The following ‘celebrities’ have died this year, but haven’t got the required UK obituary as far as we can see, so no points have been awarded as yet.
Please let us know if you spot an obit for one of these people (or even just a passing mention of their death) in a British national news source as accepted below.
- BBC*:
bbc.co.uk/news (and all subsections, including the previously banned local news pages)
bbc.co.uk/sport - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qpmv (Last Word, the death must be written down)
bbc.co.uk/newsbeat - And from the UK versions of the following:
- telegraph.co.uk
- thetimes.co.uk
- ft.com
- theguardian.com
- dailymail.co.uk
- express.co.uk
- dailystar.co.uk
- thesun.co.uk
- mirror.co.uk
- morningstaronline.co.uk
- inews.co.uk
- heraldscotland.com
- dailyrecord.co.uk
- This includes the Sunday and Scottish editions of all of the above ie The Scottish Sun, Mail on Sunday, etc.
(As of 1/1/2018, the death announcements section of broadsheet websites, which members of the general public can pay for listings, are excluded)
…and from these news sites:
- uk.reuters.com
- news.sky.com/uk
- skysports.com
- itv.com/news* (this includes local news pages, and STV/UTV)
- channel4.com/news
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uk.news.yahoo.com (must be a UK link)
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www.pressreader.com/uk if it can be used to prove the existence of a print obituary in any of the sources mentioned above.
The notice of death must be in written English. Video links are only accepted if the strapline mentions the celeb’s passing.
| Name | Date of Death |
| Mahmood Faizi al-Hazaa | 2015 (!) |
| Stanley Sopel | 2007 (oh dear oh dear) |
| Loongkoonan | 2018 |
| Iris Westman | 3rd January 2021 |
| Alan Burgess | 5th January 2021 |
| Kathy Shaidle | 9th January 2021 |
| Ezra Nawi | 9th January 2021 |
| Barry Marshall | 14th January 2021 |
| Sinclair Hood | 18th January 2021 |
| Leslie Brown | 28th January 2021 |
| Sadiq Daba | 3rd March 2021 |