Tributes after Shropshire chess player, 88, dies on way home from match
Tributes have been paid to a Shropshire chess player who died on the way home from a league match.
Tributes have been paid to a Shropshire chess player who died on the way home from a league match.
A Shropshire man has been landed with a £100 car parking fine – after overstaying by just 88 seconds.
The first ever chairman of South Staffordshire Council has died.
One of Wolverhampton's last remaining veterans of the Burma conflict has died at the age of 88.
Veteran Labour politician Tony Benn has died at home at the age of 88, his family said today.
An elderly man was pinned down by robbers who held a cloth over his face as they stole cash from his home.
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An RAF navigator who flew 30 bombing missions over Germany – before later teaching hundreds of schoolchildren in Oswestry – has died.
A professional golfer who helped a Midland club expand to more than 1,000 members has died at the age of 88.
A roofer conned an 88-year-old Black Country woman out of hundreds of pounds for sub-standard work which did not need doing, a court heard.
Former Mayor of Shrewsbury Eileen Sandford has died in hospital, her family said today. Former Mayor of Shrewsbury Eileen Sandford has died in hospital, her family said today. Mrs Sandford, 88, who was made an MBE by the Queen in 2004, had recently been diagnosed with bowel and liver cancer. Tributes were paid today to the former nurse who spent years living in Africa with her late husband Hugh and their family before moving back to the UK and later settling in Shropshire where she devoted her life towards serving the public. [24link]
A former magistrate and councillor from the Black Country has died following a long illness at the age of 88.
Still spot on at billiards in a Shropshire league . . . at 88 years old! That's Ken Powell.
A Second World War veteran who led the 14-year fight to ensure the Forgotten Army of the Burma campaign would be remembered forever in Wolverhampton has died aged 88.
Any thriller, which runs almost 20 minutes longer than its title promises, clearly cannot be trusted.