Mum cuts daughters from will

A FAILSWORTH mother has cut out her three daughters from her will after they attempted to evict her in a 15-year family feud.

Megan Swanston died last December, aged 85, and decided to leave the whole of her estate to Dr Kershaw’s Hospice in Royton.

Mrs Swanston and her daughters, Elaine Nixon, Valerie Hunter and Lorraine Talbot, clashed in a courtroom battle over the cottage in Medlock Road, in the mid-1990s.

The daughters inherited the property when Mrs Swanston’s husband Willie died in 1993 because of a condition in their grandfather John’s will who died in 1973.

Mrs Swanston claimed her children had promised she could spend the rest of her life there but a year later Ms Nixon wrote a letter to her mother which stated they wished to sell the house with or without her approval.

Her last will and testament revealed last week that she left nothing to them from her reported £20,000 estate.

The document states: “I declare that I have not made any provision in my will for my daughters because of the way they have treated me during my lifetime.”