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Barrie Hinchcliffe, whose production company essentially made the BBC's coverage of saloon and rally racing, has reportedly died: According to details from Companies House, he would have been 86.

Welcome one and all to the fourth annual Poker Tournament! Once again, we throw the doors open to the Casino, situated precariously on a cliff's edge, below a high water dam, just beyond the forest. Sauna facilities provided free for the weary waits between hits! I'll say again, you don't need to know how to play poker or even be interested in cards - just know that you will be well catered for and looked after during your 6 month incarceration in the palace of pleasure! And there is a new addition to the rules just to keep you interested, and which will ensure nobody walks away with zero points! (Not that it has ever happened, but I will not have a first time!) So come on in! If you are not in it, you don't win it! It's the most random, most exciting and easily played Deadpool opening on 1st July! Your humble servant.

Phyllis Ridgway's vaccine unnecessarily premature. She's dead: https://globalnews.ca/news/7922913/phyllis-ridgway-dead-canada-toronto/

Reagan's Secretary of Labor [sic] Raymond J Donovan death notice: https://obits.nj.com/obituaries/starledger/obituary.aspx?n=raymond-j-donovan&pid=198897373&fhid=17074 DDP pick, but I don't see his death reported here yet or indeed in a QO place.

Well I'm just going to guess that @gcreptile already knows, but for completeness for the DDP, a QO: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/oj-simpson-f-lee-bailey-death-b1859361.html

F Lee Bailey is a DDP Pick I'm sure. Anyway, sounds like he's dead:

BBC Breakfast favourite and DDP Pick Harry Billinge on hoping to see a memorial built in his lifetime and stating he "may not have much longer" (yeah, right): https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/adored-st-austell-veteran-harry-5484121

DDP Pick Bridget Riley (90) has a chat about her life and work: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57332625

Death Notice for Morris Prigoff, better known as Moe or The Doc, who appeared on Storage Wars Texas: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/dallas-tx/morris-prigoff-10089659

Bill Scanlon, US Tennis player who in his day beat some of the greatest names around, reportedly dead at 64: Reached the semis of the US Open in 1983, best at Wimbledon was the quarters in 1979.

So apparently ill and under medical supervision. And we look on....

Yep, adultery is no fun unless you are actually married. Or perhaps she wasn't going to ease her lockdown without a wedding.

Tasmanian born actor John Gregg has died: https://tvtonight.com.au/2021/06/vale-john-gregg.html Another Country Practice alumnus, in possibly everything Australian TV related. However, some of us are only really interested in his role as Lycett in The Ark In Space for Dr Who.

Coughed through a speech a few days ago, now Twitter going mental that he might be on a ventilator or even dead. Been here before with this joker...let's see how the news develops.

BJ Thomas QO: https://metro.co.uk/2021/05/30/bj-thomas-dead-raindrops-keep-fallin-on-my-head-singer-dies-aged-78-14675662/ I'm sad, bad losses in the past coupla days. RIP. Edit: Not picked in the DDP? I thought he had been...maybe in the past?

Gavin MacLeod QO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9632809/Gavin-MacLeod-star-Love-Boat-Mary-Tyler-Moore-passes-away-age-90.html I loved The Love Boat as a wee boy. Sad to see him sail into the sunset.

Paul Soles QO: https://metro.co.uk/2021/05/29/original-spider-man-voice-actor-paul-soles-dies-aged-90-14673355/

Producer of the show Ron Smedley reported dead mid-month. And nobody seems to have noticed: Imdb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0970228/ Also produced and sometime directed shows such as Zigger Zagger and Magic Grandad.

Former Lord of Appeal In Ordinary who preceded Baroness Hale, Peter Millett, Baron Millet of St Marylebone in the City of Westminster (Going to need an A3 Death Certificate) death notice: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/249980/millett

Alastair Hanton, the man who essentially invented the British system of Direct Debit, dead at 94: Became a cycling campaigner in his dotage.

Just like Eurovision, no marks.

Well, you've another one to do, QO for Schluter: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/poul-schlueter-longtime-danish-prime-minister-dies-at-92-copenhagen-european-union-european-parliament-conservatives-maastricht-b1855746.html

Former Danish PM Poul Schluter dead: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-28/poul-schluter-danish-premier-who-introduced-krone-peg-dies I think this is another Crumbly DDP pick.

Twitter going crazy reporting the death of Freddy Marks, of Rod, Jane and Freddy fame. My favourite of the trio. If true, thanks for the memories of those times escaping from the reality.