Prunella Scales and late husband Timothy West appeared on BBC Breakfast a year before his death at the age of 90 during which time she left viewers in tears with a tribute to him

Prunella Scales will face her battle with dementia without her husband, Timothy West, who has died at the age of 90. The actors were married for 61 years and shared details of Scales’s condition in the television series Great Canal Journeys.

Prunella Scales, who is best known for her role as Sybil Fawlty in classic sitcom Fawlty Towers, has been battling vascular dementia since 2014.