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Just as Breivik's views on Islam did not deserve a hearing by the right, so the left should not use Woolwich to make its case on foreign policy A policewoman in Woolwich looks at flowers left by members of the public where the soldier Lee Rigby was killed. Comment?
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Guardian Viral Video Chart: Jimmy Kimmel, Eurovision and sad cats
This week's Viral Video Chart is guaranteed to give you a good cry - but we can offer you tears of laughter, as well as tears of sadness. Comment?
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Pier plan is given grant boost
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Plans to restore a Grade II listed pier in north Wales have been boosted with a heritage lottery grant of nearly A 600,000. The money will be used by Conwy council to develop plans to restore Victoria Pier in Colwyn Bay to its former glory. Comment?
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Almost 29 years to the day since Eric Morecambe died, I was performing in the theatre where he collapsed, the Roses in Tewkesbury. Comment?
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The modest genius who made us fall in love with Eric and Ernie, by Christopher Stevens
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Eddie Braben wrote the sketches that turned Morecambe and Wise into comedy superstars: the TV piano act with 'Andrew Preview' , the Christmas spectaculars and all those 'plays wot I wrote'. But the gag-writer, who died this week aged 82, nearly passed up the chance to work with Eric and Ernie - and they nearly rejected him. Comment?
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Thatcher and Reagan were happy to take the credit for the collapse of ...
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Comic Benny Hill died in 1992, aged 68, a year after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Comment?
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updated Teddington Studios honours Morecambe & Wise
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Teddington Studios honoured comic duo Morecambe and Wise with a blue plaque on Sunday at the location where many of their shows were filmed. Eric Morecambe's widow Joan and his daughter Gail unveiled the plaque on Sunday. Photo: Doug McKenzie. Comment?
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Tributes paid to Liverpool-born Morecambe and Wise writer Eddie Braben
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KEN Dodd led the tributes to Liverpool-born comedy writer Eddie Braben, who has died aged 82 after a short illness. Comment?
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Eric, Ernie and Eddie: Man behind the laughter dies
Comedy writer Eddie Braben, the "third man" behind the successful duo of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, died yesterday aged 82, his manager said. Comment?
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... who has died aged 82, was best known for his outstanding 14-year association with the television comedians Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise . It was thanks to him that Wise started talking about the plays "what he had wrote - sometimes 26 in one day". ... Comment?
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Eddie Braben- Morecambe and Wise Comedy Writer Dies
Comedy writer Eddie Braben, the third man behind the success of Morecambe and Wise, died today at the age of 82, his manager said. Comment?
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Mama Sidibe in action against Southend as Tony Pulis returned as manager.
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... of movement on set, but no punchline from the straight men of comedy. And until Tony Pulis can sign his Eric Morecambe, or somehow hypnotise Sammy Bangoura into believing he's actually a professional footballer and not the scarlet pimpernel, there ... Comment?
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Comedy scriptwriter Braben dies
Comedy writer Eddie Braben, the third man behind the success of Morecambe and Wise, has died at the age of 82, his manager said. Comment?
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Morecambe and Wise writer dies
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Mr Braben appeared on the recent BBC1 'My Hero' programme about Eric, hosted by Miranda Hart.the "The Morecambe and Wise Show became more important than Christmas," he said on the show. Comment?
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Eddie Braben dies: Morecambe and Wise scriptwriter dead at 82
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... North Wales, died following a short illness. 'The Golden Triangle': British comedians Ernie Wise, left, and Eric Morecambe, right, pointing to their writer Eddie Braben, centre, at the BBC Television Centre in West London in the late 1960s Ms Farnes ... Comment?
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It's testament to the unassuming Liverpudlian's writing skills that Eric and Ernie were never quite as good before they teamed up with Braben, or after Ernie Wise, left, and Eric Morecambe pointing to their writer Eddie Braben who stands between them at the BBC Television Centre The Andre Previn sketch. Comment?
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How Eddie Braben saved Morecambe and Wise's careers
The comedy duo looked uncomfortable on television until Braben came on board. But how did he turn them into comedy legends? In his memoirs The Book What I Wrote, Eddie Braben, who has died at the age of 82, reports a conversation with the Duke of Edinburgh at a showbiz event. Comment?
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Eddie Braben was Morecambe and Wise's secret weapon
The Thick of It, Veep and Peep Show writer Simon Blackwell on how the beautiful rhythms of Braben's jokes made him the comedy writer's comedy writer Eddie Braben's work for Morecambe and Wise ranks among the best and funniest of any British comic writing because in many ways it defines it. Comment?
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VIDEO: Death of Morecambe and Wise genius
He was a key member of the Morecambe and Wise team, and was credited with contributing to their huge success by introducing comic elements of their off-stage relationship into their act. Comment?
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