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Scriptwriter Roy Clarke

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

Tom Owen

TV star Tom to open new store

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

Foggy Dewhirst

We're not old, just senior!

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

Nora Batty

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

Tom Owen

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

Make Nora Batty Queen of the Web

Help us beat the Aussies at something... Australian actress and model Sarah Jane is aiming to become the world's most downloaded woman, and on Yorkshire Day too! We are joining Radio Five Live's campaign to stop her.Read

Summer Wine `love mobile' for sale

A LARGE pink caravan featured in TV's Last Of The Summer Wine is for sale.Read

Wesley

Wine stars at Tech show

FASHION STUDENTS from Huddersfield Technical College will be showing their creations in a charity show on Friday, June 29, at 7.30pm.Read

Ron and Ruth Backhouse who are leaving the White Horse at Jackson Bridge

Pub deal a step nearer

A PUB made famous by the BBC television programme Last Of The Summer Wine could soon have a new licensee.Read

Kathy gets cast in bronze

KATHY STAFF, stalwart of Last of the Summer Wine, has been immortalised in bronze.Read

Elizabeth Sherlock

Death shock for Summer Wine crew

THE WOMAN who was killed after being run over by a pair of handbag thieves was a talented costume designer who had worked on Last of the Summer Wine.Read

BBC Last of the Summer Wine returns for another successful series, celebrating its 28th year.

A last drop of the Wine for Kathy

FANS of Last Of The Summer Wine can look forward to the start of the new series on Sunday evening.Read

Compo Simonite

Bill's 'Last of the summer wine' lyrics

By popular demand, the lyrics to the theme song.Read

Ron and Ruth Backhouse who are leaving the White Horse at Jackson Bridge

'TV pub' still up for sale

A PUB made famous by the BBC television programme Last of the Summer Wine is still on the market.Read

Kathy back on TV in Crossroads

Veteran actress Kathy Staff is casting off Nora Batty's wrinkled stockings today to return to Crossroads.Read

Nora Batty

Kathy's crossroads

LAST Of The Summer Wine star Kathy Staff has told of her heartache at leaving the UK's longest-running TV comedy programme.Read

Last of the Summer Wine star Billy Hardcastle, aka actor Keith Clifford

Summer Wine's new star

Holmfirth-based TV series Last Of The Summer Wine is back - with a new man in one of the starring roles.Read

Raymond Masson

Village tour guide is a bestseller

A reprint is on the cards after a book of village walks proved a bestseller.Read

Speech teacher on TV

AN Upperthong elocution teacher will be pulling pints in the new series of Last Of The Summer Wine.Read

Tom Owen

Summer Wine's Tom opens new day centre

A new hospice day care service has just opened in the Holme Valley. Read

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