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Well you know, they can be right sods at times, but you grow fond of them running about begging for treats and thinking they own the place. No, sorry, not tories, that's terriers...

You can customise where the nuke hits, which is of course why I tested their thing on the Helensbrough area instead.

They link to a plaything for panickers too. Apparently the main fireball area is smaller these days than in the 1960s. So that should comfort some...

If its available, right click to paste but click "paste as plain text" and it should auto-embed. That's how I got round a similar issue a while ago.

The first facepalm ever given to OoO and its because he's quoting a tosser and not anything he himself said!

Bloody hell. Sad way for a popular actress (or indeed, anyone) to go.

The latter, though she met her husband when she was 17 (as he liked to prey on younger girls). Given they taped their entire torture/murders and it was played in court (there were genuinely jury and lawyers in therapy for years after) this seems like a good documentary to completely miss in my book.

Died in January, completely missed by me (and seemingly the forum?) but worthy of a mention. Nils Arne Eggen, aged 80. He was the football manager who absolutely dominated the Norwegian league with Rosenborg in the 90s and turn of this century, turning the Norwegian side into a hard nut to crack in Europe who famously beat English champs Blackburn Rovers, and also got to the Champions League quarterfinals once (!). When he retired, he said Rosenborg would go onto become a giant of the European game, which is not one of the more successful predictions there's been. Also he used to call defensive football "arse football" which is still a common quotation in Europe. The Sun produced an obit unnoticed at the time.

I've been waking up hoping I became a billionaire in my sleep for 30 odd years now and so far, no joy...

Lord knows if the Queen died we'd all be looking to Hollywood Unlocked to break the news...

In fairness, he was working with the band pretty full time around the time they released their biggest album and he co-wrote No One Knows so it is understandable. I used to have all their albums at one point.

Nooo, not Gary Busey or Gary "Radar" Burghoff.

For any passing @Gooseberry Crumbles, if that pace kept up across the year, the record would be broken by about 100. Highly unlikely of course, but if it did, DI would be referring to me as Calvin Coolidge for the rest of time...

Hard luck, shades of Stanley Sopel - sometimes these calls come off well and sometimes there's a missing bit of evidence (or someone has made up evidence) that was crucial.

I did laugh a few years ago when the biggest complaint the BBC got from viewers was they were too biased towards the government, and the second biggest complaint (only about 40 odd behind) was they were too biased AGAINST the government! They had a leaning bias towards the status quo in their news department. As for the licence fee, I'd just add on that the majority want rid of it *when they think their favourite shows aren't going to be effected*. The soonest BBC cuts threaten something people like, they get on their high horses. Robin Day died a few years ago, Willz, basically. Given Kuenssberg is going and the producer has jumped ship to LBC, I presume it is going too?

The David Banks I know of, of that age, is a bit younger and never worked for Kelvin MacKenzie, thankfully (or "excellent" I should say).

Pentlands is mostly Edinburgh SW now held by Joanna Cherry. Was solid Labour under Alastair Darling but their vote has evaporated since he retired. Cherry had twice the vote of the Tories in 2nd place last time.

I could have written a better obit and as we've seen a few posts above above, my brain (or Word Doc saves) apparently brings actors back to life...

Aye for some proper rapscallions no doubt. Ahem...

Curious to think that 40 years ago we had a fairly safe Tory seat in Glasgow, with Tam Galbraith. Hard to imagine that today.

Sadly, Stewart Bevan (Secret Army, Emmerdale, Dr Who, etc) has died aged 73. News announced by his ex-partner and best friend Katy Manning.

One of those quirks of DDP fate that after missing him for several years, two of us both thought "better get him back on a DDP team" in 2022!

Colin's has been unwell more frequently of late (age and weight catching up with him, probably) but this Express report is about an event from 5 years ago when he had the flu. No idea why its come back up today.

George Galloway has six kids, apparently, five of them 14 or younger. Poor sods.

One of the best episodes in some time this week. Beryl Vertue, who obviously had a legendary and important career. Flavio Carboni, an Italian fixxer for the Vatican, politicians and Mafia alike who had the misfortune of continually being linked to mysterious murders. Phil Harvey, who took on the Republican Party for the right to sell safe sex equipment for profit in the third world. And forum favourite Lata Mangeshkar, who was apparently a massive George Harrison fangirl as well as being India's answer to Marni Nixon. The best bits were either the revelation that Mangeshkar had an addiction to Las Vegas slot machines, or the journalist who, during a court case in which Carboni was an actual suspect in a bankers death, willingly took lifts home from the man until the day a witness's story made Carboni's hypothetical involvement in the case a bit too realistic for the guys liking!