Save the Greyhounds! - 05/08/03
Wimbledon actress Annette Crosbie may be Victor Meldrew’s long suffering wife, but she also cares about the suffering of greyhounds..

Annette has been president of the League Against Cruel Sports (Lacs) since last December, and she also owns four retired greyhounds. So now Lacs has launched a greyhound campaign.

She is urging the government not to ban the sport of greyhound racing, but to force the bookmaking industry to hand over a penny of every ?1 bet to dog welfare. As it stands, according to Lacs, only 3p of every ?100 bet goes to providing for retired greyhounds.

Annette Crosbie spent her early stage years alternating between classics andcontemporary plays. Her rare screen appearances include The Public Eye (1972) and The Slipper and the Rose (1976).

She has enjoyed international fame not from her stage or screen work but from her TV assignments. Annette Crosbie was seen as Catherine of Aragon in The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1971); as Queen Victoria in Edward the King (1979); and with Michael Hordern, Peter Egan and David Threlfall, Crosbie was one of the four major stars in the Masterpiece Theatre offering "Paradise Postponed" (1986).

She is best known to TV audiences now as Victor Meldrew’s long suffering wife Margaret in the comedy One Foot In The Grave.

Annette was awarded an OBE in 1998 and now lives in Wimbledon