Actor Robbie Coltrane dies aged 72

Actor Robbie Coltrane, who played Hagrid successful the Harry Potter films and for starring successful ITV detective play Cracker, has died astatine 72.

"Robbie volition astir apt beryllium champion remembered for decades to travel arsenic Hagrid... a relation which brought joyousness to children and adults alike, prompting a watercourse of instrumentality letters each week for implicit 20 years," his cause said.

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