Daily Mirror - 24.07.2019

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Car smashes

Andy postbox

A POSTBOX painted gold

to honour Andy Murray’s

2012 Olympics win has

been knocked over.

The box is on its side in

the tennis ace’s hometown

of Dunblane, Stirling.

It was hit by a Mercedes

in a “low-speed collision”.

Its driver was unhurt.

A Royal Mail spokes-

woman said it would “rein-

state it as soon as possible.”

Sir Andy, now 32, took

gold in the London Games’

men’s singles by beating

Roger Federer, a title he

defended at Rio 2016.

EXCLUSIVE

BY NICOLA METHVEN

TV Editor

are writing a play, also have another

daughter, 11-year-old Kiki-Bee.

She said: “Getting together with you

and getting pregnant made me go: ‘Jesus

Christ, all that’s gone before has to go’.

“I was such a different person since

being pregnant with Maddie. And I think

that was the beginning of us saving our

lives. We probably would

have died. We would have

gone crazy on the alcohol.”

She added: “I had to stop

drinking first. I am a heavy

drinker but I am not an

alcoholic. Mark would drink

so much it was worrying.”

Mark said: “Our drinking

would have rumbled on to

all sorts of destruction in

the relationship and I would

have died. Because you had

to stop, the fog was removed

and you could just see me

for what I was.”

Nadia said Mark stopping drinking

had helped to “curtail” her own intake.

She said: “We never open a bottle of

wine unless we have people around.”

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TV Nadia: Having baby

saved us from booze

NADIA Sawalha has claimed that if

she had not got pregnant in 2002

she and her husband would be dead

from alcohol abuse.

The Loose Women star

54, said she was a party

animal and hubby Mark

Adderley was an alco-

holic when she learned

she was expecting older

daughter Maddie, 16.

Nadia said she was

“emotionally and physi-

cally unwell” and “hadn’t

been dealing with grief ”

when she met TV

producer Mark around

four years after her first

husband Justin Mildwater

committed suicide in 1997.

“There was a lot of drink and a lot of

late nights,” she said.

Nadia was speaking to Mark, who is

now teetotal, in her podcast, How to

Stay Married (So Far). The couple, who

My being

pregnant

was the

beginning

of us saving

our lives

NADIA SAWALHA ON HOW

FAMILY LIFE CHANGED HER

Loose Women star and

husband hail recovery

ON SHOW Nadia & co-presenters

crown court: “She led officers to the

bedroom and they found 30 grams of

cannabis and 2.06 grams of cocaine, scales,

snap bags and £1,465.” Davies, of Penkhull,

Staffs, admitted possession of cannabis

with intent to supply.

Dealer had stash at gran’s house

A DRUG dealer has been jailed for a year
after police found cannabis and cocaine in
his room at his grandmother’s house.
Messages on Jamie Davies’ phone linked
him to the supply of cannabis.
Jonathan Dickinson told Stoke-on-Trent