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Gunner Herbert's final rest

5 August 2009

FEEDBACK was saddened to hear of the death of our predecessor Roy Herbert, a member of the original staff of Âé¶¹´«Ã½ and all-round nice bloke. According to his wife, Heather, he always had a target age in mind: 92 (it was the age, apparently, of a scientific hero whose identity went with Herbert to the grave). And he made it!

Roy, who had been chief press officer at the UK’s Windscale nuclear reactor at the time of the calamitous fire there, joined the magazine in the late 1950s. He then watched in dismay as staff members dropped like…

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