Lawks! The new Bert isn’t even a chimney sweep

DICk Van Dyke’s chimney sweep has been ‘modernised’ into a gas-lamplighter named Jack played by uS actor Lin-Manuel Miranda, right, who had voice coaching for his cockney accent. Van Dyke recently apologised for ‘the most atrocious accent in the history of cinema’, adding: ‘People in the uk ask what part of England I was meant to be from and I say a little shire in the north where most of the people were from Ohio.’