A tight 5: May 8

A MEMORIAL is to be held to Dad’s Army actor Bill Pertwee next Wednesday. Friends and fans are welcome to the service at St Paul's Church – also known as ‘the Actor's Church’ in Covent Garden, Central London, from 2.30pm on Wednesday May 14. Pertwee, best known for playing Warden Hodges in the classic sitcom, died last May at the age of 86.

RUSSELL BRAND has accepted ‘substantial’ libel damages at London's High Court over a Sun on Sunday story which claimed he cheated on his girlfriend Jemima Khan. He has said he would be donating the unspecified damages to the Hillsborough Justice Campaign.

A NEW £40million museum is to be dedicated to the work of Charlie Chaplin. The Swiss home on the banks of Lake Geneva where the comic died in 1977, 25 years after fleeing the States when accused of being a communist sympathiser, is to be covered into the museum, which is set to open in 2016.

THE BBC has set a date for the return of Goodness Gracious Me. Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Syal and Nina Wadia will return to BBC Two for the one-off at 9pm on May 26.

COMIC and film-maker Matt Rudge is to direct a Channel 4 documentary about taxidermy with the working title Get Stuffed!

Published: 8 May 2014