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Fans of former politician Ann Widdecombe will get a chance to ask her about what it was like to appear on Strictly Come Dancing.

The ex-MP, who now lives at Haytor on Dartmoor, is hosting a question and answer session with an audience in Exeter to raise money for a donkey welfare charity.

She will be talking about her life and career, including her appearance on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing in 2010. Strictly Donkeys - An Afternoon with Ann Widdecombe is at Reed Hall in Streatham Drive, on the University of Exeter campus, at 1.30pm on Thursday, September 21.

Tickets cost £25 and all proceeds from this event will go to Safe Haven for Donkeys, a charity that runs a donkey sanctuary and welfare work in Israel and Palestine.

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Ann has been a patron of the charity for around 15 years, alongside actor Anthony Head, writer Julie Burchill and sports broadcaster Des Lynham. She visited the charity's centre in Israel in 2014. She was a Conservative MP from 1987 to 2010.

A spokeswoman said: "Safe Haven for Donkeys in the Holy Land was set up in 2000 to help some of the thousands of donkeys facing overwork and cruelty in Israel and the Palestinian Territories every day.

"Sixteen years later, our sanctuary near the Israeli town of Netanya is now providing life-long care to around 220 unwanted and abused donkeys of all ages but the charity’s work does not stop at the sanctuary gates.

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"Our free veterinary clinics for around 600 working donkeys, mules and horses every month on both sides of the Palestinian border offer wound treatment, hoof trimming, vaccinations and much more. Through education and support, our aim is also to improve the lives of the owners who themselves suffer terrible poverty and rely entirely on their animal to earn a basic living."

Tickets for an Afternoon with Ann Widdecombe are available by calling 01444 470128 or from the website www.safehaven4donkeys.org.