of the load jerked his helmet off and the sudden tightening of the rope caused his new down jacket to explode in a cloud of feathers.

    Colledge held tight. “Dan lay still, after bouncing over a rock band onto ice again after a total fall of almost 120 feet,” he wrote in his record of the events, Eigernordwand 1969. “Suddenly he moved, rested a little, then started pulling hand over hand up the rope. As he did so I noticed feathers drifting around me.

    'Feathers on the Eiger? I thought.’”

    High on the route, in the so-called “Exit Cracks”, the pair were caught in a violent storm. Colledge later remembered thinking that the build-up of snow would force them off their narrow ledge and down the mountain. However, when the storm passed Boone’s rock climbing skills saw them finally to the summit.

    Raymond Leslie Burrows Colledge was born on May 26 1922 in Coventry and grew up on a farm in Berkswell just outside of the city. He was educated at Centaur Road School in Earlsdon before becoming a costing clerk for a Coventry engineering company that manufactured rotary engines for aircraft and torpedoes.

    During the war Colledge was part of an RAF mobile radar unit that went into Normandy in the immediate wake of D-Day. He saw action in both France and Germany and was assigned to Patten’s Army as it advanced towards Berlin

    He was present when the US and Russian Armies met and witnessed Russian units in action against the Germans. Colledge’s unit was then shipped to the Pacific theatre shortly before the end of hostilities in Europe and it was whilst crossing India with his unit of radar vehicles, on route to Singapore, that the war ended.

    On being demobbed he took a position as a costing clerk for Courtaulds, for whom he would work until retirement. It was at this point that he took to climbing — which he would fit into his two weeks of holiday — and soon built a reputation as a highly competent Alpinist. In 1950 he took on the Innominata and Brenva Spur on Mont Blanc and two years’ later was selected for the expedition to Chu Oyo, the world’s sixth highest mountain, which sits on the Tibet/Nepal border. The undertaking, led by Eric Shipton, was considered training for the first ascent of Everest. During this expedition Colledge shared a rope with Edmund Hillary and George Lowe, later recalling how the two New Zealanders both took pre-planned falls to test Colledge’s ability to hold them.

    While the Chu Oyo expedition was considered a failure — the team failed to reach the 27,000ft peak — it provided much needed information for the Everest conquest the following year (including physiological testing at altitude and trialing a range of oxygen flow rates). While in the Himalayas, Colledge and Tom Bourdillon went on to make the first ascent of Pangbuk, a 22,000ft peak to the south of Menlung La.



    Ray Colledge climbing the north face of the Triolet in the Alps

    During the 1960s Colledge undertook a series of significant Alpine climbs, including the north face of the Triolet; Red Sentinel; South Ridge of the Aiguille Noire de Peuterey; Cassin Route on the Piz Badile and Route Major. These ascents culminated with his 1969 summit of the Eiger.

    His later climbs included the first British ascent of the north face of the Grosshorn in the Bernese Oberland. A long-time member of the Alpine Club and British Mountaineering Council, he also enjoyed skiing and hill walking and was still making regular rounds of Edale in the Peak District well into his eighties.

    Colledge was a quiet, unassuming man and never married. “My friends tend to be married men with family responsibilities,” he noted in his record of the 1969 Eiger climb, “and therefore reluctant to test the objective dangers of the Eiger North Face.”

    He is survived by a sister.

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    Elena Baltacha: Former British number one dies of liver cancer


    Former British number one tennis player Elena Baltacha has died of liver cancer, aged 30.

    Born in Ukraine and raised in Scotland, Baltacha revealed she had the illness in March.

    Baltacha, who was British number one for nearly three years, retired from the sport in 2013.

    • Born in Kiev to Ukrainian parents
    • Raised in Perth, Scotland
    • Father Sergei played professional football for Ipswich, St Johnstone and Inverness Caledonian Thistle
    • Made debut on ITF circuit in 1997
    • Won first two ITF tournaments in Felixstowe and Pamplona in 2002
    • Broke into world's top 100 in 2009 and top 50 in 2010
    • Best Grand Slam: Third round of Wimbledon (2002) and Australian Open (2005, 2010)
    "We are heartbroken beyond words at the loss of our beautiful, talented and determined Bally," said husband Nino Severino.

    Baltacha learned she had liver cancer in mid-January 2014, two months after retiring from professional tennis and only a few weeks after marrying.

    "She was an amazing person and she touched so many people with her inspirational spirit, her warmth and her kindness," added Severino, her long-time coach.

    Baltacha was diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis, a chronic liver condition which compromises the immune system, aged 19.

    Despite her illness and multiple injury problems, Baltacha went on to reach the Australian Open third round in 2005 and 2010 and reached a career-high world ranking of 49.

