Kenny Ball He has charted fourteen Top 50 hit singles in the UK alone. All such releases were issued on the Pye record label. In 2001 Ball was part of the recording of an album on the Decca label. It featured Don Lusher, Acker Bilk, John Chilton and the Feetwarmers, John Dankworth, Humphrey Lyttelton and George Melly, and was entitled "British Jazz Legends Together". Ball continued to tour until shortly before his death, his last scheduled concert being with Acker Bilk and Chris Barber at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall on 21 February 2013. He died at Basildon Hospital, Essex, where he was being
Irma Chilton English and Welsh and won eisteddfod prizes for them. They included the novels "String of Time" (1968, which later appeared as "Nightmare", 1972), "Goldie" (1969), "The Time Button" (1970) and "Rhwng cwsg ac effro" (1975). She took the Crown for prose at the National Eisteddfod in Powys. There is an annual memorial prize, given each year to aspiring children's novelists by the Welsh Arts Council, called the Irma Chilton Bursary. Previous winners have included Jennifer Sullivan Irma Chilton Irma Chilton (born Mair Elizabeth Irma Evans, 12 November 1930 – 1990) was a Welsh children's writer in the English and Welsh