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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Dan Warburton

PE teacher finally gets degree aged 101 - after Nazi bombs interrupted early lessons

A PE teacher whose lessons were interrupted by missiles in the Second World War has finally secured her degree - at the age of 101.

Madge Brown took a year out to work as a nurse as Britain battled the Nazis during World War Two before graduating with a diploma in 1942.

But the three-year physical education course was not acknowledged as the degree level studies it is today.

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