Liberal Democrat grandee Lord Paddy Ashdown opened the BBC History Magazine's four day festival in Malmesbury this afternoon. Before delivering a talk on the French Resistance, the former Lib Dem leader posed for pictures outside the Abbey with the party's prospective parliamentary candidate for North Wiltshire Brian Matthews
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