26 Feb 09 Wendy Richard Dead at 65
Wendy Richard, whose UK Television career spanned many years, but was best known for her role as Pauline Fowler in BBC’s Eastenders, has died, this morning at the age of 65.
She was in the BBC sit-com The Newcomers from 1965 to 1969, but is more well known for her part in ‘Are You Being Served’ the 1970′s UK sitcom in which she played Miss Shirley Brahms.
She also appeared in two of the famous “Carry On’ comedies.
In 2000 she was appointed an MBE.
She was diagnosed with breast cancer in the 1990′s and again in 2002, and she died at the Harley Street Clinic, with her husband at her bedside, where she was being treated, once again, for breast cancer.
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20 Mar 08 Last Of The Summer Porridge
Brian Wilde, who played prison officer Mr Barraclough in the classic UK sitcom, Porridge, before he went onto to star as Foggy, in the 
world’s longest running sitcom ‘Last of the Summer Wine’, has died at the age of 80.
Last of the Summer Wine, has been on British TV since 1973, and Brian had joined in 1976, and with a break between 1985 and 1990, was with the show until 1997.
Porridge starred the late Ronnie Barker, and was based in a fictitious UK prison. Brian was born in Lancashire in 1927.
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