For a purr-fect cuppa

MATTHEW Brooksbank, from Lancashire, entrusted his cracked teapot, in the shape of a charming black-and-white cat named Dinky, to ceramics restorer Kirsten Ramsay.

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It had belonged to his “Aunty” Gladys, who lived next door to the farm where he grew up. She taught him piano as a child and left him the teapot after she died, aged 105.

But Gladys had a wartime secret and Dinky was in on it.