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Rita with her mum Enid, eldest brother Peter, left, and elder brother Colin.  From the Liverpool Echo newspaper, 19 Nov 2005.
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Enid Tushingham
Rita's mum donated this land at the corner of Ashton Drive, Woolton, to the city of Liverpool to be used for a library.  In 2001, she successfully campaigned to prevent the land from being used for a bus turnaround.  See the complete online article from the archives of the Liverpool Daily Post.  Photo from the Liverpool Echo newspaper, 19 Nov 2005.
 




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Rita arrives at the UK premiere of Puffball, 17 July 2008, at Empire Leicester Square.


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Rita at the UK premiere of Puffball, 17 July 2008, at Empire Leicester Square.
   









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Title screen.
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Rita's credit screen.
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Millie arrives at her daughter Elaine's back door, but due to her arthritis, requires some assistance to get past the threshold.


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Millie's joints will feel better once she sits down.
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Millie would rather drag herself over to her daughter's house than spend the day alone.
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Sarah Lancashire, Vicky Hall
Elaine is baking some rock cakes when there is a sudden miraculous flash of light from the oven.


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Millie has to close her eyes against the bright light.
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Millie looks at the hot rock cakes and can't believe her eyes.  They form the shape of the Virgin Mary!
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Sarah Lancashire, Vicky Hall
Really?  Nah.


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Yep.
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Sarah Lancashire, Vicky Hall
Okay, you're right!
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Next morning, Millie bends down to pick up the milk, and feels no arthritic pain.  It's a miracle!


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She is able to stretch fully, without pain!
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Now pain-free, she celebrates with some friends.
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Millie demonstrates her new flexibility by performing a front somersault.



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The film's cast makes a publicity appearance in Rome in November 2007.  From left to right: actors Yvonne Sciò, Rita Tushingham, Laura Morante, Burt Young, writer/director Pupi Avati.
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Publicity appearance in Rome, November 2007.
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Publicity appearance in Rome, November 2007.



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Aisha Bicknell, Rita Tushingham
Click on the above photo for the article from the Daily Telegraph newspaper, 21 Aug 2006, concerning how Rita and her younger daugher Aisha dealt with Aisha's breast cancer.
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Aisha Bicknell, Rita Tushingham
Aisha says, "I had this 'cold cap' treatment in which they put a frozen neoprene cap on my head during chemotherapy, to slow blood flow to the scalp in an effort to prevent hair loss.  It worked – I only lost about half my hair, which has now grown back.  But enduring a frozen cap on my head was the worst part of the treatment."
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Now that Aisha has finished her cancer treatment, she and Rita are keen to encourage fundraising for cancer research.  Rita supports Cancer Research UK's Relay for Life, taking part in media interviews to raise awareness.  Relay For Life is a unique event in which teams of friends, colleagues, or family members get together to relay around a track, taking turns to walk the course for the duration of the event (between 12 and 24 hours).  46 Relay For Life events took place across the UK in 2006, with over 8,000 people raising £800,000 for Cancer Research UK’s work to help beat cancer.


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Freelance TV director Simon Harries, a mutual friend of both Rita and your webmaster, took this photo of Rita when he lunched with her in London on 26 Sep 2006.
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On Friday, 01 Dec 2006, Rita joined other celebrities for the 11th Spirit of Christmas Carol concert at the Chester (Cheshire) Cathedral in support of the NeuroMuscular Centre in Cheshire, a charity helping people with muscular dystrophy.  From left to right: Jonathan Pryce, Bill Paterson, Matthew Kelly, Rita Tushingham, James Cosmo, Honeysuckle Weeks, Kate Fahy, Peter Egan, Richard Shelton.  The celebrities donated their time to the charity event, which raised more than £30,000.
 



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Candice Melton as Claire, the myopic protagonist of Sight Test.
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Rita Tushingham as Rita, the eccentric owner of the junk shop in Sight Test.
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From left to right: writer/director Joseph Knowles and actors Joseph Pitcher, Candice Melton, Gem Carmella, and Rita Tushingham on location in East London for the short film Sight Test.


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Steven Berkoff, Rita Tushingham
Rita attends the BFI Southbank opening night, 13 Mar 2007.
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The Directors Guild Evening for Sir David Lean, BAFTA, London, 17 Apr 2008.  From left to right: James Fox OBE, Sarah Miles, Art Malik, Shevaun Wilder, Saeed Jaffrey OBE, Rita Tushingham, Leslie Phillips CBE.
 












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Rita will star in a documentary, Fifteen Minutes That Shook The World, about Liverpool Football Club's 2005 win at the Champions League final in Istanbul.  Rita has been a strong supporter of Liverpool Football for decades.  From the Liverpool Echo newspaper, 24 Jul 2009.
   



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