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Patrick Murray, beloved for his role as Mickey Pearce in Only Fools and Horses, has died aged 68 after a long battle with cancer, leaving fans and colleagues mourning a true British comedy legend.

Murray played the dim-witted Mickey Pearce on the BBC comedy alongside David Jason’s Del Boy and Nicholas Lyndhurst’s Rodney Trotter.

Paloma Shemirani, 23, died after refusing chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma despite doctors’ concerns

Cambridge graduate Paloma Shemirani died after refusing cancer treatment and following her conspiracy theorist mother’s ‘alternative’ treatment plan.

Kate Shemirani’s conduct of care towards daughter Paloma described as ‘incomprehensible’ by a coroner

The adage goes “like mother like daughter,” and in the case of Irene Joliot-Curie, truer words were never spoken. She was the daughter of two Nobel Prize laureates, Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, and was herself awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1935 together with her husband, Frederic Joliot.

Tributes are pouring in for Murray, best known as Mickey Pearce in the hit BBC comedy, after his death was confirmed in a statement shared with fans

The Proof of Concept fund is providing £2.95 million to 18 university projects to help develop them into commercial endeavours.

Triple H and Stephanie McMahon joined Donald Trump at the White House for a paediatric cancer initiative — but WWE fans weren't impressed. Discover what sparked the outrage.

The MP for West Lancashire, Ashley Dalton, who is working on Labour’s national cancer plan, was diagnosed with incurable metastatic breast cancer last summer

LIFE STORIES: James Richards was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2023 aged 36. After finding that so much of the support is geared towards women, he launched Moobs in 2023, the UK’s first dedicated male breast cancer organisation, to raise awareness and help men with the disease. He tells Charlotte…