Influential Preston suffragette Edith Rigby who threw black pudding at MP is having the M55 link road named after her

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The peak of Edith's campaign came when she planted a pipe bomb at the Liverpool Cotton Exchange on July 5 1913. In her court testimony, Edith explained why she specifically chose to target the Cotton Exchange in Liverpool. She said: "I was asked yesterday by your kind, efficient officers what grievance I had against the Cotton Exchange. During World War I, or the Great War, Edith disagreed with the WSPU's stance of not campaigning on suffrage issues. After the Great War, Edith became a founding member and the president of the Hutton and Howick Women's Institute.
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