Yes, goodbye John - we had great fun in the discos of Warrington pretending to be emergency dentists
We lived about a mile from each other when I was working for Alton Towers and latterly Kilroe. He told me once that he got caught in cloud just over the ridge North of Andover in a Bell 47 with no instrument pack and he had to fly backwards blind to get out of it. His life was not without adventure. A good mate.