IN the 1970s, Dr Penelope Key enjoyed some celebrity status as the last British doctor to leave Phnom Penh, before the Khmer Rouge invaded, unleashing the horror dramatised in the film, The Killing Fields.Newton Abbot born and bred, 'Dr Penny's' progress was followed in the Mid-Devon Advertiser with breathless updates: Dr Penny leaves on the last flight out, Dr Penny helps organise an airlift of orphans. There are snippets from her father, the Rt Rev Maurice Key, retired Bishop of Truro, and mother Joan, founder of Stover School. Parishioners create an aisle of pennies to pay for an emergency food shipment organised by Penny from Bangkok, and a later headline: Pledge by Dr Penny: I will go back.Dr Key's two years in Cambodia as part of a small medical relief team with World Vision Australia, forms the page-turning heart of her autobiography Pushing the Boundaries. In fact Dr Key was evacuated not once but twice. In late 1974 with the Khmer Rouge getting ever closer to the capital, she was pressurised by embassy officials into leaving, to encourage Western women and children to do so. She played along, smiling for the cameras at the

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