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Benidorm Actor
Dies
Benidorm star Geoffrey Hutchings, a familiar face from stage,
TV and film for four decades, has died, aged 71.
The RADA-trained star saw his career stretch from Shakespearean theatre to a
string of popular dramas, and he was most recently seen in ITV1's Benidorm.
Hutchings' celebrated TV roles also included the acclaimed saga Our Friends
In The North, as well as Heart Of Darkness and Made In Britain.
But his work took him through a diverse range of roles, including daytime TV
dramas, popular series such as Bad Girls and last year he had a brief spell
in EastEnders.
The actor, who lived in central London, died suddenly in hospital yesterday.
His agent Roger Charteris said: "He is thought to have died from a sudden
viral infection. He was fine at lunchtime on Wednesday, but he had died by
Thursday morning."
Hutchings' latest series, the sitcom Grandma's House written by comic Simon
Amstell, is due to be screened by BBC Two this summer.
And he was due to begin filming the next series of Benidorm shortly.
July
02
2010 - waveguide.co.uk
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New Cookery
Show For Five
Jamie Oliver's company Fresh One Productions is behind a new
show for Five, with a new TV face, Fernando Peire, taking on the nation's
struggling restaurants.
Peire, the face of the glamorous celebrity eatery The Ivy for a period
spanning 20 years, has filmed a pilot episode of The Restaurant Inspector
for Five.
The hour-long programme, due to screen this autumn, will see Peire take on a
currently un-named family-run restaurant in Ramsgate.
Announcing some details of the show at a meeting of the Broadcasting Press
Guild in London, Five's channel controller Richard Woolfe said it would
focus on the customer ambience of the restaurants as well as getting the
food right.
He described Peire as 'brilliant' and 'like the kid who's been let loose in
the sweet shop. He's so excited about it'.
July
02
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Radio Presenter
Dies
Tribute was paid today to broadcaster Allan Robb, who has
died aged 49.
Born in Edinburgh, Allan began his career at Northsound Radio, in Aberdeen,
before moving on to BBC Radio 1 and then to BBC Radio Scotland.
Allan joined BBC Radio 5 Live in 1994, working on the station for 12 years,
where he presented a number of daytime news programmes – most recently
Midday News.
During his time on the station, he presented on the morning of Princess
Diana's death, captured an exclusive interview with Nelson Mandela and
presented live from Sydney on New Year's Day 2000. He also reported live
from Paris in 2005 as the announcement of the successful candidacy for
London's 2012 Olympic bid was announced.
Radio 5 Live Controller, Adrian Van Klaveren, said: "Allan had a quiet
authority and warmth to his broadcasting that listeners loved – he was a
great professonal and is a great loss to the radio industry."
Radio 5 Live breakfast presenter Nicky Campbell, who had known Allan for
over 40 years, since their first day at school aged four in their native
Edinburgh, said: "He was a great broadcaster and professional and had a
quick and agile mind, asking questions that people couldn't hide from.
"It's one of the saddest days of my life. He pointed up to Broadcasting
House and said: 'We work there for the BBC'. He never forgot that."
July
02
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