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William Laslett: The Worcester MP who dressed like a tramp

IN Worcester’s long and sometimes colourful history there have been  few figures more eccentric than William Laslett. He is best remembered today – if remembered he is at all by most people, as he was no Woodbine Willie or Edward Elgar – for a group of alms houses in Friar Street which bear his name. But they only scratch the surface of the Laslett legend. For this man, who dressed like a tramp and didn’t wash much, was the city’s MP  for more than 20 years and the greatest benefactor it has ever known. The son of a local banker, he was a solicitor in the early 19th century, which proved to be a golden age for lawyers, as several other local families made fair sized fortunes at the same time.

Family says farewell to Steve the Gas

The funeral of Stephen Haughty will take place next week THE family of Stephen Haughty have been paying to tribute to the man known to many as Steve the Gas. Stephen, who latterly lived at Perry Manor Care Home, Worcester, died early last month from cancer at the age of 66. The retired gas engineer,who during his life lived in Droitwich, Worcester and Ledbury, leaves a daughter, Rhianna, aged 22, and son Danny, 20, together with son-in-law Daniel, brother Paul, sister-in-law Jill and niece India, as well as a large extended family and many friends. Daughter Rhianna said: “‘Steve the Gas’ was a very charming, intelligent, handsome and popular gentlemen.

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