Matches, Hatches, Dispatches

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10 News First Sydney / Brisbane weather presenter Josh Holt recently wedded.

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Report that announcement later this week re state funeral that will be in early December at Royal Botanic Gardens.

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Former Nine News boss John Westacott has passed away at the age of 73. He is believed to have suffered a medical episode while sailing on Sydney Harbour.

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Not sure if it has been posted before. The state memorial for boxing legend Johnny Famechon will be held at Melbourne’s Festival Hall at 6pm AEDT today. It will be live streamed at the Victorian Government website.

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RIP Angela Lansbury. Murder She Wrote was so popular in the day that there was a time it was showing in the same timeslot (8.30pm Thursday) on two networks, Nine and Ten. My memory isn’t great but IIRC, Ten had snatched first run rights but Nine still had some older episodes in its inventory as re-runs.

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Yes indeed

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Sad news. Robbie was a great actor.

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Peter “Monster” Kogoy, a sports journalist who worked for The Sun in Sydney and The Australian, died last Friday (October 14) aged 70. He was also closely involved with the Clontarf Foundation, and was the founding chairman of the Kennedy Foundation, a journalism awards body that he helped set up in memory of former colleague Les Kennedy.

These are just two of the tributes from fellow journalists.

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That moustache is sensational!