“It’s different,” Batey noted crisply. His original ran on the ITV network for 16 years from 1972. James Derek Batey was born on August 8 1928 at Brampton, a small town in what was then ...

Mr & Mrs creator and host, Derek Batey died on Monday after falling ill while on holiday in the U.S. The 84-year old broadcaster from Brampton returned home to Blackpool, with his wife Edith ...

Batey himself became known as “Mr Border” mainly because of the passion he felt for his home county. Derek Batey was born in Brampton, Cumbria, and won a scholarship to the local grammar school.

Derek Batey's gentle presenting style turned Mr & Mrs into a long-running ratings hit Derek Batey, host of ITV gameshow Mr & Mrs in the 1970s and 1980s, has died at the age of 84, his former ...

Hundreds of people attended the funeral of former Border Television presenter Derek Batey today. Names from the world of show business, including the magician Paul Daniels, were among the mourners ...

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Genial presenter of Mr and Mrs, the long-running TV game show DEREK Batey, who has died aged 84, presented more than 500 editions of the cosy Seventies' television game show Mr and Mrs ...

"Derek was a people person ... It was a great skill which he had." Batey worked as a consultant and wrote some of the questions on the 2008 reboot of the show fronted by Fern Britton and Phillip ...

Derek Batey, who has died aged 84, once asked a contestant on Mr and Mrs to name his wife's favourite flower. "Oh Derek, that's easy," came the reply from the husband as he smiled at his wife.

Derek Batey, host of ITV gameshow Mr & Mrs in the 1970s and 1980s, has died at the age of 84, his former employers at ITV Border Television have announced. He died at a hospice near his home in ...

Derek Batey, who has died aged 84, was the host of ITV gameshow Mr & Mrs and arguably the man who did most to promote the institution of marriage in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. The quiz format ...

Tributes have been paid to the original Mr & Mrs game show host Derek Batey, who has died at the age of 84. The TV personality, who presented the show throughout the 1970s and 80s, died at a ...