The death toll from heavy rains that have caused flooding in Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul has risen to at least 75, local authorities said yesterday, with tens of thousands of people displaced.
For Orla Hyland, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2021, the story starts back in 1981. “Our lovely neighbour collected my younger sister and me from school on the last day before the Easter holidays. She was crying when she arrived. She said our mum was in hospital. Mum died on Easter Sunday just over a week later,” she recalls.
Bernard Hill, who has died aged 79, was a virtually unknown actor when he played the out-of-work Scouser Yosser Hughes in Alan Bleasdale’s Boys from the Blackstuff (1982), a role that made him not only a sought-after and bankable star but also minted a famous catchphrase with his harrowing appeal “Gizza job! Go on, gizzit! I could do that!”.