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Coming up: Oliver Knussen; Barbara Harrell-Bond; Sam Chisholm; Steve Ditko; Anna Sandor de Kenos.

With the loss of Tom Neil and Geoffrey Wellum, of the surviving Few of the Battle of Britain there seem to remain: Flt Lt William Terence Clark (b. 1919) Wg Cmdr John "Tim" Elkington (b. 1920) Wg Cmdr Paul Farnes (b. 1918) Sqn Ldr John Stewart Hart (b. 1916) Flt Lt William Robert Kent Hughes (b. ??) Flt Lt Maurice Mounsdon (b. c1918)

And so, here's some further Anglican composers worthy of future consideration: Malcolm Archer (b. 1952) John Barnard (b. 1948) Harry Bramma (b. 1936) David Briggs (b. 1962) James Douglas (b. 1932) Jonathan Dove (b. 1959) Martin How (b. 1931; d. 2022) Grayston Ives (b. 1948) Francis Jackson (b. 1917; d. 2022) Roger Jones (b. 1948) Peter Nardone (b. 1965) Barry Rose (b. 1934) John Rutter (b. 1945) Richard Shephard (b. 1949; d. 2021) Additionally, Wiki has only one living Scottish hymnwriter as far as I know: John L Bell (b. 1949)

Death Notice for Anthony Caesar, Anglican priest, organist and composer, aged 94: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/225852/c-sar Sometime music editor of the New English Hymnal and latterly an Extra Chaplain to the Royal Household.

It's a human interest story......

Will Reeve, son of the now dead Christopher and Dana, opens up about losing both his parents by the age of 13: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/note-to-self-will-reeve/

Michael Howells, British award winning production designer on such films as Bright Young Things and Nanny McPhee and most recently the Victoria television series, has died according to Vogue: https://www.vogue.co.uk/gallery/michael-howells-has-died He was also assistant art director on The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And His Lover. IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0398099/

Rotten Ali it seems to be:

Death Notice for one of Britain's first TV wildlife presenters Grahame Dangerfield, aged 80: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/225790/deaths IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0199507/

Another The Producers death. Played Roger Elizabeth De Bris in the 2005 film remake - and thus Hitler also.

Report of the death of Morris "Mo" Nunn, founder of the Ensign Formula 1 team, aged 79: https://www.autoracing1.com/hotnews.asp?tid=122115

Boris makes one of the most important hard-hitting and intelligent resignation speeches ever in the House of Commons. Just kidding. Moans that Brexit isn't hard enough, that the UK should dither back to his vision of Brexit (and look wonderfully weaker than the weak vision - is it a vision? we already have) and that we should all unite behind the previous Lancaster House speech. Incidentally, there was a previous Lancaster House speech - just before Zimbabwe's independence. Look how that turned out. Anyway Boris, no gravitas, plenty of blonde lock tossing and stamping of petulant feet. As expected. I rate it 1/10.

Jeez, that picture looks like it was taken in someone's home. What an invasion of privacy.......

Did Blair give Savile the horn?

Death Notice for Betty Shackleton (nee Homan) aged 104, widow of the late Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/225805/shackleton

Carrots: Cucumbers: Marrows:

You know, 17th July has been fertile ground in the past. Ted Heath, Walter Cronkite, Elaine Stritch, Gordon (of Peter and Gordon), Mickey Spillane, Jules Bianchi and one person who had his own thread which isn't tagged as dead yet. So we may get some names in the next couple of days. Reaper's been fickle when he takes 'em this year. Edit: Ta, mods, you are wonderful you know.

He was always going to say that. Obama called out lying politicians today...just tick another lie off on Trump's longlist. (I may have achieved Trump bingo on this one!)

Been watching the Lava Bomb hit a boat full of people who want to get really close to an erupting volcano all day. Their horrified screams never get old.

Never did get round to that Brian Cox v Ed Balls poll.....

Dutch athlete Mien Schopman-Klaver, dead at 107. https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mensenlinq.nl%2Foverlijdensberichten%2Fwilhelmina-hendrika-schopman-klaver-7893196&edit-text DDP pick.

An Oscar winner you say? Oh, you didn't...

Government win by 6 votes.

Government defeated on remaining in the EU medicines regulatory framework by 4 votes. And that wasn't even the defeat they were expecting. Division on the possible defeat on the Customs Union on now on BBC Parliament. Tory rebels allegedly being threatened with a General Election if this goes through.

I once fell over in a three-legged race.