 Quick-thinking comedian whose 'northern comic' routine was a model for many standups
Norman Collier, who has died aged 87, was much loved by fellow comedians, and his apparently old-fashioned..
guardian.co.uk on March 19, 2013
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 This is Croydon --
THE country looks back to the summer of 1966 fondly.
Television was better, kids could play in the street and people could leave their front doors open.
Oh, and England won..
This is on March 19, 2013
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Actor best known as the haughty department store supervisor Captain Peacock in the TV comedy Are You Being Served?
The actor Frank Thornton, who has died aged 92, had a flair for comedy derived from..
guardian.co.uk on March 18, 2013
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 This is Hull and East Riding --
BACK in the days when Blackpool's summer season attracted the biggest stars in British comedy, the Lord Mayor used to host a lavish launch party.
"They were very..
This is on March 16, 2013
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 This is Hull and East Riding --
BACK in the days when Blackpool's summer season attracted the biggest stars in British comedy, the Lord Mayor used to host a lavish launch party.
"They were very..
This is on March 16, 2013
|  This is Hull and East Riding --
Legendary Hull comedian Norman Collier has died at the age of 87. In this profile, first published in 2009, he tells *Sue Mason* about his road to success in post-war..
This is on March 15, 2013
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 This is Somerset -- Fans of legendary Up Pompeii! star Frankie Howerd can snap up personal items from the comedian's huge collection of memorabilia including his passport – showing his terrible..
This is on February 26, 2013
| Eddie Izzard and Robert Lindsay paid their respects to late British comedy legend Eric Sykes on Monday (28Jan13) by speaking at a celebratory service...
ContactMusic on January 29, 2013
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In a move that many neighborhood councils are calling "encouraging," new federal legislation has been rushed through that requires anyone caught simply tossing a used Christmas tree on the sidewalk for..
Huffington Post on January 8, 2013
| Our profile of the film director Kathryn Bigelow and her new film Zero Dark Thirty, about the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden ("Drama queen who captured Osama", last week, page 26) referred..
guardian.co.uk on January 6, 2013
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