Ann Torode obituary

My friend Ann Torode, who has died aged 74, was a passionate campaigner against the oppression of women. She was a founder member of a women’s liberation group in North Tyneside and helped set up a women’s refuge and a rape crisis centre, both of which still exist.The Coast Women’s Group, which she and like-minded women founded in the 1970s, campaigned to defend the 1967 Abortion Act, which was under attack. It also organised a workshop at the 1976 Women’s Liberation Conf