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Ken Dodd raises the roof as curtain goes up at new Floral Pavilion Theatre

Dec 17 2008 by Lorna Hughes, Birkenhead News

THE Squire of Knotty Ash took to the stage of the new Floral Pavilion on Saturday night for a tattyfilarious show.

Around 400 invited guests gathered in the New Brighton theatre to see Ken Dodd fulfil his pledge to be the first act to grace the new stage after the Floral’s multi-million pound revamp.

And his jokes at the expense of many of Wirral Council’s guests - about proposals to close libraries across the borough - gained some of the loudest laughs of the night.

Before the show architects, developers and council workers took applause for their work in seeing through the redevelopment.

l Read a full review of Ken Dodd at the Floral Pavilion on our website, www.wirralnews.co.uk

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