Cilla Black's oldest son discovered the star's body after smashing his way into her bedroom when she failed to get up from an afternoon siesta.
The legendary singer and TV presenter's son Bobby broke open her door when he went to see if she was alright late on Saturday afternoon and got no response.
She was already dead by the time he opened the door and found her lying face up on the sun terrace adjoining her bedroom of her villa near the Costa del Sol resort of Marbella.
The holiday home in Marbella - called Casa Roll - where Cilla Black died on Saturday afternoon. Most of the shutters were down at the property on Sunday.
After enjoying a career spanning more than five decades, her fame bought her this mansion in Denham, Buckinghamshire
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剛仙遊的滙控（005）前大班沈弼，作風進取亦不怕冒險，財技了得之餘，出手也闊綽豪邁，喜歡收藏名畫古董，與其繼任人浦偉士的「慳家節儉」性格，南轅北轍。沈弼任內，將滙豐位於山頂擁無敵海景的大班屋「天比高」，裝修得閃耀奪目，當時物業身價貴絕亞洲，大班屋亦廣為外界認識，見證了獅子行在本港殖民時代的繁華盛世。
浦偉士掌舵後，於90年代初將滙豐遷冊倫敦成立滙控，並以8,500萬元天價，將天比高出售予現已倒閉的八佰伴前主席和田一夫；和田破產後，物業轉手予明珠興業主席黃坤，適逢97亞洲金融風暴，股樓崩盤，大廚坤錢債官司纏身，天比高淪為銀主盤，最終物業落入影星周星馳手上；他在2004年以3.2億元購入，再夥同菱電發展，將天比高拆為4個獨立單位出售。
李嘉欣奶奶許簡幸春辭世 2021享年103歲
中建企業前主席許世勳於2018年逝世，其遺孀許簡幸春（又名許簡劍勳）亦在上月29日於養和醫院辭世，享年103歲。據其家人刊登的訃聞，許老太已於周三（12日）出殯。
許世勳是本港四大船王之一許愛周的兒子，夫婦育有長子許晉乾、幼子許晉亨及女兒許雪元，許晉乾於2014年病逝。許氏一向作風低調，以許晉亨最為外界熟悉，跟賭王何鴻燊女兒何超瓊離婚後，他與有「大美人」之稱的前港姐李嘉欣於2008年結婚，3年後誕下兒子許建彤（Jayden）。
許氏家族的財富主要來自商廈和豪宅，當中以中環「醫生大廈」中建大廈，以及鄰近的中滙大廈最「值租」，而許家位於大浪灣道10號大宅，更是本港貴重豪宅之一，地皮佔地87150方呎，大宅樓面8805方呎，市值超過10億元。據悉，許世勳秉持其父的做法，把財產轉為信託基金，後人以紅利作生活費，不能分配信託基金的資產。有報道曾透露，許晉亨及李嘉欣每月支取200萬元作生活費。
英國《每日電訊報》2017上周五(7日)刊出訃聞，形容沈弼和藹可親、溫文爾雅，但亦不乏好鬥的個性，是個大買賣的操盤手，多過是位傳統銀行家。沈弼的葬禮將於下周一舉行。據知，沈弼的喪禮將在英國漢普郡教堂St Mary's Church Bramshott，以私人及家庭追悼會形式舉行，現任滙控主席范智廉，以及當年沈弼的繼任人、另一名前主席浦偉士，屆時亦會出席。
沈弼1948年加入匯豐，1949年5月以22歲之齡赴渡重洋踏足香港，其後去過日本、新加坡等地歷練，最終1958年重回香港，1977年9月接替前大班沙雅(Guy Mowbray Sayer)出任匯控主席，直至1986年退休，繼任人為浦偉士(William Purves)。
英國《每日電訊報》上周五(7日)刊出訃聞，形容沈弼是「一位擅長做大買賣的交易操盤人，多於一位傳統銀行家(dealmaker than a traditional banker)。」
1927年出生於蘇格蘭的沈弼，21歲加入滙豐，至1977年出任香港匯豐主席，一改傳統銀行家的保守作風，帶領滙豐衝出香港，成為國際大行，創造出前所未有的輝煌成績，當時民間更有一種說法：「控制香港的不是政府，而是馬會和匯豐」，可見該行的影響力。
沈弼於5月底才剛慶祝完90歲生日，他在1977至1986年間擔任匯豐主席，奠定了匯豐與華資巨擘建立長遠商貿關係的基礎。1978年李嘉誠在市場上逐步購入當時仍由英資控制的九龍倉(00004-HK)股份，持股量增至接近20%，但與李嘉誠素有交情的沈弼，卻建議對方放棄收購，把股份轉讓予已持有相當數量九倉股份的已故船王包玉剛，成功促成包玉剛入主九倉。
1979年匯豐為和黃物色買家，沈弼屬意剛放棄收購九倉的李嘉誠，在沒有公開招標的情況下，最終以遠低於賬面值的每股7.1元，把匯豐手中約22%的和黃股權售予長實，李嘉誠因此擊敗怡和，成為首位控制英資公司的華人。
當時正值中英談判的敏感時期，時任行政局議員的沈弼，拍板重建中環滙豐總行大樓，以示對香港前途充滿信心。匯豐宣布重建位於皇后大道的匯豐大樓。沈弼當時在記者會上說： 「這不僅表達了我們銀行對香港的承諾，同時也表明了我們對香港成為國際金融中心的前景充滿信心。」《
「十優港姐」麥明詩（Louisa）早前以低市價逾兩成價錢，把屯門「納米樓」單位轉讓給母親，回復首置身份的她，已揚言有意買入大單位，為將來組織家庭做好準備。事隔沒多久，Louisa即聯同哥哥重錘出擊，昨日有消息指Louisa兄妹以1,678萬元買入長沙灣宇晴軒高層C及D室相連單位，就此事向她求證，她透過短訊承認再度入市：「私人嘢唔回應啦！總之都係一步一步置業啦！」
此外，名人汪詩詩亦斥資共3,456萬元，買入黃竹坑站港島南岸第一期晉環兩個同座向的低層戶，由於她非首次置業，故需支付樓價15%雙倍印花稅超過518萬元。
Judge Michael Argyle obituary
Rough justice
by Dennis Barker
Thu 7 Jan 1999 04.51 GMT
Judge Michael Argyle, who has died aged 83, was one of the first of the new wave of judicial figures prominent in the 1960s who not only had controversial views (which were broadly opposed to the new permissivism), but adroitly used and manipulated the media to put them across.
His differences with the legal establishment - which included possibly the strongest reprimand this century from the Lord Chancellor - were not infrequently caused by Judge Argyle's view that severity had a place, though a limited one, in the legal system. He argued that hanging should be brought back for many serious crimes apart from murder, which he regarded as often being provoked by passion.
