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Steps down from as President of Rainbow/PUSH coalition he founded in 1971 due to his health. Successor will be named on Sunday.

Worth remembering that Greg Lake and The Wombles will both be back in December for our Christmas special. Be interesting to see whether they do better against normal hits or similar songs slathered with sleigh bells.

James Scott (the 1st Duke of Monmouth) died on this day 338 years ago, aged 36. - Scott was a bastard child of King Charles II, with his mistress Lucy Walter. - In 1658, Scott was kidnapped by his father's men and put into the care of Baron Crofts, and he took his surname. When he married his wife Anne Scott in 1663, he took her surname. - Scott would serve in the Royal Navy during the Anglo-Dutch war, serving from 1665 to 1673. After the war's end, he became the chancellor of Cambridge University. - Following the death of his father in 1685, Scott would lead a rebellion against his uncle King James II for the throne, and would be captured by his troops after his escape from a battle at Sedgemoor. He would be sentenced to death for high treason, and would be beheaded by the notoriously half-assed executioner Jack Ketch; Ketch hit Scott multiple times with the axe before successfully decapitating him. - Allegedly Scott had no official portrait at the time of his execution, so his head would soon be reattached to his body, which was posed for said portrait.

https://youtu.be/ytt6hUxzpd8?t=1910 I was only thinking of this the other day...

Not sure if you're laughing at the notion those acts were ever innovative or they wouldn't have become profitable any other way, but - either way - I'd stand by those claims. I'm not saying the Beeb is totally responsible for the country spending decades as a world power in music but take a look at the list of the biggest selling artists ever. Only nine acts have any valid claim to have sold at least a quarter of a billion records and five of that nine (Beatles/Floyd/Elton John/Queen/Led Zeppelin) are British. Two (Floyd/Zep) are primarily album acts who wouldn't have made it without late night Radio One playing them as cult acts and driving people to their gigs. Elton John and Queen made it here first and relied on daytime and late night radio play (the late night stuff playing the songs the rest of radio was ignoring) which meant they found an album loving crowd alongside the pop fans who put their singles into the charts and The Beatles British breakthrough relied on the light programme (as it then was) to get them known, without that the first hits, and the life-changing US trip wouldn't have happened. Oh aye, and on topic - as of today GB News are claiming more Huw Edwards revelations are "imminent" whilst The Mirror - apparently - have evidence the viewing public wants him back. Gonna get complicated and somewhere in the middle of that is a guy on suicide watch who about ten days back was widely believed to be living up to the image of a church going father of five and pillar of the broadcasting establishment. I'd say the amount of support amongst some of the public will help him stay alive. As for his career, I wouldn't want to be a senior BBC boss fielding the conflicting calls.

Marga Minco dead at 103. DDP pick.

RIGHT, that does it. Let’s have a look who had all the gunpowder and gelatine this round: LadyFiona - 5 theoldlady - 5 BuffaloPhil - 3 Drewsky - 3 Commtech - 1 justonecornetto - 1 DoltonMoney - 1 DiegoReactedToAPost - 1 RoverAndOut - 1 Wannamaker - 1 Joey Russ - 1

Has a benefit concert scheduled for him

Guardian Obit for Gareth Floyd, illustrator who provided the artwork on many many episodes of Jackanory: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jul/14/gareth-floyd-obituary

Joins the Mirror as a new columnist but is clearly declining fast as she can’t walk unaided and is having vision, hearing and memory loss. https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/linda-nolan-loses-hair-incurable-30470307

It's 40 years since the death of sportsman Jack MacBryan. He was, at the time of his death, England's oldest surviving (male) test cricketer, at 90 years & 357 days. He played his debut test, versus South Africa, at Old Trafford in 1924 and remains the only player to have a test cap without making a contribution to the scorecard. In a match severely affected by rain (in Manchester, who'd have thought!) South Africa batted, and MacBryan never bowled nor took a catch and never got to bat in a match in which only 66.5 overs of the first innings were played. He never received another call-up. A prolific batsman for Somerset, he was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1925. He also won a Gold Medal for GB & I in Hockey in the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, and in a strange twist, also received the 400m Gold Medal, despite never entering the race. The actual winner, South African Bevill Rudd, had already departed by the time the medal ceremony came around a day or two later, so MacBryan, bearing a slight resemblance (i.e. same colour hair) to Rudd, took his place on the rostrum and was presented with the gold medal.

John Nettleton dead. https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/23057105/john-nettleton-dead-yes-minister-midsomer-murders/ Straight to DDP QO.

Likely a mishap, but Chinese-American geologist An Yin (wiki) reportedly dead at 64.

Johnny Gilbert is 95 today.

Tom Parker’s wife Kelsey had a whole documentary on TV following his death. When Tom died, she told the kids quite bluntly “Your dad is dead, he’s gone to be with the angels and he’s not coming back”. The eldest kid was about 2/3 years old during this. Albeit they may be too young to fully understand at this age, I don’t think it’s right to keep them in the dark no matter what tender age they are.

Bit of a shock that one. Aged 59 according to BBC news.

Because he was mentioned here. Nowt to stop others posting in any other relevant threads is there? Edit: Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12194107/Chelsea-legend-John-Collins-dies-aged-76-John-Terry-leads-tributes.html

Gangster and ex of Babs Ronnie Knight has died aged 89.

Taiwan’s last known survivor of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery has died at the age of 92, according to the island’s foreign ministry, which called the issue a “wound in human history”. Referred to as “comfort women”, more than 200,000 women were sexually enslaved by Japan’s military during the second world war, mostly from South Korea but also from Taiwan, China, and Indonesia. In Taiwan, which Japan ruled from 1895 to 1945, nearly 60 women had come forward over the years as survivors, according to Taipei’s Women’s Rescue Foundation, which estimates there were at least 2,000. The foundation said on Monday the island’s last known survivor – who did not want her name made public– died on 10 May at the age of 92. SC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44062921 The sad news now confirmed by BBC News on their webpage . I suspected something was amiss when she missed the Pride of Britain awards show last year as she was a regular attendee.

I was considering starting a thread about death anniversaries for the not-so-famous, such as Mr Neisser. Not every day entries necessarily, just when you think about it. I pass over so many names of folks I never heard of without opening their bio. This would be very educational for us all, but limit it to like 50 or 100th anniversary as you did here. That way if a nice round number pops up we can give them their just do, and learn about someone in a couple sentences we never may have heard of before. Anyways, it was a thought. SC

Scottish chemist and inventor of waterproof fabrics, Charles Macintosh hung up his rubber raincoat for the last time on this day in 1843 aged 76 and put on a wooden overcoat instead.

Sir William Ramsay, discoverer of Argon and the noble gases - 100 years ago Montgomery Clift - 50 years Van Heflin - 45 years Jean Muir (1st actress blacklisted as a Commie sympathizer in 1950) - 20 years

Joe Royle? He's never been England manager. I think you're thinking of Joe Mercer, who I mentioned earlier. He was caretaker for a few games, played the flair players & he won most of the games they played in. Think he was caretaker between Ramsey & Revie if my memory serves me correctly.