A Manchester retirement village has celebrated the 100th birthday of a remarkable woman who arrived in the UK in the 1930s from her native Austria to escape the rise of the Nazis. Frances Waldek was born in Vienna but had to flee her homeland in 1938 as she and her family were Jewish and Adolf Hitler’s rise to power meant their homeland was no longer safe. She arrived in south Wales, contributed to the war efforts in World War Two and then worked tirelessly throughout her life for charities and Jewish causes. She marked the milestone birthday at a Manchester...