But his views sometimes strayed into matters such as immigration: he estimated there were five million illegal immigrants in Britain. His judicial position conferred no special insights on these things and his views deepened the liberal suspicion of him.
He was born and lived for most of his life in Fiskerton, Nottinghamshire, where his home backed on to the quiet River Trent. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and called to the Bar in 1938, but from 1939 to 1947 served with the 7th Queen's Own Hussars in India and Italy, where he won an immediate MC. He became a QC at 36.
After fighting two parliamentary seats as a Conservative - the first against George Brown at Belper in 1950 and the second at Loughborough in 1955 - he concentrated wholly on the law. He defended the best-known Great Train Robber, Ronald Biggs, but first emerged as a maverick when he was Recorder at Birmingham. The vandalising of telephone boxes had reached a point where it was difficult to find one in working order. He warned offenders, after tipping off the press what he was about to do, that phone box vandals would receive heavy penalties, including long prison sentences, if they came before him. He then coolly carried out his threat.
The effect was immediate. He was condemned by liberal opinion - never at its strongest in the Midlands - and praised by the political right. Even those who saw him as the young heir of the grim Lord Chief Justice Goddard had to acknowledge vandalism fell to the point where 95 per cent of phone boxes in Birmingham worked - though some pointed out that such offences had risen in nearby Coventry.
His next offensive, also successful, was against housebreakers. Once again he made his public announcement after the press had been alerted. 'If you do come, boys,' he said, 'we are all waiting for you. You have been warned.' One burglar was said to carry a map with him to make sure his targets were just outside Birmingham city boundaries.
Judge Michael Argyle obituary (continued)
There was little emphasis on a qualification of his heavier sentences policy - it was to be administered only 'in appropriate cases'. He always had his eye on the kind of cool rogue who, he believed, could be stopped only by force; his leniency towards others was less noticed.
Both as a circuit judge and at the Old Bailey, where he became an additional judge in 1970, his sentencing was unpredictable. He angered women by giving a suspended sentence to a barman accused of attempted rape. But he was called 'the domino judge' because of his penchant for sentences of five and seven years - the maximum for most sorts of crime.
Often his sentencing was overturned by higher courts. The best-known examples were the prison sentences he imposed in the Oz obscenity trial, when Richard Neville and others were accused over an edition of the permissivists' missionary magazine; the comedian Marty Feldman called him 'a boring old fart'. These were converted to fines. The Court of Criminal Appeal once reduced a heavy sentence imposed on a man after Judge Argyle had claimed in his summing-up that the man had committed perjury in court - not the offence with which he had been charged. And the Lord Chief Justice cut three years off a sentence, because, he said, it seemed to reflect the fact that a defendant had angered the court by not pleading guilty.
