Mr & Mrs host Batey dies
Tributes have been paid to the original Mr & Mrs game show host Derek Batey, who has died aged 84.
The television personality, who presented the show throughout the 1970s and 80s, died at a hospice near his home in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, on Sunday night following a short illness, ITV said.
Batey, who was born in Brampton in Cumbria, began his career with ITV Border, in Carlisle, when it first began in 1961 and worked there for nearly 25 years.
He also hosted the chat show Look Who’s Talking.