In memory of those who died in 2017

The BBC has been running reviews of 2017 which include a poignant sequence on the people who died during the year.

They included the  creators of Morse and Paddington, the Commander of Moon Base in Space 1999 to James Bond/the Saint and Batman.

The Alien's first victim is finally dead for real after playing "The War Doctor,"

the man whose stage and TV career seemed to go on forever but finally finished in 2017.

An iconic trailblazer for women's cricket, the longest serving Blue Peter presenter, and a campaigner for the victims of sexual assault,

the political gadfly whose name will ever be associated with what became known as the "West Lothian question" after his constituency, and independent minded and bloody minded MP who was a hero when you agreed with him and a madman when you didn't but without whom parliament would have been much poorer.

Several legends of the music world also died, along with the giant of science fiction who created the "Future History" sequence.

PC Keith Palmer who died doing his duty defending the "mother of parliaments" and all those who died in terrorist attacks in London, at the Manchester Arena, and around the world.

The victims of the Grenfell Tower fire.

People we lost in Cumbria who will be missed included,

* Councillor and former policeman and last chairman of Cumbria Police Authority Ray Cole,
* Richard Bannister,
* The Reverend Canon David Dixon from Millom,
* Glen Gray

And too many others to mention.

If this blog has any readers from St Albans I imagine most of them will remember Ken Haywood, who was twice Mayor of the City and District, the second time during my first year on the council, leader of the council 1990-91 and my immediate predecessor as leader of the Conservative group on the council, and County Councillor for Sandridge 1989-93. Ken also died this year.

Rest in Peace.

Here is a recording of Voces 8 singing "Lux Aeternam" in memory of Colin Dexter, Michael Bond, Martin Landau, Sir Roger Moore, Adam West, Sir John Hurt, Mary Tyler Moore, Sir Bruce Forsythe, Baroness Rachel Hayhoe Flint, John Noakes, Jill Saward, Tam Dalyell MP; Chuck Berry, Fats Domino and David Cassidy; Jerry Pournelle. and all others named or referred to in this post and everyone else who died during 2017.



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