Titanic Survivor Has To Sell Memories

Millvina Dean, 96, is the last remaining survivor of the Titanic and is now having to sell mementoes from the ship to pay her nursing home fees. She was nine weeks old when the liner sank in the North Atlantic in 1912.

The auction in Wiltshire will include a suitcase full of clothes given to her by the people of New York after her rescue, several rare prints of the Titanic - including one of it leaving the White Star dock in Southampton and compensation letters sent to her mother by the Titanic Relief Fund. She hopes to raise £3,000.

Miss Dean moved into a private nursing home in Ashurst, Hampshire, two years ago after breaking her hip, but developed an infection and has been unable to return to her own home.