as derek parkinson in eastenders. | as derek parkinson in eastenders. you stupid boy.ans would still call out, - you stupid boy. but even decades later fans would still call out, you | later fans would still call out, you stupid boy, the old catchphrase. your name will also go on the list. ian lavender, the last member of the famous platoon. ian lavender, known to millions as private pike, who has died at the age of 77. hello there. whilst we saw a bit of sunshine here and there, on the whole it's been a cloudy start to the new week and particularly gray and gloomy across northern parts of scotland, with persistent thick, low cloud bringing a lot of rain, actually — there's been over 100 millimetres of rain in highland scotland on that slow moving weather front bringing that band of thicker cloud. the weather front will take rain southwards over the next few days, followed by colder air from the north. at the moment, that colder air is in the far north of scotland. away from here, we're still in very mild air and those temperatures won't change a great deal, actually,