leslie bricusse was born in london in 1931.e to two james bond films, won two oscars and a grammy and was involved in the writing of more than 1000 songs. in his memoir he said he was one of the luckiest people he knew. generations of filmgoers may disagree. luck had nothing to do with it. the british songwriter leslie bricusse, who's died at the age of 90. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @sallybundock bbc still very balmy out there for some of us for a late october night. 15—16 celsius, and wednesday promises to be another mild day. quite breezy and lots of showers in the forecast, too. 0ur tropical air arrived a couple of days ago, it's still with us, it was very warm yesterday in the south—southeast, 21 celsius — we won't quite get that today, but i want to show you the origins of this current of air, so this is the north atlantic and it's all very warm air across the atlantic, and here we have the caribbean. so this is where the air has come from — it's obviously cooled, but it's still pretty balmy over this part of europ