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Interestingly her younger sister is 108 and still alive.

Germano Nicolini, Italian partisan commander has died at 100 https://www.gazzettadiparma.it/italiamondo/non-solo-parma/reggio/2020/10/25/news/resistenza_e_morto_il_comandante_diavolo_fu_ingiustamente_incarcerato_-4450011/ (in italian)

Joan Hocquard, the oldest person in Britain, has died. She was 112. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-54681140

Yeah, or maybe German artists and performers EVA & ADELE:

Good spot! According to the second table here, they're the oldest British siblings ever. Lilian is 112 next month. Gwen is 109 next month. Gwen lives in Australia.

Irish actor Richard Harris's Sporting Life came to end 18 years today. Twice nominated for an Academy Award (for This Sporting Life and The Field), he was also the original Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films. He liked to sing a bit too.

Apparently this poll just came out in Texas:

List of oldest Brits can be sourced from here. It notes that she goes by the name of Lilian Priest (Lilian being her middle name). She's now the last person living in the UK born in 1908.

Make of this report of the death of Johnny Leeze what you will:

Born on the same day Butch and Sundance died.

Marjorie Carroll, the first female mayor of Waterloo, Ontario, has died. She was 88. She served as mayor from 1977 to 1988. https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/trailblazer-marjorie-carroll-former-waterloo-mayor-has-died-1.5159837

does not lard work for this problem

According to Wikipedia - and excluding British-born Canadian Phyllis Ridgway, who is older than Hocquard - the new oldest person in Britain is Sarah Priest (born November 7, 1908).

Or Kelly Brook

A-hem...

Anne Nolan couldn't help but think of a "Right Said Fred tribute act" herself: https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/the-cancer-had-been-eating-through-the-bone-brave-linda-nolan-opens-up-about-facing-cancer-battle-with-sister-anne-39640102.html

Stealers Wheel doing Star on TOTP is one of the great pisstakes of the shows miming policy. When no lockdown Joe Egan was still a regular sight around Paisley.

Took a few years but Lee Kun-hee, Chairman of Samsung (1987–2008 and 2010–2020), billionaire and two-time convicted fraudster is dead at 78. New York Times obit Independent obit

Rosa Parks died on this day 15 years ago, aged 92.

Absolutely agree about Peter Kay, massively over-rated, based his whole career on garlic bread.

I've liked everything I've ever seen from Rich Hall. Linda Smith was somehow underrated particularly when compared to Victoria Wood who did seem exactly that, Toasty, a little too smug. Concur with MSC completely about Morecambe and Wise, Andrew Preview is magical, but didn't and still doesn't make me laugh out loud. Also about..... Michael McIntyre - I've had dentistry sessions that were funnier than him. And in the same vein, Peter Kay, who fills vast auditoria and spends 20 minutes banging on about his biscuit falling apart when he dunks it. Must be me.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/anne-nolan-shares-fantastic-chemo-22840785 Anne reveals no sign of Cancer found during recent surgery. Linda is waiting for results of recent tests.

The sooner they fucking scrap all of that Honours bollocks, the better.

Marco Simoncelli died during the Sepang MotoGP 2011.

The Brookside "set" was a group of real houses that now have actual people living in them. Incidentally, the guy who played Jimmy Corkhill was in real life a very wealthy man thanks to his investments in property. He was also gay and, so I was once told, in a relationship with the Granada weatherman Fred Talbot.