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Mary Law, actress who among many roles enjoyed two spells as the lead in The Mousetrap – obituary
- Mary Law, who has died aged 91, had two stints playing the anxious guest-house proprietress Mollie Ralston in Agatha Christie’s long-running West End show The Mousetrap; she was also a stalwart of 1950s television, becoming the first British TV actress to go into space – as the science student Janet Campbell in the children’s series The Lost Planet (1954) – and making a fleeting appearance in the hospital soap opera Emergency Ward 10.
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See photos of the last prison ship still operating in the US. The 5-story vessel is slated to close this week.
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Lincoln high school graduate Kenneth Williams walks on at Nebraska
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Michael Parkinson’s Britain has slipped into history
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