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Founder of Bluebell Girls dies, 94

Margaret Kelly, the Irish-born founder of the famous Paris dance troupe the Bluebell Girls, has died at the age of 94. 

Kelly, who was born in Dublin, left for mainland Europe in the 1930s and danced in Germany and then France. 

After the Second World War her company of long-legged and scantily-clad dancers became a fixture at Paris' Lido music-hall, where they still perform today.

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