The Latest Breaking News from Eric Morecambe

The comedian on getting permission to be silly from Eric Morecambe, meeting the Spice Girls and how Comic Relief brings people together

The actress plays Clare Cartwright in the gritty BBC One drama

Chris Rowley, 59, from Countesthorpe, Leicestershire, broke nine ribs, fractured his spine, snapped his neck, cracked his skull, and got blood in his lungs after getting into a tangle with his pet kitten, Eric Morecambe

Betty actress Michele Dotrice has ruled out any more reunion episodes of Some Mothers Do 'Ave ' Em

It was, to paraphrase the great Eric Morecambe, a conversation containing all the right notes, if not necessarily in the right order – but I learned enough to change my mind about two long-held opinions

The star of TV’s Dead Ringers is paying tribute to Blankety Blank host Les with a show that premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe and ends in Lancashire near the home of the comedy legend

Jimmy Tarbuck has said taking Eric Morecambe's advice helped him reach the comedy heights she has enjoyed over his 60 years on stage and TV

Philip Larkin was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. He was also, among other things, a librarian at Hull University, an editor of the Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, a huge fan of Margaret Thatcher, a prodigious writer of letters, an aficionado of jazz music and…

Our parents were heroes who wanted us to fit in, but eventually I came to value my own identity, says actor and comedian Lenny Henry