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Lord Tim Hudson was born on 11 February 1940 in Prestbury, Cheshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Jungle Book (1967), The Aristocats (1970) and Disney Sing-Along Songs: Friend Like Me (1993). He died on 14 December 2019.- Petra Markham was born on 17 March 1947 in Prestbury, Cheshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Get Carter (1971), Doctor Who (1963) and BBC Play of the Month (1965).
- Neville Buswell was born on 20 January 1943 in Prestbury, Cheshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Coronation Street (1960), Coronation Street: Viva Las Vegas! (1997) and Rest Assured: Lift Off (1972). He was married to Suzanne Huckle. He died on 25 December 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
- Chris Foote Wood is an English politician and author. Foote Wood went to Bury Grammar School, winning the Senior Mathematics prize. He completed a four-year honours degree course in Civil Engineering at Kings College, Newcastle (then part of the University of Durham) but was not awarded a degree. He worked as a civil engineer for several years before starting Durham Free Press in 1968, pioneering commercial free press newspapers in the North East, but gave it up after three years to work as a freelance journalist and broadcaster. He later set up his own press agency, North Press News & Sport, and ran it for 30 years up to 2004.
He has contested a large number of public elections at all levels.
His first nationally-published book, Nellie's Book, about the early life of his mother, Helen Wood, was published by Sutton in 2006. He has gone on to write several more books, including When I'm Sixty-Four (1,001 things to do at 60+), and a comprehensive guide to the 56 remaining seaside pleasure piers in Britain, Walking Over the Waves, launched on Brighton Palace Pier in June 2008. He followed this up with a "blog book" of his journey around the coast of Britain, "My Great British Pier Trip", as well as organising the Great British Pier Crawl 2008.
He researched, wrote and published a biography of T. Dan Smith, the former Leader of Newcastle City Council in the 1960s who was jailed for corruption in the 1970s along with business associates who included architect John Poulson and former Durham County Council Chairman Alderman Andy Cunningham.
He later as an author, editor and publisher with his latest business, Northern Writers, and is an accomplished "ghost writer". Following the premature death of his youngest sister in April 2016, the comedienne Victoria Wood, he wrote a book about her life and work entitled 'Victoria Wood: Comedy Genius - Her Life and Work' which went on sale in January 2017. - Actor
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Steve Powell was born on 3 August 1945 in Prestbury, Cheshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Foiled (2000), Tuxedo Warrior (1982) and Target Eve Island (1983).