Roger Lloyd-Pack: Only Fools and Horses' Trigger dies aged 69

Role of dull-witted sweeper made him famous, but actor was also committed socialist and activist

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ROGER LLOYD-PACK, the actor best-known as the slow-witted road sweeper Trigger in Only Fools and Horses has died aged 69.

Well known for his "rubbery face and lugubrious delivery", Lloyd-Pack also made an impression as Owen Newitt in The Vicar of Dibley, the BBC says. His agent confirmed that he died at his home in Kentish Town in north London last night of pancreatic cancer.

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