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A former tribunal judge and her husband have been jailed after they forged a will to get their hands on a country cottage to convert into a retirement home near Newarkin what was described as a "shameful and astonishing" crime.Former solicitor Margaret Hampshire, 69, and her builder husband 67-year-old Alan Hampshire had admitted drawing up a sham will for illiterate Martin Blanche, who died in 2007.Jailing the couple for six months each at Nottingham Crown Court, a judge told them...