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Dame Vera: 'She was an icon, a national treasure'
Dame Vera Lynn, the singer known during the Second World War as the Forces Sweetheart, has died at the age of 103.
Dame Vera sold more than a million records by the time she was 22, but six weeks ago with the 75th anniversary of VE Day in lockdown she became the oldest artist to get a top 40 album in the UK.
She was an inspiration to many, including the opera singer Lesley Garrett, who tells Sarah Montague
about her remarkable legacy.
(Photo: Dame Vera Lynn and a cardboard cutout of her younger self
Credit: PA Wires)
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