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Leslie Phillips

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5627361/Queen-hit-extremely-hard-death-corgi-devoted-companion-Willow.html Queen Elizabeth has been left heartbroken by the death of her last corgi.

Taken in the context of the sad passing of Barbara Bush I have a feeling we are going to have a glut or series of deaths quite close together. In particular the now widower George Bush SNR. But also a few seem like they could be imminent like Leah Bracknell, John McCain and Herman Wouk. That's without mentioning the ever present possibility of a 'surprise' death.

CNN now reporting the sad news too.

Cheers Paul and Life is Beautiful

Is this the first time we have had a married couple on the same years deathlist?

Rossalyn Carter?

I remember in 2004 hearing on the radio news whilst driving with my Mum it being said it had been revealed that former US President Ronald Reagan was nearing the end and would likely only have weeks left at best. By the time we had finished our family outing that very evening just hours later news broke that Reagan actually died. I suspect this announcement maybe similar in the sense they are preparing the ground for something that's 'semi imminent' not hours clearly but more a case of days rather than weeks or months.

I wonder if Donald Trump will be invited to the funeral or expect to be so as US President? Obama was invited to the funeral of Nancy Reagan in 2016 but didn't attend due to prior important commitments. There is no love lost between the bushes and the Trumps but would they really invite other former presidents and their spouses but not the current President?

Yes it's trending on twitter in Los Angeles. Sounds pretty grim.

to Loretta Lynn 86 today!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/apr/13/johnny-hallyday-court-freezes-assets-in-inheritance-dispute Court has frozen Johnny Hallydays assets as dispute over his will continues.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/danniella-westbrook-heads-home-police-12356626 Released on bail at 4am and looks bedraggled according to the Daily Mirror.

Ethel Kennedys family paying 90th birthday tributes to her on social media. Big party held today apparently with many of the democratic party's bigwigs like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi in attendance.

The elderly father of political journalist and associate editor of the Daily Mirror Kevin Maguire has died.

Mitzi Shores passing a 'hit' for quite a few of us in the jokers deadpool including me.

Many Happy Returns to the one and only Ethel Kennedy 90 today

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/6018827/danniella-westbrook-arrested-malicious-communications-witness-intimidation/ Danniella Westbrook arrested over malicious communication and witness intimidation.

Utterly surreal

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/5987050/danniella-westbrook-cancer-fears-bleeding/ Danniella Westbrook fears she may have cancer after bleeding for nine weeks.

I've thought it for a while but it was only recent events that prompted me to turn thoughts into action like I did when Loretta Lynn had her stroke. It was @YoungWillzupdate on his health that was the nudge actually not your post which just confirmed my own feelings.

A cocaine habit can be enormously damaging to the heart and blood vessels .The risk of dying from an overdose is only part of the picture .

One of my shadowlist . Thanks for the link,reported concerns and rumours about his health last year prompted my inclusion of him .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-43634364 Convicted british paedophile George Lord has died in his eighties . He was a former leader of Worcester County Council and his abuse of women and girls was widely reported on at the time of his trial in 2012.

I'm assuming this thread is for widows and widowers or does the latter require its own thread?