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Vikki Orvice – a Celebration of her Life.
“If anyone comes to my funeral...”
She need not have worried. Vikki Orvice had written those words in the eulogy she had composed for herself, and was read out by her husband Ian Ridley at St Leonard's Church Flamstead, on a beautiful, unseasonally sunny day in February.
Tags: Flamstead, ian ridley, Vikki Orvice
FWA members honoured at SJA Awards night
FWA members Paul Hayward, Jonathan Liew, James Olley, Danny Taylor and John Richardson collected prizes for their outstanding work at the Sports Journalists' Association's annual awards night on Monday.
Hayward of the Telegraph won the Sports Writer of the Year award for the fifth time while last year's winner, the Guardian's Taylor, was named Football Writer of the Year for the fourth year running.
Tags: Barry Davies, Danny Taylor, James Olley, john richardson, Jonathan Liew, Paul Hayward, SJA
Shearer leads North East FWA award-winners
Alan Shearer led a glittering line-up at the North East FWA's annual awards dinner, as the former Newcastle and England captain collected the region's Personality of the Year award, in association with the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation.Shearer was one of many famous football faces at the Ramside Hall, Durham, for another great evening that was superbly organised as ever by Colin Young, secretary of the North East branch of the FWA.
Tags: Adrian Bevington, Alan Shearer, Beth Hepple, Bob Cass, colin young, Durham, Ian Dennis, Jack Ross, Louise Wanless, Martin Dubravka, North East Awards, Steve Harper
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