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Newsreader Alastair Stewart has been diagnosed with Vascular dementia. He is currently 71 and famous enough for the main list. https://www.gbnews.com/celebrity/alastair-stewart-health-dementia-stroke-retirement

I'll say it again, there's really no rush.

No, you’re thinking of the Ted Heath and Brian Clough threads.

Pictured 8th September 2023, a day before his 99th birthday, with his two right hand men Dallin H. Oaks (91) and Henry B. Eyring (90):

At least Tommy Cannon and Syd Little can sleep well at night knowing they at least weren't Hale and Pace.

pitiful score put all the 100 year olds on next years list take shane macgowan off and then he will die

Not a fan of Simply Red, but HBTY is a great song. Happy with this last six.

Sun 10 Sep 34 Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl +2 32 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance +2 30 The Ting Tings - That’s Not My Name 28 La Roux - Bulletproof 28 Lily Allen - The Fear 26 Lady Gaga - Poker Face 26 Coldplay- Viva la Vida 24 Ne-Yo - Closer  24 Duffy - Mercy 24 Pink - So What 24 Rihanna - Take a Bow 24 Leona Lewis- Run 23 David Guetta ft. Kelly Rowland- When Love Takes Over 23 Estelle ft. Kanye West- American Boy 23 Kelly Clarkson- My Life Would Suck Without You 22 Taio Cruz - Break Your Heart  22 Cascada - Evacuate the Dancefloor 22 Girls Aloud- The Promise 22 Take That - Greatest Day 21 Calvin Harris- I’m Not Alone 21 Dizzee Rascal ft. Calvin Harris- Holiday 21 Dizzee Rascal ft. Armand Van Helden- Bonkers 20 Mint Royale - Singin’ in the Rain 20 Beyoncé - If I Were a Boy 20 Flo Rida ft. Kesha- Right Round 20 Tinchy Stryder ft. N-Dubz- Number 1 20 Pixie Lott- Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh) 20 JLS- Beat Again 20 Tinchy Stryder ft. Amelle- Never Leave You 20 David Guetta ft. Akon- Sexy Chick 20 Jay-Z ft. Rihanna & Kanye West- Run This Town 20 Pixie Lott- Boys and Girls 20 Alexandra Burke ft. Flo Rida- Bad Boys  20 JLS- Everybody in Love 20 The Black Eyed Peas- Meet Me Halfway 20 Rage Against the Machine- Killing in the Name 18 Lady Gaga ft. Colby O’Donis- Just Dance 18 Dizzee Rascal ft. Calvin Harris & Chrome- Dance Wiv Me 18 Vanessa Jenkins and Bryn West ft. Tom Jones & Robin Gibb- (Barry) Islands in The Stream 17 Cheryl Cole - Fight for This Love  15 Kings of Leon- Sex on Fire 15 Madonna ft. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland - 4 Minutes 10 The Black Eyed Peas- I Gotta Feeling 10 Chipmunk- Oopsy Daisy 09 Basshunter ft. DJ Mental Theo’s Bazzheadz- Now You’re Gone 00 Alexandra Burke- Hallelujah -6 Thank you @Toast

