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Town gong to Gurkhas
Jun 19th, 2009 - Mirror.co.uk
Thousands turned out yesterday to cheer Gurkhas back in Britain after fighting in Afghanistan. Actress Joanna Lumley, who campaigned for the soldiers' rights to settle here...
Remark led to Lumley Gurkha fight
Jun 18th, 2009 - BBC NEWS
Annie Watsham said she remembered Joanna Lumley's Gurkha links A "mystery" Kent woman whose chance remark led Joanna Lumley to get involved with the Gurkha Justice campaign has finally met the actress. Annie Watsham...
Lumley joins Gurkha celebrations
Jun 18th, 2009 - BBC NEWS
The Gurkhas were presented with the Freedom of Folkestone by the mayor Actress Joanna Lumley joined thousands of people to celebrate the Gurkhas being given the freedom of the Kent town where they are based.
Three cheers for Gurkha heroes
Jun 18th, 2009 - The Sun
TENS of thousands of people packed a seaside town today to watch a parade of Gurkhas who have recently returned from Afghanistan. Around 630 members of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Gurkha Rifles (2 RGR) marched through the streets of Folkestone...
Joanna Lumley urging voters to go Green
May 28th, 2009 - Mirror.co.uk
Joanna Lumley is urging voters to go Green in next Thursday's elections. The actress and champion of the Gurkhas said the party was "the obvious choice for real change".
Joanna Lumley videos from YouTube:
0:46Joanna Lumley's 1983 CHILDREN IN NEED "Striptease"!
The comely Ms Lumley shows her stockings & suspenders for charity...
14:51Frost over the World - Joanna Lumley - 8 May 09
The Nepalese Gurkhas have long played an important role in the British army, fighting in wars across the globe alongside Britain. Now the Gurkhas face a new battle - this time with the British government, in a quest to settle in the country they have supported for so long ...
2:47Nature activist Joanna Lumley gets a giraffe kiss as she works in African animal conservation - BBC wildlife
Joanna Lumley continues her nature escapades with the beautiful giraffes of Africa. Watch more Born To Be Wild from BBC Worldwide here: www.youtube.com
3:29Joanna Lumley on GMTV
The much loved actress tells GMTV why shes turned into a cat detective!
Joanna Lumley from WikiPedia:
Joanna Lamond Lumley, OBE, FRGS (born 1 May 1946) is an English actress, best known for her roles in the British television series The New Avengers, Sapphire and Steel, Absolutely Fabulous and Sensitive Skin. She is also a former model, a human rights activist (best known for her support for Gurkhas, the exiled Tibetan people and government and Prospect Burma, a charity that offers grants to Burmese students, for whom she broadcast the BBC Radio 4 charity appeal in 2001 ), and an animal welfare activist.
Joanna Lamond Lumley was born on 1 May 1946 in Srinagar, in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. Her parents were Major James Rutherford Lumley, who served in the 6th Gurkha Rifles, a regiment of the British Indian Army, and Beatrice Rose Weir. They married in 1941. After the independence of India in 1947, the Lumleys moved to Malaya (now Malaysia) and later settled in Kent, England. Joanna was educated at St Mary's School in Hastings, East Sussex, England, and afterwards attended the Lucy Clayton finishing school.
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