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Jayasree Kabir obituary

Actor who was a celebrated figure of Bangladeshi cinema after being discovered by the Indian director Satyajit Ray

The Guardian - UK

What links Selena Gomez, James Bolam and David Jason? The Saturday quiz

From grasshopper pie and Scotch woodcock to Welsh rabbit, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

The Guardian - UK

Brigit Forsyth: Legendary Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? actress dies at 83

She is best remembered for playing the wife of Rodney Bewes' Bob in the hit show

Evening Standard

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All Creatures drops huge hint major character isn't in new series

All Creatures is returning for a fourth series but apparently without a big star of the show

WhatToWatch

Then and Now: A famous Newcastle scene from TV's Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?

The title sequence of 1973's Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? showed different areas of Newcastle, including this one, under transformation - but how does the location look 50 years later?

Chronicle Live

Sanditon Season 3: The New Cast Members And Where You've Seen Them Before

Here's where you may have seen the new Sanditon Season 3 cast members before!

Cinemablend

Then and Now: The Newcastle street where TV Likely Lad Terry Collier took his driving test

Fifty years after Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? first appeared on television, we've been revisiting some of the Tyneside and Northumberland outdoor locations that appeared in the show

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Greater Manchester Police hope 'New Tricks' cops will boost crimefighting

"The returning officers have a wide range of skills that are exactly what GMP is looking for."

Manchester Evening News

Where was this Tyneside location from TV's Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?

Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? was first broadcast during 1973 and 1974 and featured locations filmed around Tyneside - including this one for a well-known episode called The Great Race

Chronicle Live

50 years of a North East television classic - Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?

At 8.30pm on Tuesday, January 9, 1973, BBC1 unveiled a new comedy series set on Tyneside called Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? It would be a huge success

Chronicle Live

A TV Likely Lad standing on Newcastle United's Gallowgate End terraces

Fifty years ago, actor Rodney Bewes and writer Ian La Frenais toured Tyneside looking for possible outside locations - including St James' Park - for a new TV sitcom, Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?

Chronicle Live

Amanda Redman says Dennis Waterman's death from lung cancer 'knocked her sideways'

Amanda Redman and Dennis Waterman had known each other for 40 years and worked on huge BBC hit drama New Tricks together for a decade

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