YoungWillz

British tenor John Brecknock has received (an albeit odd) death notice in the Telegraph: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/214546/opera-singer IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0106570/

Ah the newspaper that brought you the whitewashing of police at Hillsborough and Kelvin McKenzie. You get what you deserve...

Hang them all!

And another, Jochem van den Hoek: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/40189218 Annual carnage quick off the mark.

I see Sturgeon has gone for The Prisoner look today...

1962 player for Colombia Marcos Coll dead at 81. http://www.fifa.com/news/y=2017/m=6/news=olympic-goal-scorer-marcos-coll-dies-aged-81-2893130.html Scored directly from a corner against the Soviet Union. It's not as spectacular as it sounds:

I think Clegg is a definite goner.

Master list of nominees. Hopefully I'll be awake to roll the scoreboard through the night. Theresa May (Maidenhead) Hold Majority 26457 Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North) Hold Majority 33215 Angus Robertson (Moray) Lost by 4159 Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale) Hold Majority 777 Paul Nuttall (Boston and Skegness) Lost by 23963 Caroline Lucas (Brighton Pavilion) Hold Majority 14689 Mhairi Black (Paisley and Renfrewshire South) Hold Majority 2541 David Mundell (Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) Hold Majority 9441 Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park) Win by 45 David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden) Hold Majority 15405 Mary Creagh (Wakefield) Hold Majority 2176 Vince Cable (Twickenham) Won by 9762 Gloria De Piero (Ashfield) Hold Majority 441 Ed Miliband (Doncaster North) Hold - Majority 14024 Nick Clegg (Sheffield Hallam) Lost by 2125 Anna Soubry (Broxtowe) Hold Majority 863 Clive Lewis (Norwich South) Hold Majority 15596 Ian Murray (Edinburgh South) Hold Majority 15154 Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland) Hold Majority 4563 Philip Davies (Shipley) Hold Majority 4681 Jon Cruddas (Dagenham and Rainham) Hold Majority - 4652 Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) Hold Majority 14499 Simon Danczuk (Rochdale) Lost by 28152 Chuka Umunna (Streatham) Hold - Majority 26285 Tom Watson (West Bromwich East) Hold - Majority 7713. Margaret Beckett (Derby South) Hold Majority 11248 Alex Salmond (Gordon) Lost by 2607 Liz Kendall (Leicester West) Hold Majority 11060 Cat Smith (Lancaster and Fleetwood) Hold Majority 6661 Dennis Skinner (Bolsover) Hold Majority 5288 Ben Gummer (Ipswich) Lost by 831 Amber Rudd (Hastings and Rye) Hold Majority 346 Ian Duncan Smith (Chingford and Woodford Green) Hold - Majority 2438 Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire) Hold Majority 314 Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington) Hold Majority 35139

Report of the death of puppeteer Andy Cunningham, famous for some creation called Bodger and Badger. http://www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/4040/news-entertainer-andy-cunningham-dies IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192233/ Apparently he was also in Star Wars - Return Of The Jedi and for some reason that has a separate IMDB entry: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1027625/ Bodger and Badger:

And another one: Thomas Bridges, 2nd Baron Bridges died on 27th May aged 89. http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/214549/bridges Hereditary peer who was removed from the House of Lords last year due to non-attendance. Not a Scavenger Hunt pick anyway. Interestingly, the grandson of Poet Laureate, Robert Bridges. Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bridges,_2nd_Baron_Bridges

Death Notice for Robin Henry Charles Neville, 10th Baron Braybrooke. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimes-uk/obituary.aspx?n=robin-henry-charles-neville-tenth-braybrooke&pid=185724655 Wiki (mention): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Braybrooke Bit of a ruck reported in the Mail a few years ago: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268575/The-baron-daughters-angry-wife-drama-makes-Downton-look-tame.html

Oh good, I like it, I like it. She's on a hiding to nothing there. It was the UK which wrote most of the laws, based on the laws already in force through the courts in the UK. All that will happen is the courts will check the legislature and leap through every legislative loophole they can to frustrate things incompatible with our great traditions. Her Government will be in the Supreme Court more than they will in Parliament. She was Home Secretary, wasn't she? Doesn't she know this stuff?

It's a matter of voting for the least worst option. So much the same. If you are in favour of something offered, they get the vote, or more likely if you are vociferously against something, regardless of other issues. It's hard to believe how toxic the Tories, Labour and LibDems are up here. And the SNP have taken full advantage. However, the fact that there is somewhat of a Tory revival in Scotland does make me chuckle. Example: Instead of limits and quotas on fishermen imposed from Europe, they will be imposed from Westminster. So when the fishermen of Cornwall get a better deal than those in Arbroath, they will squeal. Same with farming subsidies. In fact if the Scots think they'll get a better deal under the Tories on anything, they are delusional. They've already screwed England & Wales until the pips are squeaking, and we're going to end up the same. And by the time Brexit comes around, they'll positively be screaming for independence. Roll on Tezza's mahoosive majority!

It's the Express. I don't need to read it. Diane Abbott could be lying dead in her bed and the Express would call it a hoax.

STV Debate. "Dictator in chief" in denial over anger on indyref and local policy failures. "Hockey Sticks" positively glorying in English Votes For English laws, a policy announced immediately after the last indyref, and defending the rape clause. "The Rennie That Gives You Indigestion" spinning the positive message that taxing the working poor more will at least save the public services they'll need when they lose that insecure job. "The Dugtail Wagged From London" defending Corbyn and opposition to indyref, when her position on both was the reverse only a year ago. *sigh"

Surely there's 25 Celtic players just hanging on....

Charon, shush! They'll all pick her now.... I remember well the coverage she got before she went off. On that basis she does qualify to be picked, yes crazy I know. Now, had she gone off under the radar, then became ill she wouldn't, because then she would have become famous for being ill. If she dies in the next six months from Ebola related, I'll frankly be amazed. Nothing to stop a bus from Blantyre hitting her though I guess.... I'm really trying to level the playing field here, but if a case can be made for the person, I'm all ears. Russell Tovey sized.

I see where you are coming from, but he wouldn't have counted anyway. Achieve something, become famous/infamous pre-diagnosis and you are fine, post-diagnosis you are out. I've already had picks in the five teams entered on which I've had to make decisions. There are some whose names are out there on the forum, they are dying for sure, but I've checked and there is enough pre-illness for them to count. Don't want to give current examples, but just to be ridiculous, Victoria Wood would have counted, Charlotte Eades would not. My view is if you think it's a dodgy pick, it's probably a dodgy pick.

Alex Salmond's dad is now independent from life: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/robert-salmond-father-former-first-10572917

Ok. I'm a bad bad man. Ruling stands though. People do a lot of things, achieve a lot of things when they know they are going to die. He won't count.

American TV Producer and writer Marilyn Hall has died aged 90. http://deadline.com/2017/06/marilyn-hall-dies-tv-producer-monty-hall-wife-1202107994/ Monty Hall's missus. IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0355865/

Now, while I appreciate his efforts, people are climbing Everest all the time and get no coverage and he gets it because he is ill. His fame is consequential to his illness and therefore he doesn't count for the tourney. If you must have a ruling.

Sandra Reemer, who represented the Netherlands in 1972 (best finish at 4th), 1976 and 1979, has died aged 66, breast cancer. https://eurovision.tv/story/sandra-reemer-died-aged-66-the-netherlands Als Het Om De Liefde Gaat:

I'm still waiting for the BBC to... "Break It Down!"

Why did I read this as Vinegar Butt? "specsavers"