Carol Barnes, Ex newsreader dies....

[Alexikokopops]

Of course they are.

He's one of the "chosen men" on here. Forum rules don't apply to a person as special and important (and well-connected) as he is.

Better learn that lesson very quickly...

ARE YOU THRACIAN IN DUSGUISE?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE YOU THRACIAN IN DISGUUUUUUIIIIIIIIIIIIISE???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Zingari]

:o at least she died in the best conditons that the NHS can offer

The NHS hospital where former newsreader Carol Barnes tragically lost her fight for life has been plagued by rats, cockroaches - and deadly superbugs.

An investigation uncovered damning evidence of vermin gorging on kitchen rubbish.

And rodents have even been spotted in wards at Brighton's Royal Sussex County Hospital.

The hospital's trust has one of the country's worst records for infections by lethal MRSA.

But despite a massive drive to stamp out the bug, files handed to us under the Freedom of Information Act reveal: -A RAT was found lurking by a patient's bed.

A rodent was on the loose in the cancer department.

Cockroaches infested a bathroom in the maternity ward.

Maggots allegedly dropped on to horrified diners in the hospital restaurant.

Bird feathers reportedly got into an operating theatre.

Fleas and other insects attacked staff and patients. And

Water leaked through a ceiling in the 180-year-old building.

A pest control firm was called in to deal with almost SIXTY vermin alarms in the past two years.

But experts from the company - BPC, of Midhurst, West Sussex - warned hospital bosses the problem was even worse because many sightings went unreported.

( excerpt from report )

[Rincewind]

I've not put RIP because I also did not know her but I would not go as far as to post 'good riddance' That would imply that I thought she deserved to die and I would not wish that on anyone. Well almost no-one.

There is a Rememberance Sunday every year for the millions of people we did not know. How can we be sure that all those that are being shown respect in the minutes silence were actually 'good' people?

I hardly watch ITV let alone ITV news so never saw her do her job. I will let her family and friends mourn for her in their own way and hope they can cope with their loss and I will get on with my own life.

Tomorrow another well known person will die. But life goes on.

If people want to pass on their RIP messages they should be allowed to without being mocked.

[The People's Hero]

I wonder if I'll benefit in any way from her will.

I quite fancy the catapultam she used to habeo.

[Daggers]

I've just discovered that Billy Bragg is dead.

I hope that his relations are managing to bear up and that this post will somehow alleviate their suffering.

Having spent his childhood from the age of 7 in Market Harborough just makes it more crushing.

I am now consumed by Baudelarian ennui.

[The Stig]

As a young kid I always used to like watching the news. Which is very strange and quite worrying. At age six I'd have been able to tell you the entire ITV News team. It's no surprise that now I'm 16 and its exactly what I want to do when I'm older. So to a woman who strangely actually holds some childhood memories and to me and helped me realise what I want to do with my life along with the likes of John Suchet and Sir Trevor McDonald, RIP.

[Nick]

Still a cracking thread, this, I am genuinely excited about the next celebrity death. (I hope it's soon)

Daggers has been a "chosen man" on this forum ever since he passed his news-reader initiation mission...... he possibly took it too far with Jill though.....

[Alexikokopops]

Ah, Daggers.

While I feel you make an excellent point about pointless RIP-ing (which is why I rarely contribute to these types of threads myself) I have a slight inkling you could have put it in a more tactful fashion.

Still, loving the thread.

Love

Drunk 'Kormonpops

[Zingari]

Still a cracking thread, this, I am genuinely excited about the next celebrity death. (I hope it's soon)

Daggers has been a "chosen man" on this forum ever since he passed his news-reader initiation mission...... he possibly took it too far with Jill though.....

I shouldn't really find that funny but i do there really is a bit of "old nick" in you isn't there ?

Anyway , just a thought , how about forming a "Dancing On Graves Society" ( DOGS for short ) and whenever there's a lot of mawkish sentimentality going on, you could all go out "dogging" together

EDIT ; just noticed this in your post ;

Daggers has been a "chosen man" on this forum ever since he passed his news-reader initiation mission...... he possibly took it too far with Jill though.....

how did you do that ?

[Nick]

I shouldn't really find that funny but i do there really is a bit of "old nick" in you isn't there ?

Anyway , just a thought , how about forming a "Dancing On Graves Society" ( DOGS for short ) and whenever there's a lot of mawkish sentimentality going on, you could all go out "dogging" together

EDIT ; just noticed this in your post ;

Daggers has been a "chosen man" on this forum ever since he passed his news-reader initiation mission...... he possibly took it too far with Jill though.....

how did you do that ?

Its an inner circle thing......... ask TPH

[Thracian]

Like I said, people die all the time, and nobody notices. Does that make it any less sad, just because they are not a minor celebrity?

I don't think all the reaction concerning Carol Barnes is about her being a celebrity as such. I'm not star-struck by anyone. I've known stacks of famous people in my time and will doubtless pass the time of day with Bill Maynard this evening, as usual.

But Newscasters, sportsmen, people in the public domain by definition become familiar to us, become someone we feel we know even if it is something of an illusion.

Carol Barnes would be no better "known" than, say, the City coach driver who died recently or or the late vendor of old matchday programmes at Hinckley United's ground on City @ Reserves nights. They each come into our lives in a small way and I think it perfectly reasonable to feel a sadness about their passing.

With Carol Barnes I would have had to think who she was were in not for the death of her daughter in a skydiving accident.

But when that happened - right or wrong - I felt great empathy for her as I would anyone in such a situation because, having kids of my own who are adventure ssports mad you are always aware of the risks they take and you know for certain that a few unlucky parents will experience the trauma of losing a loved one or having them crippled.

It's happened twice in our close family - one teeenager died from heading a football and another was seriously injured motor cycle racing.

Experience that and you know exactly what Carol felt like losing her daughter and you curse the misguiided and officious reaction of people who would make her life even more difficult over her drink-driving when, chances were, she could really have done with some help and wise words.

It is clear from all this that some people are more sensitive to loss of life than others. I've just read a wonderful book, Penguins Stopped Play, by Harry Thompson.

It's about a group of village cricketers who toured the world playing games on different continents. The ending is disarmingly poignant. I didn't know the author from Adam but his book gave me so much pleasure and so captured the essence of what sport is about that I felt truly saddened at the end.

Is that so much worse than being coldly indifferent?

[LeeCovFox]

I wish Thatcher would hurry up and pop it. The old dancing boots could do with an airing.

[Alexikokopops]

I wish Thatcher would hurry up and pop it. The old dancing boots could do with an airing.

We will laugh the day that Thatcher dies,

Even though we know it's not right,

We will dance and sing all night.

I was blind in 1979, by '82 I had clues,

By 1986 I was mad as hell.

The teachers at school, they took us for fools,

They never taught us what to do,

But Christ we were strong, we knew all along,

We taught ourselves the right from wrong.

And the punk rock kids, and the techno kids,

No, it's not their fault.

And the hip hop boys and heavy metal girls,

No, it's not their fault.

It was love, but Tories don't know what that means,

She was Michelle Cox from the lower stream,

She wore high-heeled shoes while the rest wore flat soles.

And the playground taught her how to be cruel,

I talked politics and she called me a fool,

She wrapped her ankle chain round my left wing heart.

Ding dong, the witch is dead, which old witch?

The wicked witch.

Ding dong, the wicked witch is dead.