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A former education and science minister who was a "driving force" behind the creation of polytechnics and served as chancellor of what is now Northumbria University has died.
Ted Short - who became a life peer in 1977 - was born in the village of Warcop in Cumbria on 17 December 1912. He would later describe his childhood as the son of a draper in I Knew My Place (1983).
After qualifying as a teacher, he taught on Teesside, fought in the Durham Light Infantry during the Second World War and was appointed head of Princess Louise Secondary School in 1947. But politics soon beckoned, first on Newcastle...