A Childhood Icon Gone

June 26, 2005 1:07 PM

Woke to the news that Richard Whiteley died last night from pneumonia.

I remember him as a kid back home, presenting the news on Yorkshire Television's Calendar before moving onto Countdown, the programme you watched instead of going to lectures or studying for those finals ;-) He'll be missed, and Countdown will never quite be the same again.

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