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James Brokenshire dead apparently:

Zhang Xudong, former commander of the Western Theatre (border with India) who stepped down in June due to health issues, dead at 58 from stomach cancer. His successor Xu Qiling, who turned 59 in July, stepped now in August and is reportedly gravely ill too.

Providing some more info: Smosh is a YouTube channel that was created in 2005. When YouTube was a relatively new concept Smosh was one of the most popular channels on the platform. It has had periods of being the most subscribed channel on YouTube with the last period ending in August of 2013. The person with cancer on the channel is Keith Leak Jr, who is 29. He has been a part of the channel since 2015. It should be noted that Smosh has multiple YouTube channels and he is a key figure in multiple of them (as well as social media and Twitch). https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5820878/ ^ This is his imdb page which will show mainly Smosh credits and a few other small projects. The cancer he has been diagnosed with is Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST). This is an extremely rare and treatable cancer, especially for his age group. If you follow his Instagram page, he has given regular updates and was diagnosed around April 2021. https://www.instagram.com/keithleakjr/ Basically to sum all this up....he has a high chance of being perfectly fine in the long-term.

Arrrggghhh... there goes another potential Drop 40 candidate... I also would have predicted that he would've been included on the DeathList.

It's a Tory safe seat with Labour the only vaguely credible challenger. Although a lot of that might have been the fact that Heath and Brokenshire were well liked locally, that gap is far too big to shift. It's bigger than Chesham and Amersham, in fact, Old Bexley and Sidcup is within the top 100 safest seats in Britain.

The statement mentions he declined rapidly from Sunday onwards.

https://en.armradio.am/2021/10/06/ambassador-vigen-chitechyan-dies-aged-80/ Vigen Chitechyan, Armenian politician and ambassador to France (1995-1997, 2009-2021), Belgium (1997-2009), EU (1997-2009), Netherlands (1997-2009), Luxembourg (1997-2010), Andorra (2011-2021), Monaco (2011-2021) and the Holy See (2012-2013) dead aged 80.

This is Edward Heath's old seat but like Chesham & Amersham it is probably a hot bed of old school tories and Heath was pro European On paper it should be a walk in the park for the Tories but it is a massive pitfall if they lose it. I reckon Labour will run a low key campaign and allow the Lib Dems a clear shot

Discharged.

Jerry Shipp, Gold medallist for the United States in basketball in 1964, reportedly dead: https://www.kxii.com/2021/10/08/longtime-texoma-basketball-great-jerry-shipp-passes/ Not a Scavenger Hunt pick.

Herbert Wehler is considered the last living veteran of the SS death squad behind the Babyn Yar massacre. So, Kurt Gosdek and Wilhelm Karl Friedrich Hoffmeister are probably dead.. Unfortunately we have neither any date nor any confirmation.

We could also the remaining names from this list, as long as the list still exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-wanted_Nazi_war_criminals There is a Kurt Gosdek, and a Helmut Rasbol (no trial because of lack of evidence).

Some guy from Smosh has a rare type of cancer.

Well, I have to say this is surprise. Lilly Laker, widow of cricketer and commentator Jim Laker, dead at 102: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/252674/laker Jim Laker died in....1986!

103rd actually, not counting Northern Irish seats. We have a lot of safe seats in the UK! (Still, about 100 places higher up the list for Tory majorities than C&A!)

It will come at an unfortunate time for the Government though. They will hang on I'd say, after all the hardest hit at the moment are the red wall seats in the North. Imagine...a North South divide under the Conservatives...an absolute shock.... Lose this and Boris may have to go....ah the dreams...

James Brokenshire's death will lead to one of those by-elections. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58844606

Reggie Parks, a Canadian-born wrestler who had a three-decade career, from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s, where he fought in over 3,000 matches, with his greatest success coming in the 1970s, has died. He was 87. Parks post-career venture was designing title belts, for which he was renown. They included the winged eagle design for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, used between February 1988 and March 1998. https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/reggie-parks-passes-away-age-87

This competition is nicely poised for a potentially exciting (despite it geological timescale progress) finish

Just watched the 60 Minutes piece as well. Kudos to the show for not trying to shy away from the realities of his disease, but at the same time not taking away from his dignity. He's a remarkable man. Also, bless his wife for taking care of him so dutifully. It does seem like he may only have a year or 2 to go, at most.

I was recently in a discussion about the classic “Hell Drivers” on the subject of “who’s left from the cast”, and he would appear to be the only one of note still standing. Vera Day, who had a minor role, is also apparently still around.

You're great, @Gooseberry Crumble! You must be the best friend of your friends. I wish that I had a friend like you.

Bob Dole's had so many health issues that even Zsa Zsa Gabor's ghost thinks its overkill at this point.

Is he the last survivor from "A Night to Remember"?

American Jazz singer and pianist Freddy Cole, died at 88 years: https://syncopatedtimes.com/pianist-freddy-cole-has-died-at-88/ He was the brother of Nat King Cole and uncle of Natalie Cole.