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Doug Moscrop, racing journalist and tipster from the North East of England - most notable for his daily tips on Tyne Tees's various local news shows, aged 77. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/heartbreak-doug-moscrop-north-east-16142236

Ranking Roger (born Roger Charlery) of The Beat and General Public has died aged 56, according to The Selecter's twitter feed.

In the US he was signed to Motown's rock subsidiary label, Rare Earth, and which also had the US rights to some UK acts such as Pretty Things. Due to delays in getting that imprint set up in the UK, his releases here initially appeared on Tamla Motown until these trademark issues could be sorted.

Thought I'd heard it before - the article is from 2008!

Thinking about this a bit more, he's only been absent from the show since sometime in January, and although there's five episodes a week most weeks, they most likely film around that number of episodes a day. He may have only missed a couple of weeks of filming, so it could be nothing more than a bad cold.

There is a spoken word Grammy category which any of the living actors could easily win.

Dave Rainford from Eggheads - has been absent from the current series due to 'illness', but he still appears in the show's opening credits.

Oddly the music round of tonight's edition of University Challenge featured four tracks that Wrecking Crew bassist Carole Kaye played on. Blaine probably played on most of those too.

Missed him out of my DDP team this year. Never mind...

This year's UCI Track World Championships were held just over a week ago, and Kelly Caitlin didn't take part due to suffering concussion. She was part of three previous Team Pursuit winning teams.

It's the mode of operation of these accounts - amongst the occasional posts supporting extremist political views there are many more random news and gossip stories to make the account look genuine, as it's by these stories that these bots tend to pick up followers in the first place.

It looks like a Russian troll farm account to me.

Lyndon Larouche has snuffed it. https://twitter.com/chuckstvns/status/1095426071699357697

He looked and sounded dreadful when appear he appeared at Glastonbury in 2017.

He's presenting the Six O'clock News tonight, for the first time in over a year.