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Lauren Del Fabbro

Keir Starmer pays tribute to Bonnie Tyler as ‘one of Britain’s greatest’

Welsh-born singer Bonnie Tyler (PA) - (PA Archive)

Downing Street has said Sir Keir Starmer was “saddened” to hear that Bonnie Tyler has died and praised the Welsh singer as being “one of Britain’s greatest recording artists”.

The Total Eclipse Of The Heart singer, whose real name was Gaynor Hopkins, died aged 75 on Wednesday night, months after being treated in intensive care after being placed in an induced coma following emergency intestinal surgery.

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