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  The Telegraph

  Seven Worlds, One Planet: Europe recap: an overly ambitious hamster was the comic relief in another awe-inspiring episode

  It’s been a good week for Sir David Attenborough, who received yet another award to put alongside his knighthood and 32 honorary degrees.

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  PA Media: UK News

  Comedian Freddie Starr remembered as funeral takes place in Merseyside

  The entertainer, who died in Spain at the age of 76, became a household name in the 1970s.

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  Evening Standard

  Freddie Starr laid to rest in a coffin engraved with 'Return to Sender' in Merseyside funeral

  Mourners remembered the late comedian Freddie Starr as he was laid to rest in Merseyside on Thursday. The comedian, who died aged 76 last month, was remembered in a service at Prescot Parish Church, weeks after his death. Elvis Presley track Don't played as the coffin was carried into the church.

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  PA Media: UK News

  Funeral for comedian Freddie Starr to be held

  Fans, family and friends are expected to attend the service at Prescot Parish Church.

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  Lifestyle

  The Independent

  Freddie Pring: 20-year-old man dies in fall from Magaluf hotel balcony

  Tributes have poured in for a young rugby player who fell to his death from a hotel balcony while holidaying with friends.Freddie Pring, 20, was found at about 3am on Friday morning in Magaluf, on the Spanish island of Majorca, but sadly later died at the scene.

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  Entertainment

  Yahoo Celebrity UK

  Freddie Starr’s widow on ‘hellish’ marriage, and how comedian's abuse left her suicidal

  Sophie Lea married Starr in 2013, but was estranged from her husband at the time of his death.

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  AOL.com

  Freddie Starr's sister claims groping accusations led to the comedian's death

  Freddie Starr's sister Brenda Hughes has claimed that the comedian 'never properly recovered' after he was faced with a police investigation into claims he groped a teenager in the '70s.Starr was released without charge and he sued his accuser, but his life took a downward spiral after he lost the case.The comedian was found dead in his home in Spain last week at the age of 76 after suffering a heart attack.Speaking to The Sun, Hughes has now revealed that the scandal had a "big impact on him bo

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  Lifestyle

  The Independent

  Being an ‘unpredictable’ comic like Freddie Starr is a privilege enjoyed only by men. It’s run its course

  There is a word often used to describe comedians (usually of the male persuasion) that immediately makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. The word is “unpredictable”, and it makes me anxious.Freddie Starr, the comedian who died last week at the age of 76 and was found by his carer either slumped in front of the telly or naked, on the floor, depending on which paper you read, was frequently labeled “unpredictable”. So too, was Michael Barrymore and a number of lesser known comics – some

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  Celebrity

  Yahoo Celebrity UK

  Freddie Starr's daughter 'embarrassed' he is her father

  Tara Coleman-Starr ‘embarrassed’ to be Freddie Starr’s daughter, and claims she won’t grieve for the late comic, who died last week.

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  Yahoo Celebrity UK

  Owner of pet involved in the infamous ‘Freddie Starr ate my hamster’ headline has revealed what really happened

  The Sun story from 1986 is one of the most famous tabloid headlines of all time, cementing Starr’s reputation as an unpredictably wild comedian.

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