Dale Meeks, actor best known as the fishmonger Simon in Emmerdale – obituary

• Dale Meeks, who has died of heart failure aged 48, was an actor who made his name in Byker Grove and then Emmerdale, and had recently been seen in the real-life ITV crime drama The Hunt for Raoul Moat as the killer’s friend who tells a police inspector: “He said you coppers done him in. He’s coming for you.”