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Jan Leeming pens poem to her dead cat Tamby: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3289253/Jan-Leeming-ode-dear-departed-cat-Former-BBC-newsreader-uses-poem-tell-feels-totally-numb-loss.html

Looks like Sir C has made it back anyway *waves*

Flip Saunders has now died, aged 60. http://www.freep.com/story/sports/nba/pistons/2015/10/25/detroit-pistons-flip-saunders-timberwolves/74589036/ Definitely not coming back to coach, ever.

Ooh, points! I may consider entering next year then! Thanks!

Been 30 years since Gary Holton (Auf Wiedersehn Pet) died at 33. Wow, doesn't seem that long.

Wasn't Maureen O'Hara on Hollywood Squares? Or is that a different deadpool? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1335223/ She was on 5 episodes according to IMDB. Edit: I actually have no idea how this is scored.

Brady "close to death": http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3288428/Bedridden-Moors-murderer-Ian-Brady-77-close-death-sends-Christmas-cards-four-months-early.html Chest infection and bedridden apparently.

Bloody hell*, King of Thailand saved last time due to me picking him. On the basis I'll continue to save people from the eternal rest thing, I've picked Denis Norden just because he's on my DDP team and quite frankly, I want to carry the whole team over until next year. (*Ron Weasley)

Bluegrass banjo player Bill Keith has died at 75, cancer. http://bluegrasstoday.com/bill-keith-passes/ He varied the "Scruggs Style" of playing which would become known as "Keith Style". He also invented the Keith Peg, a specialised form of banjo tuning peg. Keith was inducted into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame on 1 October 2015. Sweet Georgia Brown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SQxRx4Iigo

She got no formal votes, our Maureen O'Hara. Sad.

Prospective GB Paralympian David Smith is delaying his surgery in an attempt to qualify for Rio 2016: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-3287131/David-Smith-s-delaying-life-saving-surgery-shot-Rio.html Making a choice between cycling and his life cycle.

Pickering is definitely a Cadbury's if he makes such sweeping generalisations. I'll wager there are lots of foster carers who would like to "take care" of him. Plus that's bound to hit sales of Fosters lager.

Nah, Paul Prudhomme thread was opened 28 January 2005, updated with his death on 8 October 2015.

Maybe thinking of Nuts In May with Alison Steadman? She does a good Hylda impression I understand. Although he might dress up as her now!

It's Roger Sloman I believe? Take your pick - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0806149/

Leon Bibb dies at 93. http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/music/vancouver+legend+leon+bibb+dies/11463119/story.html Another DDP entry. Sinnerman: https://youtu.be/g5YWEmNO4f4

Category 5 Hurricane Patricia will make landfall in Mexico soon. Anyone with nothing better to do can watch a live stream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP5Y4lISF0s

Qualifying Obit from ITV: http://www.itv.com/news/granada/update/2015-10-23/actor-peter-baldwin-who-played-derek-wilton-in-coronation-street-dies/

Guardian Obit for Danièle Delorme, upgraded on DDP Round Up. http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/23/daniele-delorme?CMP=share_btn_tw

Diana Pullein-Thompson dies at 90. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11951324/Diana-Pullein-Thompson-author-obituary.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Famous for pony books and being on the DDP this year.

The original tweet has been taken down and replaced with this one: https://twitter.com/Pollockstoyshop/status/657568670441447425 I think I can safely add him to the DDP Round Up.

Not much clarity on this at the moment, but the toyshop which Peter Baldwin (Derek Wilton in Coronation Street) took over appears to indicate that he has either died or will die in 2016! https://twitter.com/Pollockstoyshop/status/657558109435641856 Watch this space to see if there is more news - he is a DDP pick.

Doubt it. Just another pathetic story made up by the gutter media (tabloids). Arnold Klein dead at 70. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3286236/Michael-Jackson-s-longtime-doctor-Arnold-Klein-rumored-biological-father-pop-singer-s-son-Prince-dies.html

Joe Moss, former manager of The Smiths, 72, cancer. http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/23/joe-moss-manager-johnny-marr-and-the-smiths-dies-age-72

Another saxophonist, this time it's the UK's own Don Rendell at 89. http://www.marlbank.net/news/3168-rip-don-rendell.html Pavane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca8hqdeRyhE