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Movie stars help Titanic survivor

Movie stars Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio have helped pay towards the nursing home fees of the last Titanic survivor, the fund's chairman said.

The actors, along with director James Cameron, are thought to have donated $30,000 (£22,000) after being asked to help 97-year-old Millvina Dean.

Miss Dean from the New Forest was nine weeks old when the liner sank in 1912.

She is struggling with monthly bills of £3,000 and is in danger of losing her room at her Southampton nursing home.

Read entire article at BBC