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The death of Caroline John, aka Liz Shaw, has been announced.

The DWAS would like to send its deepest condolences to her husband Geoffrey and the rest of Caroline's family. She will be sorely missed.

Not quite causing the events of 'Fear Her' to come true (it is a different version of the Doctor after all), Matt Smith took part in the Olympic Flame relay today, in Cardiff. You can see more information and a short video at the BBC News website. http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/uk-18204904

The piece by Hayden Gribble in the new CT has set me thinking about what I would include in an "Eleven Faces" season.

On the basis of them being "roughly 90 minutes" (by the way Hayden, The Two Doctors isn't!!) my list is:

1st Doctor: The Romans
2nd Doctor: The Krotons
3rd Doctor: Day of the Daleks SE
4th Doctor: City of Death
5th Doctor: Earthshock
6th Doctor: Mark of the Rani

Peter Purves joins Anneke Wills and Frazer Hines as guests at Riverside Reflections...

http://www.dwasonline.co.uk/riversidereflections/

Steven Moffat is to receive a special BAFTA award for his contribution to television:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18118720

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I wanted to take a minute to thank all of the highly talented artists who have contributed to Celestial Toyroom covers recently.

Going back to #400 we had a specially commissioned piece to celebrate the late Nicholas Courtney in the style of Andy Warhol by the superb David Burson aka Draculasaurus.

More of his work can be found at:

http://draculasaurus.deviantart.com/

In case you haven't heard the good news already...

The Manchester Fringe Festival this July will feature a live performance of The Robots of Death and Storm Mine -adapted for the stage by Alan Stevens.

For the first perfomance only, Paul Darrow will be appearing as Iago, and Tracy Russell as Blayes.

For information/tickets see...

To celebrate the announcement that Anneke Wills will be joining us at Riverside Reflections, we are pleased to offer the chance to win a set of the next Target Book reprints from the BBC. The titles to be re-issued, with new introductions are:

The Tenth Planet by Gerry Davis. New introduction by Tom Macrae
The Ice Warriors by Brian Hayles. New introduction by Mark Gatiss

We are very pleased that Anneke Wills, who of course played Polly, will be joining us for Riverside Reflections. For more details please click the Riverside Reflections advert on our home page.

We have gone right back to the start of the Society for our most recent update to the online archive section. Some of the earliest DWAS Reference Department items are now available and if there is interest we will upload some more.