The wife of Exmoor-based explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes has died after a short illness.
Virginia Fiennes, known as Ginny, died at Exeter Hospital at the age of 56 with her husband at her bedside.
The pair were childhood sweethearts and after they married she helped to plan and organise many of his expeditions including the trans-globe circumnavigation of the world via both poles.
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