Bibliogryphon

''Oldest'' not ''last''.................... I stand corrected!

The last surviving Battle of Britain pilot, William Walker dies aged 99

Bengali writer Sunil Gangopadhyay dies of heart attack aged 78

well her sister (Dee Dee Warwick) and her cousin (Whitney Houston) are pushing up daises....and shes related to Aretha Franklin who is on the 2012 death list - I'd say shes doing OK all things considered. She was asked about why some stars seem to self destruct including Whitney, Karen Carpenter & Michael Jackson and why she had not secumbed. She said that she had always been grounded. I am not advocating DW for 2013 list, just passing on intelligence.

Dionne Warwick has been doing the rounds of the UK chat shows promoting her new album. She was singing on the SCD results show and, more interestingly, she was on Radio 4's Woman's Hour this morning (I was driving somewhere in a car - alright!) and she was explaining why she refuses to give up smoking and doesn't do keep fit. 72 in December.

Yoko Ono kept John Lennon's broken glasses on display and brought a replica of the gun that killed him. According to some sources there were tensions in the marriage in the run up tom his assassination and in the interveneing years she has focussed on her self publicity on the premise of keeping his legacy alive. That the assassination was carried out at the behest of the person with most to gain is less far fetched than a CT i read in a book that Stephen King had set Mark Chapman to commit the crime.

I visited Paris for the first time last year and found it to be one of the rudest cities I have ever visited. There is a hostility to the foreign that permeates the whole being of the city. I support LFN's submission of Paris to Room 101.

I hope you are not confusing expressing your beliefs and opinions and debating with fellow contributors with being on a moral high horse

Happy Birthday Doris Lessing - 93 candles will take a lot of blowing out.

Just heard a snippet of an interview on the radio and just judging by his voice he sounded so weak.

She also seems to be being savaged by some type of wild animal, Poor lady.

I agree. Those two seem far too healthy for their years and I wouldn't lay any bets on either of them croaking for a good 5 years or so, unless they meet with a nasty traffic accident in the meantime. Here we are five years on and both Tony and Dinah are still with us. Haven't seen them on telly for a while but if they have retired to the high life who can blame them.

Thank you Grande Pablo - this is very useful real intelligence. I will not ask why you were hanging round the stage door of the Theatre in Lichfield.

I believe he serenades the England team on his trombone.

Whilst acting on this information and adding Robert Stigwood to my database I found Beryl Vertue but she is another of these elusive people whose birthdate is not common knowledge. I do not think she is a good pick for 2013 as on the Sherlock DVD extras she comes across as fit and well but when she does go her association with Sherlock and Stephen Moffatt (Mother-in-law) will guarentee an obit. Does anybody know how old she is?

Thanks OoO. That is good enough for me.

I think this will only be resolved by finding someone alive they can pin some real charges on and then get a trial. Wouldn't it be good if Paul Gadd found it in himself to tell the whole truth about his life and everything that went on - assuming he can remember it all. I agree with you Bibliogryphon, this will end with somebody from the 60's or 70's being charged or Jonathan King suffering from a huge bout of clarity and beating off Gadd in the Confesions of Child Abuser stakes. The disturbing and very serious question is whether there was a ring of organised abuse which was covered up or whether a culture existed that seemed to accept this sort of thing went on? What is happening with the media coverage is lots of people are coming forward describing there experiences and these are all being reported on mass as part of the "Jimmy Saville scandal" whether they were connected to him or not. The media are creating a link by association.

Just saw a clip on youTube which had a brief appearance by Bernie Clifton. I know he was mentioned at the beginning of this thread but I cannot find a reliable DOB for him. Wiki links to an article from 2006 which describes him as 70 years old which puts him at 1935 or 1936. Anyone with better information?

In which case somebody should cut the strings.

I'm not sure why they've got him on life support. I thought the whole idea of going into a hospice was to live out your final days in comfort, not to prolong them. Maybe the Democrats are doing what I suggested the Republicans should do with Nancy Reagen, waiting for the opportune momnet to make most electoral capital out of the passing of a veteren party figure.

I think this will only be resolved by finding someone alive they can pin some real charges on and then get a trial. Wouldn't it be good if Paul Gadd found it in himself to tell the whole truth about his life and everything that went on - assuming he can remember it all.

Hoax This Morning Funny, funny, funny. Think about all those celebrities that gave away their sperm for free!

Mike Harding (b 1944) has been put out to pasture by Radio 2 Not by mutual agreement.

Kenneth Baker (former UK conservative education secretary) and Kenny Baker (R2-D2) were both born 1934. I wonder if anyone ever gets them confused.

If you were the owner of a Jim'll Fix It badge, at this moment in time would you: a) Sell it Hide it and hopes no-one finds out about it c) Wear it d) Have yourself photographed wearing it and then tell the papers what a creepy man he was?