EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: King Charles was told by Downing Street to delay announcing giving the best Coronation seats at Buckingham Palace to NHS workers pending an agreement with striking nurses… but the news was broken only to have the pay deal rejected
When King Charles told Downing Street that he wanted to give the best Coronation seats in the stands near Buckingham Palace to NHS workers, he was asked to delay any announcement pending a peace deal with the striking Royal College of Nursing.
Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer, who is responsible for building the stands, broke the good news only to have the pay deal rejected in a ballot.
Strikes are back on. Courtiers fret that as the monarch and his queen pass in their carriage they might face irate Florence Nightingales waving banners demanding more money.
King Charles was told by Downing Street to delay announcing giving the best Coronation seats at Buckingham Palace to NHS workers pending an agreement with striking nurses
Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer, who is responsible for building the stands, broke the good news only to have the pay deal rejected in a ballot
BBC Shipping Forecast presenter Susan Rae’s family had to resort to crowd funding to pay her care costs after her early Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
Her son Rory Cargill tells Radio Times: ‘When the condition caused mum’s work to stop, her income fell to zero. She could no longer broadcast live, and the BBC stopped offering her shifts in summer 2021, when she had just turned 65.’
He adds: ‘We have suffered enormously as a family… the anguish of this cruel illness is just one factor in the stress it brings – as the state help we presumed would be there simply isn’t.’
BBC Shipping Forecast presenter Susan Rae’s family had to resort to crowd funding to pay her care costs after her early Alzheimer’s diagnosis
Abacus aficionado Rishi Sunak won’t like being reminded that his predecessor Liz Truss is also a maths advocate.
When interviewing potential members of staff, she would ask: ‘What is one-seventh plus one-eighth?’ If doomed chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng got it right (15/56), bet he wishes he hadn’t!
Sasha Swire’s new book about coastal walks prompts recollection of her trek with David Cameron when he asked her not to walk ahead of him. ‘Why?’ asks Sasha.
Cameron allegedly replies: ‘Because that scent you are wearing is affecting my pheromones. It makes me want to grab you, push you into the bushes and give you one!’ Neither her diaries nor this new tome are fiction, apparently.
Sasha Swire’s new book about coastal walks prompts recollection of her trek with David Cameron when he asked her not to walk ahead of him
Comedian Jack Whitehall’s mother Hilary recalls curmudgeonly husband Michael, 83, helping her to secure baby Jack’s nappies with Sellotape.
She told her husband: ‘I have all this to come with you,’ adding: ‘I will have to Sellotape you in when you get older but it might have to be gaffer tape.’
Celebrity photographer Herbie Knott confirms Mary Quant had her ‘lady garden’ shaved in the shape of a heart and painted green.
He quotes a postman who found her about to take her daily nude dip in the pool. ‘So it’s really true what they say in the papers!’
He adds: ‘Quant took the plunge without batting an eyelash.’
When the late Jack Charlton managed the Irish soccer team, he poached players from the English game who possessed a solitary Irish grandparent, thus qualifying them to wear green.
Rabidly Hibernian Joe Biden, who boasts a pair of Irish great-great grandfathers, would have failed to make Jack’s lineup.
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