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September 05, 2023

Obituary: Alun Evans

September 05, 2023

Farewell, Axe. Alun Evans, 1949-2023 Alun Evans, who has died aged 73, was better known to readers of the Catholic Herald as “Axe”, our veteran crossword contributor. Alun was born on the last day of the 1940s, 31 December 1949, and grew up in the Rhondda Valley in South Wales. In the late 1950s, he

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