The 39-year-old war corespondent had filed copy on the discovery of a potentially dangerous chemicals factory just hours before her death.

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She was also asked about a burn which can been seen on Millie's finger in photos taken just days before her death.

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She didn't stop performing until she was 72 and choreographed one of her rare light-hearted works, Maple Leaf Rag, just a year before her death.

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The play was recorded in June 2002, just nine months before her death at the age of 91.

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Just three months before her death, Maria Amelia was introduced to the social networking site Facebook, where she set up a group called "the elderly in action".

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Ms Kelly, who was the first witness to give evidence in the trial, told the jury of the moments just before her son's death on 25 May.

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Just before she died, it emerged that he had written her another letter to be opened after his own death (he survives, after more than a decade on hunger strike).

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