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Statue of Victoria Wood to be erected in her hometown

The public will be asked to vote on two designs and it's hoped to unveil the statue in Bury by next June.

Victoria Wood's brother calls for permanent statue

The brother of the late Prestwich comedian Victoria Wood says a permanent statue of the star should be built in her home town.

Rated or dated: Pat and Margaret

The truly tragic death of Victoria Wood earlier this year prompted Alison Carr to rewatch lots of her work. Would TV film Pat and Margaret still delight the way it did in 1994?

Victoria Wood was denied an OBE four times

Although Victoria Wood thrilled millions of fans with her gentle humour, she was denied an OBE on four separate occasions.

New exhibit shows archive pictures of BBC comedians

Compton Verney exhibition charts 60 years of comedy, from Hancock's Half Hour to Miranda Hart.

Victoria Wood tribute at Manchester station draws fans

Victoria Station briefly became Victoria Wood Station as hundreds of fans celebrated the comedian's life and career.

Station renamed 'Victoria Wood Station' for charity

Manchester's Victoria station is to be renamed 'Victoria Wood Station' for one hour to celebrate the late comedian's memory and raise money for one of her favourite charities.

Although most of Victoria Wood's work since 1985 had been for the BBC - including her sketch series As Seen on TV and the sitcom dinnerladies - she fell out with the corporation in 2009 when her seasonal specal, All the Trimmings, commissioned for Christmas Day, was dumped in a lesser slot without consultation.

Possibly because of this, only ITV was able to gain access to the writer-comedian's closest colleagues - including Julie Walters, Duncan Preston and Celia Imrie - for Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood. There was also a suspicion that, in relation, the BBC might have been mean about releasing clips: there was so little material from dinnerladies and As Seen on TV that the opening titles had to be used as illustration.

Despite smart use of DVDs of stage shows and clps from a 1996 South Bank Show, the talking heads between the extracts adopted the now standard TV obit-show tone of rave about the person in the grave. James Corden explained that "she just made a lot of people laugh". Sir Lenny Henry averred that "she was just brilliant", while Jim Broadbent siad: "You just think, God, what a special person!'"

Attention was rightly paid to Wood's epic comic song, The Ballard of Barry and Freda. But, rather than reference to its double internal rhymes or climactic triple rhymes or the comic effect of domestic detail (lagging, grouting, flameproof nightie), we got a string of celebs calling the song "brilliant" and David Threlfall[/o] declaring: "Is there no end to this woman's talent?" Well, sadly, Dave, yes, there was, which is why an ITV crew is in your dressing room.

Laughing and crying in equal measures

Comedy fans were left reaching for the tissues as they laughed and cried their way through a TV tribute to Victoria Wood.

Victoria Wood is remembered with a touching tribute

For those fans of Victoria Wood watching at home, we couldn't have asked for a better or more touching tribute.