It is with great sadness that the family of Mr Nigel Howe announces his passing from COVID-19, on January 19, at the age of 77. Nigel passed away peacefully in Royal Bournemouth Hospital and will be lovingly remembered by his son James and his stepchildren Sam and Simon. Nigel was born in Harrow-on-the-Hill in 1943 to William Weatherstone Howe, a Flight Lieutenant in the RAF, and Dora. He trained as a pub manager with Watney’s Brewery and managed the Leather Bottle in Edgeware and then worked in The Plough in Ruislip. In 1970 he moved to Bournemouth having begun a 22-year career with Post Office Telecoms (later to become BT). He was part of a team of people erecting and maintain telegraph poles across Dorset, and even spent a spell erecting poles in Libya.