Stay at home with baby
What is wrong with Amanda Holden? For years she has been trying to have a second child. Last February a baby boy was stillborn. This was just months after suffering a miscarriage.
Then last month she nearly died giving birth to baby Hollie Rose, a sister for Alexa.
So what does she do? Thank her lucky stars she’s survived life-saving blood transfusions that left her fighting for her life? Put her feet up and concentrate on nursing that much-wanted baby?
Not a bit of it. On goes the make-up, six inch high heels and a pair of hot pants and she heads down to the Britain’s Got Talent studio in sub-zero weather conditions for a photo call with Ant and Dec.
Amanda, you messed up your first marriage to comedian Les Dennis in 1995 because of an affair with Neil Morrissey.
Isn’t it time you put your career on the back burner for at least six months? Surely you should be at home with your baby, not posing for publicity shots for Britain’s Got Talent, just to keep Simon Cowell happy. You can’t have it all!
Last Saturday five Sun journalists were arrested in dawn raids and held in police cells while their homes were ransacked.
171 detectives are on the case investigating alleged phone hacking and paying officials for information.
An elite 11-man anti-terror squad which should have been trying to protect the Olympics from a mass suicide attack were seconded to help in Saturday’s arrests.
The journalists included one friend who I have known for more than 40 years. He is a brilliant journalist who has uncovered many stories of corruption in the police force, Ministry of Defence and other great stories that needed exposing.
This inquiry has been likened to a witch-hunt.
The journalists used whistleblowers and sometimes money changed hands. Without good sources, no newspaper could uncover scandals in the public interest.
The world would never have learned about the MPs’ expenses scandal without the Daily Telegraph paying for this information.
It smacks of politicians getting their own back.
The whole debacle will cost the country tens of millions but we should remember that without freedom of the press, Britain would be a very scary place indeed.
It could only happen in England. The NHS spends £23 million a year on translators. Hospitals and doctors’ surgeries cater for 120 languages. We are the only country where this happens.
Go abroad for a holiday and you are expected to find your own translator to take into hospital with you.
Emma Boon, of the Taxpayers Alliance, said: “Taxpayers will be shocked that so much is being spent on translations and interpretation for the NHS. The money should go towards the cost of the treatment.”
A friend of mine who works in a doctor’s surgery told me they spend hundreds of pounds for translators for all sorts of languages.
Frequently the patient just doesn’t turn up. But the interpreter still has to be paid.
This problem could easily be solved by telling immigrants to find someone of their own nationality, who speaks English, to attend the hospital or surgery with them.
I am disappointed with David Cameron’s lack of action on matters that could save the country millions.
All over the country, subsidised wind farms are being built. Not only are they spoiling our countryside, they fail to deliver electricity when the wind doesn’t blow or even when it blows too strongly.
I don’t want to hear about charity auction parties he’s supported, where rich bankers and MPs bid obscene amounts like £55,000 for a day’s shooting or £55,000 for a dinner of eight with Boris Johnson.
What we want is steady, consistent leadership. I want a PM that genuinely cares about normal hard-working people who are struggling to keep their jobs.
We don’t want the NHS changing; we just want it working within its present structure.
I fail to see how GPs can run the NHS from their surgeries. Retrain nurses to nurse properly and show compassion. And most important of all, improve the standard of nursing to elderly people.
Stories of old people starving to death are not lies. I have seen this happen with my own eyes. And still nothing happens!
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