In reply to Richard Smith:
I am devastated.
I heard it on the 10 O'clock news, and initially was hoping that something else had happened to her, or she was doing something different. Sadly it was announcing her death.
I remember going to see Grease in Glasgow in my first year at university. I went with a gang of girls (probably ~12-15 in number), and I was the only male. Just remembering that brought back memories of her, and the many friends that I had at that time.
Because of her good and alluring looks, she was known as Olivia Neutron Bomb...
It is as if part of my history has been ripped away.
I hope that she did not suffer unduly, though the cancer recurred in her spine.
Sympathies go to her family and true friends
Rob