Trueman

The character, played by Paul Bradley, appeared at a community centre where Yolande Trueman, played by Angela Wynter, was volunteering during the episode.

I feel like the bridge between a bygone age of Brian Johnston and Fred Trueman, to a new era involving the likes of Steven Finn and Alex Hartley.

In Manchester in 1952, they were dismissed twice on the same day – for 58 and 82 – as Fred Trueman and Alec Bedser ran through the side.

The writer of the cartoon series Danger Mouse Brian Trueman has died, his son has announced.

Posting on Facebook, his son Jonathan Trueman said his Manchester-born father had died in hospital on Sunday evening after a short illness at the age of 92.