Bibliogryphon

But there is only 138 days until Deathrace 2015 starts. Have Sky Sports been in touch yet?

Extrapolating the trend upto this point will potentially give up 11 deaths for the full year. So my five are ZZG, Havalange, Simon, Rainer & Graham.

23/26 One of them I stupidly forgot (it is a very small place!) but the other two I never heard of. I got 24 as two of them I'd never heard of. 21 . forgot two big countries aswell. Oh dear only 19/26

The race has finally concluded as Raymond's heading into the gravel. Indeed, giving DI 2102 points and a clear lead as he crosses the line with nobody else in sight. Congratulations are due all round. DI message me please once you've decided whether to go the consumer goods route and take a physical prize, or whether you'd like a small charity donation made on your behalf to mark the well fought winning Deathrace campaign. So Kathleen Ollerenshaw doesn't get her points included. Now the race is over they will be dying in droves.

I tried Sam last time so I am going completely leftfield and saying Fats Domino.

Am currently re-reading Witches Abroad - forgotton how funny the early discworld books are.

He stopped doing signing sessions a couple of years ago but he is still writing to the best of my knowledge. He has a short story collections coming out this Autumn. Was there a specific event he pulled out of? It was the Discworld Convention which he pulled out of, however his PA announced that Terry was working on a new Discworld novel. So I still think he's got at least a year or two. Pulling out of covention seems good sense. I still think he will outlive the year.

I preferred him when he was in Take That. Now he's loving angels instead. R.I.P Rob. I would have been less surprised if it had been Robbie or even Rowan for that matter.

Congratulations to The Honey Trap who pick up, I would imagine, a fair shed load of points for Robin Williams. If he had done it tomorrow it would be even more.

The Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir cancels gigs over health concerns.

Was very shocked to hear this and then got to thinking how few films I had actually watched with him in. Mostly they were kids things that I watched with my daughter such as Night in the Museum, Aladdin and Robots but he is in the excellent Terry Gilliam film The Fisher King which nobody seems to mention in all the tributes. Like many actors who put in the hard work he has made a fair number of dud movies a friend of mine was in the habit of going to the cinema every week and would pick a film each week. After going to see Toys he came to the conclusion that there are not enough good films to justify a trip every week. I did like his cameo appearances such as Osric in Kenneth Branagh's version of Hamlet, The King of the Moon in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and the disgraced psychiatrist who works in a cold meat store in Dead Again Unfortunately I have had all the songs from Aladdin stuck in my head all morning.

He stopped doing signing sessions a couple of years ago but he is still writing to the best of my knowledge. He has a short story collections coming out this Autumn. Was there a specific event he pulled out of?

I will take seven of your eight but I think Pratchett is not going anywhere this year.Clive James on the other hand.....

A list of Lords from The Lord of Lists The following 20 peers are the oldest of those who have been given extended leave of absence from their duties in the Lords. It is possible that such leave is granted for other reasons such as holding a UN or EU political appointed post but considering the youngest of these will be 87 this year I imagine most of them are ill or frail, and remember there are many older people than this still active in the Upper House. Michael Sandberg (b.1927) John (J D) Sainsbury (b.1927) Gwilym prys Prys-Davies (b.1923) Jim Prior (b.1927) Beryl Platt (b.1923) Olive Nicol (b.1923) James Molyneaux (b.1920) Roy Mason (b.1924) George Mackie (b.1919) Betty Lockwood (b.1924) Philip Knights (b.1920) William Griffiths (b.1923) Robert Goff (b.1926) Robert Lindsay (b.1927) Alun Gwynne-Jones (b.1919) Asa Briggs (b.1921) Thomas Bridges (b.1927) Derek Barber (b.1918) Ian Paisley (b.1926) Richard Attenborough (b.1923) There should be an obit for any of these.

I was listening to my ipod on shuffle at the weekend and it played The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics and it made me think of Rolf Harris because when he was a guest on TV-AM he blubbed when they played it and put it on camera. How does that fit?

Chapman now brings us close to the point where we are almost level with 2011 (a poor year). We need one more death before 07/12 to go ahead but we are 3 deaths behind 2013 and a whopping 8 deaths behind 2008 (best year at this stage). Either we are on for a pretty poor year or there is going to be a glut of deaths soon.

Lynton Crosbie ran Boris' mayoral election campaign and he is in charge of the Conservative GE electoral campaign. They have to be careful on immigration as it may play towards UKIP on one hand a put off centre right floating voters which is where they will need to win.

Not to be confused with the E-bola virus where you turn on your computer and are hit in the face by a weighted cord.

The optimistic view of this is that Boris thinks the Tories are going to lose or not win an outright majority because then the top job will probably become vacant. Can anyone see Boris serving in a David Cameron cabinet? However Cameron will have to offer him a cabinet level job to keep him from mouthing off on the back benches.

Sad news indeed ,but it opens up the possibility of an ex radio 1 breakfast DJ thread. Thats Smithy and Kevin Greening gone.Who will be next? My moneys on DLT I am not sure that Radio 1 Breakfast Show hosts will come good for a few years. Tony still sounds chipper, Noel crops up on TV, DLT doesn't look ill despite his woes. Mike Read doesn't seem to be around much so you could go for him but really I think Nick Grimshaws lower intestine should look at the plummeting listening figures and do him in, in the manner of Grunthos the Flatulent.

Both. He objected to being moved to what Bernard Ingham described as a non-job and he disagreed with Thatcher over the issue of Europe. Finally boiling over into a decision to resign in a untypically inflammatory fashion and setting the course for the downfall of Thatcher. If you ever watch The Iron Lady his part is taken by Anthony Head who was superb. I think there are a number of seats in London that Boris may fill, he won't want one out of the city as he will still be mayor till 2016. Maybe he and Zac Goldsmith could swap jobs.

I don't think it was that type of stroke.

To be fair I have drafted my list for next year but I am expecting to revise it substantially before December.

Considering how ill Pete Murray looks in this picture and how long ago it must have been taken (John Peel is in it) I think Pete must be a serious contender for the future.

A great shame but it seems reading that he was accepting of death and had no regrets. 100 is a very good life and still writing.