Ken Souter, wartime Hurricane pilot who flew a Lancaster in the film The Dam Busters – obituary
The planes in the original mission had flown at 60 feet, but the director wanted Souter and co to go down to a ‘bloody dangerous’ 25 feet
The planes in the original mission had flown at 60 feet, but the director wanted Souter and co to go down to a ‘bloody dangerous’ 25 feet
It took him seven weeks to ice the cake for Queen Elizabeth’s golden wedding anniversary
He built a reputation for novelty bets and cheeky adverts, yet in Irish racing he was no upstart but a third-generation ‘king of the ring’
The Shining required ‘12- to 16-hour days... for a year and one month. The role demanded that I cry for at least nine of those months’
The navigator was awarded the DFC for ‘exemplary gallantry’ after his Mosquito crew sank one U-boat and seriously damaged another
As an unmarried Catholic mother in London in 1965, she said, ‘I honestly felt if I’d murdered someone it might have been more acceptable’
In Belfast his unflappable style suited what was at the time a wild and lawless situation
He cut his teeth on the family hit Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Warren Beatty’s troubled comic-book throwback Dick Tracy
He came to public notice at the ‘sale of the century’ of his house Mentmore, when mid-auction he leapt up and fixed the wiring
He participated in a 1944 raid against Königsberg in which 15 Lancasters were lost. His aircraft limped back in the fog nearly empty of fuel
The bronze of Charles II’s wife for the borough of Queens was nearly complete in 1998 when a political storm blew up
At 16 years and 105 days he was Manchester United’s youngest debutant up till then, and he went on to win the FA Cup with Nottingham Forest
He shot cigarette ads in the Sixties but was turned on to gardening photography after taking pictures of Percy Thrower
He used his £60 demob pay cheque after the war to buy a car and start a taxi business
He ended the Second World War with 16 confirmed successes from 116 missions, miraculously avoiding any enemy fire or mechanical failure
He was a promising footballer who played in the Uefa Cup before devoting his life to crime