R.I.P.

Eric Sykes - comedian, actor, script-writer and, as far as one could see, a thoroughly nice bloke.  His sitcom performances were all the more remarkable when you realise that for most of his life he was virtually stone deaf and only managed by lip-reading what the other actors were saying.  I loved his self-deprecating joke - "For twenty-five years I never heard a laugh.  Then I got these (indicating his specs which in fact concealed a deaf aid) and realised -  I wasn't getting any!"  We shall miss you.