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Jessica Wrong's abysmal miming, mad old bat Debbie's disturbing antics with a woman in a plastic mask and Chloe's even more disturbing duet with Diags.

But for most of her career she was widely considered the maddest old bat in the Tory Party - when pregnant female prisoners were being shackled to hospital beds, it was loveable old Minister of State for Prisons Widdy who was jangling the keys.

Loved the daft old bat on a repeat of Family Fortunes who, when asked by Les Dennis to name a type of berry, looked puzzled for a second before saying: "A French berry?" Take it she was a big fan of Frank Spencer.

Does this feature a mad old bat in a tattered wedding dress setting fire to herself at the end?

But films always seem toneed some old bat shuffling around in a wheelchair, so I have no plans for retirement just yet'' Dame Judi Dench, 70, right.

AFTER reading Dan O'Neill's column in Tuesday night's Echo, I wish to express my disgust at his description of Mrs Thatcher when she was Prime Minister - "Old Bat".

There was something totally graceless about the mad old bat's reaction to the judges' comments last week.

I know as an old bat I should have sympathy for Selina and others such as Dame Joan Bakewell, who accuse TV of dumping them at the first wrinkle, but the only reason Selina et al got their jobs was because they scrubbed up well.

A grumpy mad old bat. I'm not interested in the woman, I'm obsessed with Edna's `At.

That day Shirley Bassey behaved like a princess and Margaret like the self-centred old bat she so often was.

THAT old bat and ball nonsense returns to these shores for the Samsung Open which, if we are to believe the organisers, is a top-drawer competition.

Hold off celebrating because the old bat hasn't left the Square yet.

The Public Services union, NUPE, handed out 80,000 red cards to the fans of both sides and when the old bat took her seat, the stadium was a sea of red.

Last year,he joked: ``The old bat is working hard at staying on this mortal planet.She's done a bloody good job.''

THIS is Tony Shillinglaw holding an old bat kept locked away in a cupboard in the pavilion at Blackheath Bowling Club,New South Wales.