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Filuwaúrdjan
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« on: April 21, 2012, 06:26:59 AM »
« edited: April 21, 2012, 10:49:57 AM by Comrade Sibboleth »
Labour politician (MP for Stoke on Trent South 1966-1992 and a Life Peer from 1992) and campaigner for the rights of the disabled, 89. From 1967 he was also Britain's first totally deaf MP. It wouldn't really be an exaggeration to suggest that he was a rare example of a politician who used his position to do unambiguously good things.

BBC article, will update for one or two other obits when they're up.

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BBC obit - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11167902
Telegraphy obit: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9218329/Lord-Ashley-of-Stoke-obituary.html
Grauniad article - http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/apr/21/labour-peer-lord-ashley-dies
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« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2012, 07:33:35 AM »
RIP Jack Ashley.
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« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2012, 03:40:46 AM »
Rest in Peace.
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« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2012, 04:02:11 AM »
RIP.
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« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2012, 05:22:45 PM »
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« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2012, 05:32:38 PM »
Always sad when one of the genuinely good guys die.
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« Reply #6 on: April 22, 2012, 07:50:43 PM »
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« Reply #7 on: April 22, 2012, 09:26:58 PM »
Lord Ashley was somebody for whom I had immense respect and admiration, from the other side of the ocean. RIP.
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