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Hurts back during sailing incident, apparently: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/rupert-murdoch-suffered-back-injury-232138461.html Maybe a failed attempt at a Robert Maxwell.....ah well, we can but dream....

Peter Mayle, author of books on Provence, dead aged 78. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/peter-mayle-author-year-provence-dead-78-52444573 and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-5286081/Peter-Mayle-author-A-Year-Provence-dead-78.html

Steve "Grizzly" Nisbett, drummer with Birmingham based Steel Pulse during their fairly successful phase including the Rock Against Racism period, has sadly died aged 69. https://www.facebook.com/SteelPulse/?hc_ref=ARSUoMnQ7oiJvrCX0COxRuiBBdRtWlvaA-4mjhk55M5t7aU1d_0Bv0m2ym7E9VCzG8Y Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Nisbett IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0632611/ UK #35 1978 Prodigal Son:

Rules are here: Remember, there is one surviving Bee Gee...

Only if your team is serious and includes Sting....

Banned from driving for drink-driving: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-42732004

Now this is a contender for response of the year! Well played...

What's the B stand for? Banned?

I've seen them all, I'd forgotten about her. But of course, she was credited as Number Fifty Eight? *runs off to check whether she was actually Number Two or about to become Number Two*

Seemingly the place Peter Wyngarde's death should really be mentioned despite all of the reports elsewhere. So I'll do it. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jan/18/actor-peter-wyngarde-department-s-dies Now, does this mean that Derren Nesbitt is the only surviving Number Two from The Prisoner, hmm?

Rodney Fern who played for Luton, Chesterfield, Rotherham and Leicester, the latter including the 1969 FA Cup Final, has died aged 69: http://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/sport/view,millers-legend-rodney-fern-dies_25262.htm Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Fern

Olive Nicol's Telegraph Obit: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/01/17/baroness-nicol-environmentalist-labour-peer-obituary/

Happy birthday. And thank you for being a friend...

Now it's official, bears repeating....

Hugh Wilson, creator of WKRP In Cincinatti and director and co-writer of the first Police Academy movie, reportedly dead at 74. http://www.newsplex.com/content/news/Renowned-film-director-Hugh-Wilson-dies-469562203.html Hmm, also worked on The Bob Newhart Show.... Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Wilson_(director) IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0933505/

List updated for Olive Nicol.

DJ Sparks, cancer: http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/huge-flood-tributes-after-birmingham-14163933

gcreptile reported this in Ideas and Possibilities for 2018: Ahmet Dobran has died: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/ahmet-dobran-dead-east-ham-london-robbers-back-break-attack-back-cancer-parkinsons-police-appeal-a8161516.html

Nobody has mentioned him in the Split List thread yet...

See the above...it's crackling along...I still haven't struck a 2018 name off yet, mind...

She'll be back as a Zombie...

Not in any health any more...he dead. http://www.racer.com/f1/item/146728-dan-gurney-1931-2018

Subs have now been removed and the teams are set for the year.

Another unique in Spanky Manikan moves another team onto the leaderboard from the "bottom".....

Filipino actor Spanky Manikan has reportedly died: http://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/01/14/18/veteran-actor-spanky-manikan-dies-after-battle-with-lung-cancer