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Carla Lane, OBE (born Romana Barrack August 5 1937 in Liverpool) is an English television writer, writing or co-writing many successful sitcoms. In the 1960s she wrote short stories and radio scripts. Her first successes came in collaboration with Myra Taylor, whom she had met at a writers' workshop in Liverpool, before she embarked on a solo career. In 1989 she was awarded an OBE. Carla returned her OBE in 2002 and received a handwritten reply from Tony Blair who said that she deserved the award and that it would be kept in case she changed her mind and wanted it back.