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Input: Consider Input: "I've been up for it three times, I got three knockbacks," Dyer said during the recording of ITV's Jonathan Ross Show. Fellow guest Dame Diana Rigg - who plays Lady Olenna Tyrell in the HBO fantasy drama - blamed Dyer's voice. "I'll put in a word for you as long as you lose the cockney accent." Dyer told Ross he went for several roles. "One was Pyper. Is it Pyper?" Pyper is played by London-born Josef Altin, and Dyer said other Londoners had managed to get parts. "There's a couple of cockneys knocking about. There's a couple of chimney sweeps too. I've seen them." A range of British accents can be heard on the show - including Sean Bean's Yorkshire delivery. Dyer - who plays Queen Vic landlord Mick Carter in the BBC One soap - has recently spoken about bringing a "cockney" flavour to roles made famous by "posh" actors. "I think that I could play Sherlock... if I did it my way. Benedict [Cumberbatch] is brilliant and the lines roll off his tongue, but that role is about being highly intelligent rather than posh. "I think I could do Doctor Who as well. The star, who grew up in Canning Town, east London, also told Ross he changes his EastEnders' scripts - adding more cockney rhyming slang. "I made the job hard for myself really because I thought when I come in it, I want to bring back a bit of the East End. They're good writers there but they're quite middle class people so I'm constantly changing the dialogue and I'm freaking their nut out and they have meetings over the word 'boat race'." Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube

Output: It's packed with British acting talent, but EastEnders star Danny Dyer repeatedly auditioned for a part in the hit series TV Game of Thrones... and failed every time.


Input: Consider Input: The pier owners and his husband Jamie Moran have been in discussions for several months about the plan. The Hull-born performer, who died in August, had his first summer season at the pier in 1987. The Joe Longthorne MBE Theatre will be officially opened on 30 May followed by a gala evening on what would have been the entertainer's 65th birthday. A small museum dedicated to him with memorabilia including his grand piano, MBE and gold disc will open next to the theatre. Mr Moran said the singer and impressionist would have been "thrilled and delighted" with the honour. He added: "He simply loved the feel of the theatre right at the end of the pier looking out on the Irish Sea." Longthorne, who made Blackpool his home, performed more than 20 seasons in the 1,400 capacity theatre on the Grade II-listed pier which he described as his all time favourite venue. Born to a travelling background, Longthorne received his big break on the ITV series Search For A Star in 1981 and featured regularly featured on other TV programmes in the 1980s, the Royal Variety Performance, and also appeared in theatre in the US and at the Sydney Opera House.

Output: The theatre at Blackpool North Pier is to be renamed in memory of entertainer Joe Longthorne who died last year.


Input: Consider Input: Confusion among pupils over exams plus a lack of equipment for remote learning is adding to the frustration. Chase Terrace Academy in Burntwood, Staffordshire, has received nine out of the 70 laptops it requested, head teacher Nicola Mason said. A new lockdown including school closures was announced on Monday. All primary and secondary schools are closed to pupils, except for vulnerable children and the children of key workers, for the next six weeks. Teaching will continue remotely. The laptops were requested to help students access remote learning, Ms Mason added, and said all schools face "logistical challenges" in the coming days. And, on visiting the school on Tuesday, she said, it had been found the heating was broken. Chase Terrace was among secondary schools which had been working to run testing schemes for pupils after the Christmas break. The testing will now be used on staff, she said, but all the volunteers recruited to help have been told not to come in. Many BTecs and technical exams are due to take place in the coming days, but some head teachers and college leaders say it would be impossible to hold them and unfair to candidates. At Chase Terrace some year 13 students are due to take BTec PE exams on Wednesday and and Ms Mason says it has been "difficult" for students to understand why they are going ahead while exams in the summer are not. "We have had emails from children about how stressed they are," she said. "Nobody is complaining about the fact they have got to do it, they are happy to do the right thing for children, but they need information so they can give the detail to children." Although the school is "prepared" for remote learning, the lack of technology makes access difficult for some pupils, and not having received the necessary equipment from the government means they cannot distribute any devices to students, Ms Mason added. "Lots [of pupils] are at home in the same family and there is competition for devices, a year eleven student preparing for exams will take priority over a year seven, so it is not just access but afterwards as well, so it takes a lot of work." The government said it has given out 560,000 devices this year to support remote education, with over one million devices to reach schools, colleges and councils In Wolverhampton, head teacher Hayley Guest, of East Park Academy, said there was "no doubt" the loss of further school time would be "significant" for every child. "As a school we had to create a number of plans," she said. "It is hard, hard to keep morale up, hard to keep people focused on what is important." Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), said: "Everyone in the school community - heads, teachers, support staff, parents and pupils - has been knocked from pillar to post by the indecision of this chaotic government. "The Christmas break should have provided a respite, but late guidance and u-turns put paid to that. "The right decision has finally been made, but we should have got here sooner."


Output: Spending Christmas preparing to introduce coronavirus testing for pupils, only for schools to then close, was "hard to bear" a head teacher said.


