FORMER Blackburn MP Barbara Castle has left nearly £1million to her relatives and the Labour Party.

The Labour Party nationally and Blackburn constituency Labour Party both get £2,000.

In addition she has left all her letters and papers, including love letters, to the Bodlein Library in Oxford.

Baroness Castle was made a life peer in 1990.

She left the main part of her property in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Hell Corner Farm, to her favourite great-nephew Mark Hinton.

The other part of the property, Greys Barn goes to her great niece Katharine Payne.

Fifteen other nieces and nephews receive £2,000 each.

Her housekeeper of 11 years, Pauline Gilroy, receives £5,000 to look after Baroness Castle's beloved cocker spaniel, Bertie.

Much of Mrs Castle's wealth came from the publication of her diaries and her autobiography Fighting All The Way.