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How a Spanish Civil War child, now 97, fled Franco for new life in the UK

· By The Local
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Carmen Cid was just eight when in 1937 she boarded a ship with 4,000 other children bound for Britain to escape the Spanish Civil War. She was among those who never returned home.

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