Ha ha ! While less well known, I went to school with David Szach who killed his lover, chopped him up, and stored his body in a freezer…
He was always a loner. A bit of a weirdo.
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Was good friends at school/6 form in the early 1980’s with Janet Charlton who was done for manslaughter for killing her boyfriend in Huddersfield with an axe. She had a really tough/abusive home life, and did fairly often take to drink at school. Not that we really knew about the home life at the time.
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I went to a mediocre school that has produced exactly fuck all but mediocre nonentities like me - judging by all the above, this is something of a mixed blessing! 
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Normal is a sliding scale in Prof Chaos world
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Strange days when this place is a haven of normal 
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At one end of the scale we had Ernest Joyce, Antarctic Explorer, hero of the Ross Sea Party of Shackleton’s ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition,
and
Duncan Scott Ford - Youngest person to be executed under the Treachery Act 1940.
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BBC News - Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock dies at 53
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Rob Burrow has died:
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Good fight mon.
I have been really quite upset by this. Can’t imagine how Kevin Sinfield is feeling right now.
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William Anders.
Who?
He took this snapshot on an astronomic version of a Box Brownie.
As he said: “Wow, that is pretty!”
In a spectacular twist of fate, he survived Apollo 8 but died in a plane crash.
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I know he was an astronaut and presumably before that a top military pilot but surely a 90 year old should not be allowed to fly a plane.
It is very sad to hear the news that Arthur ‘Gaps’ Hendrickson, vocalist & frontman, of the 2-Tone group, The Selecter, has died.
My first proper gig, on my own, was to see The Selecter. 1980 @ The N.M.B. I had won tickets to see the band via a competition in the Sheffield Star. I thought they were great!
Pauline Black & Gaps stood out. I have always enjoyed their music.
R.I.P. Gaps
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Saw them on the 2Tone tour in 1979. They were great live, tight as anything.
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Francoise Hardy.
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BBC News - Mark James: Suspicious Minds and Always On My Mind songwriter dies - BBC News
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Always On My Mind is a fabulous bit of song writing.
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Proper earworm songs 