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,"#( &/" '$-)"*.+,% ,"#( FRIDAY NOVEMBER 24, 2017 Justice for #Chennai6: Jailed veteran and his campaigning family reveal
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BY EMILY PARSONS In Chennai, India
THE generosity of Cum- brians has been highlighted – with fundraisers in the county raising more to help six imprisoned veterans in India, than the rest of the UK combined.
The kindness of strangers as well as friends, family and former colleagues is something John Armstrong, 30, says has helped keep him going through his darkest days.
Speaking to The Cumber- land News from inside Puz- hal prison, he couldn’t praise the community enough for all they have done.
“I think Wigton – and Cumbria – is amazing,” he said. “I’ve seen the support for other people here and, to put it into perspective, Wig- ton has raised more money than the whole country.
“Thank you so much to people far and wide for sup- porting our campaign. We would be a lot worse off if Wigton and Cumbria were not supporting us.”
This money has been a lifeline for the army vet- erans, who have not been paid by their employer – American anti-piracy firm AdvanFort – since they were arrested on board the Sea- man Guard Ohio in October 2013.
This has added financial hardship to families already facing the loss of a partner, dad, husband, son or brother.
Yvonne MacHugh, whose fiance Billy Irving is one of those imprisoned alongside John, said: “We use the money from the fund to pay for the lawyer – we could not have gone back to court if it wasn’t for that fund.
“Most of us are just get- ting by. We’ve lost houses, cars, everything due to this. But because of the fund we’re able to get a lawyer.”
And, while the money is
Family ties: ‘If Joanne was in government I would’ve been home a long time ago’
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Supported: John Armstrong thanks the people of Cumbria
Supplies: Shops just outside the prison where John is being held
Staying strong: Yvonne MacHugh and Joanne Thomlinson outside the prison in Chennai, where they’ve been visiting their relatives as well as the other Britons, since their incarceration
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Justice unit: Inside Puzhal Prison, Chennai, India, where the six Britons have been held for the past two years after being jailed following their arrest in 2013
being completely blocked off because of all the cars that turned up. We were just ab- solutely blown away.
Reproduced with permission from HMNAO,UKHO and the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. HOSPITAL VISITING TIMES: BRAMPTON: 2.30pm-4pm, 6pm-8pm. CARLISLE: Cumberland Infirmary: Aspen: 3pm-4.30pm and 7pm-8pm. Beech Wards A/B: 3pm-5pm and 6pm-8pm, C/D 3pm-4.30pm and 7pm-8pm. Children’s Ward: 9.30am-7pm (At Sister/Charge Nurse discretion). Elm Wards: 3pm-4.30pm and 6.30pm-8pm. Larch A/B: 3pm-4pm and 7pm-8pm. Larch D: 3pm-4.30pm and 7pm-8pm. Maple A: 3pm-4.30pm and 7pm-8pm; Maple B, C & D: 2.30pm-4.30pm and 7pm-8pm. Willow A/B: 3pm-4.30pm and 6.30pm-8pm. Willow C/D: 3pm-4.30pm and 6.30pm-8pm. CCU: 3pm-4.30pm and 6pm-8pm.
The Heart Centre: 3pm-5pm nd 7pm-8pm.
The Intensive Care Unit and High Dependency Unit are open from 2pm-3.30pm and 5.30pm-7pm. Special arrangements can be arranged for family members with the staff. Maternity is open to visitors from 3pm-4pm and from 7pm-8pm. Special arrangements are in place for family members.
Special Care Baby Unit is open to parents at all times. Other visitors are welcome from 11am to 9pm with the permission of the baby’s parent, at the discretion of staff.
WIGTON: Skiddaw View Ward 2.30pm-4pm, 6.30pm-7.30pm. CATHEDRAL SERVICES:
Nov 26, Christ the King
10.30am, PLUS Eucharist (sung by the Full Cathedral Choir and Youth Choir) Stanford in B flat with the ‘Coronation’ Gloria
3pm, Evensong (sung by the Girls and Lay Clerks)
Close: John and Joanne Armstrong when they were at St Cuthbert’s Primary School
making a real difference to the families, simply know- ing so many people are be- hind them is a support in itself.
the campaign in Cumbria, spearheading fundraising efforts and a publicity cam- paign to raise awareness about the injustice being done to her brother.
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at the beginning, and our family friend Nicki Simpson came up with the idea of a cream tea as a good starter,” the 32-year-old recalled.
John’s older sister, Joanne Thomlinson, has led
As she toils tirelessly,
“We put together a little team of people to try and think of fundraising ideas,
“I remember going that day, and the roads in Wigton
“Lots of people stopped us in the street and asked after John and sent letters and
“Then you think, actually, we’re so lucky: we could have nobody, and yet we have so many people help- ing us.”
NONE of the publicity, the fun- draising or the care packages sent to the men would have been poss- ible without the families left in the UK.
