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Betty Boothroyd looking well during the Lords Brexit debate.

The teen spirit of Kurt Cobain flew away on this day 25 years ago, aged 27.

Guardian interview and article on Italien author Andrea Camilleri, 93 years old and chain smoker. Now blind, but otherwise in passable health: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/05/montalbano-italians-fascism-andrea-camilleri

Seeking to fill the void left by the death of Prince Leonard of Hutt River? 85-year-old Elsie Eiler serves as treasurer, librarian, bartender and Mayor of Monowi, Nebraska. Why? Because no one else lives there. Every year she secures funding for the town's traffic lights, files paperwork to prevent the town from becoming unincorporated, and issues herself a liquor licence. In the 2010 Census, the total population of Monowi was one (76.5 years old, female, white). The population nearly fell to zero when she battled cancer in 2011. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-5445903/Welcome-Monowi-Americas-smallest-town-population-1.html

1. John Cleese 2. Prunella Scalees 3. Connie Booth 4. Robin Ellis 5. Lionel Wheeler (?) 6. Michael Cronin 7. Barney Dorman (?) 8. April Walker 9. Bernard Cribbins 10. Peter Brett 11. Andre Maranne 12. Louis Mahoney 13. Johnny Shannon 14. Nicky Henson 15. Imogen Bickford-Smith 16. Claire Neilson 17. Anthony Dawes 18. Geoffrey Palmer 19. Pamela Buchner 20. Una Stubbs 21. Denyse Alexander 22. Melody Lang 23. Sabina Franklyn Off the credited cast alone.

Nicky Henson has had incurable but treatable cancer for close to two decades now, mind.

I'll take 2, which, given the current pace, is actually a reasonable estimate.

Was it something he ate?

Yes they do. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-47252505 In the mean time. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/26/tfl-to-borrow-350m-after-crossrail-delay-drives-it-into-the-red Yes, the Tories are a bunch of cunts, a lack of Police is a nationwide issue but, unlike the rest of the UK, or 98.2% of it, London has riches that are being spunked away by a tin pot twat who spends more time massaging his profile than actually doing what he was put in office to do, run London like a fucking pro. As for the 'annihilation of funding for youth and outreach projects, exactly what the fuck do you think Londons yoof was doing decades ago and long before that when there was absolutely fuck all funding available in whole swathes of the city and as much poverty as there is now? 'Community leaders' 'youth leaders' bull shitters and crap parenting, whatever the scenario, throwing money at the youth is not going to solve the problems that are so entrenched in areas of our society not even a bomb will shift it. Poor housing? I lived in one, privately rented, couldn't get a Council house for love nor money so had to make do with handmade quilts packed with old clothes to keep us warm in the winter when ice used to form on the insides of our windows. Don't tell me about how a lack of Police, no yoof clubs and ' not being able to reach out to those unfortunate souls' is integral to a surge in murder and mayhem on the streets because it is not. Inequality? Yeah, thats got so much worse.. It's drugs. Who the fuck is going to work for a minimum wage when they can earn £10K a week shipping coke around middle England using kids. For somebody who is clearly intelligent, you talk the same kind of shit that is spewed by folk who think they fully get it, can feel it but have never lived it. Just like Jeremy, actually.

Sadiq is not perfect, but the rise in stabbings got well underway under Boris' watch. While that lying, lazy, nepotistic narcissist was too busy wasting money on illegal water cannons and pointless bridges. Although, in truth, this specific problem isn't BoJo's doing either. The mayor of London doesn't have funds to hire policemen. The drop in police numbers is entirely down to Tory national policies, and is a national problem, not just a London one. Alongside the annihilation of funding for youth and outreach projects. And the general rise in inequality. Changing london's mayor will do nothing to address any of these issues. The problem lies in Westminster.

My regular harrassing of the Guardian bears fruit as the come up with the goods for Vonda N McIntyre

Looking very well! She's as sharp and as eloquent as a near-nonagenarian as she ever was. Amazing lady.

Sad news. He cropped up in a few other shows too. I was trying to write a list surviving Fawlty Towers cast members for a possible DDP theme team. I think I could only 15 still alive. That list has now gone down to 14

South African biologist and nobel laureate Sydney Brenner deat at 92 years https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/nobel-laureate-sydney-brenner-who-helped-place-singapore-on-biotech-world-stage-dies-at-92

I'll take 3. Why not, lol?

They'll vote to revoke A50 before Brexit day.

Daneliya has died.

We die horrible, agonising deaths.

Sounds like all the possible ailments that should have killed him in the past 40 years are now happening all simultaneously.

What, he's transitioning!? Nailed on pantomime dame, then

Low-end mobster and abusive partner of Lana Turner, Johnny Stompanato, was stabbed to death by Turner's daughter today in 1958:

They found her birth certificate in the past 2 years so it's now confirmed that she is 97.

All over Twitter, death of former Nuts editor-at-large, longtime Guardian/Guardian guide contributor and former Countdown champion Pete Cashmore. A man I had many enjoyable conversations with and was proud to call a friend and inspiration. His suicide, frankly, doesn’t come as a surprise and hopefully he’s at peace writing 60-word takedowns of Paolo Nutini singles in the afterlife now.

John Quarmby dies aged 89.