Comedy duo are back and coming

HAVE we got news for you! BAFTA award winners Armstrong and Miller are set to cause comedy mayhem in Grimsby.

Following the resounding success of their BBC One TV show, Ben Miller and Alexander Armstrong are bringing their new live show to the Grimsby Auditorium.

With their usual mix of the beautifully observed and the utterly barmy, the pair will be performing a parade of characters from their extensive dressing-up box and wig-store including the street- talking Second World War chav pilots Brabbins and Fyffe, the filthy alter-egos of Flanders and Swann, Jilted Jim, dumped at the altar but still on his honeymoon, Terry Devlin, mlb jerseys wholesale the royal correspondent who really knows the royals; Dennis Lincoln-Park, the accident- prone culture buff and the Frank Dad.

Miller said: "We are cock-a-hoop to be stepping out on tour in autumn 2010.

"Expect all your favourite Armstrong and Miller characters and sketches in a market-fresh brand spanking new show."

Alexander, a Northumberland native, studied at Trinity College in Cambridge and met Ben when he went along with friends to the TBA Sketch Comedy Club in Notting Hill.

London-born Ben attended St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and later studied a PhD, during which time he acted in more than 30 university plays, and was a member of the Cambridge Footlights.

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The Armstrong and Miller double-act was later formed and early on established a style of its own, based on the idea that the two both fancied themselves to be actors and so loved nothing more than lavishing all their acting-ness on rather slight comic conceits.

This pretty much remains their schtick even today.

When Ben and Alexander took a sabbatical from their comedy capers after their Channel Four run, Alexander branched into sit-com and straight-ish acting in Life Begins alongside Caroline Quentin. He also found himself in the hosting trousers of a number of TV shows, including Have I Got News For You. At this point Ben focused on his other passion - film, with parts in The Actors, Jimmy Grimble, The Parole Officer, Johnny English and The Prince and Me, before rejoining forces with Alexander.

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Don't miss it Catch Armstrong and Miller's new show when it comes to Grimsby Auditorium on October 7 at 8pm.

Tickets cost from Pounds 2. To book call 08448472426 or visit

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Concert will close terrible ch

As the founder of the City of Bristol Pipes and Drums band, Jimmie Mc-Queen was a familiar figure in the city for more than a decade.

In his full-dress kilt outfit, Jimmie cut a fine figure every year playing the bagpipes with the band at Bristol's Armistice Day commemoration.

Others will remember him at the moment back in 2002 when he brought The Mall at Cribbs Causeway to a standstill, playing a lament to mark the funeral of the Queen Mother.

But in February 2009, Jimmie's world was turned upside down when he suffered a rare spinal abscess.

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At first the infection made him feel sick, but within days it became clear that the abscess was threatening his life.

After complex surgery to remove it, Jimmie was left paralysed from the neck down. But over the past year, he has battled back in a remarkable recovery at the National Spinal Injuries Unit at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire. Now the 67-year-old is planning a special concert to raise money for the unit.

The event, which will be held in Clevedon later this year will, of course, feature the pipe and drum band he formed in the city more than a decade ago.

"The staff at Stoke Mandeville have been incredible," he says. "It's been a year of hell, and it would be easy to get down about it, but they don't allow that - there is a real sense of being driven forward all the time.

"The paralysis I suffered as a result of the operation was not permanent, and so I was encouraged every day to spend many hours in the specialist gym at Stoke Mandeville, to try to get my body working again.

"There are normally around 120 patients in the unit at any one time - mostly young people who have suffered motorcycle or rugby accidents.

"When you see them working to get back on track, it gives you a real push, too.

"But now I want to give something back to the unit, so it was only natural to ask my fellow band members back in Bristol to help."

Jimmie, who is currently staying with family in Stevenage, spent 12 months at the specialist unit before being released last month.

"I am now able to use a wheelchair, which is a great improvement on the kind of paralysis I went through immediately after the operation." Scotsman Jimmie - who worked as a compliance manager at HMP Ashfield in Bristol in the late 1990s - was working at an immigration centre at Heathrow Airport when he was struck down by the unusual condition.

"I was coming home to Bristol for the weekends, but staying near Heathrow all week for work," he says. "Then one morning I woke up feeling terribly sick. It didn't go away as the day went on, and by the end of the week I was having all kinds of tests to try to find out what was wrong with me.

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"It soon became clear that the operation to remove the abscess was essential, but that it would have a drastic effect on my mobility," he says. "Basically, I was unlucky, but you have to move on with your life."

Jimmie hopes the concert will prove the perfect way to close a terrible chapter of his life on a positive note.

The performance, which will take place at the Baptist Function Hall, Station Road, Clevedon, on September 18, will feature the Abertillery Orpheus Male Choir, performing alongside the City of Bristol Pipes and Drums band.

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Concert to raise cash for hosp

A CONCERT to raise money for Stoke Mandeville Hospital is being held in Clevedon.

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The concert is at the town's Baptist Church on September 18 and will feature the Abertillery Orpheus Male Choir and the City of Bristol Pipe and Drums.

Money raised from the event will go to jean courcel the hospital, where co- founder City of Bristol Pipes and Drums, Jimmie McQueen, underwent treatment after being paralysed.

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Cash from the event will also go to Rotary International's polio eradication programme. Tickets for the concert are priced at Pounds 10 and are available from Clevedon Rotary Club on 0127 587 4401 or the Rotary Club of Bristol, 0127 587 5467

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