And, while the families take sol- ace in the support offered to them, it is their dogged determination and faith which helps John and the others get through each day.
John admitted: “My family have been amazing during all of this. I’m glad I am not the only one who will do anything for anyone.”
However, it is his only sibling who he singles out for praise.
In a rare moment of public affec- tion, he told The Cumberland News: “I’m very grateful for Joanne’s great work. She’s cam- paigned non-stop for me, working and taking care of [her children] Joshua and Faith. I love her very much and I will never forget what she has done for me – if Joanne was in government, I can say I would have been home a long time ago.”
It is this loyalty which has been the backbone of the past four years – and Joanne’s driving reason for getting her brother home.
“With John it’s not one memory which keeps us going, it’s general
memories – and it’s usually just being at home with the family,” she recalled how “when I first met my husband, I was only about 15. John was a proper annoying little brother who would come and sit in the room and annoy us.
“Up to the time he went away we would always be singing along to the music channels, doing duets at full blast, really annoying mam and dad – to George Michael, anything.
“We just love singing and family time. We’ve always been a family that genuinely takes pleasure in each other’s company, and they’re the happiest times we have, when we’re all together just doing every day things.
“John’s always smiling – he never doesn’t have a smile on his face. He’s got this massive cheeky grin and he could turn anything into a really hilarious situation and just brighten up the whole house. The house is nowhere near the same when he’s not there.”
John added: “I miss the clean air of Cumbria, being in a rural area, and the food. But the biggest thing I miss is the people. When I am free all I want is to be with my family again.”








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things, but until that point I don’t think we really real- ised how many people – even people who didn’t know John but were from Wigton or the surrounding area – wanted to help.
“We didn’t realise how much support there was until that day.”
Joanne said: “And it isn’t just even the money. It’s well-wishers, people who can’t give anything, just knowing that they’re behind us.
“It’s being stopped in the street by people I don’t really know: I might recog- nise their face slightly but I don’t know their names. They give me a huge hug and some of them start cry- ing when they’re asking about John and how he is.
“You just think, it’s abso- lutely incredible that after so long, people are still so in- volved. We didn’t really ex- pect that from anyone else. It’s John, he’s our responsi- bility, but the community has taken this on as their re- sponsibility which is just amazing.
“That has continued until this day, and we know that it will continue until John gets home.”
Yvonne added: “I’ve also got a lot of strength from all the fundraising. I’ve come down to the events because it gives us such a boost as well, not just John’s family but every other family, to see all these people care.
“When you’re at your lo- west and you think nobody is helping us, you have to re- mind yourself that there are half a million people who’ve signed a petition to help us, people who’ve donated rid- iculous amounts of money, who’ve donated the spare pound that they’ve had, who’ve done everything they can to help.


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Appalling conditions: A film has been produced entitled The Chennai 6 A Miscarriage of Justice featuring Joanne Thomlinson and her brother John Armstrong
‘I was beaten up, drugged and sent to a mental hospital’
SLIMY water filled with worms, rat infestations and poisonous snakes are just some of the daily horrors a Wigton soldier is forced to endure.
Despite all of this, John Armstrong maintains that his worst experience of the past four-year nightmare was when he was dragged away from Central Prison in Puzhal, Chennai, to a mental hospital – because he was not washing regu- larly enough.
The terrifying ordeal saw him beaten and drugged – with the 30-year-old manag- ing to save himself, by spit- ting out the 10 mystery pills a day while his captors were not watching.
Joanne Thomlinson, from Wigton, previously spoke of her brother’s ter- rifying ordeal at the hands of Indian prison guards last year.
Last week, the former Paratrooper spoke himself for the first time about just how bad the situation truly was.
“It has been the toughest part of the four years,” the 30-year-old said.
“I was alone outside, fend- ing off more than 10 guards and prisoners trying to drag me into a bus from inside the prison.”
He was overpowered, eventually being taken to a hospital for the mentally ill, where he was injected with
Hell hole: Puzhal prison, Chennai, India, where John Armstrong and the #Chennai6 are being held
they gave me a phone to call home, so that was a relief for me and my family.”
Confused and scared, John was horrified when he later learned the reason be- hind his insanity ‘diag- nosis’.
He said: “The hardest thing I had to hear was that some of the prisoners, prior to me being taken away, were informing to the prison superintendent that I was not washing regu- larly.
“In reality I have an aller- gic reaction to the water that’s supplied to the prison – which is not surprising as it’s full of worms and very slimy.
“Let’s suppose even if I had gone insane, you cer- tainly wouldn’t liaise with the prison authorities to
deal with me. After all that has happened to all of us here, I find it awful that there is an informer amongst ourselves.”
Joanne said: “It’s the most scared for John we’ve ever been and he refers to it as the worst thing that’s ever happened to him.”
