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Celebrities get honorary degrees

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Oxted based actress Dame Judi Dench and comedian Billy Connolly have been awarded honorary degrees by Nottingham Trent University.

The pair were nominated by the university's chancellor, Sir Michael Parkinson.

Carol Hinds reports.

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