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child and so far I haven’t,” she said
after winning the Fundraiser of the
Year award at the 2002 Pride of
Britain Awards.
In the charity’s first year, Barbara
took three children to Lapland to
meet Father Christmas. By 2002,
that figure had snowballed to 400,
and she had arranged for
children to meet Steps
and Boyzone.
“We’ve granted around
185,000 wishes, says
Barbara, 62, adding that
they create precious
memories for bereaved
parents.
She received an OBE
and is still in touch with
some of the first children
she helped.
It was thought one child would
never make it past the age of three.
“She’s now 28, with two gorgeous
children,” said Barbara. “I’m their
godmother, but will carry on being
everyone’s fairy godmother.”
AS she lay dying, three-year-old
Joanna Hastings had just one wish –
to meet Mickey Mouse at
Disneyworld. The tot with stomach
cancer had endured months of
chemotherapy and radiotherapy, yet
she still managed to smile.
Her story touched Barbara White,
a physiotherapy helper at
Queen’s Medical Centre in
Nottingham, so much that
she promised to help
Joanna fulfil her dream.
Tragically, the little one
died before she could. But
Barbara vowed to help
other sick children, even
though she had been
diagnosed with multiple
sclerosis. In 1990, she set
up the charity When You
Wish Upon A Star, which has since
made dreams come true for
thousands of kids, earning her the
title of a real-life fairy godmother.
“It has always been my aim never
to turn down the wish of a dying
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FAIRY
GODMOTHER
Barbara White
with her award
MP Umunna
drunk on ‘UK
Obama’ hype
CHUKA Umunna says he
got carried away by com-
parisons to Barack Obama.
The MP was touted as
Britain’s answer to Ameri-
ca’s first black President
when he was first elected
for Labour in 2010.
He was regularly tipped
to become the UK’s first
black Prime Minister and
briefly stood for the
Labour leadership in 2015.
Now a Lib Dem MP Mr
Umunna, 40, said: “We all
make mistake and I
definitely got a bit drunk
on all the hype around me
when I was first elected.
It’s seductive.
“I’ve got a much better
balance now. I’m a much
happier bunny. Politics
doesn’t dominate my life.”
Measles jab
plea as case
numbers rise
HEALTH chiefs were last
night ordered to boost the
number of children vacci-
nated against measles.
There were 231 cases of
measles in the UK during
the first quarter of 2019.
Britain has now lost its
“measles-free” status with
the World Health Organi-
sation three years after the
virus was eliminated.
Only 87.2% of children
have the second dose of
the jab, down from a high
of 88.6% in 2014-15.
Dr Mary Ramsay, of
Public Health England,
’said: “One person travel-
ling back to an area with
lower vaccination rates
can lead to an outbreak.”
Shock surge in
‘Spice’ deaths
as a mainstream drug.” He said
street users have “puked up
blood”, adding: “It has killed
homeless people. They’re being
found dead on park benches.”
The nine kids collapsed in
the North West after inhaling
Spice, thinking it was a natural
cannabis-based vaping liquid.
Cheryl Howe, 37, of More-
cambe, Lancs, whose daughter
Sharon nearly died at 15 from
a spiked cigarette, wants
dealers targeted. She said: “It’s
everywhere and parents have
to pick up the pieces.”
A Spice epidemic in jails is
also blamed for a three-fold
rise in “non-natural”
inmate deaths. It
became a Class B
drug in 2016 but
there are calls for it
to be made Class A
- like heroin.
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SPICE at first contained 2% synthetic
cannabinoid and was used by people in all
walks of life. By 2017 it hit 16% – but over
the past year it has fallen to below 1%.
And since the 2016 ban it is now less
used outside jail and homeless communities
due to the stigma of its “zombie” label.
But an expert warns its death toll is likely
to be underestimated. Dr Robert Ralphs, of
Manchester Metropolitan University, said of
past toxicology reports: “They were not
looking for the synthetic cannabinoids.”EXCLUSIVE
BY SCOTT HESKETH
and PAUL BYRNEse
in
be
d
th
t9 kids collapse after drug hits
THE Spice crisis is deepen-
ing as deaths involving the
zombie drugs surge and
nine kids collapsed after
taking it in recent months.
The synthetic cannabis,
previously a legal high, featured
on 60 death certificates in
England and Wales last year.
This was up from 24 a year
earlier – and none in 2013.
And it comes as possession
cases rose from 71 in 2017 to
281 in 2018. In the same period,
just 18 dealers were convicted.
The Mirror was told
dealers now make
a version laced
with nail varnish
and cleaning
chemicals they
call “Street Spice”.
A Liverpool user
said: “It’s now seen60
Mentions of Spice on
death certificates last
year, up from 24 in 2017Rise of the zombie menace