YoungWillz

Various reports that Joy Webb of The Joystrings has died (probably October 1):

I think it's great to know that the UK isn't the only political basket case in the developed world. You've got Trump coming out and saying he didn't commit fraud, when the Court has found he did. He says the Banks got paid and made loads of money. Fair enough, but the US taxpayer seems to have been defrauded of millions of dollars. The same taxpayers that he is asking to vote for him? Then you have Matt Gaetz attempting to oust Kevin McCarthy. The same Matt Gaetz who was alleged to have had relations with minors? How's that going anyway? And then he says this is all about Congress passing laws, when what he is doing is stopping that process. Incredible! It's all a very new low. Imo.

Ah, that explains Laura Kuenssberg's absence on Sunday - her father Nick Kuenssberg is a goner: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23829214.nick-kuenssberg-scottish-business-leader-dies-aged-80/ Best known business leader? Never heard of him.

In fact this gives @Toast the win?

Incredibly, a DDP hit for somebody else!!!!!

Rosemary Squires a hit for someone here: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/oct/02/rosemary-squires-obituary Died way back on 8 August.

Rosemary Squires straight to QO: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/oct/02/rosemary-squires-obituary A @Gooseberry Crumble favourite, so probably a DDP hit.

Steve Bray wrestled out of Tory Conference: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1819046/Steve-Bray-kicked-out-Tory-event-Brexit

Francis Lee last picked for the DDP in 2017, so List of the Missed: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2017/celebs_L.html#leef0

Francis Lee reportedly dead - link to follow. Edit: https://www.mancity.com/news/mens/francis-lee-passing-63831855 Also appeared on their 1970 hit single @Ulitzer95 for the Singles Chart thread.

Cancer ridden poet Richard Fox, former Cup pick, reportedly dead: https://eu.worcestermag.com/videos/entertainment/books/2023/06/27/worcester-poet-richard-fox-reads-his-poem-revival/12174477002/

It wasn't me defence lodged: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66981598

Alice Shalvi can be deceasified: https://www.timesofisrael.com/alice-shalvi-trailblazing-feminist-and-educator-dies-at-97/

Gary Simpson, forward who played for Chesterfield and Chester, reportedly dead aged 64:

Inspired write up for Dianne Feinstein!!! Cheered me up as a diversion from the procession of Voldemort Horcruxes at the Tory Conference.

Anyone listening to the fiction being spouted by the Tory Party's Page 3 girl, Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho? They are the party of renewables, apparently. The party that banned onshore wind and reduced investment and support for solar, wind and biomass just a short time ago. Indeed, without Scotland's renewable energy, the UK's renewables sector and move to net zero would be very shoddy indeed. They are the party of the environment, apparently. The party that has overseen the worst pollution of water and air in recent history. The party that will roll back environmental protections leading to more polluted waters to build more houses. The party that will put 5 more years of pollution into the atmosphere by allowing petrol and diesel cars to be sold til 2035. They are the party of energy security, apparently. THIS MY FRIENDS IS THE BIG LIE. More exploration of the North Sea will not give this country more energy security - we already sell 80% of the oil extracted from existing fields. I see no move to build more refineries. That means 100% of any new exploitation will be sold. It will give us no energy security. But it will give the Treasury more money, to spend lining Tory pockets. Jeez! Also, no word on HS2 from Sunak. The North has been betrayed. The country has been betrayed. The young of today will live on the new, smaller UK and be the first to live in a desert, at this rate.

Classical pianist Russell Sherman reportedly dead aged 93: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/01/metro/russell-sherman-luminous-pianist-longtime-new-england-conservatory-teacher-dies-93/ And: https://www.classical-scene.com/2023/10/01/sherman-obit-1/ Last picked in 2020 I believe @Death Impends, so List of the Missed: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2020/celebs_S.html#sherru

Does this make sense? I'm very tired at 01:30hrs here! I meant to mention this earlier, somebody else did the same thing some hours ago - was it Chris Snow? Acht.

Just a note for future reference. If you are notifying a death and it isn't in a named thread (Jimmy Carter, George Alagiah etc) then in order for your post to be searchable, you must repeat the name of the deceased (your original post doesn't show up in the search for your new post because it is quoted). Then we won't get another poster who sees your earlier post but not the one above and rushes to notify the Forum of her death (I know, unlikely in this case) only to be told that you have already told us all. I don't know how many times regular posters have to tell folk this. Not your fault, just please do this, thanks.

Apparently Damar Hamlin is back playing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/american-football/66978919 So not one for us yet.

Billy Joe Beck, Irish Canadian wrestler of the UK scene back on the old World of Sport, reportedly dead: Anyone fancy a return to the past? Nothing else on a Sunday...

Highlights from Conference so far: Grant Shapps - it makes me entirely happy to send British troops into a war zone. The Falklands won us the 1983 election, and that is what we shall do. James Misnomer Cleverly: A global pandemic and a terrible war in Ukraine are to blame for everything! Labour are shite. we are less shite, vote for meeeee!

Report that Ricky Wolff, multi-instrumentalist with White Plains has died back in South Africa from whence he came:

Former reporter for ITV's Westward Diary on Westward Television and presenter for BBC Points West, later becoming High Sheriff of Devon, Gerald Haycock (aka Gerald Hine-Haycock) death notice: https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/hine-haycock-notices_52420 Died at end of June, but with little clue to his public profile. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2509155/

Someone here needs Jake Abraham I believe: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/breaking-lock-stock-two-smoking-31076585