The RIP thread...

So sorry to hear this Niall. My sincere condolences.

Hope you're doing as well as you can be.

Niall, really sorry for your loss :(

Very sad to hear this. Sending good vibes your way, Niall.

Niall, so very sorry to hear this - my sincerest condolences.

Niall - so so sad. There's nothing to say, but you have my best wishes and are both in my thoughts.

Niall. Meeting Toni just once was enough to show me how much of a wonderful human being she was. Hearing you talk about her a couple of times was enough to make me see how much you were in love.
Thoughts are with you tonight.

Just saw this - thoughts are with you Niall. Sad times indeed.

Shit. So so sorry to hear this. Stay strong Niall

Dave MacKay, Scotland, Hearts, Spurs, Derby legend. RIP.

"The night before Scotland played Spain in 1963, a talented squad sat in the Bernabéu watching Spain's training session. After 10 minutes they were looking at each other in disbelief and ruefully muttering expletives.

The target of their cursing was a move being practised by Juventus's Luis del Sol, who hit five corners in succession with the outside of his foot. Each cross was met by Real Madrid's great winger Francisco Gento, who ran into the box as fast as the Road Runner, dived forward, executed a perfect hand-spring and belted the ball past the goalkeeper with both his heels. They knew the Scotland players were watching and put on a show of such discipline, skill and arrogance that the Scots assumed, according to Frank McLintock, that it was "largely to make us crap our pants".

An hour before kick-off the following day, both teams were milling around on the pitch when Jim Baxter decided to show them not all British footballers were clod-kicking mugs. "We all knew Dave Mackay's party piece," says McLintock, "and Baxter decided now was the right time to unveil it. Jim called over to his injured captain and shouted, 'Hey Marquis, see if you can catch this!'"

With that he tossed a coin 15 feet up in the air and Mackay thrust out his right leg, bent at the knee, and caught the coin on his toe. He stood there for a second then flipped it back up in the air, caught it on his forehead, knocked it back up and caught it in his left eye socket then rolled it down his shoulder into his open blazer pocket and waltzed off back to the dressing room to thunderous applause. Scotland won the match 6-2, a victory put down to Mackay's ability to fight Spain's psychological warfare in kind".

• Rob Bagchi
  

Sam Simon, who wrote for Taxi, Cheers and Garry Shandling, developed the Simpsons, and gave most of his $100m fortune away to animal rights and other charities. RIP, thanks for so many laughs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31858156

Terry Pratchett. RIP.

Indeed. Not a serial RIPer, but this makes me genuinely sad.

May Offler take care of his soul.

Oh shit, im genuinely gutted.

RlP Terry Pratchett, you've given me many fond memories

My favourite author of all time. Part of me always hoped he'd live forever and the books would never end.
RIP old chap

Fuck. That's poignant, that.

RIP

I'm sure he will have had a wry smile at planning that. Had me greeting (crying) like a baby!

Genuinely saddened and welling up. Every year there were a few constants in life that always made you happy - a Beano annual, a Ramones LP, a Discworld book. One by one, they all go away.

First Graham (my dog) in '85, then Strummer, now Pratchett.
Sad news, but good for him that his suffering wasn't unnecessarily prolonged.

Farewell Daevid Allan:

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/13/gong-founder-daevid-allen-has-died-aged-77?CMP=share_btn_fb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0AhjPHGbLU

Ah, that's a shame. I have psychedelic memories of watching them perform on Valentines evening in Nottingham in the early '90's. I can still picture him speaking 'Poet for Sale' ... quite incredible.

Whats happened to "Sebron Autostores" in New Cross?
on the website it says
"Due to unforeseen circumstances we have ceased trading".
I loved that shop.!

According to twitter, forced into administration, closed in December.