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Lying on her hospital bed, awaiting a 14-hour, life-threatening operation, mother-of-four Sarah Berry began a mental checklist. She’d made after-school arrangements for her three youngest children, given her husband recipes for their favourite pasta sauce and, of course, written her will. All essential undertakings, given there was a 50 per cent chance she would not survive … Read more
‘I couldn’t bear the thought of everyone worrying’: Julie Walters reveals she kept cancer battle secret from her daughter By Daily Mail Published: 00:56 BST, 6 April 2020 | Updated: 01:59 BST, 6 April 2020 She fought an 18-month cancer battle away from the public eye. And Dame Julie Walters has now revealed she kept it … Read more
A man who has just got over coronavirus is not the obvious choice to saddle up when the cavalry is called in to save the day. After a series of dire performances by a procession of ministers in the daily Downing Street briefings, the pressure was on Health Secretary Matt Hancock to respond to nationwide … Read more
At long last, Boris Johnson has finally made the nation sit up and pay attention by ordering the closure of pubs, restaurants and cafes. It is Johnson’s genius for acting as the voice of the nation that enabled him to mobilise millions of Britons of all ages and accents, achieve the seemingly impossible and ‘get … Read more
Boris Johnson did not draw a direct parallel with the threat posed to Britain by coronavirus and that of the Blitz in 1940. But at his Downing Street press conference yesterday he struck the dark, serious tone of a man putting the nation on a war footing. And he was addressing people already coming to … Read more
When Rishi Sunak rose to his feet in the Commons yesterday to deliver his first Budget speech, Boris Johnson had every reason to feel nervous. Less than a month had passed since Sajid Javid quit as Chancellor in a spat with the Prime Minister over special advisers. Few voters had ever heard of Sunak when … Read more
I know what it is like to have a party leader visit your house in a flood. Six years ago this month, I had spent a tidy sum doing up my dad’s modest house in Wraysbury, Berkshire, after he died, and I was about to sell it. Then I switched on the TV one morning and … Read more
Dame Julie Walters has revealed she had stage three bowel cancer – but has now been given the all clear following chemotherapy. The Mamma Mia star said she thought doctors must have been mistaken when she first heard the news. She told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire she was diagnosed with stage three bowel cancer just … Read more
Dame Julie Walters, 69, reveals she was diagnosed with stage three bowel cancer 18 months ago but now has the all-clear after surgery and chemotherapy Speaking on BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire, the actress, 69, said she thought doctors must have been mistaken when she first heard the news Two primary tumours were discovered in her large … Read more