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Retired actress Meghan Markle is 41 today

Adrian Thorne, who scored 44 goals in 84 appearances (1958-61) for Brighton & Hove Albion, has died aged 84. He scored a hat-trick inside 10 minutes, and five in the match, in only his 7th professional game, against Watford. which finished 6-0 and secured promotion from Division III (south). He moved on to Plymouth Argyle before playing for Exeter City (making his debut, and scoring against The Albion at the Goldstone), Leyton Orient, Cheltenham Town and Barnet. He became a schoolteacher after retiring from football.

A little bit late, but I've now 'won' Scavenger Hunt Bingo II.

Tribute from The Keighley & Worth Valley Railway - the locomotive BIg Jim (which featured in The Railway Children) carrying a wreath in Bernard's memory, an honour normally reserved for railway volunteers. https://twitter.com/4JennyAgutter/status/1554439830544781312.

Its 45 years since the death of Michael Christodoulou Mouskos, better known as Archbishop Makarios. Born in 1913 in the Paphos district of Cyprus, he entered Kykkos Monastery as a novice aged 13, and studied theology prior to, and during the early years of World War II, graduating from Athens University in 1942. He became a priest in the Cypriot Orthodox Church, and was elected Bishop of Kition while studying at Boston University, taking the name Makarios. He was elected Archbishop of Cyprus in 1950, aged 37. After some years in exile, firstly as a 'guest' in the Seychelles (after being abducted by the British) and latterly in Athens, he was elected President of Cyprus in December 1959, assuming the office 16 August 1960, serving until July 1974. He survived four assassination attempts and a coup d'etat while in office. He died of a heart attack, attributed to many years of heavy smoking, aged 63.

Former BBC man & Buck House press secretary Ronald Allison obit in the Guardian. Died aged 90, 26 July.

Thirty years since the death of French singer-songwriter Michel Berger. Two months after the release of an album of duets with his wife, France Gall, he suffered a fatal heart attack after playing tennis, aged 44.

I think the beauty of this game is that - like bingo - someone can have hits all over the place and still not win, whereas someone can be twiddling their thumbs most of the game, and get two or three quick hits and win. (I was on one hit for about 10 months, until Paul Sorvino died and now suddenly I am in with several chances). Change the dead-heat tie-break but please don't change the basic criteria for winning.

Its 33 years since John Ogdon left the stage. A prodigious pianist, he studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music (later the Royal Northern College of Music), alongside Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies, amongst others. He won the London Liszt Competition in 1961 and the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1962 (jointly with Vladimir Ashkenazy), and in 1969 played the first modern recital -on TV - of Elgar's Concert Allegro Opus 46, an unpublished piece long since lost but which had been rediscovered the previous year. While physically healthy, he suffered a mental breakdown in 1973, initially diagnosed as schizophrenia, later revised to manic depression (bipolar disorder). fter spening some time in hospital, he re-emerged to play at the opening of the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham, in 1983. He died aged 52, from pneumonia brought on by undiagnosed diabetes.

Twenty-eight years ago, it was Arrivederci Darling to Anne Shelton. After being heard on a BBC radio show by bandleader Bert Ambrose, Shelton was engaged to sing with him at age 16. She appeared at military bases throughout the war entertaining troops, to lift morale, and was the original British singer of Lili Marlene. Post-war, she had three US hits and five UK hit records (beginning with Arrivederci Darling in 1955) including the number one Lay Down Your Arms (1956), which was initially banned by the BBC, as it was thought it might encourage British troops to lay down their arms during the Cyprus conflict, and post-Suez, but such was public support for it (as identified by the number of requests on Two-way Family Favourites) the ban was soon lifted. She appeared in films and TV shows, including an appearance on the first ever The Benny Hill Show, and she was a supporter of the Not Forgotten Association, for which she received an OBE. She Died of a heart attack, aged 70.

Another Navajo code talker, Samuel Sandoval, has died. He was 98. ABC claims three survive (which tallies with earlier reports) - Peter MacDonald, John Kinsel Sr. and Thomas H. Begay.

Kate Bush is 64 today

On this day 12 years ago footballer Stanley Milburn died aged 83. He was a cousin to Jackie, and uncle to the Charltons. Never reaching the level of fame they did, he did achieve something they never did - the only recorded instance of a shared own goal. On 18th December 1954, playing forLeicester City against Chelsea, he and Jack Froggatt simultaneously went to clear a ball, but it ended up in Chelsea's net. Without the benefit of multiple cameras, it was impossible to determine who had the decisive touch, so it was awarded to both.

Film director Mike Hodges is 90 today

Team submitted. No-one else pick EastEnders please!

Article here on Mickey Jupp - a contemporary of Ian Dury, Dr. Feelgood (he wrote Down At The Doctors), who turned his back on the music biz but continued to write songs; he's just been convinced to release an album from his 'secret archive'. Still going strong, but he is 78.

I might be interested - I won't know for sure until I see the rules and find out what the twist is!

I watched The Father (on Netflix) recently. Anthony Hopkins fully deserving of his Academy award.

One Banana, Two banana, Three banana, gore!

Terry Neill, former Arsenal boss dead according the gooner. QO: https://www.skysports.com/football/news/12040/12660873/terry-neill-former-arsenal-manager-and-captain-dies-aged-80

My Netflix may well be going once BCS finishes, and with Amazon Prime upping its price by 20%, that can go too (sod's law, my sub runs out 5 days after the increase comes into effect). I'll keep Disney+ & BT TV (which include Now TV in sub), but might drop BT sport - the amount of football I've watched since lockdown ended it'd probably work out cheaper to actually buy a ticket and see matches in person! My main problem with Netflix is its pricing structure - if you want to watch in UHD you have to have the premium package which allows you up to four simultaneous watches, which is great for a family of four but anything less, not so much. With Prime, half the time I see a film I might enjoy, its on a Prime video 'channel', so I think I'll dip in and out of streaming services as and when - there's BFI, Paramount and who knows what else out there!

Twenty years since the death of Jack Karnehm, former UK & world billiards champion, better known as a snooker commentator. His was the voice wiching Clff Thorburn "good luck, mate" as he prepared to pot the black for the first World Championship televised 147. His most notable contribution to the game of snooker was the development of Dennis Taylor's "upside-down glasses", worn when Taylor won the World championship (Karnehm was a trained spectacle-maker). He died of a heart attack after an afternoon gardening in extreme heat, aged 85.

The Railway Children is currently available on BBC iPlayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b018jv82/the-railway-children. I haven't seen this since it first came out, might have a watch later.

Firstly, it was Buzby, secondly definitely Bernard Cribbins. Back in the late 70s, i.e. when these commercials were doing the rounds, I was working (my fist ever proper job) alongside a guy named Sid Busby, who always answered the phone with "Busby", much to my amusement.

This is a bigger death than that basketball player who was killed in a helicopter crash.