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Lynda Baron, star of Open All Hours and 90s BBC children's TV show Come Outside, dies aged 82
  • Actress best known for role in BBC sitcom Open All Hours with Sir David Jason and Ronnie Barker
  • She also starred as Auntie Mabel in the BBC children's show Come Outside with her striking spotted airplane
  • Her agent of nearly 30 years, Donna French, confirmed her passing in a statement on Monday
  • French said the late actress was 'a wonderful actress and a great friend' in her statement
  • She is survived by her husband of 56 years and her two adult children Sarah and Morgan
 
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Ex-Manchester United manager Frank O'Farrell - who replaced the legendary Sir Matt Busby as Old Trafford manager in 1971 - dies at the age of 94
  • Sir Matt Busby chose Frank O'Farrell to replace him at Manchester United
  • In his playing career, O'Farrell spent eight years as a player for West Ham
  • In management, he also spent two years at the helm of the Iran national side
 
NewcastleTiger said:
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Just 12 hours ago he tweeted this. How unpredictable is life. RIP
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That's was struck me, was him sending out that Tweet and hours later he was gone. I'm still in Cambodia and have been speaking to quite a few Aussies who just can't get their heads round it. Very sad, a real larger than life character. RIP Shane,
 
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Former Everton manager Gordon Lee dies aged 87, with the Toffees paying tribute to boss who led them to two FA Cup semi-finals and two top-four finishes
  • Former Everton manager Gordon Lee was in charge between 1977-1981
  • He led the team to two FA Cup semi-finals and two top four finishes
  • Lee died at the age of 87 and Everton paid tribute to him on the club website
 
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Lynda Baron, star of Open All Hours and 90s BBC children's TV show Come Outside, dies aged 82
  • Actress best known for role in BBC sitcom Open All Hours with Sir David Jason and Ronnie Barker
  • She also starred as Auntie Mabel in the BBC children's show Come Outside with her striking spotted airplane
  • Her agent of nearly 30 years, Donna French, confirmed her passing in a statement on Monday
  • French said the late actress was 'a wonderful actress and a great friend' in her statement
  • She is survived by her husband of 56 years and her two adult children Sarah and Morgan
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RIP Nurse Gladys Emmanuel
 
TheCasual said:
The death of Shane Warne has really hit me hard.

I'm not really affected by famous deaths. There has only been two others then have affected me and that's David Bowie and Paul Ritter.
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Hi mate, hope you're well. The one that really got me was the killing of John Lennon.

It came on the news and It just wouldn't sink in, it wasn't real to me.
 
Ann & Brian, the very best neighbours we’ve ever had, Ann lost Brian to Cancer a month or so ago, then on Monday this week her elderly, but previously as fit as a butcher’s dog, had a stroke at lunchtime, he could still walk and talk albeit a little slurred. She called an ambulance and he was taken to HRI, when Ann got there she was told that he’d had a brain bleed and that they were going to carry out a procedure on him that they would normally only perform on much younger people, but because they deemed him so fit for his age…

After said procedure Ann told us that he lost all function, basically a cabbage, on Tuesday she witnessed him laid in bed with tears streaming down his face, at 11pm that night he passed. I’m totally gutted, for Ann and also the fact that the I’ve lost two great blokes.

