THE village shop used by Norma Major and her son has gone to the wall - the latest victim of the recession.

Norma Major, a teacher who stayed at home to raise the couple's two children, has written a well-received biography of Dame Joan.

Norma Major, John Major's wife, was best known for her expertise on the opera.

Norma Major (whose husband became Prime Minister in 1990) was the first of Lady Avon's successors to have been born after her.

Norma Major was terrified of her, but so were most people.

Norma Major has in recent months emerged from the private, suburban housewife's life she had maintained to give interviews and make public appearances.

Whitemoor Prison was built on the site of an old railway marshalling yard and was opened in 1991 by Norma Major.

Some spouses, such as Norma Major have chosen to remain very much in the background.

She's been writing to the Health Minister, her local MP and Norma Major every day for 2 weeks and plans to continue.

It does worry me'- Norma Major on the prospect of losing the election, March 1992.