Del Boy

Graham McCann has written a book about the story of Only Fools and Horses, 30 years after the first episode was broadcast in 1981 cushty, luvvly-jubbly, twonk, plonker - instantly summon up the image of a loveable little chancer in a sheepskin coat called Del Boy.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Martin Chilton 2011

Sir David, who made his name as Del Boy in Only Fools And Horses, added: I shouldn't be telling you this, but when Del Boy calls Rodney a dipstick, BBC executives thought it was OK because, 'He's so tall and thin, how terribly funny,' so it slipped past.

Evening Standard - Home 2011

The actor, 71, best known as Del Boy in Only Fools And Horses, plays a Buckingham Palace security guard who is suddenly elevated to her personal bodyguard when he saves her life during the State Opening of Parliament.

Evening Standard - Home Ross Lydall 2011

Jason, 70, best known as Del Boy, pictured, in Only Fools and Horses, backed plans to axe two radio stations and halve online output.

Evening Standard - Home 2010

Chris Joyce, head of vehicle operations at Halifax Bank of Scotland, comments: For the majority of us who aren't vehicle experts, buying a used car can be fraught with problems including motor fraud and having the proverbial wool pulled over our eyes by 'Del Boy' characters.

Bag a bargain not a banger with Carsit.co.uk! Thatsnews 2007

Men About the House tonight on BBC4 soon shows signs of panic, hurriedly co-opting marginal dads (for all Reginald Perrin's comic depths or Frank Spencer's way with a rollerskate, neither conjures up instant memories of parenting skills), absent dads (Bread), dads with absent children (Marion and Geoff), and even shoehorning in "father figures", such as Del Boy,

Life and style | guardian.co.uk 2010

A documentary about British sitcom dads must have seemed a great wheeze for the BBC's Fatherhood strand, but Men About the House tonight on BBC4 soon shows signs of panic, hurriedly co-opting marginal dads (for all Reginald Perrin's comic depths or Frank Spencer's way with a rollerskate, neither conjures up instant memories of parenting skills), absent dads (Bread), dads with absent children (Marion and Geoff), and even shoehorning in "father figures", such as Del Boy, Fletch from Porridge and even Father Ted.

Who's the daddy?: the greatest sitcom fathers 2010

The Peckham literary festival sounds like a con dreamed up by Del Boy in an episode of Only Fools and Horses, but it is now a long-standing festival well, by the standards of literary festivals, largely organised by the Review bookshop in Peckham.

My favourite independent bookshop: Review, London 2011

Meanwhile, home girl Jess Flood Paddock's savvy special project is a riff on Peckam's beloved fictional son Del Boy and his notorious old banger, a Robin Reliant van.

This week's new exhibitions 2011

Now – to borrow Del Boy's tedious catchphrase in Only Fools and Horses – to visit is a case of "lovely jubbly".

Owen Coyle optimistic in face of Bolton's gloomy reality 2012