‘Just thinking about Ernie makes me smile’

For TV comedy queen Denise Drysdale, the passing of her great mate Ernie Sigley following a battle with Alzheimer’s disease is a bittersweet mix of sadness and relief.

“The Ernie I knew would have hated being in a nursing home, his mind stripped of precious memories of his cherished family – his wife Glenys and their four kids [Matthew, Guy, David, and Emma], his friends and of a life lived large,”