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    HISTORY IN THE NEWS

    Jul 09, 2020 2 minutes

    Dame Vera Lynn, ‘the forces’ sweetheart’, dies

    The singer and entertainer Vera Lynn, whose performances became synonymous with the Second World War, has died at the age of 103.

    Born in East Ham in London in 1917, Lynn began performing at the age of seven, and left school at 11 to embark on a career as

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