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Battle of Britain
Veteran pilot dies hours
after 100th birthday
Roads
Pedestrian killed in
police car collision
Arts
Export bar placed on
£10m Turner painting
A Battle of Britain veteran has died
hours after celebrating his 100th
birthday, leaving fi ve surviving
members of “ the Few ”, his
biographer has said.
Archie McInnes, who fl ew
Hurricanes in the battle over
southern England, completed his
pilot training at the age of 21. He
died in Cambridge after celebrating
his centenary on Wednesday.
Jonny Cracknell , his biographer
and friend, tweeted: “It is with a
heavy heart and incredible sadness
to advise the tragic news that Battle
of Britain hero Archie McInnes sadly
passed away last night, just hours
after celebrating his 100th birthday.
An inspiration and hero of a man –
rest in peace, dear Archie.”
Air Chief Marshal Mike Wigston
said: “ Archie was part of an
extraordinary band of selfl ess
aviators to whom we owe the
freedom we enjoy today.” PA Media
A woman aged 57 has died after
being hit by a marked police car
respond ing to a call in Farnborough,
south-east London, on Thursday.
An air ambulance went to the
scene and the woman was taken to
an east London hospital with serious
injuries but died yesterday.
Scotland Yard said her next
of kin and the Directorate of
Professional Standards had been
informed. The Independent
Offi ce for Police Conduct (IOPC),
confi rmed that it had launched an
investigation into the collision,
which occurred at 3.55pm.
“The police car was responding to
a call when it struck a woman in the
road at the junction of Farnborough
Common and Crofton Road,”
a spokesman said. “Following
notifi cation from the Metropolitan
Police Service, we sent investigators
to the scene and to the post-incident
procedures. ” PA Media
A £10m Turner masterpiece may
be lost to the British public unless
funds can be raised to save it from
going overseas.
The arts minister Rebecca Pow
has placed a temporary export bar
on JMW Turner’s The Dark Rigi:
Lake of Lucerne (pictured), saying
it would be a “terrible loss ” if the
painting was sent overseas.
The 1842 artwork, which depicts a
dawn scene in the Swiss mountains ,
is the only work from the Rigi series
that remains in private ownership.
Pow said: “Turner is one of
Britain’s greatest ever artists and
The Dark Rigi is a beautiful and
emotive work painted at the
pinnacle of his career. This work is
of national importance. ”
The temporary export bar
follows advice from the Reviewing
Committee on the Export of Works
of Art and Objects of Cultural
Interest. A decision on the export
licence for the watercolour has been
deferred until December and that
could be extended until next June if
there is a serious pledge to raise the
money for the recommended £10m
sale price. PA Media
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