Alderman Audrey Jones, who was Lord Mayor of Manchester in 2003-2004, has died aged 90
In the 1970s she began campaigning to end planning blight on hundreds of houses in her native Withington caused by a scheme to bypass Wilmslow Road. Dipping her toe into community issues would ultimately lead to her historic election as a Liberal councillor and then the city's highest ceremonial office.
She was also President of the Ladybarn Garden Society, a governor of Mauldeth Road School, and a magistrate for 23 years. In 1989, fifty years after her evacuation, as a child, she published a book, Farewell Manchester, with the collected personal experiences of the wartime generation. "She worked in the pharmaceutical industry in the early 1950s, and formed the view that she should not even take aspirin when she was pregnant. In the late 1950s she was offered a new wonder drug for her morning sickness, and declined the offer. The drug was Thalidomide, later linked to birth deformities."
As her health declined and she was forced to retire from politics in 2006 following a diagnosis of cerebellar atrophy. In 2008 she travelled to China for stem cell treatment at the Shenzhen Beike cell engineering research institute.
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