Dame Tessa’s husband sells family home

AS THE first anniversary of Dame Tessa Jowell’s death approaches next weekend, the much-missed politician’s husband, David Mills, is selling their beloved Cotswolds retreat.

He is due to exchange contracts on the sale of the five-bedroom farmhouse near ShipstonOn-Stour, Warwickshire, where she died aged 70 after being diagnosed with brain cancer.

The couple’s two children are said to have found the house too painful to visit.

Lawyer Mills, 74, who put the house on the market for £895,000 in February, declines to discuss the sale.

Dame Tessa played a major role in securing the 2012 Olympics for London when she served as Culture Secretary.

The former Labour minister separated from Mills in 2006 after 27 years of marriage, but the pair reunited six years later.

Their financier son Matthew is married to food writer ‘Deliciously Ella’, who’s expecting their first child in August.