He won the Bafta Writer's Award in 1985, but eventually found it difficult, as the millennium neared, to come to terms with the new demands of TV writing, what he called "being alternately patronised and bullied by girls called Fiona flourishing clipboards".
And as I neared the town of Bowen I met different people who hailed me with how do, and so on and where did you get that intelligent little nigger from.
67P sings As Rosetta neared the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko scientists were surprised to find that their instruments were recording sound, despite the fact that space is a vacuum.
Recorded Ebola cases reached some 9,000 and deaths neared 4,500, though the actual total is much higher.
The euro also neared its strongest rate against the dollar of over $1.366, set in December 2004.Sales of existing homes in America fell by 8.4% in March, the biggest decline since the 1980s.
See articleThe European competition regulator's lengthy tussle with Google over its search business neared a conclusion.
When inflation neared the top of its target range (6.5%), she said she cared more about growth.
It also hoped to float Winterthur, its insurance unit, after bidders failed to offer the right price.A little cheaperThe oil price neared a five-month low as OPEC ministers prepared to meet in Cairo.
Now, as voting on smart sanctions neared, Iraq's pledge soared close to $21 billion-worth of business, or so the Baghdad rumour-mill suggested.
As America's 1976 bicentenary neared, the forced integration of black and white schools saw bombings in Boston.
But as Britain neared the peak of a decade-long housing boom, it became prime-time television as producers rushed to make shows like "Property Ladder".
