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A ‘humble’ and ‘generous’ father-of-seven who had the honour of meeting Ghandi and Pope Francis has donated money in his will to a charity he supported for over 70 years. Patrick Fleming, 94, from Burnley, who died on January 11, was known fondly remembered by thousands of Burnley residents as a window cleaner. Patrick left £2,000 in his will to the St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP) for which he volunteered since he was a teenager. Throughout his long life, Patrick had the rare distinction to have met both Mahatma Gandhi during his visit to Lancashire cotton mills in 1931, and...