Tenby born, Charles Dale, who plays the likeable Big Mac in BBC's long-running hospital drama Casualty, visited Carew Cheriton Control Tower recently to film a new BBC TV programme which is due to be broadcast later this autumn.

Charles, who also provided the voice-over for the popular Tenby 24/7 TV series, said as a youngster he remembered going to Carew Airfield to learn to drive on the disused Second War World runways.

John Brock MBE, resident of Carew Cheriton Control Tower Group, said: "Since volunteers renovated the Control Tower Carew Cheriton and turned it into a 'living history' museum, film and TV companies have been keen to use the authentic wartime rooms we have here for their films and TV programmes."

He added: "A few years ago, WAAFs who served at Carew Cheriton in the Second World War returned for a visit and told us exactly how the rooms were furnished and decorated, so we know our displays are as accurate as we can make them. No wonder film and TV crews want to use the museum as a set."