Year: 2023

Kate Saunders died on Friday at the age of 62 (Picture: BBC)

Kate Saunders has died aged 62.

The award-winning writer died on Friday and her sister Louisa hailed her sibling as being ‘warm and brave’.

Kate was born in London and appeared as Rodney Trotter’s love interest in an episode of Only Fools and Horses.

On Monday, Louisa dedicated a touching tribute to her late sister on Twitter.

She wrote: ‘My sister, who we lost last Friday. The warmest, bravest, most generous and most brilliant woman I will ever know. Heaven knows how we will live without her.’

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