The Vicar of Dibley News

SMALL Pond Productions scooped the Christmas number one spot, in my opinion, with their second visit to Dibley.

TWO churches came together to celebrate Christmas with a nativity scene using real animals today.

TICKETS for Small Pond's follow-up production of the Vicar of Dibley are selling so fast that booking is advised to avoid disappointment.

A Leyland vicar believes nobody should be overlooked from God's word a ' which is why he is holding his church's first ever pet blessing this weekend.

When reviews come out for the new Twelfth Night at Stratford there's bound to be a few exclamations of "I don't believe it". With Richard Wilson heading the cast as Malvolio, tickets are also going to sell like hot cakes.

ACTOR Trevor Peacock, who played Jim Trott in TV show the Vicar of Dibley, presented the Friends of Apex Park Improvements Group in Highbridge with a certificate of outstanding achievement in the South West in Bloom Awards.

Da Vinci Code actor Alfred Molina is to star opposite Dawn French in new BBC Two comedy series Roger and Val Have Just Got In, it has been announced.

Born on October 11, 1957, Dawn French spent her early years in Holyhead, as her dad was based at RAF Valley.

Every episode of the great British comedy series, THE VICAR OF DIBLEY with Dawn French ended with the Vicar alone in a room with the not-quite-all-there Alice sharing...or often simply attempting to share...a joke.

Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, arguably Britaina TMs most celebrated female comedians, are on their first a ' and final a ' New Zealand tour, reviewer Tracey Bond was there for their opening night.

The star of The Royle Family and The Vicar of Dibley was presented with the honour by the Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Friday.

Liz Smith is probably best known for being Letty Cropley, and then for not being Letty Cropley any longer, in The Vicar of Dibley.

Actress Liz Smith goes on her first ever cruise for BBC Four's Summer Cruise. On Sunday, the Bafta-winning actress Liz Smith announced that she'd retired from acting.

Many people would be head straight for the gym if they weighed as much as Dawn French, but the comedian says that she does not worry about her size and nor does husband Lenny Henry.

Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French. Capitol Theatre, June 29 Until July 9 Reviewed by Lenny Ann Low DAWN FRENCH and Jennifer Saunders launched their double-act in 1980 in a strip-club in London's Soho.