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Syas, a Bengal tiger, reputedly the last tiger working in a UK circus was euthanised yesterday at Wolds wildlife park in Horncastle, Lincs. Made the papers three years ago when he was spotted in a cramped cage near the M6, as part of Chipperfiled's lions & tigers tour, prompting Sir Roger Moore to call for a ban on circuses using animals. Also made the BBC a year later (see picture).

If you'd been watching you'd have seen this reported two days ago, complete with the deceased's name (Lady Anne Wake-Walker) and a link to a reputable* news source. *OK, it was the Mirror.

Same. I think I nicked it off my granddad one wet summer holiday when I was a kid.

Cyril Cave, an award-winning news cameraman who captured the events of Bloody Sunday on film, has died aged 91.

Reporter Justin Hinton from N. Carolina presenting a live weather report after unwittingly switching on Facebook's 'Mystery Mask' filter. John Kettley would never have done that! (and nor would Wincey Willis).

Princess Diana's aunt Lady Anne Wake-Walker has died aged 99.

Olof Thunberg, Swedish actor, dead aged 94.

I went for Bob Dole because its an anagram of Olde Bob, and he is old. Its a sign.

2000 miles The Pretenders?

Close Enough! David McWilliams' Days of Pearly Spencer was the original (and best).

^^^Don't forget this is still going ^^^

FTFY

Its 75 years since Josef Mayr-Nusser died of dysentery on his way to Dachau. He was an Italian Roman Catholic who had been drafted into the Nazi army but refused to recite the Hitler oath, for which he was sentenced to death. He was on his way to face a firing squad when he fell and died.

Purely off the back of one of Charon's old posts!

Mad Mike Hughes killed in home-made rocket crash.

Reverting to type with a 0-2 loss to Lossiemouth today.

Its 75 years since Scottish athlete Eric Liddell died in an internment camp in Japanese occupied China, aged 43. Born in China to christian missionaries and a devout christian himself, he refused to race on Sundays, and in 1925 returned to China as a missionary. When Allan Wells won the 100m Gold at the 1980 Olympics, he dedicated the victory to Liddell.

The original version of this song was released in the late 60s and failed to chart in the UK or Ireland, though made number 1 elsewhere in Europe. It was covered by one half of a musical duo in the early 90s and reached the top 5 in the UK and top 10 in Ireland. The cover version benefited from an additional verse written by the cover artiste (and an additional definite article in the title).

Well, there's a surprise. I never got as far as the checking out the comedy soundtrack, but the reason the XTC original failed to reach the top 40 in 1991 was that it wasn't released until 1992

JFGI

Closest I can get for this is The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead, which satisfies most, but not all of the clue. Any chance of another clue?

Sy Sperling, Hair Club for Men founder (and client) has died aged 78.

Seeing lots of Hilda Clulow reporting today, as the British media belatedly catches up with DL.

Larry Tesler, formerly of Xerox PARC & Apple has died aged 74 Computer scientist Larry Tesler was the inventor of copy-and-paste as we know it today, and was also the guide that showed Steve Jobs the Xerox PARC systems that would inspire the Macintosh.

Andy Hancock, scorer of a memorable try against Scotland, has died aged 80. Video of the try embedded in the link.