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Yours for £300: a Sir Winston Churchill cigar butt stubbed out in August 1941

A half-smoked cigar stubbed out by Sir Winston Churchill in the Second World War is expected to fetch £300 at auction. The 4in long stub was left by the Prime Minister before he dashed off for a Cabinet meeting on August 22, 1941 – the day German troops reached Leningrad. Whitehall valet Nellie Goble found it when cleaning and sent it to a friend, with a note on No10 paper reading: ‘Just a small souvenir to remind you at some future ... Jump to full article >>