The actress who changed the lives of children across Berkshire

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Ten days ago we lost Coral Atkins, who set up a children's home in Newbury. Harry Whitehead, Coral Atkins' son: "She was working on 'A Family at War' at the time, and she was invited to open a fete at a children's home. When she walking into the kitchen she saw a child crying under the table...she found herself under the table cradling the child. "She said, I'm going to open a children's home...two years later she achieved that. "They were seriously disturbed children. Coral's take on it was that they were the sane children of mad adults."