Kathryn Apanowicz, partner of the late Richard Whiteley (of Countdown) and who played nurse Rose Butcher in Angels, has died aged 64. She also starred in Eastenders, Emmerdale and Coronation Street.
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Kathryn Apanowicz, partner of the late Richard Whiteley (of Countdown) and who played nurse Rose Butcher in Angels, has died aged 64. She also starred in Eastenders, Emmerdale and Coronation Street.
Simon Fisher-Becker, who starred in Harry Potter and Doctor Who, has died aged 63.
Eddie Jordan, former Formula 1 team owner and TV pundit, has died aged 76.
George Foreman, who lost to Muhammad Ali in the famous Rumble in the Jungle fight in 1974 and for his grills, has died aged 76.
Richard Chamberlain, actor, has passed away.
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Richard Chamberlain was always Dr Kildare to me. I had read the book before he was in The Thorn Birds and he was not my image of the character he played in that.
I, vaguely, remember watching the repeats of Dr Kildare on the BBC either in the 1980s or 1990s.
Crispin Glover has announced, on Instagram last Saturday, his father Bruce died on the 12th of this month aged 92. Bruce Glover played Mr Wint in Diamonds Are Forever amongst his film roles and Chuck Harris in CHIPS and Wilkes in Hart to Hart amongst his TV roles.
Val Kilmer, who played Batman in Batman Forever, Jim Morrison in The Doors and a fighter pilot in Top Gun: Maverick, has died aged 65.
Jean Marsh, creator of House of Elliott and Upstairs, Downstairs (in which she starred)
has died aged 90.
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Clodagh Rodgers, singer and Eurovision entrant, has passed away aged 78.
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George Wendt, who played Norm in Cheers, has died aged 76.
Brian Wilson, co-founder of the Beach Boys, has died aged 82.
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Kim Woodburn, co-presenter of Channel 4's How Clean Is Your House, has died aged 83.
Rick Hurst, who played Deputy Cletus Hogg in the Dukes of Hazzard (TV series), has died aged 79.
The Bank of England wants the public to come up with an image of who or what they would like to see on the banknotes. How about Andy Murray kissing the Wimbledon trophy.
Sir Norman Tebbitt has passed away at the age of 94.
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Both he, and his wife, were badly injured in the Brighton bombing of 1984.
The Bayeaux Tapestry will go on display in the Sainsbury Exhibition Gallery, British Museum between September of next year and July 2027, so plenty of time to go and see it. Meanwhile, the Anglo-Saxon treasures of Sutton Hoo ship burial, the Lewis chessmen and other treasures will go on display somewhere in France.
Ozzy Osborne has passed away, aged 76.
Just 2 weeks after playing his final gig with Black Sabbath in Birmingham.
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I still remember being in the stadium when Ozzy performed at the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony in 2022.
Cleo Laine, jazz singer and widow of John Dankworth, has died aged 97.
Connie Francis - some of you may be old enough to remember her - died recently aged 87. She sang many memorable songs in the 1960s.
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Katherine, Duchess of Kent has died aged 92.
Robert Redford, American actor, had died aged 89.
Bjorn Borg and Cancer
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Patricia Routledge, actress, has passed away.
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Sarah Mullaly, currently Bishop of London, has been named as the new Archbishop of Canterbury.
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