Framing the life of a remarkable trailblazer

Art teacher, author, after-dinner speaker, occasional windsurfer and snooker world champion — Vera Selby did it all. Simon Rushworth was granted a preview of an exhibition charting the life and times of an extraordinary North East icon

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