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.

1. Carole Barnes: ITN presenter
2. Arthur C Clarke: 2001 A Space Odyssey.  Remember Hal?
3. Ian Fraser VC: World War II hero and Wallasey resident
4. Charlton Heston: one of the world’s greatest actors and Republicans
5. Sir Edmund Hillary: Everest conqueror
6. Heath Ledger: a budding actor, reminiscent of River Phoenix
7. Paul Newman: another one of the world’s greatest actors
8. Roy Scheider: forever associated with Jaws
9. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Russian dissident who exposed the Gulag
10. Marjorie Truscott: stalwart of the local Conservatives