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'Despicable' raid at WWII heroine Andree Peel's home

Burglars have broken into the home of French Resistance heroine Andree Peel, it has emerged.

Mrs Peel, who died last week aged 105, helped save more than 100 Allied pilots and spent her final years in Long Ashton, near Bristol.

A police spokesman said Mrs Peel's house in the village was broken into some time after she died at her care home.

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