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Musician describes Island meeting with Dad's Army star

Former Manx resident Rick Wakeman has described how he first met Dad’s Army star Ian Lavender in an Island hotel.

The musician gave a reading at Lavender’s funeral in Suffolk this week after the actor died last month.

Wakeman says he met Lavender – who played Private Pike - in a bar on the Isle of Man in 1988.

He’s now revealed after the two got chatting, they became and remained best friends afterwards.

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