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I wonder if he ever said* "so what, I could get killed crossing the road tomorrow...": Cigarette chewing dog killed on way to tobacconists (*yes, I know he was a dog!)

Breaking news: "Phwaay!" Carry on star Jack Douglas dead at 81 DDP points for: 1-2-3 Dead Like Me 2 Days Older Than Grass In Death Do Us Fart Just Die Will You

Seeing the latest trials and tribulations of Winehouse & Doherty over the last few days, I thought I might start a poll (first time I've done one - hope it works!)

Don't worry, they'll have to close the café down now. They're short of staff... ... I'm on the way to the cloakroom.

Rugby league great Vince Karalius has died aged 76. Nicknamed "Wild Bull", he starred as a player for St Helens, Widnes and Great Britain, and also coached Widnes during their most successful spell.

Drazan Jerkovic Former Yugoslavian / Croatian footballer and first manager of the Croatian national side "Jerkovic was the top scorer at the first European championship in 1960, playing for a Yugoslavia squad which finished runners-up. He was also one of four joint top scorers at the the 1962 World Cup in Chile with four goals. He played most of his club football for Dinamo Zagreb scoring 300 goals on 315 games. Jerkovic coached Yugoslavia to the gold medal at the 1971 Mediterranean Games and went on to become the first coach of Croatia following the country's split from the Yugoslav federation in 1991."

Took a while, but at last here's a link.

Oh no....I thought he had a fair few years in him. A sad day for kid's TV... Bugger, he was going to be my joker in DDP next year. I'm guessing you wouldn't be the only one, Handrejka!

It was indeed the Masters Club that I was referring to. It was probably the fight that made it (in)famous, and why it sticks in my memory that Medati was the owner. I've driven past it recently, it's just a bar now, no longer "Masters".

Paul Medati "well-known for having a fight with friend and fellow player Alex Higgins in 1986" has died aged 65. I remember him from the 80s when he featured regularly in the big tournaments without getting beyond the early rounds. I think he also owned and ran a club in Stockport more recently.

Kerryn McCann receives obituary from the Guardian. It's very sad. I was hoping she could defeat it. We must treasure all the days we live and value all that we have in our lives. Very sad indeed. I was there to see her win the Commonwealth gold in 2002. A very small field, if I recall correctly, but she was without doubt a very talented and determined athlete.

Kerryn McCann is now suffering from liver cancer. Kerryn McCann has died

No link yet, but Radio 3 has just reported that opera star Richard van Allan has belted out his last aria.

Rapping gunman confessed in song ... or "If you can't do the time, don't sing the rhyme"!

MC Breed, he already deed, please see this link to the relevant threed I do apologise I did not use my eyes Next time I post I'll make the most Of the search facili-ties. That really is poor. I'll now head for the door. Even by the standards of rap That was terribly crap With respect, I think myself and Lard should get the first plane out of here to Rapville USA and get our contracts signed - I'm thinking the time is right for a sort of rap / skiffle fusion explosion, say Lonnie Donegan meets Grandmaster Flash - look out charts, here we come!

MC Breed, he already deed, please see this link to the relevant threed

Scottish rapper McBreed has died aged 36. Oh, I beg your pardon! It's MC Breed.

Norman McVicker, cricket all-rounder who helped both Warwickshire and Leicestershire to County Championship titles in the 1970s, has died aged 68.

Well done Youth! My, being the wife of a prominent composer / conductor seems to promote longevity, although there seems to have been a recent trend: the wives of Vaughan-Williams (96), Barbirolli (97), Milhaud (105) and now Bliss (104) have all succumbed in the last couple of years. Maybe we need to check if there are any more candidates out there...

Guy Peellaert Belgian Pop artist who created Bowie's infamous "Diamond Dogs" cover, as well as work for the Stones and well-known film posters ("Taxi Driver", "Paris, Texas"), has died aged 74.

Irving Brecher dies at 94. He wrote 2 of the Marx Brothers' films, "At the Circus" and Go West" as well as being an uncredited writer on "Gone with the Wind". He also shared an oscar nomination for the screenplay of "Meet Me in St Louis" starring Judy Garland. "Brecher recently recalled his first meeting with Groucho Marx: I said, Hello, Mr. Marx. He said, Hello? That's supposed to be a funny line? Is this the guy who's supposed to write our movie? Then I said, Well, I saw you say hello in one of your movies, and I thought it was so funny I'd steal it and use it now. Grouch smiled, then he bought me lunch."

Gus "the world ugliest dog", has died of cancer

Poland's last communist Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski has died aged 82. (Yes, I admit I used cut-and-paste for his name!)

Former New Zealand spin bowler Hedley Howarth, elder brother of former captain Geoff Howarth, has died aged 64. He played in 30 tests between 1969 and 1977 taking 86 wickets at an average of 36.95.

Bjorn Borg's coach Lennart Bergelin has died aged 83