Following a star from Budleigh Salterton
Matt Lambert: keen to hear from people with any memories of Budleigh-born film star Belinda Lee She was a celebrity who tragically met an early death in a car crash. The policeman at the scene described her as “the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.” No, not Princess Grace of Monaco, or even Diana, Princess of Wales. Although the sight of Diana’s body at the crash scene provoked an uncannily similar comment at the time. “ I got shivers up my spine,” recalled photographer Nikola Arsov, who arrived at the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris, shortly after the accident on 31 August 1997. “You can't imagine how beautiful she was. It was devastating!” A poster from the 2006 Fairlynch Museum exhibition The crash victim in the case I’m thinking of was Budleigh Salterton’s own Belinda Lee, the subject of an exhibition at Fairlynch Museum in...