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Summer Wine guest for ball

ORGANISERS of The Kirkwood Hospice Ball are pictured getting in Last Of The Summer Wine mood.

Martin Duckett, Gay Bowie, Joanne Gledhill and Brian Duckett

The ball next month will feature Roy Clarke, writer of the Holmfirth-based BBC television comedy, as its guest speaker.

Gay Bowie (second left), a helper at the Dalton hospice, prepares to pour champagne outside Sid's Café in Holmfirth with colleague Joanne Gledhill and ball sponsors Martin (left) and Brian Duckett, of Holmfirth Dyers.

The ball is on Saturday March 15 at the Cedar Court Hotel, Ainley Top.

It includes a four-course dinner, live singer and disco.

Tickets cost £26 and can be bought by ringing the hospice on 01484 557911.

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