Milligan gets last laugh on grave

Comedy legend Spike Milligan has finally got the last laugh, more than two years after his death.

It follows an agreement with the local diocese over the wording on the headstone of his grave at St Thomas’s Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex.

Relatives of the former Goon have now decided that it can bear the star’s epitaph: “I told you I was ill.”

However, the inscription had to be written in Gaelic in order for it to be approved by the Chichester Diocese.
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