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Bernard Hill, actor who rose to fame in Boys from the Blackstuff, dies aged 79
(www.theguardian.com)
Elsewhere:
Announced on the same day that he returned to the telly in season 2 of The Responder on BBC1. Bugger.
He'll always be Yozzer Hughes to me.
We are losing all the best Bernards - first Cribbins, now Hill.