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Rivals stars David Tennant, Victoria Smurfit and Danny Dyer are among the guests at the memorial for Dame Jilly Cooper at London’s Southwark Cathedral

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The author’s friends and family are expected to attend a service at Southwark Cathedral.

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Base had no idea what he was doing when he published his wonderfully weird and fiendishly difficult picture books. They became global hits anyway

Cher, Tina Knowles and the late Rob Reiner are among the finalists for the Audie Awards

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