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TMZ is a good source and they report deaths one minute after they happen. Don't compare it to that absolute rubbish called National Enquirer.

They are a bunch of cunts. However, so are the Daily Mail, and they're used regularly for reliable deadpooling. The Mirror have picked up the story. The Sun did, last I heard, pay handsomely for "showbiz scoops", so yeah, this (probably) comes from family or inside the hospital.

The BBC are so risk averse these days they tend to wait till someone is being lowered into the ground

This one I believe unlike the Bob Barker news from the national enquirer. Hit #11 coming this week...

Stop the creation of "Who will die first between these two/three/several somewhat comparable people?" threads. That goes for "Who will die first between these people born in the same year?" and "Who will be the last survivor between etc etc" threads too.

Myanmar is dealing with its Muslim problem very effectively, if only we could do the same in the UK.

Yeah, he looks really well.... His missus is gripping his hand, he appears to have no ability to reciprocate. A Spurs legend and a bit of a miserable old cunt, its all a bit tragic.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/apr/05/bbc-retracts-report-of-sounds-of-the-60s-host-brian-matthews-death

As one of the bigger names in Wisconsin Public Broadcasting, pretty high I would have thought.

Desperate situations often call for desperate measures. A group of researchers reported some promising results of an experiment with a possible novel treatment against glioblastoma (complementing surgery and chemo+radiotherapy): https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/zika-virus-kills-brain-cancer-stem-cells/ Could this new kind of treatment help McCain? Probably not. The researchers are still working on weakening the virus so it would be rendered harmless against healthy brain cells, and it could still take years (of testing, clinical trials etc.) after that before it gets approved by the FDA as a standard treatment (IF it gets approved at all). And it could also be a situation similar to that with Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, with Roberta dying of the emotional strain caused by losing her child.

It will probably be Liz Dawn if the reports of hospitalization are true.

Far be it for me to go pedant on a rant, but actually, there were calls that the NHS was a struggle to fund from as early as 1950. It's what led to the Gaitskell "compromise" to introduce dental charges, and led to Nye resigning from the government. Also, there was extreme money shortages in the 1980s, which led to a belief NHS services would be farmed off to private companies, hence, long story short, Maggie Thatchers speech about the NHS being "safe with us".

I don't think so I think she's more of a hero now. She is always championed herself as a hero to the Burmese people and she defended them from a tyrannical junta and now illegal immigrant Muslim terrorists,Squatters and invaders. She just don't want trucks of Islamic peace enriching the Burmese people. Wasn't it the Muslims who attacked the Burmese soldiers first again? How exactly do you think the Burmese army and the people should react? Maybe take a page out of the UK's book and carry on as normal pretending there isn't a lebenoneseque civil war coming? Name me a terror attack in Poland or the Czech Republic ? Both countries with no Islamic immigration and zero terror attacks . In fact the more Muslims in your society the more terror attacks funny that. Fact is if we didn't have Muslim immigration in the UK and Europe in general then I can 100% guarantee alot of people who are now dead from said attacks would be alive and a lot of young girls lives ruined by being raped by muslim gangs as a child maybe living the lives they deserved to live. Sadly they were let down by their parents , police , labour party and the government in general. Mosques and kebabs aren't culturally enriching enough for me that I would sacrifice lives for. If people love Muslims and want to defend them so much there is the whole middle east to live in . What benefits to the UK and humanity in general is there to turning Bradford , London and many other places majority Muslim? Surely they would just create another Bangladesh or Pakistan . Infact these Muslim majority areas areas are already starting to look like 3rd world places. I'm sure you will blame the Tories or 'the elites' for underfunding but actually if more people are using the system and not paying tax you have a funding gap and a strain on the system. Isn't it funny before 1997 we never talked about struggling to fund the NHS. https://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/04/why-do-we-pretend-that-all-muslims-are-sweet-smiley-and-integrated/ https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/britain-sinking-under-unproductive-muslims-costing-13-billion-a-year/amp/ https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/685449/Patients-hit-out-struggling-A-E-North-Middlesex-third-world-country/amp

TMZ seem to report deaths one minute before they happen. They've got the Reaper on retainer.

They are certainly a tabloid. However, from what I can tell from, they're much more reliable than the likes of radar online or the national enquirer, where all they post is predictions that celebrities are going to die soon, which 95% of the time, are wrong.

Poor guy, he has enough problems at the moment without having to deal with that too.

Well, almost all of Mitch's thousands of fatalities happened in Honduras and Nicaragua. Basically, when an Atlantic hurricane has such a huge death toll, it's mostly in underdeveloped countries in Central America and the Caribbean. Irma has already hit the Caribbean, and the death toll is only 23. It could still rise, but probably not by much. The only islands directly affected (Anguilla, Barbuda, Sint Maarten, etc.) had small populations anyway. The hurricane stayed slightly north of Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and just barely made landfall in Cuba. It's about to hit Florida of course. Death toll won't rise by that much. First of all, because, as I mentioned, hurricanes never kill many people in America in modern times. Katrina was the only exception, killed about a 1000 because levees broke and submerged an entire large metropolitan area of New Orleans. Second of all, because it's not supposed to directly hit a major city. Earlier models had it going directly towards Miami, but now it is predicted to go to west Florida. Third of all, because tons of people already evacuated Florida. So, I am going for a death toll of 100. Split that up into 80 in the Caribbean and 20 in the US.

Get the White House on the line.

Noel Picard, a Canadian Ice Hockey defenceman who played for the Montréal Canadiens (1964-1965), St. Louis Blues (1967-1973) and the Atlanta Flames (1973), has died aged 78. He notably tripped Bobby Orr at the 1970 Stanley Cup, resulting in this iconic image:

Private funeral so no form studying options re news footage of his showbiz pals arriving. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41160807 Bring on the promised "public memorial service" for that. I'm thinking maybe 24 March with them all walking past Brinsworth House as part of the whole thing!

Barry Cryer. He's the Paul Gambaccini of entertainment. RIP Brucie. Though I preferred Larry Grayson on the Generation Game, he was a great entertainer and we won't see the like of him again. Typically and completely predictably, this is probably my favourite Brucie telly moment...

She's always been an optimistic person so her (public) reaction is going to be thus. Plus she's been a bit new agey for a while - definitely since her original cancer bout - so her comment about also using complimentary natural therapies isn't surprising either. They didn't do her any harm last time; indeed, she suffered the side effects of cancer treatment a lot less than many. Of course, she probably just got lucky but there's no harm in natural remedies *as well as* the usual treatment. Given this news, and the fact it took her 35 years to play the UK, I'm *so* glad I got the chance to see her live in Brighton back in 2013. Second row seats and she was amazing *AND* she sang Long Live Love, which I'll admit to having a tear in my eye at. She's wonderful and I wish her all the best.

Well I have decided to strip bollock naked, spray paint my genitalia in a vibrant shade of lime green, and run around my local Poundstretcher singing Puff the Magic Fucking Dragon until I'm tasered by the local PCSO. And nobody gives a shit about that either.