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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 Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. The cinema served the community for more than forty years until ...

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” with a string of stuttering “No’s”. This had landed him in deep trouble. He had, for insta...

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? There's 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 gumboots”; the faint rhotacism and a voice that was like a flame, swaying and trembling – was bor...