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After Corrie star Kenneth Cope, we now discover that Geoffrey Hinsliff who played Don Brennan in the soap has died. Gooseberry Crumble smashes a hit with him, blowing up the leaderboard. Their Nightmare of Eden has ended with their first proper hit. Leaderboard updated, no bonuses.

Geoffrey Hinsliff QO: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/30521240/geoff-hinsliff-dead-coronation-street-legend/

Geoff Hinsliff reportedly dead: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/30521240/geoff-hinsliff-dead-coronation-street-legend/

Malcolm Mitchell-Thomson, 3rd Baron Selsdon reportedly dead: https://members.parliament.uk/member/2127/career

Still, a DDP pick.

TGI Fridays (UK) into administration: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13864315/tgi-fridays-administration-87-restaurants-risk-closure.html

Jean Roberts, Australian who competed at the 1968 Games in the Women's Discus and who won various medals at the Commonwealth Games in Shot Put and Discus between 1962 and 1974, reportedly dead:

Billy Edd Wheeler, co-writer of such as Jackson and Coward Of The County, reportedly dead: https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/west-virginia/boone-county-native-songwriter-billy-edd-wheeler-dies-at-91/ https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/12065/all

Don Fairservice, editor who won a BAFTA for A Very British Coup and also worked on Beautiful Thing, reportedly dead:

Kenny Hyslop QO: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24590302.tributes-simple-minds-drummer-kenny-hyslop-dies-aged-73/

Kenny Hyslop reportedly dead: Very early Simple Minds drummer also. Understand he was suffering from prostate cancer. Edit: DDP pick. RIP.

Jamie Theakston reportedly has Stage 1 cancer. https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/30477641/jamie-theakston-cancer-heart-radio/

Otis Davis, American gold medallist in the 400m and in the 4x400m relay at the 1960 Games, reportedly dead aged 92: https://bnn-de.translate.goog/karlsruhe/karlsruhe-stadt/olympiasieger-otis-davis-ist-im-alter-von-92-jahren-gestorben?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

1989 a veritable desert of tumbleweed for Slade next year, ha! I've always plumped for Jim Lea, sold off his stage outfits in the past years. But yeah, Powell was drummer, so more likely?

Tito Jackson QO: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/breaking-tito-jackson-dies-tributes-33675453 A miss for my 1988 TOTP Theme Team, I Want You Back returned to the top ten that year, peaking at #8.

Pictures at London Fashion Week: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13852667/Dame-Vanessa-Redgrave-87-joins-daughter-Joely-Richardson-Zawe-Ashton-chic-row-Roksandas-London-Fashion-Week-show.html Obligatory cane, obligatory still breathing.

Gary Shaw reportedly dead:

Vera Kunderova, widow of Milan Kundera, reportedly dead: https://www-seznamzpravy-cz.translate.goog/clanek/zahranicni-zemrela-vera-kunderova-259931?noredirect=1&_x_tr_sl=cs&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

Acht, maybe Kent and Gloucester will both peg it and save the hassle.

Having problems making it enlarge? Replace the x with twitter. Everything should embed that way. Thanks to The Old Crem for the tip btw.

No idea, perhaps a Royal Dukedom? Anyhow, I've used the styles from Wiki. I mean, Prince Edward is styled Duke of Edinburgh. Ulitzer probably best to confirm? Edit: I may even be wrong with the Duke of Kent for example. Bloody toffs!

Updating the list of Dukes, Marquesses and Earls who have reached or will reach 80 or over by or in 2025 (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) Michael Ancram, 13th Marquess of Lothian (b. 1945; d. 2024) Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, 9th Marquess of Lansdowne (b. 1941) Charles Townshend, 8th Marquess Townshend (b. 1945) John Tottenham, 9th Marquess of Ely (b.1943) Michael Cecil, 8th Marquess of Exeter (b. 1935) David Pratt, 6th Marquess Camden (b. 1930) 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) 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) Charles Stanhope, 12th Earl of Harrington (b. 1945) George Hobart-Hampden, 10th Earl of Buckinghamshire (b.1944) Robin Fox-Strangways, 10th Earl of Ilchester (b. 1942) - No Individual Wiki Page Ireland: John Boyle, 15th Earl of Cork and 15th Earl of Orrery (b. 1945) 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 David Vaughan, 9th Earl of Lisburne (b. 1945) Thomas Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford (b. 1933) George Dawson-Damer, 7th Earl of Portarlington (b. 1938; d. 2024) - 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 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; d. 2023) 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)

Winter is coming.

I see assisted dying is back on the news, recommended for the UK by a Citizen's Jury. A matter of time before Esther Rantzen is back to weigh in - if she is well enough.

Robin Guy, sometime drummer for such as Sham 69 and All About Eve among others, reportedly dead: https://louderthanwar.com/robin-guy-rip/