These are 10 of the people who I am sorry we lost in 2008. Some are famous, some are not. Some were young, some were not.
- Carole Barnes: ITN presenter
- Arthur C Clarke: 2001 A Space Odyssey. Remember Hal?
- Ian Fraser VC: World War II hero and Wallasey resident
- Charlton Heston: one of the world’s greatest actors and Republicans
- Sir Edmund Hillary: Everest conqueror
- Heath Ledger: a budding actor, reminiscent of River Phoenix
- Paul Newman: another one of the world’s greatest actors
- Roy Scheider: forever associated with Jaws
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Russian dissident who exposed the Gulag
- Marjorie Truscott: stalwart of the local Conservatives
