SEVERAL charities have benefited from an edlerly woman's large legacy. Pamela Hall, of Station Road West, Canterbury, who died in hospital last August aged 79, left estate valued at £1,844,881 net.

Miss Hall, who has been described as a very kind and very private person, left legacies to the Friends of the Cathedral, the East Kent Hospital Project, St Paul's Church and the Kent and Canterbury Hospital Trust.

Further shares in her estate were went to the Salvation Army and the Children's Society, with £5,000 going to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund now known as Cancer Research UK.

Miss Hall's cousin, Jack, said she worked in the Canterbury telephone exchange and was a supervisor when she retired, Later she helped in the Children's Society shop in Palace Street. "It was something very close to her heart," said Mr Hall who lives in Taunton, Somerset, "She was also a skilled needle woman and a member of the Canterbury Cathedral Embroidery Guild."

Mr Hall said that although his cousin was extremely kind and generous, she lived a very private life.