Letter: Eddie Braben on the unveiling of a seaside statue with a difference

Eddie Braben was on the prom in July 1999 when the Queen unveiled a statue of local son Eric Morecambe in the Lancashire seaside town whose name he borrowed. It was a day of total warmth and affection and Braben caught the mood with the kind of precision that characterised his scripts for Eric and Ern. "You see statues to people on horseback with swords or rifles, people who killed people," he said. "Here's one being unveiled of a man who made people laugh. That to me is a wonderful thing to see."