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One of the last surviving “Chindit” soldiers from the Second World War’s Burma campaign has received the Freedom of the City of London.

Joanna Adaran is on her first professional tour – and she is starting with a monumental one, 14 months on the road with The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe.