Daily Mail, Friday, August 16, 2019 Page
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KID SHEERAN!
MOST parents love to show off
their pride in their children. But
few go to the lengths of Ed
Sheeran’s father, John, who has
created an exhibition dedicated
to his pop star son.
He has gathered private family
photographs to display at Christch-
urch Mansion museum in Ipswich.
They show that flame-haired
Sheeran was clearly keen on the
limelight from a very young age.
He is seen as a toddler, posing in a
colourful woolly jumper and blue tartan
trousers, perhaps indicating he was a
performer in the making. Many of the
photographs are from his teenage years.
One shows him in a school production
of Grease, as a member of the T-Birds.
Another is of the 13-year-old Sheeran
busking on the streets of Galway, while
in a third, when he was 14, he is in a
recording studio for the first time with
his music teacher Henry Readhead.
Some have been taken since the
singer-songwriter, now 28 and worth
an estimated £160million, embarked
on his rise to fame. They include an
image displayed the extraordinary
collection of tattoos he has amassed,
including a cartoon shark designed
by Damien Hirst on his chest.
The Ed Sheeran: Made In Suffolk
exhibition opens on Tuesday to coincide
with four concerts in his hometown. His
father said: ‘The choice of Ipswich
shows just how important his Suffolk
roots are to him. Ed has a deep affec-
tion for the landscape and its people.’
The exhibition, which runs until May,
also features personal items such as
school reports.Snap of ginger scamp who
became a global star in Ed
exhibition (curated by Dad)
By Alisha Rouse
Showbusiness CorrespondentLurking off our coast, the worm deadlier than arsenic
A POISONOUS worm whose venom is dead-
lier than arsenic or cyanide – and to which
there is no antidote – has been found just
off the South Coast.
The main risk to humans from the Cepha-
lothrix simula – which grows up to 11 inches- is if it is accidentally eaten, as it can
attach itself to shellfish such as mussels or
oysters. Although it is native to the north-
west Pacific, a study found it has spread to
northern Europe – including the muddyflats off Southampton and Cornwall. The
worm carries tetrodotoxin – the same
venom found in pufferfish – and a dose of
as little as two milligrams can be fatal. It
kills by inducing heart failure or paralysing
nerves that trigger muscles to control
breathing, so the victim suffocates. Theonly treatment is to be put on life support
until the venom leaves the body.
The worm was discovered during a study
of seawater by Luke Holman, a PhD stu-
dent at Southampton University. The find-
ings were published in the journal Scien-
tific Reports.By Colin Fernandez
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