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Brett Tuggle dies at age 70: The keyboardist for Fleetwood Mac and The David Lee Roth Band passes away after battling cancer as Rick Springfield shares heartfelt tribute
  • Keyboardist Brett Tuggle has died at the age of 70 after battling cancer
  • He had toured for 20 years with iconic 1970s band Fleetwood Mac
  • And he was one of the founding members of The David Lee Roth Band
  • Tuggle also helped Roth write his 1988 hit song Just Like Paradise
 
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NFL deaths
Tony Siragusa, Super Bowl champion and TV personality, dies at 55
  • Defensive tackle won Super Bowl with Baltimore Ravens
  • Player went on to successful career in broadcasting
Baltimore Ravens’ Jaylon Ferguson dies at 26: ‘He was a wonderful young man’
  • Linebacker held FBS record for career sacks with 48
  • NFL has been hit by a number of premature deaths recently
The NFL has been hit by a number of deaths in recent months. Arizona Cardinals cornerback Jeff Gladney was killed in a car crash in June and former Dallas Cowboys Marion Barber III died at the age of 38 two days later. In April, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins was struck and killed by a truck after his car ran out of gas and he exited the vehicle on a freeway.
 
NFL deaths
Tony Siragusa, Super Bowl champion and TV personality, dies at 55
  • Defensive tackle won Super Bowl with Baltimore Ravens
  • Player went on to successful career in broadcasting
Baltimore Ravens’ Jaylon Ferguson dies at 26: ‘He was a wonderful young man’
  • Linebacker held FBS record for career sacks with 48
  • NFL has been hit by a number of premature deaths recently
The NFL has been hit by a number of deaths in recent months. Arizona Cardinals cornerback Jeff Gladney was killed in a car crash in June and former Dallas Cowboys Marion Barber III died at the age of 38 two days later. In April, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins was struck and killed by a truck after his car ran out of gas and he exited the vehicle on a freeway.
RIP

A couple above are explained but I wonder why so many professional sportsmen seem to be dropping like flies over the last year or two, the loss of any life is tragic but some of these poor people are so young.
 
RIP Harry Gration.

Sad news.
I think he lived in the York area. I saw him shopping in Tesco on Tadcaster Road on a couple of occasions. Last time about five years ago. Seemed like a private, quiet bloke.
 
Dad's Army star Frank Williams dead at 90: Tributes flood in to actor who played long-suffering vicar Rev Timothy Farthing, with just Private Pike now left from classic BBC sitcom’s original line-up
  • People have paid tribute to Frank Williams whose death was announced in a statement on his Facebook page
  • Frank, who played Reverend Timothy Farthing in legendary BBC sitcom Dad's Army, died on Sunday morning
  • He described Dad's Army as being the 'happiest' period of his work life during the 39 episodes he featured in
  • The 90-year-old appeared in similar roles to Reverend Farthing as members of the clergy in other sitcoms
  • Born in Hampstead Heath, north London in 1931, he began his career in acting at the Watford Palace Theatre
 
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Blind Date’s ‘Our Graham’ dies aged 90: Iconic voiceover artist Graham Skidmore recapped hundreds of hopefuls’ answers for Cilla Black over the ITV show’s 17-year run
  • Blind Date, which ran from 1985 to 2002, featured Skidmore as a regular fixture
  • He was also a voiceover artist on BBC2's Shooting Stars with Vic Reeves
  • 'He might not have wanted to be seen on screen, but he had a celebrity voice - a known voice,' said his son Neil, 54
 
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Former Bury captain Martyn Forrest dies aged 43 - 14 years after collapsing on the football pitch with a brain tumour
  • Former Bury captain and midfielder Martyn Forrest has died at the age of 43
  • Forrest collapsed on the football pitch against Radcliffe Borough back in 2008
  • He was subsequently diagnosed with a brain tumour and had several treatments
  • Wife Lisa called him 'an amazing husband and a fantastic dad' in a tribute t