YoungWillz

Martin Böttcher dead: https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://www.welt.de/newsticker/dpa_nt/infoline_nt/boulevard_nt/article192251267/Filmkomponist-Martin-Boettcher-mit-91-Jahren-gestorben.html&prev=search

I mean, for Fay McKenzie there is this, saying she died 16 April: Obvously still awaiting some form of news obit.

Fleet Street staffer Doreen Spooner, dead at 91: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/first-female-fleet-street-photographer-14442462

Certainly looks like him. Someone else took Chappell this year, dropped him. Now he'll have to wrestle Duncan Norvelle to replace Windsor Davies on my team for next year. Subject always to the survival of my remaining contenders....

DDP Pick Monir Farmanfarmaian, Iranian artist, dead at 96: https://www.rferl.org/a/prominent-iranian-artist-monir-farmanfarmaian-dies-at-97/29894403.html

I saw that too @Cat O'Falk. If he makes it, he'll be a regular on my Comedy Theme Team from next year. Not because he looks ill, but because he looks ill and has been on Pointless Celebrities. Kiss of death, that double!

Death Notice for actor and director Philip Grout: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimes-uk/obituary.aspx?n=phillip-grout&pid=192603974 Best known for the 1961 series Family Solicitor, with appearances in more familiar shows such as Harpers West One, The Rag Trade and Emergency-Ward 10. Seems to have been quite the theatre luvvie, but I don't know enough to stick him in that thread. Looks like he's "graduated" from Denville Hall.

Lorraine Warren QO: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8899837/lorraine-warren-dead-the-conjuring/

DDP Pick Keith Cass cross-post.

Keith Cass be dead: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47990437 Was he a pick this round?

One of your DDP picks too I believe msc. Obviously sources awaited.

Lorraine Warren, pick for @Book here is being reported as dead on Twitterboard. No formal news source yet afaik.

Jim Neibaur great source for the information. So she'll be dead. Thought she'd be one for the Silent Era thread.

Roger Moate's Telegraph Obit: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/04/19/sir-roger-moate-robustly-eurosceptic-long-serving-tory-mp-unwittingly/

Pick for me in the DDP a year or two ago James W McCord, Watergate Burglar, died waaaay back in 2017: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12223765 Nice of them to tell us now....

Daniel Hanson gets a Times Obit: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/daniel-hanson-obituary-mm5wgfj6n

When Barr's microphone cut out on the announcement of the Mueller Report, I thought he was redacting his own speech! Anyhow, interesting that there is still speculation because he's making his speech before anyone (apart from Whitehouse and personal Trump counsel) have seen it. It sounds like there's damning evidence on obstruction, but Barr seems to imply that either Trump was too dumb or was so frustrated and under pressure he made decisions that were not intentionally criminal. White, elite privilege? Is it a matter of time that Barr also falls foul of the Trump firing machine, regardless of his obvious blind loyalty? Used to be mud stuck......

Rylan co-hosting It Takes Two with Zoe Ball. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6935461/Strictly-Come-Dancing-Rylan-Clark-Neal-join-forces-Zoe-Ball-Takes-Two.html I'm assuming she needs the help given her breakfast radio duties, but for God's sake, him? Sadly, he makes everything he appears in unwatchable. I decline to watch the spin off show henceforth.

Well, he's only gone and done it! Jim McColl, presenter of The Beechgrove Garden, is retiring. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-47963708 Failing grip in his hands, apparently. So difficult for a man at any age, that complaint.....

Beverley Craven back on tour after cancer treatment: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47965394 Didn't even know she was ill. Shows how good I am at this...

Boxer, football hooligan and bit part actor in T2 Trainspotting Bradley Welsh, executed in shooting in Edinburgh: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/772964/breaking-edinburgh-shooting-trainspotting-2-bradley-welsh-chester-street-latest-crime

Two. No butter, ketchup. I could have gone for three, but that would have been rasher of me.

Lived on the edge today. Had a bacon sandwich for lunch.

Assuming he's not fallen under the radar.... Arnold Yarrow is 99 today!