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Funeral held for Sir Jack Hayward

The funeral has been held for Sir Jack Hayward, the entrepreneur who paid for the SS Great Britain to return to Bristol from the Falklands in 1970.

He paid £150,000 for the rusting ship to be tugged across the Atlantic. Mr Hayward also bought Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel and gifted it to the nation.

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Farewell to 'Union Jack'

The funeral has been held for Sir Jack Hayward, the entrepreneur who paid for the SS Great Britain to return to Bristol from the Falklands in 1970.

He paid £150,000 for the rusting ship to be tugged across the Atlantic. Mr Hayward also bought Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel and gifted it to the nation.

Our reporter Robert Murphy was at the funeral of the man nicknamed Union Jack.

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