But Judge Argyle also often reduced sentences, and for his last case before he retired at 72 from the Central Criminal Court, he fined, rather than imprisoned, a man accused of possessing firearms with intent to endanger life.
His private pursuits were not typical of the judiciary. He was keen on boxing and chess. He was certainly the only Old Bailey veteran who kept whippets. He had a television set in his room in court to keep up with the sports results, and he nipped across the road in the lunch hour to place his bets. But he also used his own time to search for jobs for some unemployed offenders.
He could be harsh when he thought it was required, but no one accused him of being personally pompous. He once turned up at a theatrical party at a time when the strip show mogul Paul Raymond had offered the judge's actress daughter Caroline a job as a stripper. Argyle was careful to leave before he could meet, and perhaps be photographed with, the king of skin.
His wife Ann predeceased him. He is survived by their three daughters.
• His Honour Major Michael Argyle, judge, born August 31, 1915; died January 4, 1999
Judge Michael Argyle obituary (continued)
remembered by staff at the Central Criminal
Court for his daily patronage of the bookmaker’s shop
outside the court and for his insistence on always having a
television set in his robing room in order to keep abreast of
sports, especially those on which money was riding. He
owned and bred racehorses, was a chess and amateur
boxing fan and a breeder of whippets.
FOR ALL the colourful controversy that frequently
surrounded him, Michael Argyle was at heart a plain man’s
judge. He said what he thought, even if it did sometimes
attract accusations of prejudice and once earned him a
reprimand from the then Lord Chancellor, Lord Havers.
Judges are frequently criticised for being remote from
everyday life. Michael Argyle was all too often heavily
involved in it, remembered by staff at the Central Criminal
Court for his daily patronage of the bookmaker’s shop
outside the court and for his insistence on always having a
television set in his robing room in order to keep abreast of
sports, especially those on which money was riding. He
owned and bred racehorses, was a chess and amateur
boxing fan and a breeder of whippets. However, he never
learnt one crucial lesson of the ring and was always ready to
lead with his chin.
He was a gift to newspapers which loved to reprint the
remarks for which he became famous. He freed one woman,
saying: "You have caught me on a good day because I
became a grandfather this morning." He told a black
defendant accused of assault: "Get out and go back to
Jamaica." A sex attacker was told: "You come from Derby,
which is my part of the country. Now off you go. And don’t
come before my court again." Any real consistency would be
difficult to find in his sentencing, except that he did what was
within his power to deter crime. He observed in 1987:
"Quite simply law and order do not exist in this country at
present."
Educated at Shardlow Hall, Derbyshire, Westminster School
and Trinity College, Cambridge, he served in the Second
World War in India, the Middle East and Italy with the 7th
Queen’s Own Hussars. He won an immediate Military Cross
for organising a tank crossing of the Po. He had been called
to the Bar by Lincoln’s Inn, in 1938, becoming a bencher in
1967 and treasurer in 1984. He resumed his practice in
1947 on the Midland Circuit. He first came to public
attention when he defended Ronald Biggs in the Great Train
Robbery trial, but in a spontaneous gesture of generosity he
later sent a cheque to the Driver Jack Mills appeal fund. He
was later still to put up a personal reward of £100 for
information leading to the arrest of muggers who attacked a
woman usher at the Central Criminal Court.
Argyle became Recorder of Northampton from 1962 to
1965 and then of Birmingham from 1965 to 1970. He was
never afraid to admit that he needed more knowledge and
went to night school, run by Loughborough University, to
learn more about penology. Later he attended a 15-shilling
course on drug addiction.
He won a reputation for trying to find work
for unemployed defendants and earned himself the title of
"the jobhunters’ judge".
He tangled with the Establishment once too often, though,
when he made a speech to law students in Nottingham which
he evidently thought would not be reported. He said judges
should be empowered to impose death sentences in cases
carrying penalties of more than 15 years, and suggested that
there were more than five million illegal immigrants in Britain.
Lord Havers, the Lord Chancellor, severely reprimanded
him in July 1987 and in October Argyle announced that he
would retire the following July.
He was proud of his membership of the Carlton, Cavalry
and Guards, and Kennel Clubs. He was Master of the
Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards from
1984 to 1985.
His Honour Major Michael Argyle, QC, MC, a circuit
judge from 1970 to 1988, died on January 4 aged 83. He
was born on August 31, 1915.
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