Charles was a fine man, a talented politician, and a loving father to his young son.
A statement released on behalf of his family said: "It is with great sadness and an enormous sense of shock that we announce the death of Charles Kennedy.
His heart would have been in a pro-European campaign, that's a campaign that Charles would have engaged in heart and soul.
In a presentation to the national rural health conference in Darwin last week, Chalmers and Smith reflected on the personal toll the last year took on them and their patients who are primarily from the Rio Tinto community.
The uniform worn by his commanding officer, General Sir Richard Nelson "Windy" Gale, is now displayed in a museum that Prince Charles opened in 2000 and the old Pegasus Bridge, replaced by a new bridge in 1994 and left to rot in a field, has been cleaned up and preserved.
Email: [email protected] / Twitter: @gay_alcorn Helen Davidson Darwin reporter Helen most recently worked as an online journalist for SBS world news Australia and was previously a news and interactive journalist for news.com.au, where she live blogged major news events.
Wistrich said: "The officers who shot Jean Charles have a defence if they had an honest belief that they were under imminent threat, even if they were mistaken and their mistake was wholly unreasonable".
Former Labour deputy leader John Prescott – deputy at the time of the 2003 war – said in his tribute on Twitter that Kennedy had been vindicated on Iraq: "So sad to hear of Charles Kennedy's passing.
Meanwhile, collectors of recherché celebrity litigation may find much to delight them in the tale of one Charles Sarris, who is suing a stage equipment company for injuries sustained during the construction of a giant pink tongue for Miley Cyrus's current Bangerz tour.
It is a wonderful performance from Fiennes, though he might still justifiably be hoping for prizes for his own film as director-star, about Charles Dickens: The Invisible Woman.
1. PRAGUE Snowflakes blowing across the Charles Bridge, music recitals in candelit churches, underground bars, firelit restaurants serving huge plates of comfort food and fine red wines... How could your lover fail to be won over?
