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• GAYNOR'S GRIEF AFTER COOK'S MOUNTA FALL ATH
• GAYNOR OK LEAV FUNERAL FORMER FOREIGN SECRETARY ROB OK OK STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• GAYNOR SHONE THIS TALE OF TWO WIDOWS THROUGHOUT
• NO WONR GAYNOR IS FALLY SG!; MISTER'S MISTRS SET TO BE LADY OF THE MANOR.
• MARIE GAYNOR COOK
• GAYNOR COOK

GAYNOR'S GRIEF AFTER COOK'S MOUNTA FALL ATH

Gaynor Cook sperately tried to rcate her hband when he llapsed and fell while walkg the Sttish mountas. Tribut poured for Mr Cook, one of the towerg figur of New Labour, after he llapsed and died while hill-walkg wh his wife Gaynor yterday.

A antic Gaynor spent more than 40 mut tryg to rcate her hband after llg for help om a fellow walker who dialled 999 on his mobile. Gaynor was then left to make her own way down the mounta as her hband was airlifted to hospal Inverns. 15pm, Gaynor Cook was rted to the mortuary at Raigmore Hospal Inverns by two police officers and Jim Deve, who was her late hband's electn Labour MP had llapsed while fell-walkg on 2, 365ft Ben Stack north-wt Sutherland.

"Our thoughts and prayers are wh Gaynor and all Rob's fay. He end the uple's marriage a wag room at Heathrow airport after learng that a tabloid newspaper was planng to reveal his affair wh Gaynor Regan, his then Commons secretary.

GAYNOR OK LEAV FUNERAL FORMER FOREIGN SECRETARY ROB OK OK STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

He later married Gaynor a secret ceremony and, after the ial furore died down, the uple enjoyed a happy life as he voted himself once aga to his polics.

And that brought, reluctantly, Gaynor Regan to md; she had. qutn whether Gaynor Regan really had been all that she had appeared to be,.

But all reports said Gaynor.

GAYNOR SHONE THIS TALE OF TWO WIDOWS THROUGHOUT

who, we were told, me to Gaynor Cook's aid? "ROBIN didn't say was 10 feet away when he jt llapsed, " reveals Gaynor Cook's grievg widow said yterday the former Foreign Secretary dropped ad next to her whout sayg a word.

Gaynor Cook said: "Rob didn't say anythg.

" Mr Cook left his first wife Margaret 1997 for his secretary Gaynor Regan after their affair was exposed, marryg her 1998.

NO WONR GAYNOR IS FALLY SG!; MISTER'S MISTRS SET TO BE LADY OF THE MANOR.

As the Mail reported yterday, Alastair Campbell rells his newly published diari how he disvered that Rob was nductg an affair wh his secretary Gaynor Regan.

And I knew that this was the matter uppermost his md, not an emotnal choice between Gaynor - the other woman - and me. Then he briefly told me about the News Of The World story of him and Gaynor, and that the holiday was ncelled bee he uldn't leave the untry, and that he thought we should part. Campbell ments, too, his diari that Rob was far more ncerned about Gaynor than about me.

Acrdg to Campbell, there was a later phone ll, when I was not prent, which Rob said to Blair that the Gaynor thg was more than a flg, more than a romance. “Over the last 15 years I’ve seen the sign elements of the Gaynor Mn pote shoe greatly improved to meet the mands of trag and performg for today’s dancers. It’s excg to see that the Gaynor Mn shoe not only enhanc a betiful le to the leg, but is equally signed to ensure the dancer’s foot is protected and safe.

MARIE GAYNOR COOK

The Gaynor Mn shoe allows the dancer to tombé or “fall” off pote easily, a transnal movement qualy that is so important Mr. I also appreciate that Gaynor Mn offers so many choic of flexibily and durabily appropriate to each dancer’s foot. I lived at the other end of the untry om the Wtmster village and, no doubt to my then hband’s nsirable relief, was unlikely that Gaynor (the then mistrs) and I should ever meet for a no-holds-barred showdown.

At the same time, so the grapeve rmed me, Gaynor’s post was beg checked daily before she received orr to remove upsettg hate-mail. By the time Gaynor and I actually met, some five years after the spl, at the funeral of Rob’s mother, I certaly had no ridual aggrsive feelgs left.

GAYNOR COOK

” “Nice to meet you, Gaynor. Rob Cook's sons, Peter and Chris, wh Gaynor. I was more fortunate than Gaynor Cook: I was my hband's hospal room for those six days, most of the time lyg his bed bi him.

In fact, Gaynor has long had a close relatnship wh both her stepsons. In ntrast to Margaret's temperate public ments sce Rob's ath, Gaynor ma a dignified public statement thankg those who had rallied around her.

The Chancellor's wife, Sarah Brown, lan wh bags of food, was one of the first llers at Gaynor's home Edburgh after her return om the hospal where she intified her ad hband. When Rob was Foreign Secretary and then Lear of the Commons, such vatns went to Gaynor.

Wh Gaynor, he never left her si - as if they were "joed at the hip". He paid tribute to Gaynor. Gaynor retaed her posure throughout the service, while, unsurprisgly, lookg exhsted at the end.

GAYNOR Cook told for the first time yterday of her "terrible" grief at the sudn ath of her hband Cook told for the first time yterday of her "terrible" grief at the sudn ath of her hband Rob. " Gaynor, 48 - who married Mr Cook 1998 after the break-up of his 28-year marriage to first wife Margaret - issued the statement through her hband's electn agent Jim Deve. Mr Cook, 59, llapsed on Saturday while walkg wh Gaynor on 2, 365ft Ben Stack, north wt Sutherland.

Gaynor and a passg walker fought to save his life for 49 mut before rcuers arrived. Gaynor was left to make her way down the mounta by foot to return to Surie Lodge hotel where the uple were stayg. As Gaynor mourned yterday, books of ndolence were opened across Stland and flags flown at half-mast on uncil buildgs.