Sad news and my deepest condolences. Noel and the family sat a few seats along from me in E6 and I knew them from City and of course recognised the old faces from Boothferry Park. A good innings and obviously a much loved man who saw the best and the worse times. RIP and UTT.
Sophie Kinsella, author of the bestselling Shopaholic series of novels, has been remembered as a "wonderful, warm woman" following her death at the age of 55. The writer, whose real name is Madeleine Sophie Wickham, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer in 2022. Me Before You author Jojo Moyes, who has known Kinsella for 20 years, told BBC News she had "never met anybody who carried more grace". "She was incredibly kind, incredibly smart, and she wore her success and her brilliance so lightly," she said. "There was not a person who met her who didn't light up in her presence, because she was just good and kind, and people felt that through her characters," Moyes told the BBC's David Sillito. "She was one of the best people I've ever met... I feel really glad to have known her, really lucky to have had her in my life."
