Dinner lady and school cleaner Dorothy Winner, a head teacher who had turned around a failing school, was knighted.

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Ms Deane, 70, from Newton Abbot, died from serious head injuries after being found at a holiday home in Shaldon in Devon where she worked as a cleaner.

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Daniel Rostenkowski, the Democratic head of the House Ways and Means committee, wanted to close loopholes in the interest of a cleaner tax code and was looking for a signature achievement to boot.

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