Man issues plea for namesake

A MAN has issued a plea for anyone who shares his surname to contact him, amid fears that it will disappear with him when he dies.

Research suggests that 73-year-old Mike Pimbury, of London, is the last person in the world to bear the name.

Author Laurie Lee has a character named Pimbury - believed to be Mike’s great-aunt - in Cider With Rosie, his 1959 memoir of Cotswolds life in the years after the First World War.