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‘Don’t call me a national TREASURE’

If you’re looking for something meaningful to give loved ones as a gift this Christmas, you might think about taking a leaf – or a tree – out of Dame Judi Dench’s book. At home in Surrey, the legend of stage and screen, who’s 87 on 9 December, plants trees in memory of lost actors and friends in her garden, and one Christmas, dedicated a plot of woodland in Scotland to her family through the Woodland

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