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Tributes have poured in for a “lovely and caring lady” who helped put on a town’s carnival for 30 years. Pam Griggs died in Maidstone Hospital on Sunday, April 21 from pneumonia after having a heart attack and two strokes. The 81-year-old was best known for being a part of the Sittingbourne Carnival Association for 30 years. She had joined the organising committee in 1991 as treasurer and then secretary before running the association as its chairwoman. Her daughter Sue Newman remembers her mum, who lived in Sittingbourne all her life, as a “lovely lady” who would “do anything for anyone”. The …

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