Updating the list of Dukes, Marquesses and Earls who have reached or will reach 80 or over by or in 2024 (again, Wiki is my friend, any errors are theirs): Dukes: Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire (b.1944) James Graham, 8th Duke of Montrose (b. 1935) James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn (b. 1934) Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1944) Prince Edward, 2nd Duke of Kent (b. 1935) Murray de Vere Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St Albans (b. 1939) Francis Egerton, 7th Duke of Sutherland (b. 1940) Marquesses: Granville Gordon, 13th Marquess of Huntly (b. 1944) David Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry (b. 1929) Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, 9th Marquess of Lansdowne (b. 1941) John Tottenham, 9th Marquess of Ely (b.1943) Michael Cecil, 8th Marquess of Exeter (b. 1935) David Pratt, 6th Marquess Camden (b. 1930) Michael Brudenell-Bruce, 8th Marquess of Ailesbury (b. 1926; d. 2024) Mark Dundas, 4th Marquess of Zetland (b. 1937) Simon Isaacs, 4th Marquess of Reading (b. 1942) Earls: England: Richard Bertie, 14th Earl of Lindsey and 9th Earl of Abingdon (b. 1931) John Montagu, 11th Earl of Sandwich (b. 1943) Paul Capell, 11th Earl of Essex (b. 1944) George Coventry, 13th Earl of Coventry (b. 1939) Scotland: Margaret of Mar, 31st Countess of Mar (b. 1940) Ian Maitland, 18th Earl of Lauderdale (b. 1937) Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin and 15th Earl of Kincardine (b. 1924) Patrick Carnegy, 15th Earl of Northesk (b. 1940) Filippo Rospigliosi, 11th Prince Rospigliosi and 12th Earl of Newburgh (b. 1942) - No Individual Wiki Page Patrick Hope-Johnstone, 11th Earl of Annandale and Hartfell (b. 1941) Peter St John, 9th Earl of Orkney (b. 1938) Ian Ogilvie-Grant, 13th Earl of Seafield (b. 1939) Neil Primrose, 7th Earl of Rosebery and 3rd Earl of Midlothian (b. 1929; d. 2024) Patrick Boyle, 10th Earl of Glasgow (b. 1939) Great Britain: Richard Parker, 9th Earl of Macclesfield (b. 1943) - No individual Wiki Page James Waldegrave, 13th Earl Waldegrave (b. 1940) George Hobart-Hampden, 10th Earl of Buckinghamshire (b.1944) Robin Fox-Strangways, 10th Earl of Ilchester (b. 1942) - No Individual Wiki Page Ireland: William Anthony Nugent, 13th Earl of Westmeath (b. 1928) John Brabazon, 15th Earl of Meath (b. 1941) - No Individual Wiki Page Roger Lambart, 13th Earl of Cavan (b. 1944) - No Individual Wiki Page Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda (b. 1937) Myles Ponsonby, 12th Earl of Bessborough (b. 1941) Arthur Gore, 9th Earl of Arran (b. 1938) John Savile, 8th Earl of Mexborough (b. 1931) - No individual Wiki Page David Turnour, 8th Earl Winterton (b. 1943) - No individual Wiki Page Robert Jocelyn, 10th Earl of Roden (b. 1938) - No individual Wiki Page Thomas Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford (b. 1933) George Dawson-Damer, 7th Earl of Portarlington (b. 1938) - No individual Wiki Page Michael Annesley, 12th Earl of Annesley (b. 1933) - No individual Wiki Page Andrew Cole, 7th Earl of Enniskillen (b. 1942) - No Individual Wiki Page Arthur Stuart, 8th Earl Castle Stewart (b. 1928; d. 2023) Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 8th Earl of Donoughmore (b. 1927) Charles Acheson, 7th Earl of Gosford (b. 1942) - No Individual Wiki Page Brendan Parsons, 7th Earl of Rosse (b. 1936) Sir Richard Needham, 6th Earl of Kilmorey (b. 1942) United Kingdom: John Pelham, 9th Earl of Chichester (b. 1944) Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton (b. 1934) Philip Grey, 7th Earl Grey (b. 1940) Keith Rous, 6th Earl of Stradbroke (b. 1937) - No individual Wiki Page Simon Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns (b. 1939) Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl Cranbrook (b. 1933) Edward Foljambe, 5th Earl of Liverpool (b. 1944) Peter Mackay, 4th Earl of Inchcape (b. 1943) Peter Wood, 3rd Earl of Halifax (b. 1944) Shane Alexander, 2nd Earl Alexander of Tunis (b. 1935) Alexander MacMillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton (b. 1943)

My mission in life is to become so successful that when I die Jimmy Carter comes to my funeral.

Sid Little is still alive but I always considered Little and Large a cut price Two Ronnies.

You’ve voted +3 for simply red and dire straits. Maybe you meant +2?

Colin Firth is 63.

Last photograph of Oscar Wilde alive and the last photo of him dead.

Hard night last night. (Based on a true story. Only the names are changed to protect the innocent.)

@ladyfiona... If I tell you my secret, then it's not a secret anymore.

I actually saw Mike Yarwood on stage in Summer season at Blackpool in 1980. Supported by the Nolan Sisters. Impressionists have a difficult job not only do they need to do an accurate impression they need to find something funny to do with it.

Why are people reacting with the cry emoji for the fact that Jimmy Carter might see his 99th birthday? That’s genuinely one of the absolute stupidest uses of an emoji I’ve ever seen on the forum

I don't mind pineapple on a pizza. It's chicken that has no business being on a pizza, in my opinion.

Edward Hide reportedly dead by a somewhat impeccable source: Incredibly successful jockey.

Times death notice for David Lawrence, 5th Baron Lawrence (wiki), aged 85. Crossbench member of the House of Lords (1968–1999). No heir, and thus the peerage is now extinct.

As well as the last surviving participant of the coronation of King George VI in 1937.

Well, he was. But of the bits of The Smiths I like (which do exist, but aren't a lot), Morrissey is relatively a non-factor and it's the musical stuff Marr wrote or Rourke manages which makes those songs work. Morrissey seemingly wanted to do Paul Weller style lyrics but lacked the maturity, the rest of the band were looking towards pop sensibilities of the time. Which is why Boy With the Thorn in His Side (Morrissey picked the title) has lasted better than, say, Bigmouth Strikes Again. Because tunes hold up better than teenage attempts at earnest lectures.* *Note this isn't a strict rule. Terry Hall was younger than Morrissey. More that Morrissey himself was dire at it, and has only regressed since.