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Paddy Hopkirk reportedly dead:

There's a photo here of the lads: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/07/pentonville-five-1972-dockers-strike-industrial-relations-act Conny is in the centre, probably more 26 than 57 I'd say (everyone looked older in the 1970s ha!) Must be a report on the release of them say around the 27th July 1972 which was the day after their release.

Bernie Steer, last surviving member of the Pentonville 5, reportedly dead: https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/last-surviving-member-pentonville-five-has-died The imprisonment of the shop stewards in 1972 for unofficial strike and picketing led to the TUC calling a general strike.

Madame Tussauds are dithering about whether to start work on a PM Liz Truss waxwork in case the human version visits and they never find the real Liz Truss again....

Reports on Tweetfield that Uwe Seeler has finally bitten the dust. Links to follow. Edit: https://www-focus-de.translate.goog/sport/medienbericht-hamburger-fussballlegende-uwe-seeler-ist-tot_id_120667578.html?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

Of note, Nicholas Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater retires from the House of Lords, presumably to spend more time with his money: https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2022-07-20/debates/BEA100EC-594D-4C65-8D95-333AE76F7542/RetirementOfAMemberViscountUllswater Whilst he held various Governmental posts, he was Private Secretary to Princess Margaret and that of itself will guarantee him all the obits.

Field Marshal Peter Inge Times Obit: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/field-marshal-lord-inge-kg-obituary-3rvlqx36m Don't say I told you so, I think someone did pick him this year @gcreptile so straight to QO.

Good to see Sir Edward Leigh tearing himself away from his breakfast/brunchtime/lunchtime cocktail to attend the result...

Oh, it was to restore TRUST in the Tory Party, terribly sorry I misheard you... So it's the lawbreaker versus the Russian Doll....

One of Blibberwimble's most loyal lieutenants is sad to see him go....

His final PMQs coming up. Good riddance Blibberwimble, it's not been nice knowing you.

Walter "Wally" Eymond aka Lu Walters, bassist with Rory Storm And The Hurricanes, reportedly dead: According to Wiki, this means that Ringo is the last surviving member of the original line-up of the band.

His sister Edana Minghella, a jazz singer who co-wrote a few of Dominic Minghella's episodes of Doc Martin, died a few days ago aged 63, cancer: https://www.countypress.co.uk/news/20282826.isle-wight-jazz-singer-edana-minghella-dies/

Vanessa Rosenthal, a scriptwriter who co-created the Radio 4 series Writing The Century, dramatised Jane Austen for Women's Hour and adapted Ayckbourn's play Seasons Greetings for the channel, reportedly dead: A bit part character actress too, she had parts in Emmerdale, The Royal and Heartbeat.

Irish film producer/director/screenwiter Tommy Collins reported by his daughter to have died: Best known by me for writing and directing the documentary Teenage Kicks: The Undertones. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0172718/

DIVISION!!! Watched most of today's debate. Johnson will win it, but those lovely crosses in support of Johnson and his cronies will be brought back on every opposition leaflet in the country currently represented by a Tory. Thought Margaret Hodge and Jess Phillips really made an impact with their speeches. Basically, it boils down to the Tories still fighting the GE of 2019, and everybody else saying look at the state of us now.

Now we know why he tabled a motion of no confidence. Loves the sound of his own voice. Best panto dame ever, coming to a stage near you this Christmas.

Claes Oldenburg, long term DDP Pick and famed pop art sculptor, dead at 93: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/claes-oldenburg-dead-1234634394/ I'll assume he's a pick this year @gcreptile.

Dunno if Fred Durst will outlive/has outlived BlackThirteen, but hey he's no well: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62207793

RAF Brize Norton's runway has melted in the heat. Flights are suspended from Luton Airport due to a "surface defect". With all this, the passport office in chaos and normal flights cancelled for holidaymakers, the Government has been forced to deny that British holidaymakers are stealing the refugees' dinghies to make it across the Channel.

Laurence Broderick, UK sculptor notable for creating The Bull in Birmingham, is 87. Worth thinking about as he is being sued by his kids for £5m for cutting them out of his will: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11023901/Sculptor-87-created-iconic-Bull-statue-sued-sons-cutting-will.html

Sunak and Truss have resigned from tomorrow's TV debate. Without them, there would have been only one other candidate left. Time for Kay Burley to do an in depth interview with that person? Of course there is a no confidence motion today - the "we all hate Boris Johnson" candidates will vote for him to stay as PM. (Well, actually Liz (I love a bit of Kwasi)Truss loves a blond sex pest and he loves her, so....liar?)

John Milne, author of the Jenner series of books who wrote for such TV series as Bergerac, Lovejoy, Silent Witness, Taggart and Waking The Dead, reportedly dead from cancer aged 69: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/07/18/john-milne-policeman-art-student-crime-novelist-television-scriptwriter/

American alternate history sci-fi and fantasy author Eric Flint being pronounced as non sparking: Bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Flint_bibliography

Trust and Integrity. Badenoch: I've been so so brave in resigning from Government. And that Tugendhat is a little bitch who doesn't know how difficult my life as a Minister was. Tugendhat: I led in Iraq and Afghanistan and have persuaded changes in policy. Which counts for nothing apparently. Truss: I'm a wonderful person, I present like a poor man's Lady Penelope from Thunderbirds but I stuck by Johnson through thick and thin and he's picked me as the best hope for the future, like Princess Leia did with Obi-Wan Kenobi. Sunak: I'm incredibly proud of my poor immigrant parents who made it rich at the expense of those who were born here, and I'd like that to happen in the future. Mordaunt: Everybody lies about me - look at the papers for gawd's sakes. I'm part of a team who will campaign as we govern (which apparently is chaotically).