Winston Churchill dies

Former UK Conservative parliamentarian Winston Churchill, grandson of the wartime Tory prime minister, has died at age 69.



Mr Churchill, who represented Stretford and Davyhulme in Greater Manchester, had been fighting cancer for two years.



After working as a journalist in the 1960s, he was elected to Parliament in 1970 and remained a Member of Parliament until 1997.



Mr. Churchill later became president of the UK National Defence Association, which campaigned for more support for the armed forces.



He was criticised in some quarters when he sold his grandfather\'s Second World War papers to Churchill College, Cambridge, for $12.5 million pounds in 1995.