Author, Barry Hines ... the Barnsley writer, whose 1968 novel "A Kestrel For A Knave" - about a troubled youngster who befriended & trained a kestrel hawk - was later adapted for the screen by filmmaker, Ken Loach, has died at the age
of 76 ... a decade after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/654...s-died-aged-76

... RIP.