Catherine Cookson her sickbed. It was conducted by Mike Neville. Catherine Cookson died at the age of 91, sixteen days before her 92nd birthday, at her home in Newcastle. Her novels, many written from her sickbed, continued to be published posthumously until 2002. Tom died on 28 June 1998, just 17 days later. He had been hospitalised for a week and the cause of his death was not announced. He was 86 years old. In March 2008, the Dame Catherine Cookson Memorial Garden was unveiled in the grounds of South Tyneside District Hospital in South Shields, based on the theme of a
Justin Fashanu a London gay bar. "We ended up in bed together at his London flat", he said. A week later, his brother John Fashanu agreed to an exclusive with "The Voice" under the headline ""John Fashanu: My Gay Brother is an outcast."" Justin Fashanu was interviewed for the July 1991 cover story of "Gay Times", where the situation was summarised as: In 1992, he agreed to front "Loud'n'proud" a new national radio series aimed at young lesbians and gay men, but the pilot with Fashanu presenting was turned down by "BBC Radio Five"; it was later commissioned with a female presenter