(" I'll never forget him ," said Morecambe.

Morecambe said he would hate to die like that.

: One shark turned to the other to say he was fed up chasing tuna and the other said, ' Why don't we go to Morecambe Bay and get some Chinese?

Michael Howard, leader of the Conservatives, said in a statement: " Ann Winterton's remarks about the tragic deaths in Morecambe Bay were completely unacceptable.

Edmonds was said to be very critical of Lancaster City Council's management of the Morecambe park.

It must be said that there would be some who remembered the use of steam motor carriages from the Morecambe and Heysham Railway at the beginning of the century, and steam railmotors from the Yarmouth and North Norfolk Railway.

Powell made a speech in Morecambe on 11 October 1968 on the economy, setting out alternative, radical free-market policies that would later be called the ' Morecambe Budget '.

In reality, O ' Connor was a close friend of both Morecambe and Wise and would meet them in later years to devise jokes about himself.

" A few moments later, Morecambe collapsed with a third heart attack.

In the later and most successful part of their career, which spanned the 1970s, they were joined behind the scenes by Eddie Braben, a script writer who generated almost all their material ( Morecambe and Wise were also sometimes credited as supplying " additional material ") and defined what is now thought of as typical Morecambe and Wise humour.

The ruined chapel at Heysham, overlooking Morecambe Bay, may be somewhat later in date.

Some historic rides from other parks have already been donated to the Dreamland Trust for installation at Dreamland, the majority of unique old rides from Pleasureland Southport were donated which include the 1940s Caterpillar ride, King Solomon's Mines wooden roller-coaster ( formerly of Frontierland, Morecambe and later moved to Pleasureland Southport ), workings from the Ghost Train and River Caves, the Hall of Mirrors, Mistral, Haunted Swing and the Skyride ( Chairlift ride ).

Ball later appeared on the BBC Television's highly rated review of the sixties music scene Pop Go The Sixties, performing " Midnight In Moscow " with his Jazzmen on the show broadcast on BBC 1, on January 1, 1970, and his continued success was aided by guest appearances on every edition of the first six series of the BBC's Morecambe and Wise Show.

The railway and harbour on Morecambe Bay led to the development of a settlement around them which absorbed Poulton-le-Sands, and later Bare and Torrisholme, and which eventually adopted the name of Morecambe.

He kept a clean sheet on his debut a day later at Morecambe, and continued to play until the end of the 2006 – 07 season, when he was named Burton's Player of the Season.

He was used in his former striker's role later in the season, and scored his sixth league goal in a 1 – 0 victory over Morecambe on 5 April 2008.

The later comedy team Morecambe and Wise, who often expressed their admiration for Flanagan and Allen, recorded a tribute album, Morecambe and Wise Sing Flanagan and Allen ( Phillips 6382 095 ), in which they performed some of the earlier team's more popular songs in their own style, without attempting to imitate the originals.

In 2005 Langeveldt was Morecambe Cricket Club's professional player ; he later returned to the Northern Premier League for the 2007 season with Netherfield Cricket Club.

Shortly after becoming a director of Luton, Morecambe briefly grew a rather sparse moustache of only about two dozen hairs, which he explained to his fans was " a football moustache: eleven a side !".

* Kenilworth Road Stadium, the home of Luton Town F. C., has a suite named after Morecambe ; he was a vociferous supporter and one-time president of the club and voiced his enthusiasm on the television, often shouting Luton For The Cup!

* Eric Morecambe, comedian, lived in Harpenden, close to his beloved Luton Town FC.

2000 – 01: Chester City, Doncaster Rovers, Dover Athletic, Hereford United, Morecambe, Rushden & Diamonds, Scarborough, Yeovil Town

2002 – 03: Chester City, Dagenham & Redbridge, Doncaster Rovers, Halifax Town, Hereford United, Leigh RMI, Morecambe, Scarborough, Southport, Stevenage Borough, Woking, Yeovil Town

2003 – 04: Barnet, Chester City, Dagenham & Redbridge, Exeter City, Forest Green Rovers, Halifax Town, Hereford United, Morecambe, Scarborough, Shewsbury Town, Stevenage Borough, Telford United

2004 – 05: Accrington Stanley, Aldershot Town, Barnet, Carlisle United, Dagenham & Redbridge, Exeter City, Hereford United, Morecambe, Scarborough, Stevenage Borough, Woking, York City

2005 – 06: Accrington Stanley, Aldershot Town, Cambridge United, Crawley Town, Dagenham & Redbridge, Exeter City, Halifax Town, Hereford United, Kidderminster Harriers, Morecambe, Stevenage Borough, Woking

Midway during the 2007 / 08 season, speculation linked Drummond with a move back to Morecambe, and in January 2008, it was announced that Morecambe had re-signed Drummond from Shrewsbury Town for a fee of £ 15, 000

Eschewing the alternative comedy style prevalent at the time, both versions of the show were indebted to early ' 70s comedians such as Dick Emery and Morecambe and Wise.

were relocated, the latter as far as Morecambe.

Early episodes saw Hills and Green writing for the comedians as if Morecambe and Wise were alter egos of the writers.

Morecambe and Wise were not bound to participate in the strike.

Morecambe and Wise were very popular in Blackpool, and while starring in Show Time, at the North Pier in Blackpool in 1963, Eric's portrait was sculpted by Victor Heyfron, MA.

In 1968, as a result of problems with contract negotiations with Lew Grade ( they were not offered enough money or allowed to continue making their shows in colour ), Morecambe and Wise left ATV to return to the BBC.

In one diary entry from 17 August 1967, when Morecambe and Wise were appearing in Great Yarmouth as part of a summer season, Morecambe noted, " I have a slight pain on the left side around my heart.

Morecambe had complained of pains in his right arm from the beginning of the week but thought little of it, thinking the pains were perhaps tennis elbow or rheumatism.

Morecambe and Wise were in Barbados at the time and learned of their writers ' departure only from the steward on the plane.

Morecambe and Wise became so popular that their annual BBC Christmas shows were almost mandatory viewing in the United Kingdom from 1968 to 1977.

Morecambe and Wise worked on their much-desired film, a television movie in 1983, Night Train to Murder, with which both were unhappy: recorded on videotape using the new medium of lightweight ENG cameras instead of 16mm or 35mm film, they felt it looked " cheap ".

Notable performers who rose through the twentieth century music hall circuit were Morecambe and Wise, Arthur Askey, Ken Dodd and Max Miller, who was considered to be the quintessential music-hall comedian.

* The troupe were given one of the top accolades on British TV in 1975 when they were asked to perform alongside Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise on their BBC1 Christmas Day TV Show, one of the most popular TV shows in the UK.

Sequences at Sheffield Park were shot at night with Morecambe pushing Wise through the ticket barrier on a porter's trolley and of loco 75027 in steam.

Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, usually referred to as Morecambe and Wise, or Eric and Ernie, were a British comic double act, working in variety, radio, film and most successfully in television.

Morecambe and Wise's partnership began in 1941 when they were each booked separately to appear in Jack Hylton's revue, Youth Takes a Bow at the Nottingham Empire Theatre.

Together Morecambe, Wise and Braben were known as " The Golden Triangle ".

Previn's schedule was extremely tight, and Morecambe and Wise were worried that he had very little time to rehearse, but the final result was described by their biographer as " probably their finest moment ".