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Daily Mail › September 26, 2008

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FOR the whole family, it was a big day. Diane Winston hired suits for her two teenage sons, put on her best dress and travelled by train to London and then on to Buckingham Palace.

Watching her husband, Lionel, being awarded an MBE for his services in the Royal Navy, Diane and her sons Sonny, now 30, and Tel, 28, felt justifiably proud.

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Why I'm Handing Back My Mbe ; Yesterday, Ministers Unveiled a Review of the Scandal in Which Cancer Victims Are Charged for All Their Nhs Care, If They Dare Pay for Life-Extending Drugs Banned by Nice.To Understand Why This Decision Is Overdue, Read This Family's Nightmare

It was a fitting tribute to everything Lionel had achieved since arriving on a boat from Dominica in 1959, when he was just nine.

Despite a childhood in a humble London bedsit, he'd enrolled in the Royal Navy, completed an Open University course and worked his way up to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander.

'To be standing in Buckingham Palace with the Queen honouring ...

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