Nora and Compo had a 26-year unrequited love affair. After 26 years as television's most famous broom-wielding siren, Nora Batty is to leave the BBC's long-running comedy Last of the Summer Wine. The ...

Fans flock to see Nora's house at 28 Huddersfield Road. The most devoted can rent the two-bedroom terrace for s270 to s665 a month and get the Nora Batty Experience.

Nora Batty's cottage in TV sitcom worth £100,000 in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire; ... served as the home of Compo whose lust for Nora Batty was a continual theme of the show. BBC.

Kathy Staff, who played the most famous battleaxe on television, Nora Batty, has died aged 80. The actress spent more than three decades acting in comedy Last Of The Summer Wine.

A TINY cottage from a beloved 1970s sitcom has hit the market, offering fans a chance to own a piece of the show. Once one of ...

Compo is enchanted by his next-door neighbour, Nora Batty, an archetypal Northern battleaxe, played by Kathy Staff. The actress, who died aged 80 in 2008, once opened up about playing the ...

Nora was seen hanging out her washing in the first scene of the Last of the Summer Wine pilot episode in 1973, but in those early days she was simply "Mrs Batty", Compo's neighbour.

With the notable exception of Compo, Nora Batty is not used to anyone looking at her. So when her husband Wally takes an unnatural interest in those parts of her body she stands on, she is ...

David Firth finds Mongolian-style camping and 1980s Compo culture as he revisits the Pennines town which was home to Last of the Summer Wine ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Supermarket giant Tesco beat a retreat from Last of the Summer Wine country in the face of a ragtag army of ...