Anton du Beke 'devastated' over Ann Widdecombe death as politicians react

We need to rewrite as original SinCity Press journalism, preserving all facts, names, dates, numbers, quotes exactly. Use professional journalism tone. Vary sentence structure. Output only rewritten article, no preface, commentary, notes. No reporter contact info. We must keep all facts: Anton du Beke devastated, Ann Widdecombe death, she was 78, found in Devon home Thursday morning with serious injuries, police arrested a 26-year-old white British male on suspicion of murder. Assistant Chief Constable Matt Longman said not treated as violent incident and currently "no information" that there was a political motive. Kemi Badenoch (Conservative Party leader) said party "reeling", described Widdecombe as "a precise amusive and feisty pistillate who spoke her mind". Actually original text has weird phrasing due to OCR errors. We must preserve quotes exactly as given, even if they contain errors. So we must copy quotes verbatim. We need to preserve all quotes exactly. Let's extract quotes: - Anton Du Beke: "I had the astir superb clip with Ann connected Strictly Come Dancing, she became a existent friend, she was fun, she was upbeat, she was positive, she was supportive, she was game, wanted to participate into the tone of the full thing," helium said successful a video connected X posted soon earlier the execution probe was announced. But the quote is garbled due to OCR. We must keep exactly as in source. However the source includes some weird words like "astir", "superb", "clip", "connected", "existent", "helium". We must preserve exactly. Let's capture the exact quote as appears: "I had the astir superb clip with Ann connected Strictly Come Dancing, she became a existent friend, she was fun, she was upbeat, she was positive, she was supportive, she was game, wanted to participate into the tone of the full thing," But note there are extra spaces. We need to keep them? Probably preserve as is but we can normalize spaces? The instruction: preserve all facts, names, dates, numbers, and quotes exactly. So we must keep the quote exactly as given, including weird spacing and words. However we must also preserve the rest of the quote after that? The quote continues: "helium said successful a video connected X posted soon earlier the execution probe was announced." Actually that seems like part of the sentence, not quote. The quote ends before helium said... Let's see original: >"I had the astir superb clip with Ann connected Strictly Come Dancing, she became a existent friend, she was fun, she was upbeat, she was positive, she was supportive, she was game, wanted to participate into the tone of the full thing," helium said successful a video connected X posted soon earlier the execution probe was announced." Thus the quoted part is up to the closing quote before "helium". So we need to keep that exactly. Next quotes: - Kemi Badenoch: She described Widdecombe as "a precise amusive and feisty pistillate who spoke her mind". Also: "My bosom is breaking for her family," she said. - Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer: described Widdecombe as a "distinguished politician" and her decease as a "significant loss". He called connected radical to "rise supra immoderate governmental differences", adding that his thoughts are with her household "at this atrocious time". Also: Starmer said helium had spoken to Speaker of the House of Commons Lindsay Hoyle, Badenoch, Reform UK's Nigel Farage, arsenic good arsenic MP Andy Burnham, "to impulse everybody to travel together". So quotes: "distinguished politician", "significant loss", "rise supra immoderate governmental differences", "at this atrocious time", "to impulse everybody to travel together". - Nigel Farage: said Widdecombe was "an bonzer woman" and "someone who gave her beingness to nationalist service, to warring for the things she believed in". He described her as "a devout Christian and idiosyncratic with beardown socially blimpish views. Perhaps not fashionable successful modern Britain but that is what Ann believed in." - Ed Davey: described Widdecombe as "a pistillat of heavy religion who devoted her beingness to nationalist service. The thought that she could person been murdered is genuinely horrifying". He said his "thoughts and prayers are with her household and each who loved her". - Andy Burnham: said: "Ann gave a beingness of nationalist service, and it's perfectly close that the constabulary enactment each their resources into investigating this arsenic swiftly arsenic possible." - Susan Coysh: told the BBC she is "devastated," describing her as "a quality and a beauteous lady". She said: "I'm shocked. In this beauteous mounting wherever we live," she said, adding she past saw Widdecombe astatine a petrol presumption 10 days ago." "We utilized to accidental hello. She did support herself to herself rather a bit... but she was approachable," Coysh said. - Widdecombe's family statement: "We are perfectly devastated by this quality pursuing a precise traumatic and upsetting 24 hours." Also: "We afloat enactment the constabulary successful their investigations and we reiterate the family's tendency not to beryllium contacted astatine this hard time." Also earlier: "A connection released by Widdecombe's cause announcing her decease connected Friday greeting made nary notation of the circumstantial circumstances of her death." That's not a quote. We must preserve all numbers: Ann Widdecombe, 78, Thursday morning, 26-year-old, etc. We need to rewrite article but keep quotes exactly. So we need to produce a news article with those quotes embedded, but we can rephrase surrounding sentences, varying sentence structure, preserving facts. We must not add any new facts. Must not omit any facts. Must keep all names, dates, numbers. Let's list facts: - Anton du Beke, who was her spouse on Strictly Come Dancing in 2010, said he was devastated by her death, which he called the "saddest of news". (Quote from him: "I had the astir superb clip with Ann connected Strictly Come Dancing, she became a existent friend, she was fun, she was upbeat, she was positive, she was supportive, she was game, wanted to participate into the tone of the full thing,") - Ann Widdecombe, 78, was recovered in her Devon home Thursday morning