Mr Dixon, now a retired businessman, said: "I was fascinated by the fez and just asked him straight out if I could have it." Cooper then gave him a second hat. Both hats - an iconic feature of ...

A fez owned by comedian and magician Tommy Cooper has sold at auction for £7,000 - more than twice its estimate. The hat, believed to be the last one owned by the entertainer, was one of eight ...

Fez hats were once a symbol of the Ottoman Empire. But after they were banned in Egypt in the 1950s, fez shops largely disappeared. We visited one of the last shops in Cairo, where Nasser Abd El ...

remembered the night Cooper gave him the hats. He said: "I was fascinated by the fez and just asked him straight out if I could have it. "He took [the fez] off his head and handed it to me.