HE has won awards for his entertainment work and charity fund-raising, now Wirral-based Stan Boardman is looking forward to a couple more "extra special" medals.

One is a badge of honour he will receive for doing his National Service in Germany in the 1960s.

The other is a metaphorical "medal" – the theme of a play Stan has written.

It concerns a World War II medal bought in Birkenhead Market for £5.

The curious buyer wants to trace who it was awarded to.

Stan told me: "I respect people who put their lives on the line. I want, through the play, to raise money for Help for Heroes and the Army Benevolent Fund charities."

Stan's 90-minute drama called Medals will have a preview at Neston British Legion during early November followed by dates in Liverpool.

It has certainly been an emotional time for the star.

This week he was seen on BBC 1's Blitz Cities (see youtube) to mark 75 years since the start of the German Luftwaffe bombings.

Stan revealed how his older brother Tommy died in the devastating raid, which also destroyed the family house.

He is aware that people seldom see the other, sensitive side of him.

So is Mr B giving up his stand-up for playwriting?

"I can’t cook or bake cakes; I haven’t anything in the attic worth flogging, so I will have to do my day job as a comic."

Give Mr B another medal.

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BULLY for Brian McCann. The artistic director of Birkenhead's Active Drama is on a mission. Brian, who created the hit musical Down Our Street says: "Bullying – Let's Stop it Now."

The Wirral Globe backs his plea whole-heartedly.

It has been 17 years since he brought his critically-acclaimed play to the stage and nearly half-a-million people have seen it. It was also featured on Paul O'Grady's Channel 4 show.

Brian told the Inferno: "My musical interactive play asks what type of person gets bullied, what type of person makes a bully and essentially what is bullying."

The Rock Ferry-based director / writer now needs help to see his project come alive again from this October to December.

He wants to hear from schools and he is also looking for actors and production crew.

You can contact him online at activedrama.com or by telephone on 0151 650 2335.

Brian adds: "Politicians – local and national – should also get behind it."

Recent surveys show bullying has risen on social media with widespread abusive e-mails (I have had a few at the Inferno from anonymous cyber cowards ... grow up, please).

Says ebullient Brian: "There are systems and practices in place to stop bullying, but it is up to each and every one of us to make sure it doesn’t happen in our own circle of friends, our classrooms, our communities."

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I WANT my childhood back.

Unimaginative television and film producers are tampering with all our special memories.

I was dismayed by the new version of Thunderbirds (with no strings attached) and the re-make of nostalgia filled Dad's Army using look-a-likes. But now I have a frog in my throat when I think about The Muppets in 2015.

What are Sky TV doing making Kermit and Miss Piggy publicly split up?

It was always a fairytale partnership made in puppet paradise. The Muppets and I had a Rainbow Connection – their theme song to innocence.

Do we really want them to be like us mere mortals?

Muppet magic created by the late, great genius of Jim Henson, like Walt Disney, took us all away from our daily, dreary drudgery. Who wants to be grown up?

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AND finally... here are a couple of good habits to get into.

Nun can beat these shows, The Sound of Music at the Empire next week and Sister Act on Thursday, September 17, at the New Brighton Pavilion.

Talking of capes and capers, I was never in two minds about attending Birkenhead Operatic Society’s forthcoming production in October – Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – the Musical.

Peter Grant