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Listen to Vera Lynn’s never-heard-before first audition tapes

Dame Vera Lynn’s audition records have been heard for the first time 90 years after they were first recorded.

The Independent UK

Vera Lynn’s audition records to be released 90 years after they were recorded

What A Difference A Day Makes will be released as a single on Friday to mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day.

Evening Standard

Criminal cases review body ‘must win back trust’ as interim chairwoman announced

Dame Vera Baird KC will carry out an urgent review into the running of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.

Evening Standard

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Wartime star Dame Vera Lynn would want young people to help others – daughter

Dame Vera lifted troops’ spirits with concerts in Egypt, India and Burma during the war.

Evening Standard

Women treated like meat and subjected to unjustified strip searches in police custody, damning report finds

‘The only reason they did what they did was to degrade me ... If I was a man, I don’t think they would’ve done it,’ one woman tells inquiry into Greater Manchester Police

The Independent UK

Nursing watchdog failing to investigate thousands of complaints amid concerns rogue staff going unchecked

Exclusive: Former Victims’ Commissioner Dame Vera Baird KC says ‘enormous’ backlog is ‘worryingly high’ and called for urgent action

The Independent UK

Survivors being neglected, charities warn, as they mark one year without a victims’ commissioner

Open letter urges justice secretary Alex Chalk to appoint a new commissioner ‘without delay’

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Government ‘thrashing around’ for votes with anti-social behaviour plan, former victims’ commissioner says

No timetable for new laws needed for plan as police lament ‘more s**** we’ll struggle to enforce’

The Independent UK

Home Office treatment of children 'a gift to traffickers' as experts slam 'casual racism'

Former independent commissioners Dame Sara Thornton and Dame Vera Baird accuse the government of victim blaming amid reports of hundreds of children disappearing from hotels housing asylum seekers

Daily Mirror

Police searching for Nicola Bulley made 'sexist' error says former Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner Vera Baird

Dame Vera Baird - who was Northumbria's elected Police and Crime Commissioner for seven years - said the team investigating Nicola Bulley's disappearance had made a "sexist error".

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Rape victims give up fight for justice as court delays worsen

Dame Vera Baird QC said the ‘endless, endemic delays’ that rape complainants often face were already ‘driving many to drop their claims altogether’

Evening Standard

Tributes paid to Dame Vera Lynn at thanksgiving service at Westminster Abbey

Tributes have been paid to Dame Vera Lynn at a thanksgiving service held to celebrate her life at Westminster Abbey.

Evening Standard

Jewellery belonging to Dame Vera Lynn to be sold in charity auction

The singer captured the hearts of the nation during the Second World War.

The Independent UK

We'll mint again: Dame Vera Lynn life celebrated with launch of £2 coin

The coin, designed by the Royal Mint’s in-house designers, will not enter general circulation

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We’ll mint again: £2 coins celebrating Dame Vera Lynn go on sale

The coins have been designed by the Royal Mint with the support of Dame Vera’s family.

The Independent UK

Dame Vera Lynn thanksgiving service announced

The wartime singer had a highly successful career spanning more than 90 years.

Daily Mirror

Dame Vera Lynn paintings displayed next to sculptures by paedophile Eric Gill

Dame Vera Lynn fans have said it's an 'insult to her memory' to be at the Museum of Craft and Design in East Sussex, which also features work from paedophile Eric Gil

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