Care home resident gets her skates back on aged 97 with encouragement from Torvill and Dean

A 97-year-old care home resident and former ice skater received a warm message from Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean after making a return to the rink.
Doreen Barber, from Stansted in Essex, first started skating aged 12.
She had to temporarily hang up her skates when the Second World War began. But she soon came back to her hobby and skated regularly throughout her life teaching her children and husband too.
Organised by her care home, Care UK’s Mountfitchet House in Coltsfield, Doreen paid a visit to Riverside Leisure Centre in Chelmsford on January 23. After watching a video with words of encouragement from former Olympians Torvill and Dean beforehand, she put on her skates and whizzed around the rink on a wheelchair.
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How sweet thank you for sharing and encouraging her. Was a joy to know you Torvil and Dean( Jane snd Christopher) get involved in these kind of making wishes come true! Excellent snd well done!

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Did anyone tell her that one of Jayne and Chris's contemporaries (n skating) shared her surname? (Too much to hope that they'd be related - it's not that common a name, but not _that_ uncommon - but I'd at least remark on the coincidence.)