Blucher

Phone Helen Ludlow at the Irish Welfare and Information Centre on 0121 604 6111 or email helenl@iwic.org.uk AMBASSADOR's wife Christiane von Bluecher worked as an au pair in Birmingham in 1966.

But the components of her approach in this book were not mixed again in that way in any of her other texts because her husband Heinrich Bluecher had significantly contributed to Origins, particularly regarding the history of political developments.

Whittingham is survived by his wife of 54 years, Peggy, a son, Michael, a daughter, Charlene von Bluecher, 11 grandchildren and five great-grand- children.

She confides in McCarthy that she and her husband, Heinrich Bluecher, have been considering immigrating to Switzerland; perhaps the old Continent is safer after all.