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Alan Wass, author of Hired Gun and collaborator and performer with Doherty dies at 33. http://www.nme.com/news/the-libertines/84945 Here's some noise: https://youtu.be/va1rV57MHOE

Haven't really participated in the other sweeps, but I think the strain of another Royal birth (remember how ill he got after George?) will actually do for him. I'm a natural pessimist for this particular pick, so I'll say May 22nd this year. (On the basis I've been wrong on everything, this can be safely disregarded).

Betty gets lifetime achievement award at Daytime Emmys. Still going strong. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3056881/Betty-White-93-wins-Lifetime-Achievement-seven-decade-career-Daytime-Emmy-Awards.html

Just like to add my congratulations and best birthday wishes to King Willem-Alexander and all our friends in the Netherlands. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3057500/The-Netherlands-turns-orange-Kings-Day.html

Amanda Holden has revealed her sister Debbie is trapped on Mt Everest after the Nepal earthquake. http://metro.co.uk/2015/04/27/emotional-amanda-holden-reveals-her-sister-debbie-is-trapped-on-mount-everest-following-devastating-nepal-earthquake-5169409/

Latest rumour is he's alive and being treated for spinal damage in Mosul. http://www.rferl.org/content/islamic-state-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-dead-or-alive-rumors/26980893.html

Link I found: http://announce.jpress.co.uk/yorkshire-post/obituary/michael-mustill/41671834

I'm sure statistics indicate that far more heterosexual people die every year than LGBT folk. Care to comment Jim? And then apologise? And then resign?

Richard West, freelance correspondent on SE Asia, Latin America, and Africa and regular correspondent for The Spectator has died at 84. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11564222/Richard-West-writer-obituary.html Fun Fact: He was a first cousin of DDP favourite, Timothy West.

The Indonesians prepare to execute members of the Bali 9 drug smuggling group by firing squad. http://www.smh.com.au/world/the-last-wishes-bali-nine-men-brace-for-execution-on-tuesday-20150426-1mtr7q.html Horrid way to go, though possibly as horrid as the potential deaths of addicts. I really don't know where I stand on this. But I know where they stand. In front of barrels of weapons. Over there. In front of the world.

He wouldn't have been able to vote anyway, he's a lord! Interesting...maybe, maybe not. Dunno what his status was. http://lordsoftheblog.net/2008/05/07/can-peers-vote/ However, definitely not now, the dead can definitely not vote. I looked it up he he. Edit: Dang, just found the aristocrats thread, searched for it earlier and got nothing. Arg. This made me spend about ten minutes trying to find out what happens if you cast a postal vote and then die before the actual election day. Summary: nobody really knows. Interesting again...and also, with a blanket ban on prisoners voting, is it possible the whole election result could be de-legitimised by some form of legal challenge?

Sid Tepper dies at 96. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/obituaries/article19457814.html So no more interviews then? No, but he has given a miss with a UK obit. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/sid-tepper-dies-songwriter-for-frank-sinatra-and-elvis-presley-passes-away-10204553.html

Meadowlark Lemon of the Harlem Globetrotters just had a birthday. I could have sworn he was away years ago.

He wouldn't have been able to vote anyway, he's a lord! Interesting...maybe, maybe not. Dunno what his status was. http://lordsoftheblog.net/2008/05/07/can-peers-vote/ However, definitely not now, the dead can definitely not vote. I looked it up he he. Edit: Dang, just found the aristocrats thread, searched for it earlier and got nothing. Arg.

Not sure where this goes. Edward Coke, 7th Earl of Leicester, dies at 78. http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2015-04-25/tributes-to-lord-leicester-head-of-the-holkham-estate/ Interestingly, he came out for UKIP recently, looks like that's one less vote for them. http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/local/latest-local-news/earl-of-leicester-announces-ukip-backing-1-6681630

Sid Tepper dies at 96. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/obituaries/article19457814.html

Today I went to see Avengers: Age of Ultron with my best friends. Partick won 2-1. 1 number plus the Thunderball. Treble!

Vanda Barra, who played various parts in Here's Lucy, Rhoda and The Jonathan Winters Show, has died at 90. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vanda-barra-dead-lucille-ball-791353

Have to love the archetype Scottish flame haired tempter though. He played a blinder, even Willie Thorne sounded moist.

Afzaal Ahmed Rivzi, former Pakistan cricketer and umpire, dies at 66. http://www.dawn.com/news/1177766/ex-international-umpire-afzaal-ahmed-passes-away

Ok, now he is dead: http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/senate-speaker-nolins-dies-of-cancer So it wouldn't have counted if I had chosen him today anyway... Famous enough for a BBC obit though http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-32452817

I remember him from The Hand of Fear in particular. When acting was acting and not getting your shirt off to hide your obvious stage school talent... A little jealous that you are not Aidan Turner? methinks... I don't know who that is, so not jealous at all Edit: just googled...still don't know who he is, I've seen nothing he's in, and by the sounds of it, he spends his time in nothing but his underbritches lol. I can't therefore comment on his talent or lack of it.

Wouldn't surprise me, I posted Claire Gordon's death in B-cinema and it's up on the Telegraph now. I'd like to think so anyway...

I remember him from The Hand of Fear in particular. When acting was acting and not getting your shirt off to hide your obvious stage school talent...

Rene Adad, who instituted the Coke Go For Goal programme in the Phillippines to keep football alive there, has died aged 86. http://www.rappler.com/sports/by-sport/football/91074-rene-adad-dies-philippine-football