Cole's Comfort ; Actress Stephanie Cole Met the Love of Her Life As a Stagestruck Girl. Years Later, They Met Again and Married. But, After Eight Years of Bliss, He Died. Now, Playing a Medium in Blithe Spirit, She Tells Moira Petty About the Extraordinary Things That Bring Him Back to Her

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One day soon, when the air is warm and still, Stephanie Cole will carry out the final act of remembrance for the beloved husband she found late in life.

She will step into the peace of her country garden in a village outside Bath and scatter her husband Peter Birrel's ashes over the borders, working them into the soil.

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Cole's Comfort ; Actress Stephanie Cole Met the Love of Her Life As a Stagestruck Girl. Years Later, They Met Again and Married. But, After Eight Years of Bliss, He Died. Now, Playing a Medium in Blithe Spirit, She Tells Moira Petty About the Extraordinary Things That Bring Him Back to Her

'Peter didn't do much gardening, but he enjoyed sitting in it. His ashes will feed the roses. I think he would like the idea of being flung around the garden,' she says.

They had been together only eight years when Peter died of cancer last June.

Although brief, those years were rich in love, friendship and passion, discovered at a time when Stephanie, the TV and stage actress who is an exemplar of professional industry and commitment, envisaged a future alone.

'After Peter died, I had a period of intense anger that we only had eight years together, but they were eigh...

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