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10th December 2001
Nancy Wake has moved back to the UK and is currently living in London.

16th November 2001
It was announced in The Daily Telegraph today that Group Captain Hugh Verity had died. Read More.

22nd January 2001
It was announced in The Times today that Leo Marks had died on 15th January at age 80. Info

23rd September 2000
The Violet Szabo Museum is now online. More info.

12th September 2000
Became a History Television approved site. More info.

7th August 2000
Further article in The Times with regard to the memorial to the Women of WWII. More info here.

6th August 2000
The Sunday Times carried a short story today stating that the Government were to erect a monument to the women who worked, fought and died in WWll. It is to be sited in Whitehall outside the Ministry of Defence.

This campaign has been lead by Betty Boothroyd, the departing Speaker of the House of Commons and is a wonderful leaving present for her.

The full story is here at the More info here.

26th June 2000
Learnt of the death of Vera Atkins CBE, today. Coincidentally, she died on Saturday when the Violette Szabo museum was opened (See below).

The Daily Telegraph and The Times both had informative obituaries although they couldn't agree on her age which raised a chuckle.

I have the Daily Telegraph obituary in the Vera Atkins section, they waived the fee to reproduce it here. Unfortunately The Times wanted money to reproduce their obituary. Enough said! More info here.

24th June 2000
The Violette Szabo GC Museum at Wormelow, near Hereford, Worcestershire, England opened today. Good coverage from Sky news and wonderful interview with Rosemary Rigby MBE, the brains and driving force behind the project, and Violette's daughter, Tanya.

The museum was opened by Virginia McKenna, who portrayed Violette in the film "Carve Her Name With Pride". Leo Marks was also there, the man who wrote the poem-code "The Life That I Have".

6th July 2000
Well the section on my other web site, www.metroland.org, just got too big and I have moved everything here with our own domain name.