17/02/2026
Norwich, GB 4 C
Researching and reporting on the lives of some really interesting people (RIP)

CHARLOTTE ‘BETTY’ WEBB, aged 101

After joining the army during the war, she became a codebreaker working at Bletchley Park, before being seconded to the USA and being employed at the Pentagon.

TED OATES, aged 101

Growing up in Huddersfield he joined the TA and the Army and had a dramatic escape through Belgium and France andwas part of the evacuation of Dunkirk. His story became the basis of a film.

ROBERT DAVEY, aged 91

Discovered a ruined medieval church in Norfolk, he restored it single-handedly and had to fight off satanists to do so.