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These brilliant Hartlepool snooker memories include visits from the legendary Jimmy White and Alex Higgins

Get right on cue with these brilliant snooker snaps from the Hartlepool Mail’s archives. They include visits to town from legendary players such as Jimmy “Whirlwind” White and Alex “Hurricane” Higgins ...
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Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins - from the most intoxicating figure in all of sport to a sad, hollowed-out caricature

This week's sad passing of John Virgo - a rival famous for his note-perfect impersonation of Higgins - evoked again the anarchic age of The Hurricane ...