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  • Nov 4, 2024 | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Jon Kelly

    Longevity in Rock and Roll can come in many forms. A common narrative is a band has a couple of successful albums, disappears for 20 years then reforms riding a wave of nostalgia to play for audiences hoping to relive a part of the musical youth. And then there are artists like The Pretenders who achieve long term greatness just by being great over a very long period of time.

  • Nov 7, 2023 | bbc.co.uk | Jon Kelly

    Hundreds of people attended a memorial service for BBC News presenter George Alagiah, who died in July. Colleagues and family members alike paid tribute to one of British television's best-loved figures. On 17 July 2023, three weeks before he died, George Alagiah dictated to his wife Frances the words he wanted to be read aloud at his memorial. "It is a painful yet exclusive luxury to be living with cancer because for the most part it is a story of a death foretold," he began.

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Jon Kelly
Jon Kelly @mrjonkelly
13 Nov 24

Am over in that place. You know the one. Same username.

Jon Kelly
Jon Kelly @mrjonkelly
3 Nov 24

In 2013 I had the privilege of interviewing Paul Stephenson about his leadership of the Bristol bus boycott, which overturned the ban on black drivers and conductors working on the city's buses. An extraordinary man with a colossal legacy. RIP. https://t.co/9Leip9Gup4

Sunder Katwala
Sunder Katwala @sundersays

RIP Paul Stephenson, who has died aged 87. He organised the successful Bristol bus boycott of 1963, now recognised as an important moment in British social history - by winning the argument against racial discrimination in practice, and then in law too. https://t.co/3vFLNy73xw

Jon Kelly
Jon Kelly @mrjonkelly
25 Dec 23

Merry Christmas. The cheese I was going to give my dad has been recalled by the Food Standards Agency after a possible E-coli outbreak at the creamery