Ironically, it’s World Happiness Day and the widow of the great comedian Sir Ken Dodd is chuckling as she sits in the library ...

Yet Dodd's track - which topped the UK singles chart for five weeks and was the biggest-selling single of 1965 - outsold them all. "It comes as no surprise to see the Fab Four at number one ...

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Liverpudlian icon and one-liner legend Sir Kenneth ‘Ken’ Dodd spent four decades in a relationship with Lady Anne Jones, eventually entering a marriage pact just two days before the comedian ...

Would you place Ken Dodd near the top of a list of comedy greats? Most wouldn’t. A recent YouGov poll put him in a lowly 50th place (the top three were Ronnie Barker, Billy Connolly and Peter ...

From Cilla Black to Sir Ken Dodd and Brian Epstein, Merseyside is the birthplace of many famous faces and influential figures who have also been laid to rest here. These individuals helped to shape ...

The premise of this lengthy documentary – an exhibition of Ken Dodd memorabilia opening in his Liverpool hometown – is by far the least interesting thing about it. Generous praise for the way his ...

If you need a personal life-coach for the New Year, you could do worse than consider Ken Dodd. He might not be your classic inspirational thought-leader, but this is a man who made his debut in ...