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| Television sitcom writer Carla Lane dies, aged 87 | |
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| Television writer Carla Lane, who created shows including 1980s Liverpool sitcom Bread, has died aged 87. | Television writer Carla Lane, who created shows including 1980s Liverpool sitcom Bread, has died aged 87. |
| Lane, who was born in Liverpool and later became known for her animal rights activism, also wrote Butterflies and co-wrote The Liver Birds. | |
| Bread, which focused on the extended Boswell family, aired for seven series between 1986 and 1991. | Bread, which focused on the extended Boswell family, aired for seven series between 1986 and 1991. |
| The Liver Birds aired from 1969 to 1979 - and once again in 1996 - while Butterflies aired from 1978 to 1983. | |
| Tributes have been paid to the comedy writer on Twitter. | |
| Actress Melanie Hill, who played Aveline in Bread and starred in long-running school TV drama Waterloo Road, tweeted: "Very sad to hear #CarlaLane has left us. Writer and creator of many fantastic shows @BBCOne #bread #Aveline." | |
| Piers Morgan tweeted: "RIP Carla Lane, who made us all laugh." | |
| Lane first became known for The Liver Birds, a sitcom which focused on the lives of two women who shared a flat together in Liverpool, co-writing and creating the programme with her friend and fellow Liverpudlian Myra Taylor. | |
| Bread followed the working class Boswell family as they struggled through the city's high unemployment and poor prospects in the late 1980s. | |
| Lane later became known for looking after hundreds of rescue animals - running an animal sanctuary from her mansion in Horsted Keynes, Sussex, until 2009. |