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BRIAN WALDEN, 85. The former labour MP from West Bromwich left Parliament to become the presenter of LWT’s Weekend World in the Seventies and Eighties. Margaret Thatcher described him as her favourite interviewer. in 2010, a Tory MP claimed it was a seminar given by Walden that had persuaded David Cameron to form a coalition, rather than a minority government. Kim Darby, 70. The U.S. actress starred opposite John Wayne in the 1969 western True Grit, right. She said that she was not acting during the many shooting scenes: ‘i was really flinching. They were very loud and were pretty close to me.’ She married five times and left showbusiness to become a teacher.