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TODAY
A very wet and windy day expected for Scotland,
Northern Ireland, north of England and north of
Wales, with heavy and persistent showers. The
rest of the country is likely to stay dry but cloudy
with the odd sunny spell.
A very damp day for Scotland
and Northern Ireland
5-day forecast
London
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Norwich
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Plymouth
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Hull
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Cardiff
Birmingham
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Manchester
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Newcastle
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Glasgow
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Belfast O
Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed
London 25c 21c 21c 22c 21c
Newcastle 18c 15c 16c 18c 16c
Leeds 17c 14c 15c 17c 15c
M’chester 19c 15c 16c 18c 17c
Liverpool 18c 15c 16c 18c 16c
B’ham 20c 17c 18c 20c 18c
Cardiff 19c 17c 18c 19c 18c
Plymouth 19c 18c 18c 18c 18c
Belfast 16c 15c 15c 17c 16c
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CORRECTIONS & COMPLAINTS
20 YEARS OF PRIDE OF BRITAIN
To nominate for Pride of Britain 2019 visit prideofbritain.com
to make it an offence to drive under
the influence of drugs.
They collected more than 22,
signatures on a petition and lobbied
MPs to back changes to the law.
Five years after Lillian’s death, in
2015, The Drug Driving (Specified
Limits) (England and Wales) Regu-
lations 2014 – dubbed
Lillian’s Law – came into
effect. The offence carries
an automatic driving ban
and potential prison
sentence of up to a year.
Police also started
carrying drug test kits.
By the time the family
received the Special
Recognition Award at the
2016 Pride of Britain
Awards, almost 1,
convictions had been secured.
The family also fundraise and give
bereavement talks. “We say there’s
a bit of Lillian spread everywhere,”
says Michaela.
LAST CHANCE TO NOMINATE: P
10 MIN CROSSWOR
D
3 Rubber wheel surround (4)
4 Horizontal mine entrance (4)
5 Outhouse (4)
9 Before (3)
10 Sheltered side (3)
11 Container (3)
12 Make last longer (3)
13 Performs on stage (4)
14 Dole cheque (4)
15 Helper (4)
16 Certain (4)
17 Bullets, etc (4)
ACROSS
6 Voracious eel (5)
7 Musical note (3)
8 Overlooked (9)
13 Arm of the
Mediterranean (6,3)
18 Dartmoor hilltop (3)
19 Wheat used to make pasta (5)
DOWN
1 Sign of things to come (4)
2 Garden basket (4)
THURSDAY’S SOLUTIONS ACROSS: 1 Punctual, 6 Ask,
7 Allay, 9 Ecru, 11 Midi, 12 Ramp, 14 Teem, 16 Crier, 18 Ode,
19 Resource. DOWN: 1 Pharmacy, 2 Naked, 3 Tear, 4 Ail,
5 Eyepiece, 8 Lure, 10 Cite, 13 Amour, 15 Ergo, 17 Ire.
Chores ‘tone
older bodies’
DOMESTIC chores are just
as effective as the gym for
older people, a study finds.
Gardening, lifting shop-
ping and walking upstairs
can all boost muscle mass.
Birmingham University
expert Leigh Breen said:
“Taking up exercise in your
60s, 70s or 80s staves off ill
health and dementia.
“Older people are
capable of similar muscle
growth as master athletes.”
Carbon fear
over clothes
NEW clothes bought in the
UK produce more carbon
emissions per minute than
driving a car for 162,
miles, Oxfam stats show.
Two tons of clothing are
bought every 60 seconds,
producing 50 tons of
emissions from raw mate-
rials, manufacturing, trans-
port, washing and disposal.
Danny Sriskandarajah,
from the charity, said:
“These facts should make
us all think twice before
buying something new.”
New prostate
cancer hope
SCIENTISTS say they have
found a way to “turn off ”
an enzyme that fuels the
spread of prostate cancer.
Chemically blocking
CDK7 – dubbed the “on-off
switch” – killed malignant
cells in mice with the most
deadly form of the disease.
Prof Irfan Asangani, of
University of Pennsylvania,
said it could lead to ways
of treating “cases resistant
to standard therapies”.
PLAYGROUNDS’
AXE FUELLING
CHILD OBESITY
EXCLUSIVE
BY AMY COLES
NATASHA Groves should’ve been
celebrating her birthday. Instead she
sat at her daughter Lillian’s bedside
as she lay dying in hospital.
The day before, the 14-year-old
was knocked over outside her
Croydon home by a speeding driver.
The driver, John Page, had been
smoking cannabis, but
police didn’t carry kits, so
no drug test was done
until nine hours later. By
then there was not
enough cannabis in his
system to charge him with
causing death by careless
driving while under the
influence of drugs, which
carried a maximum
14-year sentence.
He was jailed for just
eight months after pleading guilty
to causing death by careless driving.
“The sentencing was a kick in the
teeth,” said Lillian’s aunt, Michaela
Groves, from Bromley, South East
London. Outraged, the family fought
LAW The family
with Ross Kemp
and Barbara
Windsor in 2016
health. Despite this, on average,
£13million less each year is being
spent on play provisions.
Tam Fry, of the National Obesity
Forum said yesterday: “Closing parks
is woeful short-term thinking.
“When parks and playgrounds are
cut, children are denied the freedom
and space to run around, and the
calories just stay on them. The more
they are denied this freedom, the
more likely they are to become obese.”
Grandma-of-five Theresa Thomas,
80, of Weoley Castle, Birmingham
said her council removed all the play
equipment from her closest park.
She said: “The closest playgrounds
with facilities are too far away for
children in this area to go to. I worry
for my grandchildren’s health.”
A Government spokesman said:
“In the last two years, the
Government has spent £15million on
parks and green spaces...”
amy.coles@mirror. co.uk
@colesamy
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2014, local authorities have closed 347
playgrounds in England alone.
In 2017, MPs warned the nation’s
27,000 parks and playgrounds were at
“tipping point” as cuts have reduced
spending on local services by more
than a fifth since 2010.
They warned a decline would lead
to “severe consequences” for public
Tory cuts to blame for
loss of parks facilities
UNDER THREAT Hundreds closed
THE mass closure of playgrounds
is contributing to the UK’s child
obesity epidemic, experts warn.
Research by the Association of Play
Industries, seen exclusively by the
Mirror, shows 72% of parents of chil-
dren with health issues feel the lack
of outdoor play facilities has contrib-
uted to their children’s problems.
Shadow Secretary of State for
Communities and Local Government
Andrew Gwynne warned: “Unfortu-
nately children are... paying the price
for Tory cuts to local government
funding. With far fewer playgrounds,
it is little surprise our country is sadly
experiencing a child obesity crisis.”
More than 20% of children aged 10
to 11 in England are obese. Since
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