Obituary

Obituary: Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare by Dr Ronald J. May

Somare was born in 1936 in Rabaul, where his father was serving as a policeman in the colonial administration, but returned to his father’s home province of East Sepik at an early age. His schooling began in Wewak during the Japanese occupation of New Guinea and continued at Finschhafen High School and Teachers College at Sogeri. During the 1950s and 1960s Somare taught in New Ireland, East Sepik and Madang, served as an interpreter for the Legislative Council and the first House of Assembly, and worked as a broadcast officer with the Department of Information and Extension Services.

Ed Sheeran accidentally bumped off in Icelandic obituary

Why? Turns out Mr Sigurðsson was an Ed Sheeran tribute performer in his spare time. Not sure what this says about the fresh-faced British singer, who at the tender age of 27 has just got himself a Mrs Sheeran-to-be. Maybe time to start having the odd facial, Ed?

Or perhaps octagenarian Mr Sigurðsson was the only ginger in the village...?

Ed is apparently too busy buying up a country estate in Suffolk to comment.