27/01/2025
Norwich, GB 7 C
Researching and reporting on the lives of some really interesting people (RIP)

YANG HUAIDING, aged 71

Rising from poverty as a factory worker, he took a gamble on China’s new stock market and became a multi-millionaire – and a national hero with it.

SYLVAIN SAUDAN, aged 87

An extreme skier, he completed 23 first descents of mountains, invented a new sport and skiing style and broke world records and cheated death on two occasions.

EWY ROSQVIST, aged 94

A vet who turned to rally driving, she was European Champion before winning a men’s endurance race. She never crashed or broke down. The greatest of all time?

PHILIPPE DE GAULLE, aged 102

A war hero, admiral and politician who was denied deserved honours , his whole career and life was over shadowed by having an extremely famous father.

TREV HAYSOM, aged 81

Eleventh generation of a family of stone masons from Dorset, he was the world expert on Purbeck Marble. He worked on all the main cathedrals and many castles.

ZANDRA FLEMISTER, aged 71

The first African American female to be a Secret Service agent, protecting the President’s daughter, she suffered racism, so she resigned to become a diplomat.