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20090715
RIP Jimmy Forsyth
"Because people are people...I always say: people are people. People are characters, of course. I'm supposed to be one. You're not supposed to have opinions now. But we've all got opinions, haven't we?"
He needs to get out. When he is laid up... he photographs the same anonymous strip of buckled paving stones crossing a grass verge, over and over. This is the path connecting his tower block to the bus stop that he can see from his window. "I'd have a terrible job getting to sleep if I didn't go out," Jimmy once said. "You've got to work yourself tired." He is offered lifts, but, while he's happy to stand and chat, he rarely accepts them: "I might miss something."
From here
UPDATE: fantastic video obituary of Jimmy Forsyth here via the BBC News
20090708
Not quite an obituary
Meeting called over club's future
Doubt hangs over the future of Jarrow Ex-Servicemen's Club in North Street, Jarrow, because of a big drop in takings.
Club secretary Stan Brown has denied the closure rumours, but admitted the club has debts, adding: "Business has never been as bad as this."