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Friday, January 30, 2009, 5:38 pm
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Cricket scorer and statistician Bill Frindall, who was nicknamed the Bearded Wonder for his phenomenal ability to produce facts at the drop of a hat, died today.
Frindall was known to millions of listeners to Radio 4’s Test Match Special programme which he joined in 1966. The late Brian Johnston affectionately dubbed him the Bearded [...]

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Thursday, January 15, 2009, 5:28 pm
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As tributes poured in today for Jan Kaplický, architect of the futuristic Selfridges Building in Birmingham, a family friend revealed he died hours after his wife, Eliska, gave birth to their daughter Johanka.
The 71-year-old Czech designer, who also created the media centre at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London, collapsed in a street in Prague [...]

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Thursday, January 15, 2009, 3:53 pm
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The Czech architect responsible for two of the UK’s most unusual buildings, Jan Kaplický, has died aged 71.
He designed the futuristic media centre that looms above Lord’s Cricket Ground’s Nursery End and the alien-like exterior of the Selfridges Building (pictured) at Birmingham’s Bull Ring shopping centre.
The award-winning architect once said, “Where is it written [...]