STAR of stage and screen Maxine Peake will be among those honouring a seasoned peace and women's rights campaigner at a special event.

Bolton Socialist Club will be hosting a special 'This is Your Life' style event for lifelong peace activist, trade unionist and women's rights campaigner Betty Tebbs, who lives in Prestwich.

Among the guests to recognise and celebrate Betty Tebbs' achievements will be Bolton-born actor Maxine and Manchester-based singer/ songwriter Claire Mooney.

Chris Chilton, Chairman of Bolton Socialist Club, said: "After starting work at the age 14 in a paper mill in Radcliffe Betty Tebbs spent a lifetime fighting relentlessly to improve pay and working conditions in the industry, advancing women's rights and working for peace, founding a refuge for victims of domestic abuse along the way. "Her life has been an inspiration for all of us who want a better, saner world and we're proud to celebrate it with her.

"Maxine Peake has long admired Betty's courage and determination and we're absolutely delighted she has agreed to contribute to the evening.

"It's no more than Betty deserves."

Mrs Tebbs spent 18 years at the East Lancs Paper Mill, where the female worked became the highest paid women in the British paper industry.

Mrs Tebbs, who lost her husband in the Second World War, became a peace campaigner after seeing newspaper reports of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, campaigning through the Ban the Bomb movement and CND.

After moving to Warrington, she set up a refuge for victims of domestic violence and worked with abused women there for many years.

As Chair of the National Assembly for Women she attended many international conferences to advance women’s rights and to promote peace.

In 1986 at the height of the Cold War she spoke to 10,000 people in the Lenin Stadium in Moscow and met both the USSR and USA nuclear non-proliferation negotiating teams in Geneva.

In 2007, approaching her 90th birthday, she was taken into police custody when taking part in demonstrations against Trident at the Faslane submarine base.

More recently, Mrs Tebbs joined the anti-austerity march at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester earlier this month, as the government pledges another £100 million to a replacement for Trident and promotes nuclear annihilation as a reasonable defence strategy.