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T'other one is Pitney and Marc Almond.

Gene Hackman celebrates his milestone 90th birthday today!

Multi talented British writer, director and film editor Alan Pattillo reported dead: Probably best known for his work with Gerry Anderson, but also wrote for The Avengers, sound editor on Performance and film editor on Walkabout. He is the second death of 2020 after Nicholas Parsons to be associated with Four Feather Falls. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0665602/

Fotima Mirzokulova, an unverified claimant from Tajikistan as the 'world's oldest woman', has died. She was (allegedly) 126 years old. Her specific birthdate has been presented as March 13, 1893. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7942273/Worlds-oldest-woman-claimed-born-1893-dies-aged-127-Tajikistan.html (Also got obits from the Sun and the Mirror)

Vanessa Redgrave, hugely famous and talented British actress and recent drop by the deathlist committee turns 83 today.

A man who wrote 2 of the classic WTF bits of 60s cult TV: The Bird Who Knew Too Much from The Avengers, and Attack of the Alligators on Thunderbirds!

Lost consciousness briefly, but nothing serious.

How’s the wall going, Donald? *Spoiler alert - it’s blown over in the wind*

Aye, those shorter races often end in a close finish too and we're at the point now where the points on offer for a death could drag a few further down the order into contention but not quite over the line. I spend half of every day fending off sports reporters who say: "The world is watching this Maryport, which way d'ya think it's gonna go?"

Today's totals from China: 170 deaths (29% increase); 7,711 confirmed cases (27% increase). Medical supplies running short in Hubei province. More than 50 cases outside China, but no deaths outside China yet. Also, in the fake news department: a bit of fauxtography fun as a WHO advisory altered to warn against unprotected sex with animals does the rounds: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/coronavirus-bulletin-farm-animals/

https://funeral-notices.co.uk/North+West-Merseyside-Liverpool/death-notices/notice/healy/4806235 The grandfather of the famously missing Madeleine McCann, Brian Healy has died aged 80.He was the father of Kate McCann. Spotted it in the Liverpool Echo whilst looking through as I regularly do to see if anyone I know or went to school with etc has passed away.

Well, both Chris Doleman and Chris Duncan came with the initials CD tbf, so you can see why it’s how it is.

Tomorrow is a big one to look out for. This virus has matched the projection below and another one aswell so far ,infact the death toll is higher. If the cases are close to 10500 to 11000 and death toll over 200 in tomorrows update then this starts to get serious. People will begin to panic.

At least it has knocked the fucking climate change bollocks off of the news. Note to hatchet face Thunberg: ' Don't worry about the climate changing luv, we are all going to get wiped out by disease first'.

To be fair showing up for work at all is amazing for a 96 year old. I personally would've put him in although there were a lot of candidates equally as worthy out there who were just as healthy as NP. So I wouldn't call it a terrible decision.

I need to hear more from the Twitter account called "StrategicNews2" whose pinned tweet says "I am back. My account has been suspended for no reason" before I make up my mind on this one

The official death toll just jumped by a quarter overnight, from 106 to 132. Confirmed case totals rose by the same proportion https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/world/asia/china-coronavirus.html I'm not surprised that there are rumours of a cover-up or of significantly higher true mortality, but I'd be sceptical of these for now. Many big questions remain unanswered: - Will sustained global transmission occur in spite of current control measures? It seems pretty likely at the moment imho, even though the antecedents, SARS and MERS, were contained. - Will any existing antiviral treatments prove effective? - Will someone succeed in finding a vaccine? - How will the virus evolve? - How much will the transmission and mortality figured change by location, and differing demographics / health systems / resources etc? - How will health systems cope with the strain imposed by quarantine etc, and how will this affect care for people with other conditions? One thing that I'm a little surprised about is that no public health bodies have used this to push the anti-smoking message yet. Surely now, if ever, is the time to look after respiratory health, especially given the link between smoking status and both susceptibility to and severity of respiratory tract infections.

100,000 to 999,999 It's being vastly underreported. 200 a day dying in Wuhan funeral parlours full to bursting. https://mobile.twitter.com/StrategicNews2/status/1222255801043210241 They also reckon there's two strains one that's symptomless rots the lungs then makes you collapse and another that gives you flu like symptoms. https://mobile.twitter.com/dongline/status/1222118357664559104 https://mobile.twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1222132059533127680 https://mobile.twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1222260295504142337

I for one would love to be here 100 years from now and have tickets to the Rolling Stones Farewell Tour

Final Automatic dependent surveillance – broadcast says the helicopter was losing altitude at 4,224 feet per minute (48 mph, 77 kph) from just above 2000 feet. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n72ex#23a8271e

Thanks for the memories. Here's a deleted scene from MP's 'Meaning of Life'.

Damn it, was beaten!

Debt....