    She won 11 singles titles, made the third round of Wimbledon in 2002 and was part of Great Britain's Fed Cup team for 11 years.

    The current women's British number one Laura Robson took to Twitter to pay tribute to her "teammate".

    She tweeted : "Impossibly sad. Forever a teammate. Sweet dreams Bally."
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    Tennis legend Chris Evert also tweeted her respects : "Rest in Peace, beautiful Elena Baltacha...No words...Thoughts and prayers..."

    Lawn Tennis Association head of women's tennis Iain Bates said: "Today we have lost a shining light from the heart of British tennis - a true role model, a great competitor and a wonderful friend.

    "We have so many special memories to cherish, but this leaves a gaping hole for everybody in both British and women's tennis, and words simply cannot express how saddened we are by this news.

    "All our thoughts are with Nino and the rest of Elena's family. We will miss you Bal."

    Her agent and friend Eleanor Preston told Sky News: "It was part of Bally's emotional make-up to be very stoic, she never once asked why me or why is this happening. She was incredibly strong and determined and that was who she was.


    "She achieved an awful lot and in the context of having a serious liver condition that she struggled with since the age of 19. This is why she should be held up as a role model.

    "She went through it all without the slightest bit of self pity or ego."

    A host of stars, including Andy Murray, Ross Hutchins, Martina Navratilova, Tim Henman, Greg Rusedski, Jamie Murray, Jonny Marray, Anne Keothavong and Heather Watson have agreed to take part in a fundraising event, The Rally Against Cancer - Rally For Bally, which will now be held in her memory on 15 June.

    The mixed doubles exhibition matches at the Aegon Championships at Queen's Club, the Aegon Classic in Birmingham and the Aegon International in Eastbourne will raise money for Royal Marsden national cancer charity and Elena Baltacha Foundation

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Lick View Post
    Former British number one tennis player Elena Baltacha has died of liver cancer, aged 30.
    Thirty.

    That is so sad.

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    Diagnosed with less than 4 months to live also. A real gutser.

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    Hang on a minute....are you speaking of yourself, Mr Lick ? I remember a thread you contributed to about cancer...

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    I'm feeling fine thanks LT, over a year now since being diagnosed with advanced melanoma. I've had a good run at life and with my dad turning 90 this year still hoping to follow in his footsteps.

    Just feel gutted for the girl given so little time at 30.

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    Whew ! I thought you may have been referring to yourself !

    Guess I didn't read the previous posts too closely....I'm feeling a bit touchy about the subject as a good friend is having a suspected melanoma cut out of his head tomorrow.

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    I hate that bastard disease with a passion.

    RIP poor girl.

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    Jimmy Ellis, Ali’s Friend Who Won Heavyweight Crown, Dies at 74
    By Stephen Miller May 6, 2014 7:38 AM PT



    Source: Allsport Hulton/Archive via Getty Images

    Jimmy Ellis, who beat Jerry Quarry to become World Boxing Association heavyweight champion in 1968 and fought the era’s best fighters including his friend, Muhammad Ali, has died. He was 74.

    He died at Baptist Health Louisville hospital in Kentucky, his son, Jeff Ellis, said in a telephone interview. He had suffered from dementia for more than a decade.

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    Aaaah, The Virgin Soldiers, compulsory reading for spotty teenagers in the '70s, a classic. And the 1969 movie had a veritable who's who of British talent in it.

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    Writer Leslie Thomas, best known for his national service novel The Virgin Soldiers, has died aged 83 after a lengthy illness.

    The journalist-turned-novelist died at his home in Wiltshire yesterday.

    Thomas grew up in a Barnardo’s home before beginning a career at the London Evening News.

    His time as a national serviceman in Malaya inspired his first novel, The Virgin Soldiers, which became a bestseller and a hit film.

    His other works included Dangerous Davies, the Last Detective, which was adapted for ITV, and he was given an OBE for services to literature in 2004.

    His wife Diana said: “He had a wonderful life and he travelled the world. All he ever wanted to do was write and that is what he did.

    “He died at home with his family around him.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Lick View Post
    I'm feeling fine thanks LT, over a year now since being diagnosed with advanced melanoma. I've had a good run at life and with my dad turning 90 this year still hoping to follow in his footsteps.

    Just feel gutted for the girl given so little time at 30.
    I'm confident you'll outlive me ,my ad got skin cancer and lost a lung in Burma and lived another 50 years so there's hope for us all.

    Why I jokily often respond or get pawned by our 'clever' correspondants your fantistic pictures of the world stage is one of the highlights of this forum ,if I never regain my freedom or strength I'll always appreciate your efforts thank you
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    I just want the chance to use a bigger porridge bowl.

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