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- ...e Goodies are awarded [[OBE]]s at a spectacularly waterlogged royal garden party. To distract the nation from the appalling state of the economy, the Goodie ...an [[Kenny Everett]] in a cameo as one of the candidates), but is won by a party advocating no enjoyment whatsoever, populated by shop window dummies. With10 KB (1,445 words) - 22:46, 13 March 2023
- ...nomes of Dulwich], [http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/ Television Heaven], UK.</ref> Written by [[Jimmy Perry]], the show starred [[Terry Scott]], [[Hugh ...te difficult to find anything that fitted me in that haunt of trendy young people) I wandered around as a society photographer. As the audience only heard my8 KB (1,097 words) - 15:34, 23 December 2022
- ...">{{cite web |title=Non-County Boroughs |url=http://www.electionscentre.co.uk/?page_id=3953 |website=Elections Centre |access-date=24 July 2019 |date=9 M ...hive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512044358/http://www.examiner.co.uk/travel-news/last-of-summer-wine/2000/01/01/nora-kathy-staff-86081-67682/ |a9 KB (1,251 words) - 17:31, 26 December 2022
- | birth_place = [[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]], [[UK]] Aimi MacDonald's [[Scottish people|Scottish]] father was a [[Doctor (title)|doctor]]. Her mother was English.8 KB (1,270 words) - 00:00, 27 January 2023
- ...eremy James Hardy''' (17 July 1961{{snd}}1 February 2019) was an [[English people|English]] comedian. Born and raised in [[Hampshire]], Hardy studied at the ...orn in [[Aldershot]], Hampshire,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=LxyLJJTB4%2FJ24qtD2A1HYQ&scan=1| title=Index entry|21 KB (2,984 words) - 16:38, 8 September 2024
- ...y Dawes in ''[[Salad Days (musical)|Salad Days]]'', which premiered in the UK at the [[Bristol Old Vic|Theatre Royal]] in 1954, and transferred to the [[ ...uaries/1331986/John-Warner.html|title=John Warner|website=www.telegraph.co.uk}}</ref> His first job in 1939 was at the Little Theatre in [[Bristol|Bristo10 KB (1,508 words) - 20:36, 7 February 2023
- ...and was a staunch supporter of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]], although he didn't support one-time leader [[Margaret Thatcher]], becaus ...l]] team [[West Ham United F.C.|West Ham United]].<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1966/tv3.shtml BBC - Cult - I Love Til Death Us Do Part]</12 KB (1,999 words) - 23:24, 23 February 2023
- ...se career spanned seven decades.<ref name=Obit>[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-james-ottaway-1104743.html Ottaway's obituary] ...f William Henry Ottaway, an enthusiastic amateur actor with the St Pancras People's Theatre and the Superintendent of the School of Handicrafts for Poor Boys10 KB (1,589 words) - 13:02, 14 January 2023
- ...been the Chairman of the Redcliffe Ward Chelsea [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]].<ref name=NOC>[http://www.infotextmanuscripts.org/ncropa/ncropa-misc-apri <ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1384648/Diane-Hart.html|title=Obituary: Diane Hart|newspape8 KB (1,160 words) - 16:47, 25 August 2024
- ...d Catholic.<ref name="Guardian">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/26/tony-booth-actor-campaigner-dies|title=Tony Booth, actor a ...cite book|first=Tony|last=Booth|publisher=Blake Publishing|year=1997|title=Labour of Love|isbn=978-1-85782-181-9|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.13 KB (1,884 words) - 07:53, 17 March 2023
- ...iew |url=http://www.steptoe-and-son.com/societymedia/maureencorbett2.html |people=Dave Cosgrove (presenter); Maureen Corbett (interviewee); [[Galton and Simp ...four characters in episodes between 1957 and 1960) and ''[[Police Surgeon (UK TV series)|Police Surgeon]]'' (1960). He also worked and studied [[Stanisla19 KB (2,751 words) - 00:18, 19 February 2023
- ...and early 1990s satirising the [[United Kingdom]]'s [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] government of the period. It was written by [[Laurence Mark ...y of Boothferry in East Yorkshire being renamed "[[Haltemprice and Howden (UK Parliament constituency)|Haltemprice and Howden]]"). [[Goldsborough Hall]]22 KB (3,422 words) - 14:05, 25 August 2024
- ...last-of-the-summer-wine-1|archive-date=27 September 2007|website=Icons.org.uk|access-date=15 July 2020}}</ref> The threesome of Compo, Clegg and Foggy (t ...r, a campaign group of performers linked to the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Grant |first=Linda |date=1991-05-05 |title=Politic11 KB (1,574 words) - 08:54, 13 February 2023
- ...s-says-waitress.html |access-date=24 May 2019 |work=The Telegraph|location=UK}}</ref> ...chieving this dream, yet his job frequently requires him to be pleasant to people he despises – something he severely struggles with, referring with contem17 KB (2,643 words) - 15:39, 19 February 2023
- | birth_name = Roger Anthony Pack<ref>https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?scan=1&r=188013173:7990&d=bmd_1669206295</ref> ...th_date = 16 January 2014 (age 69)<ref>https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba0da66e4</ref>24 KB (3,333 words) - 12:57, 7 February 2023
- ...ntaghost]]''.<ref name="news.bbc.co.uk">{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4052519.stm |title=Obituary: Molly Weir |date=29 Novembe ...d |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109215457/http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/specialcollections/collectionsa-z/scottishtheatrearchive/stacollec9 KB (1,227 words) - 17:19, 19 December 2022
- Justice returned to the UK in 1927, and became a [[journalist]] with [[Reuters]] in London alongside [ ...)|North Angus and Mearns constituency]] for the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] in the [[1950 United Kingdom general election|1950 general election]].<re19 KB (2,878 words) - 22:58, 10 September 2024
- ...episodes between 1968 and 1977.<ref name="Tel o">[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/9662584/Clive-Dunn.h ...|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305065225/http://www.qrh.org.uk/history4a.htm|archive-date=5 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>21 KB (3,138 words) - 00:26, 5 February 2023
- ...= ''[[w:Double Your Money|Double Your Money]]<br />[[w:Opportunity Knocks (UK TV series)|Opportunity Knocks]]'' | party =19 KB (2,899 words) - 14:38, 27 December 2022
- ...he late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the United Kingdom's Conservative Party Government of the period. It was written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran ...he cars of his [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] and [[Social Democratic Party (UK)|SDP]] opponents. However, Chief Constable Sir Malachi Jellicoe, has uncove35 KB (5,370 words) - 11:56, 10 January 2023