shocked and devastated myself. He was a legend.
The Mayor of Wetwang, I'll miss him and his crap jokes on Countdown.
they will have to find someone else to take the pi$$ out of for slowest lap on top gear now......
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steve
Very sad. Some people you would expect to go on forever.
Such a shame.
It just serves as a reminder to us all ,that you have got to make the best of life.
Apparently the "old dears" used to get upset when on "Ceremonial Opening" he'd take his girlfriend instead of Carol Vorderman
whom they thought was his wife 
His wit and ability to laugh at himself made him a star in his own right. His taste in Jacket/Shirt/Tie is how I'll remember him.
God rest in piece Mr Ferretman
Although this joke is in moderately bad taste, I'm sure he would have laughed...
"Richard Whitely would have been amused that the contributory factor in his death, pneumonia, was a 9-letter word that used all the vowels!"