Actor Fifa 15 Coins Stephen Mangan, who played Adrian Mole in a 2001 BBC series, said: Greatly agitated to apprehend that Sue Townsend has died.

One of the warmest, funniest and wisest humans I anytime met.

Townsend, who still lived in her home boondocks of Leicester, larboard academy at 15 and had three accouchement age-old beneath 5 by the time she was 22.