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GHYLL Royd School, Pre-School and Nursery in Burley-in-Wharfedale, is delighted to have been awarded the highest inspection grade by the Independent…

Rosalind Knight, who has died aged 87, was born into a show business family and quickly made her own impression on screen in the early Carry On films. She first played the hapless, short-sighted Student Nurse Nightingale in Carry On Nurse (1959), the second in the series, seen keeping vigil over an unconscious patient and watching his drip feed with great intensity - before losing her glasses in a hospital sluice. Rosalind Knights talent for comedy was firmly recognised, and she featured in Car...

The best directors always wanted Rosalind Knight in their casts. Photograph: Simon Annand/PA In a career stretching over seven decades, the distinctive, cut-glass character actor Rosalind Knight, who has died aged 87, renewed her TV profile with younger audiences in two quirkily original comedy sitcoms: Jonathan Harvey’s Gimme Gimme Gimme (1999-2001) and Robert Popper’s Friday Night Dinner (in the second series, 2012). She dressed down and...

Rosalind Knight, stalwart of TV comedy and drama who made her name in Carry On films – obituary Getting her start as a hapless student nurse, she went on to St Trinian’s and found later fame in Gimme Gimme Gimme and Friday Night Dinner Rosalind Knight in Crown Court in 1982 Credit: ITV/Shutterstock Rosalind Knight, who has died aged 87, was born into a show business family and quickly made her own impression on screen in the early Carry On films. She first played the hapless, short-sighted ...