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A woman has relived the gruesome moment she found her mother-in-law shot to death in her Jubilee Pocket home during a murder trial against her brother in law.
âI saw mum on the bed, the back of her head was split open,â Maxine Britton told Mackay Supreme court on Monday afternoon.
âThere was a spot of blood on her left cheek.â
She was the first person to find Dorothy Britton in 1997 after she had been asked by her mother-in-lawâs husband Ian Britton to check on her when she failed to answer the phone on March 7.
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Brittens at war – but when exactly?
We published this photo a while ago, but since then a minor mystery has arisen over it.
It was taken by Walter Roden, who had a grocer s shop in Bridgnorth High Street and was also a keen photographer who took some fascinating pictures of the town during the war.
Delving into the picture archive of the Express & Star recently, we found the original print he had supplied the paper, and Walter s typed note on the back reads: June 21, 1945. Six sons in the Army. Picture shows Mrs Britten, of Bridgnorth, with five of her sons in uniform (she has a sixth in the Army, now in Italy. A picture of the sixth is shown on right of the picture).
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