26 Feb 09 Wendy Richard Dead at 65
Wendy Richard, whose UK Television career spanned many years, but was best known for her role as Pauline Fowler in BBC’s Eastenders, has died, this morning at the age of 65.
She was in the BBC sit-com The Newcomers from 1965 to 1969, but is more well known for her part in ‘Are You Being Served’ the 1970′s UK sitcom in which she played Miss Shirley Brahms.
She also appeared in two of the famous “Carry On’ comedies.
In 2000 she was appointed an MBE.
She was diagnosed with breast cancer in the 1990′s and again in 2002, and she died at the Harley Street Clinic, with her husband at her bedside, where she was being treated, once again, for breast cancer.
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02 Nov 07 Save Your Bacon?
A report from the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) – which slammed red meat as being a killer has now turned on pork, and particularly cured pork.
However, another report trotted out a few days ago warns that the addition of folic acid to food could increase the incidence of bowel, prostate and breast cancer in 20 years.
After years of encouraging pregnant mothers to take extra folic acid, a new report now suggests they’ll all sucumb to cancers of the digestive system and not see their little ones grow up.
The strange thing is that although we mustn’t eat this, we must lose weight, eat no fat, drink little alcohol, and really stop leading such awful unhealthy gluttonous lives, insurance companies have just published a report, drawn from actuarial figures, predicting that half of all current 30-year-olds can expect to live to be 100. This odd world in which everything we do is killing us quickly but everyone is living longer can only encourage a bemused and fatalistic shrug.
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