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‘I was nervous to travel after my husband died until I made a special friend on holiday’

‘I was nervous to travel after my husband died until I made a special friend on holiday’

Helen McGlashan, 59, from Manchester, pushed herself to head off on a solo holiday with Riviera Travel following her retirement and the death of her husband, Alastair

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