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    Ideas and possibilities for 2025

    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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    18. Patricia Routledge

    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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    Professional Cyclists

    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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    Political Frailty

    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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    Darwin Awards

    Influencer who promoted virtues of fruit-only diet dies aged 39 'of malnutrition'
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    June Whitfield

    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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    By-Election Bingo 2017-22

    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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    Ideas and Possibilities for 2019

    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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    The Vicar Of Dibley

    Having to play an entire capital city will do that to you.
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    The Vicar Of Dibley

    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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    Close To The End

    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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    Queen Elizabeth II

    If it was that serious, she wouldn't have gone to Sandringham in the first place.
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    Ideas And Possibilities For 2017

    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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    Close To The End

    Still touring regularly so should be OK for a while yet.
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    Ideas And Possibilities For 2017

    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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    Ideas And Possibilities For 2017

    BBC Radio presenter Steve Hewlett says his first course of chemotherapy for oesophageal cancer has "failed". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37606310
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