Sir Winston Churchill's final painting - which he gave to the bodyguard who helped prepare his brushes - is going under the hammer.

The Goldfish Pool At Chartwell, depicting the wartime leader's "most special place in the world", is expected to fetch £80,000 at auction.

Sir Winston gave the abstract work to his bodyguard, Sergeant Edmund Murray, in the last few years before the ex-prime minister's death in 1965.

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