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War hero's home to be a sex shop

Plans to turn the birthplace of the longest surviving member of the Charge of the Light Brigade into a sex shop have been approved.

Edwin Hughes, otherwise known as 'Balaclava Ned', was born in Wrexham and died in Blackpool in 1927 aged 96.

He rode in the infamous charge in the Crimean War in 1854, which led to the deaths of 272 British soldiers.

One critic said Balaclava Ned would be "spinning in his grave". The company behind the plans refused to comment.

Read entire article at BBC