‘Real’ Bond’s grave honour
A REAL-LIFE spy called James Bond now has a special 007 gravestone after his family found he served under author Ian Fleming.
James was in the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War and grandson Stephen Phillips believes Fleming took the name for his fictional hero.
His burial stone in Swansea, South Wales, now reads: James Charles Bond, S.O.E 007, 1906-1995.
Stephen said: “We felt he deserved the recognition on his gravestone.” A REFORMED thug who played a gangster in film T2 Trainspotting has been shot dead in the street.
Bradley Welsh, who told of his past as a 1980s football hooligan in an episode of Danny Dyer’s Deadliest Men, was gunned down in Edinburgh.
The 42-year-old was British ABA lightweight boxing champ in 1993 and was known for his charity projects in the city, including helping youngsters avoid a life of crime with his Holyrood Boxing Gym.
Pal Irvine Welsh, who wrote the Trainspotting novels, paid tribute to him, saying: “My heart is broken.
“Goodbye my amazing and beautiful friend. Thanks for making me a better Forensics cops at scene in Edinburgh and, left, author Irvine person and helping me to see the world in a kinder and wiser way.”
Welsh starred alongside Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle in 2017’s T2 Trainspotting as fearsome Mr Doyle.
He was found in a building’s stairwell Author’s post after news
after the shooting on Wednesday and a woman who lives nearby said: “I heard a bang. Then there were loads of SWAT teams – police were here super-quick.”
Builder Morgan Currie, 20, added: “I knew him through his charity work. He was a gentleman. He just kept his head down, looking after his kids and fiancée.”
Police are investigating and believe the shooting was an isolated attack.