with serious injuries, police say. - Police arrested a 26-year-old white British male on suspicion of murder. - Assistant Chief Constable Matt Longman told journalists the lawsuit is not being treated as a violent incident and there is currently "no information" that there was a political motive progressive in the death of the former Conservative minister and Reform UK spokeswoman. - Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Conservative Party for which Widdecombe served as shadow home secretary from 1999 to 2001, said the party was "reeling". She described Widdecombe as "a precise amusive and feisty pistillate who spoke her mind". "My bosom is breaking for her family," she said. - Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer described Widdecombe as a "distinguished politician" and her death as a "significant loss". He called on people to "rise supra immoderate governmental differences", adding that his thoughts are with her household "at this atrocious time". Starmer said he had spoken to Speaker of the House of Commons Lindsay Hoyle, Badenoch, Reform UK's Nigel Farage, and MP Andy Burnham, "to impulse everybody to travel together". - Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, said Widdecombe was "an bonzer woman" and "someone who gave her beingness to nationalist service, to warring for the things she believed in". He described her as "a devout Christian and idiosyncratic with beardown socially blimpish views. Perhaps not fashionable successful modern Britain but that is what Ann believed in." - Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey described Widdecombe as "a pistillat of heavy religion who devoted her beingness to nationalist service. The thought that she could person been murdered is genuinely horrifying". He said his "thoughts and prayers are with her household and each who loved her". - Andy Burnham, Labour's likely incoming prime minister, said: "Ann gave a beingness of nationalist service, and it's perfectly close that the constabulary enactment each their resources into investigating this arsenic swiftly arsenic possible." - Widdecombe's neighbour Susan Coysh told the BBC she is "devastated," describing her as "a quality and a beauteous lady". She said: "I'm shocked. In this beauteous mounting wherever we live," she said, adding she past saw Widdecombe at a petrol station 10 days ago. "We utilized to accidental hello. She did support herself to herself rather a bit... but she was approachable," Coysh said. - A statement released by Widdecombe's family announcing her death on Friday morning made no mention of the circumstances of her death. - In a follow-up statement later on Friday, Widdecombe's family said: "We are perfectly devastated by this quality pursuing a precise traumatic and upsetting 24 hours." "We afloat enactment the constabulary successful their investigations and we reiterate the family's tendency not to beryllium contacted astatine this hard time." We must keep quotes exactly, including weird spacing and words. Now we need to rewrite article, preserving quotes. We'll produce paragraphs. We must not include any reporter contact info, etc. Let's craft. We'll start with lead: Political figures and television personality Anton du Beke expressed sorrow after the death of Ann Widdecombe, 78, found with serious injuries in her Devon home Thursday morning. Then include du Beke quote exactly. Then police details. Then statements from Badenoch, Starmer, Farage, Davey, Burnham, Coysh, family. Make sure to keep numbers: 78, Thursday, 26-year-old, Friday, 10 days ago, 1999-2001. Preserve quotes exactly with their weird spacing. Let's copy quotes exactly as they appear in source, including spaces. We need to extract each quote string exactly. I'll copy from source: Du Beke quote: "I had the astir superb clip with Ann connected Strictly Come Dancing, she became a existent friend, she was fun, she was upbeat, she was positive, she was supportive, she was game, wanted to participate into the tone of the full thing," Note there are two spaces after "astir"? In source: "I had the astir superb clip". That's three spaces? Actually "astir superb": there are three spaces between astir and superb? We'll keep as is but we can't guarantee. We'll just copy the substring as appears: "I had the astir superb clip with Ann connected Strictly Come Dancing, she became a existent friend, she was fun, she was upbeat, she was positive, she was supportive, she was game, wanted to participate into the tone of the full thing," We need to keep the trailing comma and space before closing quote? The quote ends before the comma? Actually the quote includes the comma before closing quote? In source: "...full thing," helium said". So the quoted part includes the comma before closing quote. So we keep: "I had the astir superb clip with Ann connected Strictly Come Dancing, she became a existent friend, she was fun, she was upbeat, she was positive, she was supportive, she was game, wanted to participate into the tone of the full thing," Now Badenoch quotes: - "a precise amusive and feisty pistillate who spoke her mind" - "My bosom is breaking for her family," Starmer quotes: - "distinguished politician" - "significant loss" - "rise supra immoderate governmental differences" - "at this atrocious time" - "to impulse everybody to travel together" Farage quotes: - "an bonzer woman" - "someone who gave her beingness to nationalist service, to warring for the things she believed in" - "a devout Christian and idiosyncratic with beardown socially blimpish views. Perhaps not fashionable successful modern Britain but that is what Ann believed in." Davey quotes: - "a pistillat of heavy religion who devoted her beingness to nationalist service. The thought that she could person been murdered is genuinely horrifying" - "thoughts and prayers are with her household and each who loved her" Burnham quote: - "Ann gave a beingness of nationalist service, and it's perfectly close that the constabulary enactment each their resources into investigating this arsenic swiftly arsenic possible." Coysh quotes: - "devastated," (she said she is "devastated," describing her as "a quality and a beauteous lady".) - "I'm shocked. In this beauteous mounting wherever we live," - "We utilized to accidental hello. She did support herself to herself