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February 5, 2008

The world’s oldest columnist dies age 101

By Press Gazette

The world’s oldest columnist, Rose Hacker, has died at the age of 101.

Hacker had written a fortnightly column for the independent local newspaper the Camden New Journal since September 2006. Editor

Eric Gordon had asked her to write the column after hearing her make a speech about nuclear disarmament at a commemoration of the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 inTavistock Square.

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