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I'm not sure. Looks to be completely different though. Gordon Dunne stood down a couple of weeks ago and the coverage says his son, Stephen Dunne, was "co-opted in" to replace him as the MLA for the constituency. Never known there to have been a by-election to the NI Assembly. Would appear to be that the winning party of that constituency from the most recent election just chooses a replacement. In Holyrood there are by-elections for the constituencies, auto-allocations from the party lists for the regions. I think Wales is the same? Someone on here will know better I'm sure.

Saw Hoddle being interviewed on GB News this morning. He looks great. Spoke about the cardiac arrest and said the road to recovery was long but he's back to 100% now. Very lucky to be honest.

Cancer according to the Beeb.

Telegraph obit for Henryetta Edwards (IMDb), a supporting actress in British cinema and stage during the 30s–50s. She died May 1st and was aged 95. Her career never really took off but she was well known in wider society as her parents were director Henry Edwards (1882–1952) and silent-era actress Chrissie White (1898–1985).

Alfons Cànovas Lapuente died in March aged 103.

Several tweets reporting the death of American children's writer Byrd Baylor (wiki), aged 97.

Full DOB given in her Telegraph obit as Nov 15 1936 so 84.

No. If you look at the link to that site I posted, there's a page for a chronological list of the oldest Brit. In many instances, the respective title holders did not receive coverage from the national press. Usually only local papers (or even just forum acknowledgements) are absolutely guaranteed. The UK-wide press will only cover it if there's something else to it e.g. Bob Weighton received a lot of coverage before his death and was the oldest man in the world at the time, so he got national headlines when he died. It generally depends on their prominence and/or how long they held the title. We all remember the Florrie Baldwins and Henry Allinghams. I can't for the life of me remember the majority of them though. Largely total non-entities. That maybe sounds harsh but it's true. --- Also, why would the man who specifically researches this for the Gerontology Research Group, and who talks to the respective care homes first hand, list a death on his site which he hadn't had confirmed?

Can't believe we all missed this one. Updated entry for The Trammps: Stan Wade, an original member who sung second tenor on the iconic Disco Inferno died in January aged 75. Other than Facebook tributes, the only obits which appeared were in Dutch (The Trammps are huge in the Netherlands). Here is a FB tribute with some pics from "The Trammps Fan Page".

Obit.

No mistake. Confirmed via the guy who tracks the oldest Brits. Site also confirms that Kingston is now the oldest.

Someone make him stop.

Kay Hawtrey actually dead this time.

Use this.

Leaves Winnie Ewing (92) and Sir George Reid (82) as the last SNP MPs elected prior to Thatcher coming to power in 1979, and Salmond being elected to the Commons in 1987.

Another one I've just spotted. Trevor White of reggae pioneers The Rudies (later Greyhound) died back in November. Later also charted in the 1980s with the Funkmasters.

Ben Halim please.

How long have you been a member here for?

BBC obituary. I've emailed them to say it's not good enough. drol would like to see the corpse for confirmation.

QO courtesy of The Times. A DDP pick for 10 teams. Edit: YW just beat me to it.

@deadsox, you're going to have to wrestle drol for those points in the Oldest Living State Leaders DP.

Confirmed. Dead at 97. Drol’s crystal ball strikes again.

Dead on the Twittersphere….

05.05.1913 – 27.05.2020 Arthur L. Thurlow 29.03.1913 – 22.06.2020 Pappukutty Bhagavathar 28.03.1913 – 01.03.2021 Toko Shinoda 15.02.1913 – 07.03.2021 Carl J. Shapiro 23.08.1913 – 19.04.2021 G. Venkatasubbiah 06.07.1913 – 16.06.2021 Vance Trimble 26.08.1913 – ??.??.2021 Boris Pahor Pahor was also the youngest of the bunch. Last public appearance was his 107th birthday in August 2020. He looked and sounded frail. Guarantee he will not see the year out.

Updated entry for Edinburgh band Bilbo. Their guitarist "Tosh" died in February of unspecified causes but I only just noticed.