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Someone who knows more than me (I only studied media law for a year, how am I supposed to know?) help me out here: if Venables was now to be killed/commit suicide/slip on a banana skin off a cliff while in prison, is it likely that this would now be reported by national media? Previously I'd have assumed not, but if his arrest can be marketed to shift papers... And does this apply for OG folk devil child killer Mary Bell as well? She doesn't strike me as a woman who'll live to see the retirement home.

Angelo Poffo, father of "Macho Man" Randy Savage and former world record holder for the most consecutive sit-ups, has somehow died before his son aged 84.

Read this as "hanged" for, like, five minutes and got a lot more interested in this story than I should be.

Ronald Searle turns 90 today, C4 interview with him here. Sounds a little creaky....

"Dom Mintoff" came up as a pub quiz answer the other week, it's a sign.

PA News reporting that Macclesfield gaffer Keith Alexander is dead aged 53. First active football league manager to die since...?

Rumour going around Twitter that Guru has had a heart attack and is in a coma. While this is probably scaremongering bollocks, I thought I'd post about it so I could use the pun "Saline was a popular drip and it still is".

River Cafe founder and chef Rose Gray is off the menu aged 71.

Boner has gone down.

A brace from Bobbie Gentry: , complete with cloth mannequins

Rabbit season was over for Chuck Jones today in 2002.

Searched but there's nay sign of a "child actors" thread, so in here it goes: Andrew Koenig, who played Boner in "Growing Pains", has gone missing. Renfro in the making, imo.

Pete Rock & CL Smooth - They Reminisce Over You

I think the correct response to this is something along the lines of "Blimey, the old gaffer only used to give us half an orange".

Former "world's fattest man" Paul Mason in hospital after heart attack, doctors refusing to comment on his condition.

Italian coffee billionaire Emilio Lavazza has gone off the boil aged 78.

Toronto-based news producer saying it's a hoax on Twitter, but apparently the original source for the story was a direct quote from Ronnie Hawkins, so idk. Maybe they got confused with Hakimullah Mehsud.

Eleanor Louise "Ellie" Greenwich (October 23, 1940 – August 26, 2009) News travels slow.

Eventually everyone has to die, son.

Juan Carlos Gonzalez, one of the last three surviving members of Uruguay's 1950 World Cup winning team, is out of here aged 85. The two remaining ones now are Alcides Ghiggia and Anibal Paz.

http://www.esquire.com/features/roger-ebert-0310 For anyone considering the yays or nays of fielding him in any upcoming pools.

Is it time for a thread of Dicks (insert your own punchline here), after the rapturous reception the Jean/Jane one got? Strongly considered Dick Bruna for this year, and Dick Clark is rumoured to not have long left to go.

Former Real Madrid gaffer Luis Molowny will be meeting up with Puskas a little earlier than expected, having carked it age 84.

Kids these days have their snuff videos served up for them on a plate, none of the research work we had to do as kids.