BUSINESSES in Saltaire are planning to fund a ‘chatting bench’ in memory of a popular villager. Iain Morris, an artist and Telegraph & Argus letter writer for many years, has died aged 73 at his home in Caroline Street, Saltaire. Born in Sussex in 1947, Iain and his family emigrated to Australia in 1950, setting up home in the coal mining town of Wallsend, New South Wales. His father worked for a mining conglomerate and in 1952 the family moved to Malaysia, where a terrorist insurgency was in place. Iain was sent to school with other expatriate community children, convoyed through the jungle by Ghurkha soldiers with RAF Hunter Hawk fighters patrolling the skies.