For info, I have found the UK Government wills & probate site very useful if someone has died recently. I would give you the website link but my previous attempt was censored by the Ancestry website administrator. You will be able to easily find it yourself thru a search engine.
Use the 1996 to present tab for recent deaths. Of course, they will only be listed if they have made a will and it has been probated. It can be a pain searching as you have to look at each year individually, but it does give you the actual date of death.
Another place to look for a recent death is through the change in electoral rolls. There is a website that gives you free access to these. Click on 'View Free Results' and also 'More Info' to see who is living at a property. Unfortunately I am not able to give you the website name. (You can email me at
mick.downes@live.co.uk for the missing links).
Finally you can also look for newspaper obituaries that are displayed online. There are a lot that can be found online. These are particularly useful as they give lists of relations.