Category Archives: Notices

John Paroussi – Funeral Arrangements

Dave Rixon has sent me the final details of John’s funeral:-

I have now heard from John’s sister Kay (via Chris Tandy)  and the funeral will take place next Thursday September 12th in the Milton Room of the Chilterns Crematorium, Amersham from 15.15. http://www.chilternscrematorium.co.uk

then afterwards at Missenden Abbey http://missendenabbey.co.uk/about-us/directions/

They have requested no flowers, but donations to the Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance http://www.tvacaa.org

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Television Centre Planning Applications

Ian Wimsett has pointed me at the following Planning Applications to redevelop the TVC site which are now available for public viewing on the Hammersmith and Fulham website. There are already more than 400 documents available – the main applications are: 2013/02355/COMB and 2013/02356/LBC.

http://www.public-access.lbhf.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=MO0TUMBI05Q00

http://www.public-access.lbhf.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=MO0TVZBI05Q00

The ‘Design and Access statements’ are a good place to start and the ‘listed building assessment’ doc and associated photographic survey is interesting – 127 pages of photographs! It is much quicker to download the large docs than try to view them on-line. There are also a few decent historic plans and pictures spread about.

The text has quite a few errors including this about the basement:

The space below the Helios Courtyard was once storage space but, with the addition of a glazed roof structure replacing the grassed surface, the space is now an open plan office.

Thanks Ian – I’m sure many will be interested.

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John Paroussi RIP

It is with a very heavy heart that I pass on this email from Caroline Judson (via Ian Williams)

Al Dixon has just come over (he is editing Holby) and said that Pat Paroussi has rung him to say that John has collapsed and died on a tennis court. They tried to revive him but were unsuccessful.

All a bit of a shock really I thought he played regularly.

I will pass on further information as I receive it.

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BBCTV-AP website

Thanks to Dave Buckley who pointed out the missing links(!), I have now restored the 50% of the website that ‘went missing’ somewhen earlier in the year. I am still trying to find out exactly how half the files, which have been on the server since 2009, ‘vanished’, but, possibly, maintenance was the cause.

Many thanks to all who point up missing bits or errors – I couldn’t manage without you!

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Apologies

I must apologise to all those people who have sent me material over the last few weeks and haven’t had a reply. I made the mistake of re-contracting my BT broadband rather than just letting it happen naturally. As a result of a ‘problem’ with their records I seem to have become a new connection with the result that my line speed dropped dramatically, became very unstable and I lost all the advantages of ADSL2+.
After many attempts to get some sense I have just (last night) been properly re-connected, but, currently, the line is now trying to re-adapt to my ‘new’ ADSL2+ status by dropping and connecting very minute or so!
Stability should return in a few days ………….. they say.

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March 16th 2013

Welcome to the new version of Happenings.

For quite a while I have been thinking about a better way of recording the events, information and disconnected things to do with the VT Oldboys. So, I have decided to attempt a Blog style for Happenings. This gives me the opportunity to categorise, back track and archive entries – it also gives you the opportunity to add your own comments (moderated, of course, to avoid the junk that clogs up the Guest Book).

I’ve copied across the majority of entries from the old version, only omitting time expired information.

Let me know what you think!

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