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Bigaitch
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Jun 19, 2018, 11:05 PM
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Good point, well made . 
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noprogs
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Jun 20, 2018, 10:59 PM
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Peter Thomson. 5 time British Open Golf champion,only man to win three consecutive titles in the last 100 years.
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Sale Holmfield
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Jun 21, 2018, 10:07 PM
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Bill Speakman has died at the age of 90. He won the Victoria Cross for exceptional bravery in the Korean War in 1951, being the first person to be presented with this award by Elizabeth II.
To give a non-League link, he was brought up in Altrincham, on Moss Lane no less. Later he emigrated to South Africa (although it appears he returned to be a Chelsea Pensioner), but did attend an away game at Torquay United as a guest of the club in 2008, while visiting relatives in Devon.
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cherryhopper
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Jun 27, 2018, 11:20 PM
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Joe Jackson, father of Michael, Jermaine, rest of the Jackson Five plus Janet and Latoyah, has died aged 89.
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BigJR
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Jul 1, 2018, 2:50 PM
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PETER FIRMIN. Aged 89
Part Creator of childrens favourites such as The clangers, Bagpuss, and Noggin the Nog.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jul/01/bagpuss-clangers-basil-brush-creator-peter-firmin-dies-aged-89
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Richard Rundle
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Jul 1, 2018, 5:52 PM
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Polish sprinter Irena Szewinska has died aged 72.
She won 3 Olympic Gold Medals (and 7 medals in all) and is the only athlete, male or female, to have held the world record in the 100m, 200m and 400m (and her Polish team also held the WR for 4x100m)
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PaulC
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Jul 2, 2018, 12:18 PM
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Alan Longmuir - Bay City Roller
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oxpete
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Jul 6, 2018, 12:08 AM
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From 2017, but I still wanted to mention the passing of this star from the end of last year...
Actor, playwright and screenwriter Meic Povey died on 5th December 2017, aged 67.
Meic was one of Wales's leading playwrights of modern times, in both the English and Welsh languages, and was also one of the co-creators of the long-running soap opera 'Pobol y Cwm' in 1974. It is still running today after forty-four years, and still usually the most-watched programme on the S4C channel.
However, probably Meic's most famous acting role on television was that of Detective Constable 'Taff' Jones in 'Minder', the sidekick to Patrick Malahide's Sergeant Chisholm, who together had some of the funniest lines and most memorable scenes in the whole series...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TyNHRnqSXg
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noprogs
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Jul 7, 2018, 12:10 PM
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John Dunlop - champion racehorse trainer in 1995, and trainer of no less than 10 classic winners, including two Epsom Derbies.
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greenwood
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Jul 11, 2018, 4:16 PM
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Lord Carrington, who has died aged 99, was Foreign Secretary at the time of the Falklands crisis but had to resign because of it. Oddly enough, I didn't remember that at all, only John Nott's resignation as Defence Secretary at the same time, which I think got far more publicity.
Even when his death was announced the other day I did not know about it until I read today's Metro newspaper, which just goes to show how much the BBC thinks showing drunken English fans is far more important than the death of someone who was in Churchill's government and was often mentioned as a possible Conservative Party leader.
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jon b
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Jul 11, 2018, 6:22 PM
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Carrington was a lot more than just a celebrity.
Even before his very lengthy, high powered political career he had been awarded the Military Cross as a Major in the Grenadier Guards.
https://www.theguardian.com/...-carrington-obituary
Both he and Nott offered their resignations at the time of the Argentinian invasion of the Falklands, Thatcher persuaded Nott to stay in post but couldn't do the same with Carrington.
Ironically, when papers were subsequently released under the 30 year rule it turned out that Carrington had argued forcefully against the decision to scrap HMS Endurance whilst Nott had backed it. It was the announcement of the intended scrapping that convinced the Argentines that the UK had given up on the Falklands and wouldn't contest an occupation of them.
He was by all accounts a highly intelligent and humorous individual. It would have been well worth hearing his views on Boris' stint as Foreign Secretary.
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greenwood
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Jul 11, 2018, 10:04 PM
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Lord Carrington, who has died aged 99, was Foreign Secretary at the time of the Falklands crisis but had to resign because of it. Oddly enough, I didn't remember that at all, only John Nott's resignation as Defence Secretary at the same time, which I think got far more publicity. Odd if it did, as Nott's resignation was not accepted. He remained as Defence Secretary throughout the conflict and was replaced the following January when he decided he would be retiring from the Commons at the next election.
I must have got confused about Nott - to be honest, all I can remember is the tremendous amount of stick he got in the press at the time.
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jrev61
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Jul 11, 2018, 10:11 PM
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I remember John Nott removing his microphone and walking out of an interview with Robin Day, when he called him a 'here today, gone tomorrow politician'.
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Mr. T
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Jul 12, 2018, 12:35 AM
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Day admitted some years later that he regretted saying that.
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jon b
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Jul 12, 2018, 3:26 PM
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I remember John Nott removing his microphone and walking out of an interview with Robin Day, when he called him a 'here today, gone tomorrow politician'. Still amazing to see, even all these years later... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln3SpXXYTHY
Day himself had tried and failed to become a "here today, gone tomorrow politician" when he stood as a Liberal Party candidate in the 1959 General Election,
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KnowYourMarket
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Jul 13, 2018, 7:35 AM
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Aren't they all "here today, gone tomorrow" politicians?
Last ground visited(update requested by Spud): Wellington . New grounds 18/19: 38
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cherryhopper
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Jul 31, 2018, 8:42 PM
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Tony Bullimore, the British yachtsman best remembered for being rescued after surviving 4 days in an upturned boat in the Southern Ocean off Australia during the 1997 round the world race, has died aged 79. He was suffering from a rare form of cancer.
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cherryhopper
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Jul 31, 2018, 8:49 PM
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Actor Bernard Hepton - best known for his roles in Colditz, Secret Army and Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy - has died aged 92.
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