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As far as I can ascertain Ure now lives in London, but she seems quite happy living in relative obscurity these days. She doesn't appeared to have made any TV appearances since a 2009 cup of coffee in "Casualty", she seems to have only given one interview in the past 15 years... I can't even find the name of her husband online, just that he too was an actor.

BMW CEO Harald Krueger doing a pretty impressive piece of on-stage collapsing here.

Neo-soul is a terrible genre but it's a terrible genre with lots of middle class journo fans.

I kept schtum.

There is little fucking weirder than people in your office talking about the Death List and getting the page up on their screen.

Way beyond the cusp, BBC obit guaranteed as well as probably being the lead obit that day in the Guardian. Would probably even get a tribute show on Radio 2 actually.

K_te Gr_nger‏@GrangerKate Day 2. Can already feel myself slipping down that slippery slope... No tweets from Ms Granger in the six days since that. I think she'll be saying "hello, my name is" to St Peter within ten days.

Are there any remaining individuals who played retirees on 1970s television still with us? Was June Whitfield supposed to be in her 60s in Terry and June? Of course, a Whitfield pick would allow us to reminisce on the life of Terry Scott, up there with Hughie Green and Arthur Mullard in the "great bunch of lads from 1970s light entertainment" roster.

What do you have in mind? I ask this as I recognise that despite my efforts (I'm not a natural website builder I must admit), the site still looks like something from 2000! This is the problem, my background is in web content not web design so I have no fucking idea. As it stands, the site is completely manual, correct? So when Old Celebrity X dies you have to write the front page obit, work out the scoring, put their points and picks at the bottom of the front page, cross their name off on both the celeb picks and the teams page, add the date of death to picks page, then update the scores of all the teams that picked them, correct? Surely the first thing would be some sort of method that turns those six separate actions into one. The problem is it's not as if we can use some existing software (like the ones that exist for sports leagues) and repurpose it....

Strapline suggestions??? "You kill me Greavsie" & "Fucking Hurst" Ricky Otto, the Beppe Signori of the South East coast...

I think they'd look great as #19 and #20 on next year's DL.

Christy Dignam talking about his cancer on the old Late Late there. Still looks like shite but he reckons he has at least two years left.

I'll defer to the historians on this board, but surely Edward VIII refusing to abdicate would mean either: 1) The UK at best remains fully neutral during WWII (which would rapidly decrease the chances of the US entering), at worst becomes a full-fledged partner of the Axis. Assuming the former, you'd have to assume that between Germany and Japan and no second front Russia would have been defeated (and thus no Eastern bloc) 2) A popular uprising against the British monarch endorsing the Nazis would see people storm the palace in 1940 and the UK becoming a republic, possibly led by someone like Baron Keyes as an interim dictator.

According to the Telegraph, Jihadi John is Nr. 1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11852303/Jihadi-John-tops-secret-kill-list-of-five-Isil-extremists.html They should do it on January 1st, as a bonus to all Deathrace runners. Aye, it's very American innit How long until we have a pack of playing cards with all the wanted on the back? They'll probably bring it up to date, an Isis kill list FOBT in all major betting shops by June 2016. Get three Abu Omar al-Shishanis on screen to enter the jackpot bonus round.

Can't really doubt his claim to be Father of the Information Age, especially with a website as awesome as this: http://informationage.org/Homepage.html

Yeah, in fairness, the last thing we need is a mass overhaul of obituary rules, the thing that needs work is the architecture of the site. There must be some nerdbird who understands databases enough on here to proffer suggestions?

Time to bring back the classic "well he did produce 10cc" gag again?

Lucio Battisi: best Italian musician of all time? Probably. Carked it this day in 1998:

Clive Palmer courtcase postponed due to the mining magnate's "ill health". Dunno what they mean, he looks as fit as a fiddle:

Bob Newhart's chances of dying presumably depend on if Shelley Berman dies two weeks beforehand.

I think that Yahoo News should not be an accepted source, ditto HuffPo. Did we ever come to an agreement on whether The Scotsman and the Daily Record are valid sources?

This would dispel a lot of terrorist-of-the-month picks, though.

"Lucky Chance" isn't a name for a person, it's a name for trap 4 in the 3:13 at Monmore.

House and techno pioneer Colin Faver, one of the founders of Kiss FM, dead at 63