Milligan has last laugh from beyond the grave

EVEN in death, comic genius Spike Milligan has raised a laugh among his adoring fans.

Milligan has last laugh from beyond the grave

Two years after he died at the age of 83, relatives of the Goon Show creator have erected a headstone on his grave bearing the star’s epitaph: “I told you I was ill.”

But only those well versed in Irish will be able to read the inscriptions on the Celtic cross memorial at St Thomas’s Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex.

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