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Pantomime dame dies during show

Martin Halfpenny
Friday 02 December 2011 01:00 GMT
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A pantomime dame has collapsed and died during an amateur performance of Dick Wittington in Curdridge, near Winchester.

Bev Smith, 70, had the audience "in the palm of his hand" during the first scene and was about to go on again when he suffered a heart attack.

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