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28 Aug 2020

Spy is first woman of Indian heritage honoured with blue plaque

Culture Correspondent

A World War Two spy has become the first woman of Indian origin in Britain to be honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque.

Noor Inayat Khan was posthumously awarded the George Cross in 1949 for her undercover service with the Special Operations Executive in occupied France. Now her heroism has been recognised again.