That's very sad news, though not unexpected. He appeared from home to do some punditry on The Masters a few weeks ago & did not look at all well.
He was certainly not politically correct & became involved in a few dodgy deals down the years, but as a golf summariser & commentator nobody came anywhere near him imo.
Here he is telling it how it is when Jean Van de Velde had that nightmare at the Open all those years ago.
He filmed an episode of Around With Allis a few hundreds yards up the road at New Zealand Golf Club. He hit two tee shots into the heather,two into the trees, the fifth down the middle. We’ll go with take five, after four mulligans. I’ll let him off.
There are many tributes to "the voice of golf" Peter Alliss, who has died aged 89.
The Daily Mail calls him "the man who put giggles into golf" and says no commentator has ever topped him "for sheer wit and invention".
The Daily Telegraph's chief sports writer Oliver Brown says he was a "masterful, mischievous storyteller, who sliced though the tensest dramas".
He adds that his loss deprives golf "not merely of its most mellifluous voice but of a grandee, unyielding in his defiance of convention".
The Daily Express picks out some of his best quotes, including one about a poor round from Tiger Woods which he said was "like turning up to watch Pavarotti sing and finding out he has laryngitis".
And talking about the Scottish weather, he once remarked that "one of the good things about rain in Scotland is that most of it ends up as scotch".
Can't say that I ever watched anything that Ms Windsor appeared in, not my preferred taste, but I read a whole bunch of books about the London gangster scene & her name pops up repeatedly. For 21 years she was married to Ronnie Knight, a proper wrong 'un who was charged with murder, the big Security Express heist & all sorts, & he did a 22 year spell at Her Majesty's pleasure. He later escaped to the Costa del Sol but that all went belly up too. Of course, I'm not suggesting her hands were dirty as to these matters.
She mixed with the Krays a great deal too & was an item with the oldest Kray brother, Charlie, for a while.
Here she is with Ronnie Knight & Reggie Kray. The other lady is Frances Shea, who was briefly married to Reggie Kray until she committed suicide.
I believe she did a lot of charity work in later years, so God bless her.
A love that evil couldn't destroy: Their lives were shattered by the IRA bomb that left her paralysed. But Lord Tebbit's utter devotion to wife Margaret, who has died at 86, was a defiant expression of his love Tebbits survived explosion of an IRA bomb that ripped through the Grand Hotel It was planted in the hope of assassinating the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Both Tebbits were cruelly injured and Margaret paralysed from the neck down
If anyone had ever doubted the depth of the love and devotion that Norman Tebbit gave to his wife Margaret, they had only to see him pushing her wheelchair any time in the past 36 years, smiling determinedly in the face of their shared tragedy, refusing to wince from his own permanent pain, challenging the world to dare pity them. Along with her husband, Margaret Tebbit - who died aged 86 in the early hours of Saturday at the couple's Suffolk home following years suffering from Lewy Body Dementia - could easily have died in the early hours of October 12, 1984. Unlike the five who were murdered that night, the Tebbits survived the explosion of an IRA bomb that ripped through the Grand Hotel, Brighton, planted in the hope of assassinating the 'other' Margaret, the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and all of her Conservative cabinet. But both the Tebbits were cruelly injured and Margaret paralysed from the neck down, their lives changed irrevocably. Left in 2009 and bottom right at the ill-fated Conservative Party conference in 1984. Top right: Still in his pyjamas, Norman is stretchered from the wreckage of the Grand Hotel in Brighton following the IRA blast.
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He was certainly not politically correct & became involved in a few dodgy deals down the years, but as a golf summariser & commentator nobody came anywhere near him imo.
Here he is telling it how it is when Jean Van de Velde had that nightmare at the Open all those years ago.
A lovely interview with the old boy here;
He hit two tee shots into the heather,two into the trees, the fifth down the middle.
We’ll go with take five, after four mulligans.
I’ll let him off.
The Daily Mail calls him "the man who put giggles into golf" and says no commentator has ever topped him "for sheer wit and invention".
The Daily Telegraph's chief sports writer Oliver Brown says he was a "masterful, mischievous storyteller, who sliced though the tensest dramas".
He adds that his loss deprives golf "not merely of its most mellifluous voice but of a grandee, unyielding in his defiance of convention".
The Daily Express picks out some of his best quotes, including one about a poor round from Tiger Woods which he said was "like turning up to watch Pavarotti sing and finding out he has laryngitis".
And talking about the Scottish weather, he once remarked that "one of the good things about rain in Scotland is that most of it ends up as scotch".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-55210652
She mixed with the Krays a great deal too & was an item with the oldest Kray brother, Charlie, for a while.
Here she is with Ronnie Knight & Reggie Kray. The other lady is Frances Shea, who was briefly married to Reggie Kray until she committed suicide.
I believe she did a lot of charity work in later years, so God bless her.
Charley Pride has died aged 86.
Tebbits survived explosion of an IRA bomb that ripped through the Grand Hotel
It was planted in the hope of assassinating the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Both Tebbits were cruelly injured and Margaret paralysed from the neck down
If anyone had ever doubted the depth of the love and devotion that Norman Tebbit gave to his wife Margaret, they had only to see him pushing her wheelchair any time in the past 36 years, smiling determinedly in the face of their shared tragedy, refusing to wince from his own permanent pain, challenging the world to dare pity them. Along with her husband, Margaret Tebbit - who died aged 86 in the early hours of Saturday at the couple's Suffolk home following years suffering from Lewy Body Dementia - could easily have died in the early hours of October 12, 1984. Unlike the five who were murdered that night, the Tebbits survived the explosion of an IRA bomb that ripped through the Grand Hotel, Brighton, planted in the hope of assassinating the 'other' Margaret, the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and all of her Conservative cabinet. But both the Tebbits were cruelly injured and Margaret paralysed from the neck down, their lives changed irrevocably. Left in 2009 and bottom right at the ill-fated Conservative Party conference in 1984. Top right: Still in his pyjamas, Norman is stretchered from the wreckage of the Grand Hotel in Brighton following the IRA blast.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9077143/Lord-Tebbits-utter-devotion-wife-Margaret-died-86-defiant-expression-love.html
Bread actress Eileen Pollock, who played Lilo Lill, has passed away at the age of 73.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/celebrity-deaths-in-2020-140412364.html