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Brian Harvey, of East 17 fame, has been on a downward spiral for quite some time now (reminds me a bit of Paul Gascoigne). He considered suicide last month, can't pay the bills and faces eviction: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/29/music-industry-chews-up-spits-out-stars-simon-danczuk-brian-harvey

Good find, IDIOT.

Padding your post stats w this moving entry. A local butcher? I'll bet all the top butchers in Burnley have gone to theatres in Estonia. SC Quite possible. After he closed his shop, he went on a cruise with his wife to Estonia: http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/burnley/11337202.Popular_Burnley_butcher_to_close_shop_as_he_battles_cancer/?ref=rss “I will be going on a cruise around Norway, Sweden and Estonia with Helen. We were going to go to the Caribbean but I can’t be out in the sun very long now.”

Lyle Schaller, the brain behind the revival of protestant churches in the USA is dead at 91: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/27/us/rev-lyle-e-schaller-dies-at-91-helped-protestant-churches-survive-and-grow.html He was voted the most influential church leader in the USA, ahead of Billy Graham.

The Burnley Butcher, no, a Burnley butcher, not a serial killer, but one of Burnley's best-known Butchers, Stephen Birkins dies at 52: http://www.clitheroeadvertiser.co.uk/news/business/local-business/burnley-butcher-stephen-dies-aged-52-1-7179694

Sally Forrest, actress and dancer during Hollywood's Golden Age dies at 86: http://www.brandonsun.com/entertainment/breaking-news/sally-forrest-actress-and-dancer-of-hollywoods-golden-age-dies-of-cancer-at-86-297724231.html?thx=y Edit: Ok, already posted in Dead of 2015, I know, I know... (now)

Don't know about the porridge, but I suppose avoiding men is a useful survival strategy. Dangerous lot, that. She's died, Jessie Gallan at 109. http://news.stv.tv/north/315288-scotlands-oldest-woman-jessie-gallan-dies-at-the-age-of-109/ Maybe the secret to a long life is avoiding interviews.

Former Chelsea manager and player at other clubs Ron Suart is dead at 94: http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/32063681 He's the joker of the Ronnie theme team.

I have a shock announcement. He was a member of this forum Nice speculation, but unless it was a lurker, I can rule that out by a process of elimination. The age isn't right.

I bet the pilot who crashed that plane in the Alps was gay. Not sure if that's related to the possible/likely suicide though...

Two important german deaths in the news today: Karl Moik, the austrian inventor of the most popular "Volksmusik"-TV show in the german-speaking countries is dead at 76: http://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/karl-moik/ist-tot-40313290.bild.html(german obituary) It was the kind of show full of yodelling, alpine clothing and faint regret of losing World War II that people aged 60+ loved. Also dead: "Emmely", Germany's most famous cashier. Her multi-billion dollar supermarket chain fired her instantly after 30 years of employment because she payed herself out two unused deposit bottle coupons (do you know what I mean?) worth 1,30€. She sued the company and won and got her job back: http://www.bild.de/regional/berlin/tod/kassiererin-emmely-ist-gestorben-40304874.bild.html (german obituary) She died at 57 after a heart attack.

The surgery is going to take place around May 7th: http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2015/03/25/rob-ford-set-to-have-cancer-surgery-may-7.html

The Russian military television offers Jeremy Clarkson a job in Russia. A Clarkson spokesman said he's considering it: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/russian-military-television-offers-top-gears-jeremy-clarkson-a-job/518066.html

The only member of the Russian Duma to vote against the Russian annexion of the Crimea, Ilya Ponomaryov, is currently being stuck in the USA and being refused return into Russia because "they don't want to risk creating any more martyres." http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/kremlin-critic-ponomaryov-stuck-in-us-while-being-kept-away-from-russia/518060.html Ponomaryov wants to return though, his children are still in Russia.

First African American woman to become LAPD lieutenant dead at 83: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-first-black-woman-lapd-20150323-story.html

A key figure in the preservation of early films, Roger Mayer dies after a heart attack at 88: http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-roger-mayer-20150326-story.html According to Martin Scorsese, he was a key figure in the attempts to colourize old black-and-white movies.

Congratulations msc! Also, I take pride in achieving precisely zero points and look forward to seeing my deathrace team dying completely away within the rest of the year.

Also worthy of note, the political situation in Yemen where the president has fled the emergency capital. It's a struggle between allies of the former president and allies of the current president, but also a struggle between the Shia and Sunni Islam, and so between Iran and Saudi-Arabia. The rebels have imprisoned the defense secretary: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/authorities-shiite-rebels-arrested-yemens-defense-minister-29888817 Also, there's some involvement of terrorist organisations, but to me, it seems so complicated that it is best described as a country completely falling apart and all kinds of outside sources fighting for the scraps: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/03/yemen-edge-150324052332887.html

Also among the dead of the Germanwings crash in the alps, two Iranian journalists: http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2015/mar/25/two-iranian-journalists-among-dead-in-germanwings-flight-4u-9525-crash Could have been four if there hadn't been some late-minute changes. They came back from covering el clásico, the football match between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona.

Indeed, election in three days: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2015/03/nigeria-decides-150325142912949.html Also, this reminds of a computer game called "President Forever" where you are a candidate for the office of US president and direct your campaign. One variable you always have to pay attention to is your fatigue level. If it gets too high you collapse during a campaign event which results in negative press...I guess this might have happened there, too much stress during the campaign.

Kelly Osbourne has the same dangerous gene that made Angelina Jolie get rid of some body parts: http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/kelly-osbourne-deadly-cancer-gene-5395207

Perhaps so does Charles. I could believe that!

Seriously? How old are you? Where do you want me to start? Charles and Camilla is a real love story with happy end! Also, Charles is an old hippy and probably votes green.

One-hit wonder Leapy Lee is begging for a heart attack playing around with his PENIS PUMP like that: http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/sixties-popstar-leapy-lee-reveals-5388671 (See, I can emphasize PENIS PUMP just like the Mirror..)

Firm believer in innocent until proven guilty, it's the only possible way that even approaches fair. But there comes a point even for me where sheer number of accusations starts to look incriminating. "His lawyer is denying ever single one of the accusations - he started at half past nine this morning and was still going at teatime" There's no real evidence for it but it IS scientific fact??? Moron... I read that Theresa May said that the public still doesn't grasp the whole scope of the pedophilia investigation, that it is ingrained in british society... Well, I think that every isolationist caste of people "encourages" pedophilia. I mean, the best example is the Catholic Church: hides itself behind church walls, tries not to get too involved in modern society (especially the upper echelon), the members cover up each others crimes. It happens in Germany as well, not just in the Church but most prominently, at the Odenwaldschule, a private boarding school, founded as a sort of spearhead of progressive education, slightly familiar to religious sects and situated in a remote forest. It's much more likely to encounter pedophiliac actions when power and isolation come together. I think that's also true for the British upper class, and that might be why the focus of Jewtree is on the Tories. Other parties allow more participation of lower classes and enable more social mobility. It's much harder to keep a secret if people are constantly coming or leaving. So "Labour pedophilia" could only happen on the local level whereas the Tories with their better connections to power and wealth, as well as their focus on class, could have some kind of national pedophile ring going.