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ontheedge Wrote:

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> The great shall always live on, see the family are

> in financial difficulty so maybe those who admire

> them could donate, sad to see amazing & national

> treasures struggling



The donation page was started before Norma died. The picture has now been updated to show one of Norma, but the description hasn't been.


Thousands of people from all over the world have donated:


https://ko-fi.com/elizacarthy

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Jack Smethurst. Not going to post a link to a tabloid. I feel that he was rather denigrated due to his part in Love Thy Neighbour, it was clumsy comedy, helped propagate some inappropriate language and stereotypes, but always had Smethurst's Character coming off worse. He also played a lovely caring part in an earlier sitcom, For the Love of Ada.


I've attached a link to an interview of Rudolph Walker, now more famous for East Enders, who played the black neighbour, that helps to put things in context.


Smethurst was a nice guy, his politics certainly more palatable than Meatloaf's and my one criticism is that Love Thy Neighbour painted trade unionism in a poor light.


https://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/oct/22/tvandradio.television1

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In the last few days Nicky Tesco lead singer of the Members, saw them many moons ago supported by Laura Logic - I've posted a track on the weekend thread https://louderthanwar.com/nicky-tesco-the-members-rip/


Children's author Shirley Hughes at 94 - not a bad age https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/02/shirley-hughes-childrens-author-and-illustrator-dies-aged-94 I loved her slightly different book, Enchantment in the Garden


And as Cat pointed out Shane Warne at only 52 https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/cricket/shane-warne-dead-b986120.html I saw him in a one day match in Wellington, and the Kiwis loved him (no they didn't...)

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quite sad at the loss of Cathal Coughlan, formally of Microdisney, Fatima Mansions and more recent projects. I caught both in the day, last seeing him at a Southbank concert - a 'musical conversation' between his native country (Ireland) and ours.


https://www.ft.com/content/8b1431bc-1048-11e6-91da-096d89bd2173


https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/23/cathal-coughlan-frontman-with-irish-indie-bands-microdisney-and-fatima-mansions-dies-aged-61

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from an Irish magazine in 1994


"Recently, Coughlan has moved back to London, a city to which he once said he would never return. He and his wife live in Dulwich, a curious little enclave sandwiched between the Olde Tory Towne of Dulwich Village (where Thatcher was supposed to domicile after she retired) and Peckham. When Cathal goes running, he slows down while passing through the heart of Dulwich Village to give the locals a good look at his favourite Fatima Mansions t-shirt, the one depicting Michael Portillo and Peter Lilley in flagrante delicto."

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