During this time, he also raised thousands of pounds for charity by walking the Great Wall of China and riding a motorbike across Canada.
[2] He appeared in a few episodes of the BBC's medical drama Dangerfield as a local TV news reporter.
Now, I'm afraid it is being led by pygmies in grey suits wearing blindfolds.
[4][5]Despite these comments, Towers returned to Midlands Today as a special guest on the programme's last broadcast from the Pebble Mill studios in October 2004.
Towers died at the age of 73 on 24 May 2008 at his home in Warwickshire, after a long illness.