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TRIBUTES have been paid to a talented artist after his death aged 93. Birtley Aris was born in Sunderland to parents Dorothy and Frederick. He attended Chester Road and West Park Central schools before going on to study at the Sunderland College of Art and Craft. During World War II, he was a Bevin Boy coalminer at Silksworth Colliery. He then went on to work at stained glass studios in Newcastle, London and Brighton, before a stint in the civil service in London, where he met wife Jean Robbins, who died in 2019. Birtley and Jean married in 1955 and in 1960, welcomed daughter Jo.

Nat King Cole is one of the acts played on Boom Radio BORN as I was in the early 1960s, I’m very much the target demographic for Boom Radio (boomradiouk.com) which launched on Valentine’s Day. There are 14 million of us possibly coming to an end of our mortgages/child-rearing years and presumably with some spare money in our pockets which might attract passing advertisers. Which might explain why Boom’s presenters – veterans, mostly men – from time to time, start extolling the virtues of some small business between playing Alison Moyet and The Bachelors. The station's constan...