Twitter going crazy reporting the death of Freddy Marks, of Rod, Jane and Freddy fame.
My favourite of the trio. If true, thanks for the memories of those times escaping from the reality.
Former Prime Minister of Denmark, Poul Holmskov Schlüter, is dead at 92:
https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/Poul-Schlueter-longtime-Danish-prime-minister-16209610.php
http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2021/celebs_S.html#schlp0
Former Danish PM Poul Schluter dead: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-28/poul-schluter-danish-premier-who-introduced-krone-peg-dies
I think this is another Crumbly DDP pick.
Bugger, the tweet has gone.
It was about someone who received their vaccine from a delightful nurse called Doreen Hutt, who earned the nickname from her colleagues “Hutt the Jabber”.
I'm still smarting from Saturdays eurovision!
I would also have been happier if Switzerland or Sweden or Malta had won.
A few others surprised me because they didn't score better. Notably Spain, Norway and Iceland. The scoring can be baffling at times!
Well, you've another one to do, QO for Schluter: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/poul-schlueter-longtime-danish-prime-minister-dies-at-92-copenhagen-european-union-european-parliament-conservatives-maastricht-b1855746.html
T. M. Kaliannan (wiki) supposedly dead at 100.
Indian politician and the last living member of India's first parliament (1950–1952).
Bad year for India. Losing loads of their famous centenarians. Just a handful left now.
Logan Cemetery in Utah is home to a headstone that is gaining notoriety around the world thanks to photos posted online.
Aside from birth and death dates for Wade and Kathryn Andrews, the headstone displays a recipe for Kay’s Fudge.
Actually it’s a great obit and greater story; I rarely advise reading obits. Do read this one.
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Try and top Yorkshire's suicide jockeys by packing more than nine people into an uninsured car: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-57261144
Report of the death of British actor Shane Briant, appeared in several Hammer movies as well as The Naked Civil Servant and The Picture Of Dorian Gray, before he emigrated to Australia in the 1980s:
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0108470/
spanish-born chilean painter and engraver Roser Bru Llop has died at 98 https://www.latercera.com/culto/2021/05/26/fallece-la-destacada-pintora-roser-bru-a-los-98-anos/ (in spanish)
Washington Redskins Quarterback Colt Brennan, who set a NCAA Division I record with 58 touchdown passes in a single season, died at 37 years:
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2021/05/11/sources-hawaii-football-legend-colt-brennan-dead/