I remained fine for several weeks, then I had another mini-attack, feeling dizzy and out of breath while I was cutting the grass at home. Gogglebox star Pat Webb dies aged 75 following a 'long illness' as show veteran Stephen pays tribute to his.

A force of nature, he and his wife Margaret Forster set the tone of the swinging sixties with their respective novels 'Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush' and 'Georgy Girl', both of which became hugely successful films. My heart flutters every time I come back from the beach to my cottage, through the front gate, down the tiled path and into the sweet little pink-washed cottage with its lovely Regency bow window. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. ITV's Love Island All Stars faces backlash from fans over complaints about the format: 'Streaming platforms have me spoiled! We then cut inland and walked through Bembridge, which has a pretty upmarket main street, then down the hill to the Harbour View Cafe, a place we love.

Over the years I’ve interviewed lots of famous people including Noel Coward, Somerset Maugham, most of our Prime Ministers, Prince Philip – and ghosted autobiographies of Gazza, Wayne Rooney and John Prescott.

I knew I might fall ill - after all, I had a triple heart bypass op four years ago - or something simple could go wrong, like falling over, which I seem to do often these days, sometimes totally sober (how would I find a hospital or even a GP in a new town? When I tell people I drink every lunchtime, as well as in the evening, they say: 'Goodness, I couldn't drink at lunch. For 56 years, they walked, talked, travelled and swam, scribbling away in their family house with three children near Hampstead Heath.His dad was an RAF clerk, and in 1940 five-year-old Hunter and his family were uprooted from Scotland to Carlisle. I irritated her at breakfast by loudly scraping every last morsel from my muesli bowl, then wiping the bowl with my fingers and licking them.