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Someone in my class at school is currently 'doing an eight stretch' for stealing the best part of £1 million off OAPs. Nasty bit of work at school so nothing changed in the intervening years.
Amazingly it happened to Claire Hollingsworth. The lady who broke the story of WW2.
I think she died (at the age of 105 or so) a month or two ago. ISTR she had a slot on Radio 4's Last Word (an obituary program I listen to while driving home on Friday afternoons).
So her kids must be cogging on a bit, at least in their 70s I'd have thought.
I think she died (at the age of 105 or so) a month or two ago. ISTR she had a slot on Radio 4's Last Word (an obituary program I listen to while driving home on Friday afternoons).
So her kids must be cogging on a bit, at least in their 70s I'd have thought.
Her son is in Russia I think - recently released her biography. Mrs BP got a few pages - and was just above Adolf Hitler in the index(and real life aggression...).
I should add it was not her kids who fleeced her, but Ted Hughes.
I believe Conrad Black and some of the other Telegraph stalwarts made sure she did not suffer.
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