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a bitter-sweet accomplishment that ’er indoors, Penny Cole, widow of late Minder star George Cole, has completed writing a sitcom.

George, who played ‘Arfur’ Daley in the hit series, encouraged her to finish her script before his death two years ago, as he was due to appear in the show, about a group of elderly actors.

‘He’d say, “You have got to get on with this, you have got to finish it”,’ says former actress Penny, 79.

‘So he would be very pleased.’