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Medway Messenger : TV show tracks down heir to share relative’s £250k

A Gillingham man has found out he is an heir to part of a £250 fortune, thanks to a BBC programme

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August 30, 2017

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Wayne Johnson, left, is due to receive part of a 250,000 Estate left my Edmund Dennis, right, thanks to TV Show Heir Hunters on BBC One.

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