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| | Ronnie Letham | | 12:25am Friday 9th May 2008 | | Actor; born September 10, 1948; Died March 27, 2008
Ronnie Letham, who has died aged 58 from complications after breaking his hip, was a director and actor who became a regular on TV screens and the stage during a career which wound down in recent years to allow him to look after his father. |
| Lord Holme of Cheltenham | | 12:57am Thursday 8th May 2008 | | Businessman and politician;
Born May 27, 1936;
Died May 4, 2008.
RICHARD Holme, Lord Holme of Cheltenham, who has died of cancer aged 71, was a senior Liberal Democrat peer and the party's Northern Ireland spokesman throughout the 1990s. |
| Alastair Michie | | 12:49am Wednesday 7th May 2008 | | Painter, sculptor and illustrator;
Born December 9, 1921;
Died May 2, 2008.
ALASTAIR Michie, who has died aged 86, was the painter whose skills as a colourist produced powerful abstract works influenced by the natural world. He engaged in the Edinburgh tradition of producing pieces sensuously coloured with bold handling of paint, using matt and scraped paint to suggest wind-blown nature. |
| Danny Federici | | 12:53am Tuesday 6th May 2008 | | Longtime keyboardist
for Bruce Springsteen's
E Street Band;
Born January 23, 1950;
Died April 17, 2008.
DANNY Federici, who has died of melanoma aged 58, was the longtime keyboard player for Bruce Springsteen whose stylish work helped define the E Street Band's sound on hits from Hungry Heart through The Rising. |
| Julie Ege | | 12:53am Tuesday 6th May 2008 | | Actress;
Born November 12, 1943;
Died April 29, 2008.
Julie Ege, who has died aged 64, was a major star of the British film industry in the 1970s. She presented an image of exotic sexuality and helped pioneer the fashion for nudity in the comedies of
the time. |
| Muriel More | | 9:54pm Monday 5th May 2008 | | Music teacher and pianist;
Born January 14, 1919;
Died March 13, 2008.MURIEL More, who has died aged 89, was a gifted pianist who became a leading musician for the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (RSCDS) and inspired dancers for over 40 years. |
| Hugh Graham: An appreciation | | 12:58am Saturday 3rd May 2008 | | HUGH Graham, who has died aged 98, was a fascinating and gentlemanly character of the old school. He was raised in Kilwinning but also became well known in the Three Towns and the Garnock Valley in a long life of service to others, particularly as an expert first-aider. |
| Pamela McCarroll | | 12:58am Saturday 3rd May 2008 | | Student and voluntary worker;
Born June 13, 1989;
Died March 2, 2008.
PAMELA McCarroll died aged 18 following an accident at Tutuwau Falls in Guyana, South America, and there was a palpable sense of anguished disbelief and genuine sorrow in Beith when news arrived of her death. Her parents, Peter and Sheila McCarroll, are very well known in the town where Sheila is a respected GP and Peter is popular in local rugby circles. |
| Dr Helen Thompson | | 12:34am Friday 2nd May 2008 | | Missionary obstetrician;
Born March 22, 1924;
Died February 5, 2008.
Born in Stewarton, Ayrshire, Helen went to Kilmarnock Academy before graduating MB ChB from Glasgow University in 1947. |
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