December 16 1966: Gwyneth Dunwoody (far right) during her time as MP for Exeter, pictured outside the Home Office with Margaret McKay, MP for Clapham, Renee Short, MP for Wolverhampton North East, Joyce Butler, MP for Wood Green, and Anne Kerr, MP for Rochester and Chatam. They were there to see minister Alice Bacon to demand safer toys, made of non-flammable materials and without dangerous or rough edgesPhotograph: PAOctober 5 1967: Dunwoody as parliamentary secretary to the Board of Trade, leaving Heathrow airport to open the British Shopping Week and "The Tourist in Britain" exhibitionPhotograph: PANovember 7 1984: Gwyneth Dunwoody in Neil Kinnock's shadow cabinet. Left to right, seated: Peter Shore, John Smith, John Cunningham, Michael Meacher, Peter Archer, Michael Cooks, Lord Oram, Lord Ponsonby, Gwyneth Dunwoody, Stan Orme, Jack Dormand, Denis Healey, Neil Kinnock and Roy Hattersley. Standing: Barry Jones, Donald Dewar, Giles Radice and John PrescottPhotograph: PA
February 6 1998: Dunwoody battling to repatriate Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the United StatesPhotograph: PAMarch 10 1998: As chairwoman of the House of Commons transport select committee, Dunwoody unveils the "Classic" commuter trainPhotograph: Neil Munns/PAFebruary 21 2002: Dunwoody in an interview with Jackie AshleyPhotograph: Martin Argles/GuardianFebruary 5 2002: Eric Sykes with Dunwoody when she won Oldie Battleaxe of the Year Photograph: Peter MacDiarmid/PAMay 8 2008: Tamsin Dunwoody leaves the funeral of her mother at St Margaret's church in LondonPhotograph: Dylan Martinez/ReutersMay 8 2008: Betty Boothroyd, the former Speaker of the House of Commons, attends the funeralPhotograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA
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