15/04/2026
Norwich, GB 14 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.

ISABEL CROOK, aged 107

A missionary in China she converted to communism. She married a spy, served in the war and was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution.