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A veteran actor best known for a role in Doctor Who has sadly passed away aged 86 after battling illness.

This is more a ‘warts and all’ account of an extensive and eventful career rather than a rose-tinted one. Gripping and delightful, this show is a hoot.

JOIN the Daily Echo on a trip back to 1987 with the help of these pictures. Although much has changed in the 34 years since the photographs were taken, many of the locations are instantly recognisable. _______________________________________________________________ Regent Centre, Christchurch The cinema first opened in 1931 and is renowned as one of the finest examples of an early 1930s picture house. The Regent opened on Boxing Day with a showing of The Taming of the Shrew starring Mar...

Last modified on Wed 10 Mar 2021 10.34 EST Trevor Peacock, the actor and songwriter, who has died aged 89 after suffering from dementia, was best known and much loved for his endearing performance as a bumbling parish councillor, Jim Trott, in The Vicar of Dibley (1994-2007), one of a delightful gallery of village worthies circling, and answering to, Dawn French’s enthusiastic parish priest. Jim’s particular dimness was manifest in an acute inability to say what he meant, prefacing a “Yes...

The curse of Steptoe and Son: how the sitcom ruined its star’s career John Gielgud praised his Richard II for Joan Littlewood, so why did Harry H Corbett end his days in panto? Theres only one role to blame 7 February 2021 • 12:00pm Harry H Corbett, pictured here with Wilfrid Brambell in Steptoe and Son, was stuck with the role for 14 years Credit: Mike Lawn/Getty Harry H Corbett – he of the lustreless, big red-rimmed eyes; “the hulking figure in the tatty overcoat and turned-down gumb...

Former Diss Express editor Kay Hunter dies after contracting coronavirus  | Updated: 10:35, 26 January 2021 Tributes have been paid to former Diss Express editor Kay Hunter, who died last week after being diagnosed with Covid-19. Mrs Hunter was admitted to Norwich University Hospital on New Year’s Eve after a fall at home. After being diagnosed with the virus, she died last Wednesday. She was 92. She leaves a lasting and tangible legacy in Diss, both with her work at the newspaper and va...

Joan wears cape and gloves, Eliza Jane Howell. Earrings, Merola London. Dress, Deadly Is The Female She’s a legend, icon and our most enduring movie star of all time. As JOAN COLLINS celebrates 70 years in the business, her best friend Piers Morgan joins her for lunch. And, from sex (‘two times a day is too much, dahling’) to rich men (‘mean and selfish’), nothing is off limits…   Dame Joan Collins elegantly speared a large piece of sea bass at Club 55, our mutual favourite St Tr...