Comedy legend Jimmy Cricket has died aged 80 after a short illness, his family announced, revealing the And There's More star was still telling jokes to NHS staff in his final hours.
The Northern Irish comedian, born in Cookstown, County Tyrone, in 1945, became one of Britain's most recognisable family entertainers in the 1970s and 1980s through his clean stand-up, his ITV series And There's More and his unmistakable stage costume of battered bowler hat, tails, rolled-up trousers and wellington boots marked 'R' and 'L'.
