SHIVERING Brits are stocking up on Nora Batty-style granny tights to keep warm. The thickest leg warmers flew off the shelves during last month’s cold snap. As energy bills soar amid a cost of ...

Couple turn iconic Nora Batty cottage into replica nan's house that Last of the Summer Wine fans can book for £475 a week. Nora Batty's cottage in TV sitcom worth £100,000 in Holmfirth, ...

But tears of sorrow were shed yesterday at the death of Kathy Staff - best known as Last of the Summer Wine's Nora Batty. Kathy, 80, died in a hospice after a short illness, with husband John at ...

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.

The Nora Batty effect: how a happy wife means a happy life. Social scientists have concluded that the secret to a happy life for older men is keeping their wife happy.

So perhaps it is Nora Batty's fierce reputation, with her wrinkled stockings, hair rollers and fearsome frown that is putting people off buying the famous Holmfirth house where she lived in the ...

The actress Kathy Staff turned Nora Batty into a television icon. Over 35 years, in 29 series, she played the broom-wielding, humourless battleaxe in the BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine. Nora ...

FRIENDS and co-stars were last night mourning the death of Kathy Staff, the actress who played Nora Batty in the 'Last of the Summer Wine'. The 80-year-old died after an illness.

Actress Kathy Staff, who played Nora Batty in long-running BBC One sitcom Last Of The Summer Wine, has died. The 80-year-old, who was born in Dukinfield, Greater Manchester, also played cleaner Doris ...

Nora Batty. By. Mirror.co.uk. 00:00, 20 Apr 2011; Updated 10:33, 27 Jan 2012; COMPO would have loved to have got his hands on Nora Batty’s drawers – and now Last of the Summer Wine fans have a ...

The death of Kathy Staff, who played Nora Batty in Last of the Summer Wine, could herald the end of Britain's longest running comedy series, fellow actor Peter Sallis said.