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BillinghamPoolie
 Post subject: Sad to see
PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 9:59 am 
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that Keith Waterhouse died last week. I would have thought that his passing could have been marked with some mention in the news over the weekend. I only found out this morning when I read Mike Amos' Gadfly Column in the Echo (hope I've used the Apostrophe correctly).

I stopped reading the Daily Mirror in the mid eighties, when he moved his column to the Daily Mail, after he fell out with Maxwell. Surely the author of Billy Liar, the scriptwriter of Whistle Down The Wind and A Kind of Loving, and the writer of Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell, deserves some mention.

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 Post subject: Re: Sad to see
PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:01 am 
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BillinghamPoolie wrote:
that Keith Waterhouse died last week. I would have thought that his passing could have been marked with some mention in the news over the weekend. I only found out this morning when I read Mike Amos' Gadfly Column in the Echo (hope I've used the Apostrophe correctly).

I stopped reading the Daily Mirror in the mid eighties, when he moved his column to the Daily Mail, after he fell out with Maxwell. Surely the author of Billy Liar, the scriptwriter of Whistle Down The Wind and A Kind of Loving, and the writer of Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell, deserves some mention.

sadx


I saw it all over the new the other day

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertai ... 238947.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2009/09/k ... died.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2009/09/k ... died.shtml

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Mr Ripper
 Post subject: Re: Sad to see
PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:02 am 
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I've never heard of him.

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BillinghamPoolie
 Post subject: Re: Sad to see
PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:14 am 
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Unlike POK I don't get my news off the internet, apart from about Pools of course.

Shame on you Ripper. :wink:

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 Post subject: Re: Sad to see
PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:37 pm 
Top bloke, I didn't know he'd shuffled off. sadx

Didn't really matter which paper he wrote for, he was very much of his own opinion, and what a dry, sarcastic, withering sense of humour he had.

Night Keith. :wink:
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He was a gay, grumpy old tw*t, but a brilliant writer.
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