fathers

Survivor’s Sharn Coombes shares her heartbreak over her father’s terminal cancer diagnosis

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Australian Survivor’s Sharn Coombes shares her heartbreak over her father’s terminal cancer diagnosis… and admits she’s concerned about ‘getting too close’ to him amid the coronavirus pandemic By Kylie Walters For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:56 GMT, 28 March 2020 | Updated: 07:31 GMT, 28 March 2020 Australian Survivor star Sharn Coombes has shared her … Read more

Nia Vardalos was unable to attend her father’s funeral ‘because of social distancing’

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Nia Vardalos was unable to attend her father’s funeral ‘because of social distancing’ amid coronavirus pandemic By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 23:42 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 23:42 GMT, 21 March 2020 Nia Vardalos has revealed she was unable to travel to attend her father Michael Constantine’s funeral due to the coronavirus pandemic.  The 57-year-old … Read more

Coronavirus: Son of lifelong churchgoer, 88, tells of his torment after father’s death

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The son of an 88-year-old man who died after testing positive for coronavirus has revealed how he was not allowed to touch his father as he died in isolation. Darrell Blakeley died in hospital in Manchester last Friday, with his son Jonathan only able to spend a few minutes with him after putting on protective … Read more

Joe Giudice shares somber post of his father’s grave and addresses past mistakes

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Joe Giudice shares somber post of his father’s grave and addresses past mistakes which caused him to ‘not touch my daughters ever day’ By Tracy Wright For Dailymail.com Published: 20:34 GMT, 7 March 2020 | Updated: 20:34 GMT, 7 March 2020 He’s creating a new life in Italy after being held in ICE custody in … Read more

Absent fathers are fuelling knife crime in Britain, warns police chief

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Knife crime is being driven by absent fathers, according to Britain’s top officer on violence. Jackie Sebire said it was easy to blame drugs, funding cuts or social media for the epidemic in knife crime. But she insisted that one of the biggest drivers of serious violence was the lack of a father figure at home. … Read more

Earl of Sandwich’s touching memoirs as he chronicles his father’s decline into Alzheimer’s disease

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MEMOIR Mapperton Moments  by John Montagu (Skyscraper £10, 224 pp) Leaking house, leaking pond, leaking puppy, leaking father… these touching diaries of John Montagu (now the 11th Earl of Sandwich), chronicling his father’s slow decline into Alzheimer’s disease and death over eight years, have them all, in dripping abundance. Drip, drip, drip. It’s January 1987 … Read more

Expectant fathers treating Edinburgh NHS maternity ward ‘like hotel’ by ordering takeaways

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Expectant fathers are accused of treating an NHS maternity ward ‘like a hotel’ by sharing beds with their partners and ordering takeaways – leaving mothers too embarrassed to breastfeed New mothers said to be too embarrassed to breastfeed because so many men Staff at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary say their ability to deliver care is impacted … Read more