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Casualty review: This long-running show won't be the same without Charlie Fairhead, Holby City's great survivor, writes ROLAND WHITE
You'd think the scriptwriters were trying to get rid of him, but somehow he always managed to spring free: until Saturday, that is, when he officially bowed out.
Back then, Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister, Berlin was still divided, and the UK and France announced an exciting project to put a tunnel under the Channel. Senior charge nurse Charlie Fairhead (Derek Thompson) left viewers in tears as he finally departed the fictional Holby City Hospital As Charlie lay in a coma and his colleagues battled to save his life a flashback was shown of his early career as he dealt with the tragic aftermath of a nail bomb in 1980s London
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