Daily Mail - 06.09.2019

Page 22 Daily Mail, Friday, September 6, 2019

500 days spent

travelling to

and from work

WORKERS spend almost 500 days travel-

ling to and from work during a career –

costing them more than £37,000.

But nearly half of those who slog in to

offices, factories, shops and warehouses

every day actually enjoy the commute

because it gives them rare time to them-

selves, according to a report.

The research, conducted by YouGov

for Lloyds Bank, found that the average

employee spends more than an hour

each working day commuting.

And from the age of 18 to the tradi-

tional retirement point of 65, that adds

up to 492 days’ worth of travelling –

around a year and four months.

Getting to and from work costs almost

£800 a year for a typical worker, putting

the lifetime cost at £37,399 – well in

excess of the average family’s disposa-

ble yearly income of £28,400.

But for many commuters time spent on

the road is far from wasted. Some 47 per

cent said that they liked their daily jour-

neys as it gives them a chance to unwind

undisturbed by partners or children.

WHEN a teenager paid her mother a

surprise visit after returning from col-

lege early, she probably expected a

shriek of delight and a big hug.

Unfortunately, her mother mistook

her for an intruder – and shot her.

Startled by the ‘stranger’ coming

through her bedroom door at 9pm, the

unnamed US woman grabbed her

licenced .38 calibre handgun and

wounded her 18-year-old child.

Police were called to the woman’s

home in Girard, Ohio, by the boyfriend of

the victim, who was treated in hospital

for a bullet wound to her arm. In his call

to emergency services he said: ‘My girl-

friend just came home from college and

her mom didn’t know. She accidentally

shot her. It’s pretty bad.’

Police found the girl covered in blood

with a towel around her injured arm.

They said the mother was alone in her

house last Friday when she heard noises

downstairs. She became scared because

she wasn’t expecting company, and sim-

ply opened fire when the girl came in.

All Hours star:

BBC chiefs tell

me how to act

HER career has

lasted 60 years, but

Stephanie Cole says

that despite her

experience BBC

bosses still tell her

how to act.

The 77-year-old

actress, pictured,

also says that cor-

poration executives

don’t listen to her

and her Still Open

All Hours co-star David Jason, 79. ‘Unfor-

tunately, at the BBC, we do have people

who are rather old-fashioned in their

ways,’ she told The Daily Telegraph.

‘They don’t listen to me – I’m neither

here nor there – but David, at the end of

each series, has a bit of a tussle [with

executives and producers] and then he

gets the next step. He knows better than

any of them what works.

‘That’s the thing that really f**** me off.

As far as the acting and timing is con-

cerned, we know how to do it – we’ve

spent 60 f****** years doing it!’

Miss Cole appears in a new sitcom Scar-

borough on BBC1 at 9.30pm tonight.

Daughter home

for surprise visit

is shot by mother

A COUplE were found

dead in a suspected mur-

der-suicide just feet from

where their two-year-old

son was sleeping.

The toddler was discovered

unharmed in bed by a close

friend of his tragic parents –

optometrist lana Nemceva,

23, and Kiril Nemcev, 32, a

pizza Express chef.

The 47-year-old friend, who

shared the home with the

latvian couple, told the Mail

how he made the shocking dis-

covery after returning from work

on Wednesday night.

The warehouse worker said: ‘I

saw some drops of blood in the

house but I was more concerned

with making sure the boy was

safe. I can’t forget lana and Kir-

il’s faces – they were not a natu-

ral colour. Thankfully the child

was asleep in his bed. Once I

knew he was safe I called 999

and the police woke him up

when they arrived to check he

wasn’t injured.’

It is understood detectives are

working on the theory it was a

murder-suicide.

The friend, a fellow latvian,

said the couple had been argu-

ing in recent weeks while Mr

Nemcev had been given medica-

tion by his doctor. He added:

‘Kiril had complained to me

that he was tired at work and

had been to the doctor because

he wasn’t feeling well.

‘I think it was maybe depres-

sion – he told me that lana

didn’t understand him.

‘They had been a happy cou-

ple but there had been a tension

between them in recent weeks.

freight business, said: ‘Kiril was

my best friend and we are just in

complete shock at what has

happened. We were very close

and there is nothing I can say to

explain this.

‘They got on so well, they

seemed very much in love and

were both stable people.’

Mr Ascuks added: ‘Kiril came

to the UK about six years ago

and settled in Winchester.

‘He met lana on a trip home

to latvia, she joined him over

here and they got married in the

summer of 2016.

‘We have always been very

close. After we moved up here

to Burton, they did the same to

be closer to us.

‘All I know is that my wife

called me last night to say what

had happened. We are now look-

ing after their little boy.

‘He is doing all right. We don’t

know what is going to happen.

‘I know that lana’s mother is

coming over tomorrow but I

believe Kiril’s family may be on

holiday.’ Colleagues at pizza

Express in Tamworth told how

Kiril had not turned up for his

shift on Wednesday evening.

His wife took Wednesday as

her regular day off.

A neighbour said: ‘She seemed

lovely and polite and a really

bubbly, likeable character. We’re

not sure what’s happened. They

seemed like a normal family.’

Staffordshire police said: ‘The

bodies of a 32-year-old man and

a 23-year-old woman were dis-

covered at the address.

‘A two-year-old child was

found unharmed.

‘The deaths are being treated

as unexplained at this time and

post-mortems will take place in

due course.

‘Formal identification has not

yet taken place. A cordon is in

place as forensic inquiries con-

tinue and detectives work to

establish the circumstances

around the deaths.’

Scene: Policeman stands guard outside home yesterday

Rows: Latvians Kiril Nemcev, Lana Nemceva and their son

By Andy Dolan

‘I saw drops of

blood in house’

lana was upset because she

said Kiril always thought he was

in the right and she was always

in the wrong. But I don’t know

what could have triggered some-

thing like this to happen.

‘I had a coffee with her before

I went to work on Wednesday

and she seemed fine.’

The friend said the couple

invited him to move in with

them to share the cost of the

rent in Burton upon Trent,

Staffordshire.

Nikita Ascuks, 33, who runs a

Details of 18m UK Facebook users stolen

THE phone numbers of 18 million Brit-

ons have been posted online in Face-

book’s latest security breach.

The vast tranche of numbers – equivalent

to one in four people in Britain – was left on

a server with no password to protect them.

They were stolen and posted online until

researchers found them and they were

removed. The server contained 419 million

records across several countries. Among

them were some celebrities, reported tech

website TechCrunch. It comes after a string

of privacy blunders by Facebook, including

the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

A screenshot of some British numbers

showed the country as UK and the person’s

unique Facebook ID number. TechCrunch

verified numerous numbers in the data by

matching them against the number listed in

the person’s Facebook ID.

The information was discovered by secu-

rity expert Sanyam Jain. It is unclear who

posted the data online, but after Mr Jain

contacted the web host, it was removed.

Facebook said: ‘This data is old and appears

to have information obtained before we made

changes last year to remove people’s ability

to find others using their phone numbers.’

Mail Foreign Service

Parents in

suspected

murder

suicide as

2-year-old

slept in bed