Many of you will have met and been entertained online and offline by this most remarkable man. He has been a stalwart of the BBs since ESI days and always brought a sense of humour and fairness to all his postings. To meet him in the flesh was a remarkable experience, you couldnt but smile at his wayward antics and fun of life. Some of our Xmas lunches have been MG Days with his penchant for wearing thongs on the outside of his clothes plus many other memorable and not repeatable antics.

Despite the fun side of life he was a very strong family man, a very good businessman and an adviser to local governments on regeneration.

He will be sorely missed by me as a personal friend and fun golfer, but mainly as one of the most honest and fun contributors to the BBs I have been involved in.

This is from his family

Dear all
We are sorry to contact you all like this with this news, but it is with great sadness that we have to inform you that Malcolm passed away just before 7.30 yesterday evening in the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham. We are sure that you are all aware that Malcolm was battling prostate cancer and his decline in the last few days was rapid and shocking. He was admitted to the QE on Friday with very low platelet and haemoglobin levels. It quickly became apparent that the cancer had spread to his liver and on Monday morning his kidney function also deteriorated rapidly. He spent yesterday drifting in and out of consciousness but was aware that we were all with him. He seemed to spend much of this time in a better place and was talking about being in Wales (the scene of many a happy family holiday).

Malcolm has clearly been planning for this time though it came so much sooner than any of us could have imagined. He has left clear instructions outlining his wishes when the inevitable has happened and he had set up this group email for us to contact you all. We hope that many of you will by now have heard in a more personal way and are sorry if this email is the first that you have heard of this. We will obviously be in touch with details of Malcolms funeral when these arrangements have been made.

With much love and best wishes,
Julie, Rachel and Matthew"

What a lovely email from the family. Still keep thinking of his smiley face, his antics and his BB wit!

Hey Malcomb still not forgotten. Kicking this thread up the listings for one last time. I still ache from the laughter and loss.. RIP dear friend.

I forgot to mention that a few years back I bought a 1955 MG 1.5 T series and christened it Malcomb in MGs memory. So on bright summer days with the soft top down Malcomb and I go for a spin through the English country side.

My goodness. I smile just thinking of him right now. :-)))

He was a legend

Lovely funny man much missed.