A big happy 70th birthday to one of Tyneside's favourite sons, Tim Healy.
Born in Benwell, Newcastle, on January 29, 1952, and brought up in Chester-le-Street, the actor has enjoyed a successful stage and TV career stretching back five decades.
A young Tim paid his dues with the Live Theatre Company, and performed around the workingmen's clubs of Tyneside in a comedy duo and as a solo comic, before landing a role in A Captain's Tale (1982), a TV dramatisation of West Auckland FC's two 'world cup' wins in the early 1900s.
