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Tuesday June 3, 1986

 Moorhouse Inn, Leeds LS11 5NQ

No staff. England played Portugal. It's the World Cup, you know. Mother loved football. Fish and Chips at 11pm. 

Earth shattering news: Dame Anna Neagle keeled over and died today, aged 81. "Victoria the Great" and all that.

Anna Neagle, DBE, an Ode

Anna Neagle,

Doyen of the West End stage,

In your prime you were all the rage,

Your name wasn't really Neagle,

It was Marjorie Robertson,

But Neagle rhymes with seagull.


Oh yes. One of the 'Norfolk Broads' Lady Mary Fitzalan Howard has married Anthony Mumford. She is forty at least and a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alexandra, and 'heiress'
to the Herries lordship.

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