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Roy of the Summer Wine's MBE

Television writer Roy Clarke, who penned every episode of Last Of The Summer Wine - Britain's longest-running sitcom set in the Holme Valley - was today receiving an OBE. Read

TV star Tom to open new store

ACTOR Tom Owen will cut the ribbon to open Huddersfield's new department store this week. Read

We're not old, just senior!

PENSIONERS, wrinklies, fogeys . . . what does the more mature person in Huddersfield prefer to be called? Read

Crossroads is now `too sexy' says Kathy

VETERAN actress Kathy Staff has revealed that she decided to quit Crossroads because the storylines were too sexy. Read

A Summer Wine fit for the Queen

THE Queen is a huge fan of TV comedy Last Of The Summer Wine - and that's official. Read

Walking in his father's wellies

The death of Bill Owen came as a shock to all those who had come to know him as Compo, the lovable scruff in the BBC series 'Last of the Summer Wine'. Read

Nora Batty to taste the Summer Wine again

NORA BATTY is on her way back to Last of the Summer Wine. Actress Kathy Staff, who plays wrinkled-stockinged Nora, quit the long-running BBC TV comedy series last year after 28 years in the role. Read

June to take sip of Wine

SHE'S a salsa-dancing silver surfer who drove her screen daughter Edina Monsoon to distraction in the hit show Absolutely Fabulous. Read

Stephen's a happy Smiler!

THE character is called Smiler. Read

Warren Mitchell with location and unit manager Sylvia Sutherland,

Stars of the back room

THE stars of Last Of The Summer Wine are instantly recognisable. Read

Comedy role for former television heart-throb

HE was a star in The Virgin Soldiers and Read

Bill Farr with The Last of the Summer Wine cast

Bill careers into top TV comedy

YOUNG Bill Farr has shown Last Of The Summer Wine actors a thing or two about careering down a hill on wheels. Read

An unlikely enduring Lothario

Neil Atkinson continues his series of looking behind the scenes of television's longest-running comedy series, soon to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Read

Pearl's best of friends with the other woman

IT was a scene that could have come straight from the pen of Summer Wine writer Roy Clarke. Read

Stars of comedy brought to book

THEY are now regarded as national treasures. Read

Jean's cunning move pays off

FOR many years, she was a cackling pub cleaner with curlers, a headscarf and a `muriel' at home. Read

Happiest with the director's cut

TELEVISION is a rapidly-changing medium. Read

A man with a telly vision!

IT was a show that was expected to last for three or four years at most. Read

Women are far from the weakest link

ROLE reversal is a key feature of Last Of The Summer Wine. Many of the male characters are weak, simple souls - but the women are a different matter. Read