 Ailish Hurley was the bar manager of Chapters Bar (now the Morse  Bar), Randolph Hotel, Oxford. She was a good friend of  Colin Dexter (qv) and was a continual source of inspiration to  him, persuading him to carry on writing the Inspector Morse novels  on which the TV series is based. As a mark of respect, he asked for  her to be given a cameo role in the final Inspector Morse film,  _"Inspector Morse" (1987) {The Remorseful Day (#12.1)}_ (qv), where  she is briefly seen serving coffee to Morse and Sandra Harrison.  Sadly, she died of cancer on 25 September 2005.