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Astronomer Sir Patrick Moore is recovering in hospital after a bout of food poisoning that nearly killed him.

Sir Patrick, 81, who has presented the BBC's monthly Sky at Night programme since 1957, was forced to miss his show on Sunday evening for the first time because of the illness.

The bout of salmonella is thought to have come from a duck egg Sir Patrick ate last Wednesday at his home in West Sussex.

He is being treated in St Richard's hospital in Chichester and is expected to leave later this week.

"I very, very nearly died, it was quite awful," Sir Patrick told the Independent newspaper.

"I can't be sure but I believe it was the egg I ate that evening. I suddenly collapsed and was taken to hospital it was very serious indeed."

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