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Brazil snubs

G7’s £20m to

help Amazon

BRAZIL has rejected an offer of

£20million in aid from the G7

to tackle fires in the Amazon.

It came after France’s

Emmanuel Macron branded

Brazilian president Jair Bol-

sonaro ‘extraordinarily rude’

for mocking Mr Macron’s wife

Brigitte on Facebook.

Mr Bolsonaro said yesterday:

‘To talk or accept anything

from France, with the best pos-

sible intentions, [Mr Macron]

has to withdraw these words,

and from there we can talk.’

A climate-change sceptic,

Mr Bolsonaro has faced criti-

cism over his response to the

Amazon crisis. Some 80,000

forest fires have broken out

in Brazil this year.

a nine-day trial last month.

Judge Neil Flewitt, QC, told

the mother of three that Miss

Cleworth relied on her regular

carer for her ‘basic needs’. Jail-

ing Burrows for three years, he

said: ‘You neglected her in a

way which led to her death.

‘If I deal with this case in any

other way than a prison sen-

tence I would be letting down

Julie Cleworth and her family,

and failing to protect thou-

sands of other people in a sim-

ilar situation.’

The court heard that Miss

put to bed at the back of the property,

rather than in the living room as usual.

The mother of one, who was described as

being ‘helpless as a baby’ due to poor health,

was found dead from starvation four days

later. She was half undressed and half out of

bed, having struggled to call for help.

Burrows denied gross negligence man-

slaughter at Liverpool Crown Court, saying

she had checked the living room and called

out to Miss Cleworth on entering her bun-

galow. However, her account was contra-

dicted by a junior colleague, who had

accompanied Burrows on her rounds and

insisted the carer drove past without enter-

ing the property in St Helens, Merseyside.

Instead Burrows used the 30 minutes

allotted to visit her elderly mother nearby,

telling her bosses she had checked every

room of Miss Cleworth’s house. This led the

agency, Unite Healthcare, to cancel the care

package. Burrows was convicted following

Cleworth could not move with-

out assistance following a

stroke in 2013. She lived alone

and had five care visits a day.

Miss Cleworth’s mother

Hilary Kenny plans to sue

Unite Healthcare. She said she

was pleased with the sentence,

but added: ‘It will not bring

my daughter back.’

The court heard Burrows, of

St Helens, has four previous

convictions for dishonesty.

Nigel Power, QC, defending,

said Burrows had expressed

remorse. But the judge

questioned whether she was

sorry, saying she had failed

to take responsibility through-

out the trial.

By Liz Hull

Disabled mother, 43,

starved to death af ter

her carer skipped visit

A DISABLED woman starved to

death after her carer skipped a

home visit to see her own mother

instead, a court heard.

Tracy Burrows, 56, was jailed yester-
day after a judge heard she did not even
get out of her car after finding Julie Cle-
worth’s home in darkness.
She wrongly assumed the 43-year-old
stroke victim was in hospital. Miss Cleworth
had in fact been discharged that day and

Jailed: Tracy Burrows

Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN

and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD

DAY

ON THIS

August 28, 2019

FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

AUGUST 28, 1896

THE British lion has at last been roused,

and Said Khalid [the Sultan of Zanzibar]

has ascertained that there are limits to the

Christian patience with which England

accepts defiance. [On August 27, the short-

est war ever recorded ended, when Britain

defeated Zanzibar after 38 minutes.]

AUGUST 28, 1975

RICHARD BURTON is to

remarry Elizabeth Taylor.

He said yesterday: ‘I want

to live with Liz for ever. This

time it’s for keeps. I want it

to be just like Darby and

Joan.’ [The couple (right)

wed for the second time six

weeks later but divorced

the following year.]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

JACK BLACK, 50. The U.S. actor and come-

dian, dubbed ‘Hollywood’s favourite joker’,

starred in King Kong (2005) and School Of

Rock. The son of satellite engineers who

worked on the Hubble Space Telescope, he

said he was such a ‘wild and reckless’ teen-

ager he ‘should have been put in jail’. In

2006 he married former school classmate

Tanya Haden. They have two children.

SHANIA TwAIN, 54. The

Canadian singer-songwriter

(right) has sold 85 million

records. She was a huge

star in the 1990s, with Come

On Over becoming the

best-selling studio album

ever by a female singer. A

2016 comeback saw her

annual earnings soar to £23 million. Recall-

ing her difficult upbringing with her mum

Sharon and violent stepfather Jerry, she

said: ‘Many nights I went to bed thinking:

“Don’t go to sleep, don’t go to sleep, wait

till they are sleeping.” And I would wake up

and make sure everybody was breathing.’

BORN ON THIS DAY

wINDSOR DAvIES (1930-2019). The welsh

actor, who died aged 88 in January, found

fame as the pompous sergeant major —

nicknamed ‘Old Shut Up’ — in sitcom It

Ain’t Half Hot Mum after working as a

miner and teacher. One obituary wrote that

Davies, who was married for 62 years and

had five children, ‘had one of the most

eloquent moustaches in the business’.

DONALD O’CONNOR (1925-2003). The

U.S. actor is best remembered for playing

Gene Kelly’s sidekick Cosmo Brown and

performing Make ’Em Laugh, in Singin’ In

The Rain. The son of vaudeville performers,

he made his first film appearance at just 13

and went on to become a teen idol in the

1940s. A New York Times critic said: ‘To call

Donald O’Connor a song-and-dance man is

like calling Shakespeare a strolling player.’

ON AUGUST 28...

IN 1964, The Beatles met Bob Dylan in New

York. It is believed this is when Dylan

introduced the Fab Four to marijuana.

IN 1972, Prince william of Gloucester, 30, the

Queen’s cousin, was killed in an air crash

while piloting his plane in a competition.

WORD WIZARDRY

GUESS THE DEFINITION: Frigorific (1925)

A) Maddening. B) Causing cold; chilling

C) Causing a fright. Answer below

PHRASE EXPLAINED

All hell broke loose: A situation that changes

from peaceful to chaotic. From Paradise Lost

by John Milton, itself a biblical story about

Satan who rebelled against God and was

expelled from heaven into hell.

QUOTE FOR TODAY

DyinG is an art, like

everything else.

Sylvia Plath, U.S. poet (1932-1963)

JOKE OF THE DAY

HOw do you make a lemon drop?

Just let it fall.

Guess The Definition answer: B.