RIP Tom, and please say hello to Bri for me xx
 
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tigers1970 said:
I was lucky enough to do the scg tour a couple of years ago....i asked the tour guide where shane warne sat in the dressing room,his reply was,"he sits on that ****ty old bench in the corner because he gets up the other players noses with his constant banter".....obviously i had to sit there.....rip Shane
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A real shock to me too. I actually met Shane Warne when me and the missus stopped in the same hotel as the Aussie team during a Test match in Leeds. 1990's. We were there for the cricket ourselves. The hotel is very close to the Yorkshire TV studios and a lot of the commentators, ex players etc were also stopping there. I remember the first night when we both went up to the hotel bar and looking around I said to the missus that we are the only two people in there who weren't famous. Ricky Tomlinson was up there and David Jason too, the place was heaving with celebs, and of course all the Aussie team.
After breakfast one day we called the lift and when the doors opened Shane Warne was stood there with two other Aussie players. We exchanged words because we were obviously going to Headingly ourselves and I believe the Aussies were already three nil up. I said we'd beat then, this was the last day and of course Warney took the piss out of me in a friendly way. We did beat them actually and Mark Butcher batted all day and scored a double century or close to win it for us after tea,
Back in the hotel reception after the game the Aussies were getting ready to leave and we were going out for a night around Leeds when Shane Warne recognised us from breakfast and came across to chat and shake our hands. We have a lovely photograph of him stood with his arm around my wife with a broad grin on his face. Great personality as well as a great cricketer. RIP.
 
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Urika Peece. said:
A real shock to me too. I actually met Shane Warne when me and the missus stopped in the same hotel as the Aussie team during a Test match in Leeds. 1990's. We were there for the cricket ourselves. The hotel is very close to the Yorkshire TV studios and a lot of the commentators, ex players etc were also stopping there. I remember the first night when we both went up to the hotel bar and looking around I said to the missus that we are the only two people in there who weren't famous. Ricky Tomlinson was up there and David Jason too, the place was heaving with celebs, and of course all the Aussie team.
After breakfast one day we called the lift and when the doors opened Shane Warne was stood there with two other Aussie players. We exchanged words because we were obviously going to Headingly ourselves and I believe the Aussies were already three nil up. I said we'd beat then, this was the last day and of course Warney took the piss out of me in a friendly way. We did beat them actually and Mark Butcher batted all day and scored a double century or close to win it for us after tea,
Back in the hotel reception after the game the Aussies were getting ready to leave and we were going out for a night around Leeds when Shane Warne recognised us from breakfast and came across to chat and shake our hands. We have a lovely photograph of him stood with his arm around my wife with a broad grin on his face. Great personality as well as a great cricketer. RIP.
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Great story. I have an eerily similar one to this, only when my lift doors opened instead of Shane Warne, I had Willie Thorne!
 
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Tributes have poured in for Only Fools and Horses star Ron Pember, who has died aged 87.

The death of the actor, who also starred in Red Dwarf and a string of British television series, was confirmed by his grief-stricken grandson Paul Pember.
 
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Tributes have poured in for Only Fools and Horses star Ron Pember, who has died aged 87.

The death of the actor, who also starred in Red Dwarf and a string of British television series, was confirmed by his grief-stricken grandson Paul Pember.
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Had to look him up and he was certainly a face I knew from numerous shows but star of only fools is stretching it
RIP
 
Chazz Rheinhold said:
Had to look him up and he was certainly a face I knew from numerous shows but star of only fools is stretching it
RIP
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I checked his picture and I remember him being the tax man in the Better than Life episode of Red Dwarf. Not sure if I remember him from anything else without imdbing him.
 
Former Mirror music critic Gavin Martin has died at the age of 60 while on holiday in Barbados.

Born in Belfast, Gavin grew up in Bangor, County Down, where as a teenager, he put together the punk-era fanzine Alternative Ulster (its title immediately stolen by the band Stiff Little Fingers).
 
William Hurt dies of natural causes at 71: Academy Award-winning actor who appeared in Kiss of the Spider Woman, Broadcast News and The Big Chill passed away 'peacefully among family'
  • Hurt's son Will said actor had 'died peacefully, among family, of natural causes'
  • He had won an Academy Award for his role in the 1985 motion picture Kiss of the Spider Woman
  • He had also been nominated for an Oscar his work in 2005's A History of Violence, 1987's Broadcast News and 1986's Children of a Lesser God
  • Hurt also appeared in 1981's Body Heat, 1983's The Big Chill and 1988's The Accidental Tourist
 
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