Pantomime dame dies during show
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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