Competition winner Candice Barker of Harwood Vale, seven, was hauled up by the ears to be introduced to TV viewers across the country on the cult Saturday morning children’s show Tiswas back in 1981.

Sally James from Tiswas and Basil Brush - both shows are to be preserved Thousands of British TV programmes are to be digitised before they are lost forever, the British Film Institute says. Anarchic ...

It was the decade that launched the careers of Ant and Dec in Byker Grove, introduced the perennially popular Pingu and made Saturday morning kids TV staple viewing. Now the 1980s has been crowned the ...

Brave workers at Branston’s Marley Building Supplies factory volunteered to be soaked, verbally assaulted and covered in custard pie in 1981. The 11 staff thought it would be a good idea to write off ...

Wendy Holden-Fenwick, who lived in Shrewsbury for many years, was also a star of stage and 70s television shows such as Tiswas, with Chris Tarrant, and Lucky Numbers, with Noel Edmunds. She was a ...

Thousands of British TV programmes are to be digitised before they are lost forever, the British Film Institute says. Anarchic children's show Tiswas and The Basil Brush Show are among the programmes ...

Thousands of British TV programmes are to be digitised before they are lost forever, the British Film Institute says. Anarchic children's show Tiswas and The Basil Brush Show are among the programmes ...