Edna's sidekick Emily Perry dies
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Actress Emily Perry, who played Dame Edna Everage's companion Madge Allsopp, has died aged 100.
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Veteran Coronation Street actress Liz Dawn, who has played brassy loudmouth Vera Duckworth since 1974, bows out of the long-running soap opera Friday, dying in a dramatic tear-jerker after the actress asked to retire on health grounds.
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Janet Leigh, the actress best known for being hacked to death in a motel room shower in Alfred Hitchcock&#39;s 1960 classic thriller &quot;Psycho,&quot; died Oct. 3 at her Beverly Hills home.
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Dolly Parton said Monday she feels like a part of her died along with her old duet partner, Porter Wagoner. But she said she was grateful that she was able to spend a few final hours with the man who launched her career before he succumbed to cancer Sunday.
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STONEWALL, Texas  - Friends and family bade a final goodbye to Lady Bird Johnson on Sunday as she was buried next to her husband, former President Lyndon Johnson, at a cemetery on the family's Texas ranch.
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J K Rowling kills another character in the next HP novel.
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Barry Humphries, the Australian comic best known as the flamboyant Dame Edna, has been ordered by doctors to rest for six months because of complications from appendix surgery.
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Coley Wallace, who knocked out Rocky Marciano in an amateur bout and played Joe Louis in two movies has died. He was 77.
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Children&#039;s author J.K. Rowling has  revealed that at least two characters will die in the seventh  and final installment of her bestselling Harry Potter series,  but was careful not to say who.
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WINSTON-SALEM -- Mrs. Annie Mae Richardson Lewis, 87, departed this earthly life on Friday, June 15, 2007.   The funeral service is 3 p.m. Saturday, June 23, at New Jerusalem Baptist Church, 1200 N. Dunleith Avenue, with Rev. Donald Salley, officiating.   Annie, widow of Rev.
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Nellie Briles, who won two World Series titles during his 14-year career as a major league pitcher, died Sunday, the Pittsburgh Pirates said. He was 61.
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LOS ANGELES - Actress Janet Leigh, best known for her bloodcurdling in-the-shower death scene in Alfred Hitchcock&#39;s Psycho, died Sunday at her home in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Huntsville, Texas -- Governor Rick Perry has halted Wednesday night&#39;s scheduled execution of convicted killer Frances Newton of Houston.
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LAKE JACKSON, Texas - A woman has been indicted on negligent homicide charges for allegedly giving her husband a sherry enema that killed him.  Michael Warner, 58, died last May after the enema caused his blood-alcohol level to rise to .47 percent.
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Janet Leigh, who gained her greatest fame as the victim of the shocking shower murder scene in Psycho, has died at her home in Beverly Hills.
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Long-time Purcellville business and community leader Edward E. Nichols Jr. apparently killed his wife, Margaret H. Nichols, then killed himself, at their home on Nursery Avenue Friday afternoon, the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office said today. They were both 87.
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BOISE, Idaho  - A 2-year-old boy in Idaho and an   elderly woman in Maryland who both died from suspected E. coli   infections raised to three the number of deaths related to a   nationwide health scare around fresh spinach, state health   officials said on Friday.