Comedy great Ronnie Barker retired from television in 1988, aged just 59, after a glittering career with credits including Porridge, The Two Ronnies and Open All Hours. His decision to retreat ...

1/2 Ronnie Barker talks about the many characters that he has played over the years. (1997) ...

A young boy killed in the Omagh bomb was robbed of a “life full of possibilities”, his father has said. Victor Barker also ...

Mr Barker said the funeral of his son in Buncrana was “almost ... a chief constable in Sir Ronnie Flanagan who, in my view, fell well short of the mark. “The civil case has taken a great ...

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He says that his family have been let down by a poor police investigation, he says that in his view Chief Constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan fell “well short of the mark”. Mr Barker says his son was ...

He met his wife Dawn at the local youth club that we used to go to, and his dad Bill used to own a shop in East Ham, standing outside in his brown coat like Ronnie Barker in ‘Open All Hours’! “Boycey ...