Hinge and Bracket star George Logan dies aged 78

Entertainer George Logan, one part of the the Hinge and Bracket comedy and musical act, has died at the age of 78.

He played Dr Evadne Hinge in the duo, who were well known in the 1970s and 80s with TV shows on the BBC and a radio programme on BBC Radio 2.

South Lanarkshire-born Logan launched his drag routine with Patrick Fyffe to acclaim at the 1974 Edinburgh Festival.

The pair also performed on two Royal Variety shows and appeared for royalty on more than 15 occasions.

The characters Hinge and Bracket were elderly women living in a fictional Sussex village, who spent their time reminiscing about their careers in classical music. The pair both sang, with Hinge playing along on the piano.

They appeared in the series Hinge and Bracket on BBC One from 1978 to 81, and on Dear Ladies, which ran on BBC Two in 1983 and 1984.

Fyffe, who played Dame Hilda Bracket, died at the age of 60 in 2002.

In an interview with Bent magazine in 2008, Logan was asked if he and Fyffe felt like pioneers with their drag act.

"I don't think we did," he said. "We thought we'd come up with a fairly original idea at the time… and were just out to have a bit of fun. I think we were sort of basing our characters on the likes of Joyce Grenfell, Margaret Rutherford… a sort of typical, if strange, rural, old English village life."

In 2015, he wrote about his experiences of growing up as an openly gay man in 1960s Glasgow in his book A Boy Called Audrey.

Broadcaster and writer Gyles Brandreth, who scripted the comedy duo's Dear Ladies series, described Logan on Twitter as "a very funny, very brilliant man - a wonderful musician & a great entertainer".

Fellow broadcaster and former newsreader Jan Leeming also tweeted her condolences, adding that Logan was "incredibly funny".

Logan's death was confirmed by his family on Sunday.