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Popular Bath vendor Stewart Frazer has died

The 47-year-old Everton supporter had been selling The Big Issue since 2016

Stewart Frazer

The Big Issue is saddened to report that popular Bath vendor Stewart Frazer has died.

The 47-year-old, a well-known local character, had been selling The Big Issue around the city since 2016.

He was a qualified brick layer, turning to The Big Issue when he was unable to find work in the building trade.

Big Issue Bath sales and outreach worker Chris Taylor described the vendor as “likeable and quiet”.

Taylor added: “Stewart was well-liked by other vendors and the wider community.

“He was an Everton FC supporter and always put forward a sensible and rational argument in the vendors’ debates on football.”

The outreach worker added that the vendor “was always a friendly face in a sea of people” who will be missed by the people of Bath.

Three other Big Issue vendors have died in Bath in the last year: 52-year-old hero vendor Istvan Kakas, 56-year-old Ivon Sanwell (who took over Kakas’s Halfpenny Bridge pitch in the Widcombe area after his death), and 44-year-old “wickedly funny” Jo Jones.

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