Radio four interrupted with the news that David Bowie has died. Presenters clearly stunned by completely unexpected news, though it emerges that he had been suffering from cancer for the last year and a half. Tributes and reminiscences for the rest of the day. By evening the Cyprus Mail online has struggled to find a local angle, a little reminiscent of the apocryphal story about the Aberdeen paper that was supposed to have reported the sinking of the Titanic under the headline "North-east man dies at sea". The CM's heading is "David Bowie: Cyprus is my Island (Updated)" and the story mainly refers to the fondness Bowie's first wife had for Cyprus where she was born while her father was here working as a mining engineer. Clearly pulled out of the archives to meet the occasion.
