Tony Hudgell, now nine, suffered multiple injuries, organ failure and sepsis at the hands of his mother, Jody Simpson and her partner Anthony Smith when he was just six weeks old.
Time, perhaps, for Ronnie and his third wife, Sally, to take their turn on Great Canal Journeys, the Channel 4 series which once memorably starred Sir Timothy West and his wife, Prunella Scales?
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