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She always suspected that once she gave up the problem page the media career would wither, and she was right. She remained with the Sunday Mirror for eight years, leaving in 1988 after the arrival of the new editor, Eve Pollard. I have found it invaluable with my five year old son and we often refer to it when he asks us "tricky" questions about his body. And of course a strong marriage – and theirs was remarkable – gave her a concrete base from which to strike out into the world.

After retiring Claire Rayner devoted herself to, as she put it, "biting the arses of those in power", in particular lambasting the government for its failure to ensure proper care for the elderly. In time, a team of secretaries would work from the house, making sure every one of the 1,000 people a week who wrote to her would get the personal response they needed. There were still the books, both fiction and non-fiction, but she had to find another way to make an impact on public life and she did so through political campaigning.

She tried to be a party woman, joining New Labour as it headed into power, but she was more naturally a person of opposition and it did not surprise me when she broke with Tony Blair's government over its refusal to introduce free care for the elderly, as recommended by the royal commission she had sat on.

In recent years she had come to assume that, with her days as a weekly advice columnist for the tabloids long gone – she gave up her last problem page, for the now defunct Today newspaper, in the 90s – and her appearances on TV sporadic, fewer people knew who she was. As a journalist, she wrote an agony column and contributed to newspapers, magazines, and medical journals.In 1999 Rayner was appointed to a committee responsible for reviewing the medical conditions at Holloway Prison, London, at the direction of Paul Boateng who was then the Minister for Prisons.

Despite what one reviewer described as the "explicit" content of the book, he commended Rayner on her "down to earth" approach to the subject. The list of "trending" topics – the things being most discussed by the millions of people who fire off messages at each other in 140 characters or fewer – was topped by "Claire Rayner RIP", followed by a couple of others in a similar vein. Journalist, author and social campaigner Claire Rayner was born in London, England on January 22, 1931. She described her father, a tailor's cutter, as "a fantasist", and her mother as "exceptionally pretty, which is always dangerous. In 1958 she wrote her first letter to the Nursing Times, complaining about working conditions for nurses.

And yet recently it became clear that there was a generation, generally those under 30, who had no idea what the words "Claire Rayner" meant. I feel that this charity represents people like me who have been part of the hearing world for most of their lives and have suddenly found themselves having to cope with a hearing loss. Rayner helped Sense to promote "The Good Life" campaign booklet, tips on how to cope with sight and hearing loss in older age. She was often the subject of controversy over the advice she gave in Petticoat, a magazine for the early teens. Claire Rayner, OBE, was an English journalist, novelist and television personality, best known for her role for many years as an agony aunt.

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