Tributes paid to Carol Barnes
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Your support makes all the difference.Tributes were paid yesterday after the death of the former ITN newsreader Carol Barnes on Saturday.
Barnes died in hospital in Brighton after suffering a stroke a week earlier. Her son James paid an emotional tribute, saying he would be forever indebted to her.
"My mum was a beautiful, kind and delicate person – a person loved by many and whom I am desperately proud to call my mother," he said.
"She did everything in her power to love, care and provide for me, my sister and all those close to her. I am eternally indebted to her for what she has given us. I will always love her and she will forever be in my heart."
Barnes had a long relationship with the former government minister Denis MacShane. Their 24-year-old daughter Clare was killed in Australia in 2004.
Mr MacShane said: "Carol bred affection, warmth, political acuteness and humanity wherever she lived and worked."
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