An actress who featured on cult scouse soap Brookside has spoken about her "larger than life" dad who died from a rare form of dementia.
Paula Muldoon, 52, played Diana Corkhill in Brookside from 1991 to 1993 Now she is raising money for Alzheimer's Research UK, after her beloved dad, Michael, died from a rare form of the disease ten years ago.
Michael died from frontotemporal dementia, a rare form of the disease that accounts for less than one in 20 cases. He was diagnosed with the disease when he was 53, succumbing to it 11 years later.