Brief Encounter

STEVE HILTON (MaA 81-83, LaA 83-86) had a mauvais quart d'heure at Birmingham New Street station in 2008 (4 minutes):



Ah well. Fancy some more moaning about his emails?

Unique new voice

IN the unlikely setting of Dubai, Joanna Marsh (Staff 97-02) has blossomed as a composer.

Saved from pratdom

AS Andy Serkis passionately reincarnates Ian Dury in the film Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, let's keep in mind that Dury was an Old Blue manqué. He won a place at CH but some sort of muddle over his father's income prevented him from taking it up. In 1979 he told the Daily Mirror:

I was quite thankful. I didn't want to walk around wearing prattish uniforms and there was something about the place I didn't want to know about."

Still, it's one heck of a thought…

"Life's a joke between me and God"

KATHLEEN STEWART-SMITH (Ffinch, 4's 16-24, Governor), who for some years presided as the wife of the Dean at St George's Cathedral, Jerusalem, has died at 102.

Photo credit: Deror avi

A break in the clouds

HOPES of a fresh inquest on Jeremiah Duggan (ThA 92-99) rose yesterday after Baroness Scotland, the Attorney General, commented:

There is an unanswered question from the inquest into Jeremiah's death as to whether the fatal injuries he suffered are in fact attributable to a car accident.

Full details in this BBC report. Donate to the cause here.