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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Ellie Muir

Dame Deborah James was ‘invincible’ until the minute she took ‘last breath’, says mother

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The mother of Dame Deborah James has said that “until the minute” the late campaigner “took her last breath” she thought her daughter would survive.

James died aged 40 last June, after she was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in 2016.

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