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| Dame Anita Roddick dies aged 64 | Dame Anita Roddick dies aged 64 |
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| Founder of the Body Shop, Dame Anita Roddick, has died at the age of 64. | |
| Her family said in a statement she suffered "a major brain haemorrhage" at 1830 BST at St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, West Sussex. | |
| Her husband, Gordon, and daughters Sam and Justine were all with her, the statement added. | Her husband, Gordon, and daughters Sam and Justine were all with her, the statement added. |
| Dame Anita set up the first Body Shop in Brighton in 1976. In February she announced she had contracted Hepatitis C from a blood transfusion in 1971. | |
| The family's statement said: "Gordon, Justine and Sam Roddick are very sad to announce that, after suffering a major brain haemorrhage, Anita Roddick died at 6.30pm this evening at the age of 64. | The family's statement said: "Gordon, Justine and Sam Roddick are very sad to announce that, after suffering a major brain haemorrhage, Anita Roddick died at 6.30pm this evening at the age of 64. |
| "Anita Roddick was admitted to St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, close to her home, yesterday evening when she collapsed after complaining of a sudden headache. | "Anita Roddick was admitted to St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, close to her home, yesterday evening when she collapsed after complaining of a sudden headache. |
| "Mrs Roddick was admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit and her husband Gordon and two daughters, Sam and Justine, were with her when she died." | "Mrs Roddick was admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit and her husband Gordon and two daughters, Sam and Justine, were with her when she died." |
| 'Own mortality' | 'Own mortality' |
| Dame Anita revealed she was suffering from cirrhosis of the liver after contracting Hepatitis C from blood given during the birth of her youngest daughter, Sam. | Dame Anita revealed she was suffering from cirrhosis of the liver after contracting Hepatitis C from blood given during the birth of her youngest daughter, Sam. |
| She said she had unknowingly lived with the virus for three decades and only found out about it two years ago after a blood test. | She said she had unknowingly lived with the virus for three decades and only found out about it two years ago after a blood test. |
| "What I can say is that having Hep C means that I live with a sharp sense of my own mortality, which in many ways makes life more vivid and immediate," Dame Anita said. | "What I can say is that having Hep C means that I live with a sharp sense of my own mortality, which in many ways makes life more vivid and immediate," Dame Anita said. |
| "It makes me even more determined to just get on with things." | "It makes me even more determined to just get on with things." |
| Dame Anita also called for Hepatitis C - sometimes called the "silent killer" - to be taken more seriously as a "public health challenge". | Dame Anita also called for Hepatitis C - sometimes called the "silent killer" - to be taken more seriously as a "public health challenge". |
| 'Ahead of her time' | |
| John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace, said Dame Anita was an "incredible woman" who would be "sorely missed". | |
| "She was an amazing inspiration to those around her, not just in environmental and human rights issues, which were two of her passions," he said. | |
| "She was so ahead of her time when it came to issues of how business could be done...When you look at it today, and how every company claims to be green, she was living this decades ago." | |
| The Body Shop became part of the French company L'Oreal Group in July 2006 but is run independently. | The Body Shop became part of the French company L'Oreal Group in July 2006 but is run independently. |