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Paul Keogh & Sam Elliott-Gibbs

Woman spends £70,000 on a 30-year legal fight to get suitcase of photos from relatives

A luxury hotelier has won a barmy 29-year legal battle with her own family over a suitcase full of photos that belonged to her dead mother.

Judith Andersson, 76, and her brother Tim's widow Diane Ward, 77, racked up £70,000 in legal fees fighting over a family archive of papers and pictures previously owned by her mother with "no monetary value."

The treasured archive was said to be a valuable record of the history of her family, which founded Jerusalem's iconic American Colony Hotel.

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