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Former UUP leader James Molyneaux's ‘close companion' tells of 30-year relationship
The "close companion" of former UUP leader Lord Molyneaux has spoken publicly for the first time about how their relationship blossomed from the political to the personal at his London flat. He spoke to Bimpe Archer.
11 March, 2016 01:00
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THE last time Christopher Luke saw his beloved "Jimmy" it was heartbreaking.
"I said to Jimmy, `Jimmy, darling, it's Chrissie from London'. It didn't register.
He tried to shove me off hugging and kissing him - again perhaps he thought the time wasn't right.
"How bad was his memory (that) I held him close and he didn't recognise me at all."
Later during the same visit to the nursing home where the 94-year-old former Ulster Unionist leader had been confined, Mr Luke's identity "came back to him" and the pair we[...]
11 March, 2016 01:00
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