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Flight Lieutenant ‘Rusty’ Waughman, who has died aged 100, completed a tour of operations as the pilot of a Lancaster bomber on a squadron that suffered some of the highest casualties of the Second World War.
The takeaway delivery driver is believed to have been lured to his death late on 23 December, 1993.
Pilot Officer Russell 'Rusty' Waughman came through 30 bombing raids over Germany during the most intense periods of the war.
News - Teesdale Mercury
The future of a proposed hospital in County Durham is in question after an official admitted the project was significantly over budget, with its price tag rumoured to have doubled to £40 million