Daily Mirror - 17.08.2019

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ATTACK Peter Duncan

Stab horror

solicitor was

‘caring man’

THE devastated brother of
the solicitor stabbed to
death in a busy shopping
centre has paid an
emotional tribute to him.
Peter Duncan, 52, fell to
the ground clutching his
chest after receiving a fatal
blow from a screwdriver in
Newcastle on Wednesday.
As he mourned the
killing of his brother, Mick
Duncan wrote: “I can’t put
the loss into words.”
Peter’s family described
him as a “kind and caring
man who was always first
to help others”.
Shopkeepers said he had
appeared to intervene in a
row with youths.
But Northumbria Police
said yesterday it was an
“unprovoked attack”.
Murder squad detectives
arrested a 15-year-old as
they continued to question
two 17-year-olds.

BY JEREMY ARMSTRONG

ORDEAL Linzy Bromfield

Patients sue

over implant

link to cancer

TWENTY British women
are taking legal action after
developing a rare form of
cancer linked to their
breast implants.
Mum-of-two Linzy
Bromfield, 50, is one of
those looking to sue the
manufacturers after she
was diagnosed with
“implant-associated
lymphoma” 13 years after
her 2005 operation.
She is now cancer-free
after having the implants
removed but said: “I was
angry and hurt. When you
hear the word ‘cancer’ you
think, am I going to die?”
The women’s lawyer,
Zahra Nanji of Leigh Day,
said: “Manufacturers of
these implants need to
take responsibility.”
The UK’s medical regu-
lator, The MHRA, assesses
the risk to be one in every
24,000 implants sold.

BY KEITH PERRY

Carrie backs Mirror

war on trophy hunts

BY BEN GLAZE

Deputy Political Editor

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TREATED Ailing Tikiiri

Tikiiri receives medicine.. but she’s still critical

ELDERLY elephant Tikiiri is back

on her feet after receiving vet care

and medicine in Sri Lanka and is

said to be “looking better”.

But the emaciated 70-year-old

animal is still in a critical condition

after taking part in a religious

pageant that left her exhausted.

Wildlife conservationists say

Tikiiri’s case is a wake-up call to

stop the cruel treatment of

elephants in Sri Lanka. So far

20,000 people have signed a

petition to help save her.

Upeksha Samanthi from Kandy,

which is near the animal’s home in

Kegalle, told us: “I went to see

Tikiiri on Friday morning and she

was looking a little bit better, but

not great. She is malnourished due

to difficulties chewing her food,

which the owner says is caused by

age, she is exhausted after walking

in the pageant and she is critical.”

PM’s partner slams ‘cruel,

sick and cowardly’ pursuit

DOING

OUR BIT

Carrie with

Chris & Deb

at the event

last night

CARRIE Symonds has blasted trophy

hunting in her first speech since moving

into No10 with partner Boris Johnson.

The environmental activist, who has

backed the Mirror’s campaign to end the

sick pursuit, said it was “cruel and cowardly”.

She told of how she had marvelled at

seeing a puffin during a birdwatching trip to

the Bempton Cliffs in East Yorkshire – where

she and Mr Johnson were pictured in May.

Miss Symonds said: “It was magic, some-

thing I’ll never forget. Then, weeks later I

saw another puffin. But this one wasn’t

waddling happily in and out of his burrow.

“No. He was in a newspaper, his blood-

stained body lined up alongside dozens of

others, all slaughtered by so-called

‘trophy hunters’. Why would

anyone want to shoot a puffin?

“Why destroy something so

beautiful, then stuff its poor life-

less body to keep as some kind of

macabre trophy? A trophy is

meant to be something you’re

awarded if you’ve achieved some-

thing of merit. Trophy hunting is

the opposite. It is cruel, sick,

cowardly and I will never under-

stand the motivation to do it.”

Miss Symonds spoke at the

Birdfair conference near

Oakham, Leics, where she met

celebrities including Springwatch presenter

Chris Packham and Dragons’ Den star and

animal rights advocate Deborah Meaden.

Campaigners hope she can help press the

Government into banning hunting trophies

being brought back to the UK.

Birdfair founder Tim Appleton said: “We’re

over the moon Carrie is supporting us.”

Miss Symonds, 31, moved into Downing

Street with Mr Johnson, 55, when

he became PM three weeks ago.

She was pictured this week

meeting guests at a reception for

hospice workers in No10.

Miss Symonds backed our

trophy hunting campaign last

month, tweeting a splash showing

a couple kissing next to a dead

lion.

She said: “A Mirror front page I

wholeheartedly agree with!”

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on hunting

last month