I just received an email from one my fellow board members of Vote Hemp with links to a BBC News story and obituary for Anita Roddick:
Founder of ethical cosmetics firm Body Shop, Dame Anita Roddick, has died at the age of 64.
Her family said in a statement she suffered "a major brain haemorrhage" at 1830 BST at St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, West Sussex.
Her husband, Gordon, and daughters Sam and Justine were all with her.
Dame Anita set up the first Body Shop in Brighton in 1976. She pioneered cruelty-free beauty products and turned them into a highly profitable business.
She was an one of our early supporters and inspirations and she will be missed greatly. I need to head off to bed as I get up early, but since I did not see any tags or stories on this I thought that I would white a short diary.