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Hospitalised with chest pains - had stent fitted https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1l40gp6njro
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Radio interview with Pete Murray for his 99th birthday. https://www.boomradiouk.com/podcasts/david-hamillton-interviews/episode/pete-murray-99/
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John Bennett, 61, Rangers chairman, has resigned with immediate effect for health reasons https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c93yp0644yno
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Must be a decent chance of one of the Grateful Dead going in the next year or two though.
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Sir Patrick Duffy, 103, promoting his new book. Doesn't seem in any imminent danger. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cne9my0kgkyo
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Dead. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c727p2mmzxpo
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Terence Higgins is still alive and a month older than Shields.
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Former England cricketer David (Syd) Lawrence, 60, has been diagnosed with MND https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cyrrz4xedmvo
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https://www.socialistlabourparty.org/post/tribute-to-south-derbyshire-miners Here he is unveiling a statue and making a speech in December, so doesn't look in any imminent danger.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12971171/Betty-Boothroyd-QUENTIN-LETTS-memorial-service-late-Commons-Speaker.html Patricia Routledge did a reading at Betty Boothroyds memorial service on Monday. No pictures of her, but apparently she "hobbled".
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Melissa Hoskins, 32, 2015 world champion in the team pursuit, has died after being hit by a car. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/67852900 Her husband, Rohan Dennis, also a professional cyclist and multiple world champion, has been arrested and charged with causing her death.
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Michael Roberts had a fatal heart attack while speaking in the Commons in 1983. https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1983/feb/10/welsh-affairs-1#column_1231
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Influencer who promoted virtues of fruit-only diet dies aged 39 'of malnutrition'
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The only interview she did was a BBC Local Radio special, which could have been recorded weeks ago. The Mail / Mirror articles are just reporting what she said on the radio show.
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They are two different MPs. Kate Osamor (Edmonton) has the drug-dealing son. Fiona Onasanya (Peterborough) is currently on trial for claiming someone else was driving when caught speeding.
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Doddie Weir is an absolute certainty to get an obituary from the BBC and all the British newspapers. Would agree he will likely make 2019 though.
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Having to play an entire capital city will do that to you.
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Trevor Peacock (Jim Trott) has had Alzheimer's since 2013. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4502626/Will-dementia-defeat-Dibley-s-Jim-Trott.html
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What's ironic about it? Presumably that they both released well known Christmas songs. Although 7th December isn't really that close to Christmas anyway.
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If it was that serious, she wouldn't have gone to Sandringham in the first place.
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Ralph Clarke, 101, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for child sex offences. Should get an obit somewhere if the shock kills him. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38367103
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Still touring regularly so should be OK for a while yet.
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Gerald Kaufman, 86, is currently the UK's oldest and longest-serving MP. He has not voted in the House of Commons since May so seems a likely candidate for 2017? http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpn=Gerald_Kaufman&mpc=Manchester%2C_Gorton&house=commons&display=allvotes#divisions
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BBC Radio presenter Steve Hewlett says his first course of chemotherapy for oesophageal cancer has "failed". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37606310