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nappies now clog up landfill sites and are frowned on by environmentalists while yummy mummies rave about the joys of terry towelling “real” nappies. Yet mother-of-six Valerie Hunter-Gordon of Inverness undoubtedly did a great service to women when in 1947 she invented the first throwaway nappy. She has died aged 94. One of the unsung heroines of women’s liberation.