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Attempts of a coup seemingly underway in Libya. The Prime Minister’s quarters currently besieged. Update: militia groups claiming the Presidential election scheduled for this month now cancelled.

Further to David Lawson - Ian Hetherington, co-founder of Psygnosis, has died. Obituaries: Metro

Arnaldo Forlani again please

Jethro, British comedian who appeared on the Des O’Connor show and performed at the 2001 Royal Variety Performance, has died from Covid aged 73. Obituaries: Daily Mail, Metro, Daily Express, Independent, Daily Mirror, The Sun, BBC

Kim Yong-ju, brother of North Korea founder Kim Il-Sung, has died aged 101. Obituaries: Daily Mail, The Telegraph

Hazel Chapman, widow of Colin Chapman and co-founder of Lotus Cars, has died aged 94.

Karin Ward (Guardian, Daily Mirror, BBC), victim of abuse who gave her account in the original Newsnight investigation broadcast by Panorama, reportedly has died. She was the first women to appear on camera with allegations against Jimmy Saville. Also made allegations against Freddie Starr and was unsuccessfully sued for libel.

Leo Beckett, husband of Dame Margaret Beckett, has died aged 95. Obituaries: BBC

Jimmy Robson, who played for Burnley from 1956-1965 and played during their First Division victory in 1960, dead aged 82. He also played and scored in the 1962 FA Cup Final against Tottenham. Interesting article covering the Burnley squad of 1960, including Jimmy, and their diagnoses with dementia here. Obituaries: BBC, The Sun, ITV.

Yes that’s the one I was looking at - the picture seems to match other recent videos/photos.

If it helps at all - Denise O’Dell is his daughter and active in the film/TV industry. Nik O’Dell (IMDb) is also a relation - info on him although no reference to Denis. His nephew is Richard O’Dell, involved in Portobello Radio and made a reference to his uncle in 2020 here. He seems to have family across the UK, Europe, NZ and USA and a fair few involved in the media industry so I don’t think he would have gone off the radar. I would also say Denis does have a social media account but you can’t see any dated info, but I reckon that puts him as alive at least c2007-8 when Facebook really started to take off as a social media platform.

Seemingly alive as per these Facebook posts - here from this year, here in 2019 (though I note the ages don’t tally?). The posts come from people on his personal Facebook friends list, although he himself hasn’t posted since 2017.

Galina Samsova, Russian ballerina and former director of Scottish Ballet, reportedly dead aged 84.

President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa has today tested positive for Covid and is receiving treatment for mild symptoms. He delivered remarks at F. W. de Klerk’s memorial service today and seemed fine, but has made the decision to delegate responsibility to his Deputy for the next week. That would suggest it has come on quickly and perhaps more seriously than is being let on.

Thomas 'Mensi' Mensforth of Angelic Upstarts, who had 2 top 40 hits, reportedly dead. He had been in the ICU suffering from Covid.

David Lasley, American singer/songwriter, reportedly dead aged 74.

Confirmation of sorts from Jimmy Somerville.

Slim 400, an American rapper who was picked in a few pools following this incident back in 2019, has died aged 33. Obituaries: The Independent, Metro, Daily Mail

Andrzej Zieliński, Polish runner who won Silver at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics in the 4x100m Relay, has died aged 85.

Blackjack Lanza, WWE Hall of Famer, dead aged 86. Obituaries: Metro, The Sun, Daily Mail

Robbie Shakespeare, bassist of Sly and Robbie, dead aged 68. Obituaries: Daily Express, The Sun, The Independent, Daily Mirror, BBC

Arnaldo Forlani

Confirmed. Obituaries: Daily Mail, BBC

Helicopter has crashed in India - onboard was General Bipin Rawat, current Chief of Defence Staff. Update: Bipin Rawat taken to hospital in a critical condition.

This exact same thing happened yesterday to Mo Yan from an identical fake account pretending to be the Swedish Minister for Culture. It was a newly made account with thousands of followers from Africa.