RIP John, met him a few times, easy enough to talk to straight talking always in for a laugh and a joke.
RIP John Prescott Me and a couple of mates got chatting to John late one night, about 36 years ago, on Leeds City station. Well before he became a household figure. He came across to us as a decent, funny, witty ,chatty bloke..I liked him. Also, in his Merchant Navy union days, I heard that he represented my cousin Mike when he went AWOL off a ship in Vancouver.
back in the early 1990s i was working in leeds and going daily on train. made more sense (and easier to park) to go from brough..one day after an earlier london-bound train pulled in, i walked past a first class coach and he was in their with a ton of papers spread across a table, working away. no idea whether he commuted from hull every day, but i'd've found all that extra travel a miserable burden.
Whatever your political persuasion, you have to admire John and a politician and a person. This clip is wonderful and just shows how the politicians of today couldn't hold a candle to the likes of John P, RIP John
It just shows what a farce British politics was and still is. Scripted like a comedy sketch, reading witty lines written by someone else, and as for all the others cheering, jeering like a bunch of idiots at the appropriate times.
Novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford dies aged 91 Author described as ‘the grande dame of blockbusters’ wrote 40 novels, selling more than 91m copies.
Liz Hatton,17, the teen photographer recently seen in the news, has succumbed to her awful disease. A brave young lady...R.I.P
She hadn't even started her life yet, far, far too young, her parents must be devastated. R.I.P. Young Lady.
21st: ray smith (harold raymond smith), footballer, aged 90. born in hull, played 23 times for hull city 1952-1956, scoring twice. played for peterborough from 1956 to 1962 including their inaugural record-setting first season in the football league when they scored a record 134 goals and topped division 4. striker terry bly scored 52 of those goals and smith contributed 33 in the 1960-61 and 1961-62 seasons. he'd scored ;75 goals in 115 games in the midland league for them and ended with 108 goals in 207 matches,. he ended his career with a season each at northampton and luton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Smith_(English_footballer,_born_1934)
14th: vic flick, 87, legendary session guitarist, perhaps best known for the james bond theme. many more credits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Flick
25th: eddie stobart, 95. he had been married to his wife for 73 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Stobart
Surprised no mention of the passing of Shel Talmy. He was involved in so many of the groups and records that were the background to growing up in the 1960s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shel_Talmy
