Two fezzes owned by comedy legend and magician Tommy Cooper are to be auctioned. Cooper gave them to Tim Dixon, then aged ...

The news that one of Tommy Cooper's fez hats made a record £7,000 when it went under the hammer in an auction in Bedfordshire ...

Fez hats were once a symbol of the Ottoman Empire. But after they were banned in Egypt in the 1950s, fez shops largely disappeared. We visited one of the last shops in Cairo, where Nasser Abd El ...

remembered the night Cooper gave him the hats. He said: "I was fascinated by the fez and just asked him straight out if I could have it. "He took [the fez] off his head and handed it to me.