YoungWillz

The deaths/obits keep coming. Start scribing those obits!

Iron Sheik QO: https://metro.co.uk/2023/06/07/wwe-legend-the-iron-sheik-dies-aged-81-18913527/ He's under K for Khosrow.

Statement in full:

Go on Brian, give it some!

Patricia Dainton gets the full Telegraph treatment: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/06/07/patricia-dainton-star-first-tv-soap-died-obituary/

Tony McPhee QO: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jun/06/tony-mcphee-singer-and-guitarist-rock-band-the-groundhogs-dies-aged-79

Adding that Tony McPhee is a DDP pick.

Tony McPhee of British blues band The Groundhogs reportedly dead: The band has been mentioned on the Forum by various muso lovers here. Charting albums in the UK, no singles.

Francoise Gilot QO: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jun/06/francoise-gilot-painter-muse-picasso-dies

Mike McFarlane reportedly dead again: https://athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news/tributes-flood-in-for-mike-mcfarlane-the-super-mac-of-the-gb-sprints-scene-1039968298/ Quotes a family statement.

Ferrier suspended for 30 days: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65702252 Let battle commence...

Off to the hospital again for a "check up". We've heard that before....

With Astrud Gilberto's death, up to you to consider updating this entry.

Astrud Gilberto QO: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/astrud-gilberto-death-girl-from-ipanema-b2352188.html

70s Mixtape pick for the DDP. QO chances? Edit: Apparently excellent QO chances.

David Penny's widow and stepmother of the current Viscount Marchwood, Sylvia Penny (nee Bastin, thereafter Willis Fleming) death notice: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/264447/marchwood Did not last long after the death of her husband. In full: MARCHWOOD Sylva Kathleen, Viscountess, (née Bastin) died peacefully at home on 29th May 2023, aged 84. Much loved widow of David, and of Peter Willis Fleming. Mother of Somerset, Min, Pedro, Sophie and Sebastian, stepmother, grandmother and stepgrandmother. Private cremation. Celebration of life in the autumn, to be notified later.

Death notice for Raymond Monbiot, father of journalist George Monbiot and a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/264460/monibot You'd think the Torygraph would spell his surname right, but... In full: MONIBOT Peacefully at home on 31st May 2023. Raymond Geoffrey CBE, aged 85. Beloved husband of the late Rosalie, loving father to George and Eleanor and the late Katherine. Grandfather to Hanna and Martha. Donations, if desired, to RNLI.

John Morris is under A for Aberavon. Some of these guys take a load of searching the way they are named!

Reuben Wilson reportedly dead from advanced dementia and lung cancer: https://www.npr.org/2023/06/05/1180128842/reuben-wilson-b-3-hammond-organ-soul-jazz-obituary

John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon, former Labour MP for Aberavon (1959-2001) and former Secretary of State for Wales and latterly Attorney-General for England And Wales and for Northern Ireland, reportedly dead: I understand he's a DDP pick.

Baffled why Elspeth Campbell has her own Wiki page, but for those updaters of that site, a report: https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/fife/4451302/elspeth-campbell-lady-campbell-pittenweem-dies/

I checked his official website when reports started yesterday and nada. I'd be very surprised that social media got to this news before mainstream press.

Elspeth Campbell, wife of former Lib Dem MP and leader Menzies Campbell, reportedly dead: Ming to be watched from now on.

Bob Stewart reportedly charged with racially aggravated public order offences. Relates to this report from December: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/conservative-mp-bob-stewart-beckenham-political-career-b1048787.html

Oops.