Despite a complaint lodged by the Foreign Office and concerns raised by John and his family, no one has ever told them what he was injected with.
Likewise, what was in the tablets that he was spitting out.
John was taken back to the prison in Chennai after he was ‘cured’ of his insan- ity.
unknown drugs, hooked up to a drip and given daily medication.
“There were good people in the hospital,” John re- called, “as nearly every day
Proud mum: Helen Armstrong with John while he was serving as a paratrooper in the British Army
THE mother of former para- trooper John Armstrong says she is both excited and terrified at the thought that Monday could bring an end to the family’s nightmare.
For four years Helen Arm- strong and husband John have been forced to carry on each day with the knowl- edge that their only son – was trapped in India.
The maritime security of- ficer had been arrested on board the Seaman Guard Ohio, as he waited for his next deployment to protect merchant traders from pi- rates. After years of legal wranglings, the men were eventually convicted of il- legally possessing firearms in Indian waters, and sen- tenced to five years in jail.
John and the 34 other crew members – including five more Britons – appealed within weeks, and that ap- peal was finally held in No- vember 2016.
Once again the 30-year-old was left in limbo however,
after the judge reserved his judgement.
For a year the men con- tinued to suffer in appalling conditions in Puzhal prison, Chennai, before a break- through last week saw the Supreme Court order that a verdict be delivered.
That appeal verdict will finally be given on Monday. Helen told The Cumber-
land News: “I’m so nervous but actually quite excited. I’m apprehensive but also uplifted in a way: it’s a vast array of changing emotions, but really I’m just happy something is finally happen- ing.
“For so long there was just nothing. This way, what- ever happens, it will move things on and John will be free or we can appeal to the Supreme Court.”
The mum-of-two, who lives in Wigton with her husband, was last in India in July, to mark John’s 30th birthday with him. She visited him in jail with his
girlfriend and his aunt.
“He looked well and he was his usual self,” Helen re- called. “I came out feeling
better for seeing him.
“I often feel I get more out
of seeing him than perhaps he gets out of seeing me, be- cause I just feel so uplifted when I see him. He always make me laugh.”
Like her daughter, Joanne Thomlinson, she has drawn strength from the support from the town and surrounding areas.
“We’ve never felt alone in this at all,” she explained. “It’s just been amazing.”
Helen is desperately hop- ing that the next time she sees John it will not be in- side prison walls, but in- stead with him as a free man – hopefully even in the UK.
For now, like all of the families, she dares not hope too much.
On Monday, she will be at home with John Snr. As India is five-and-a-half hours ahead of the UK, the couple will be awake early, desperately waiting for news from court.
“I’m as ready as I’ll ever be,” said Helen, “for what- ever I find out.”
Battle: Helen Armstrong with her son’s picture

JOHN Armstrong, 30, is one of six Britons, known as the #Chennai6. The others are Billy Irving, Ray Tindall, Paul Towers, Nick Simp- son and Nick Dunn.
They were all working as mari- time security guards for the Ameri- can company AdvanFort when they were arrested alongside the other 29 crew in October 2013.
After seven months in jail, they
were released on bail and the charges were later quashed, ruling them officially free men. But the prosecuting police appealed and in January 2016 the 35 men were con- victed of illegally possessing guns in Indian territorial waters, and sentenced to five years in jail.
An appeal was lodged and the judge’s verdict on that should fin- ally be delivered on Monday.
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CHENNAI is noisy, bust- ling and completely alien to the UK.
For the families flying out to visit their brothers, partners, fathers and sons, it is a confusing world which only adds to the terror of the situation.
Thankfully, Joanne says the support on offer from Indians – and ex- pats living in Chennai – has been overwhelming.
From ensuring they are always booked into a hotel and there is a car and driver – or at the least a taxi and minder – waiting at the airport, to offering a friendly ear and a local dinner com- panion, they have be- come a second family.
“Those friendships have been vital,” Joanne, 32, explained. “It’s not just the people who can offer us any- thing. It’s the people who were friends with the John and the men before this happened – some of them can’t offer us any- thing at all, because they’ve got nothing themselves, but they’re there for the men and us.”
“You also feel so much safer,” she continued. “If anything happens to you, you’ve got someone to turn to. When you do come back from a prison visit and you’re ex- hausted and drained emotionally you have someone to say ‘it’s ok, we’re here for you, we’re here for them’.”
Yvonne, 29, said: “It was near impossible coming over here with- out a driver. Trying to find your way in a tuk tuk was terrifying.
“To have a driver there, who looks after you at the prison, makes sure you’re safe, stays with you and can help with the language is a big thing – because it’s scary and the prison is a very intimidating place.
“There are so many people and everyone is staring at you. They know that you’re in there to visit someone.”
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A RAPIST should never have been allolred out of his native Polaad to commit his bruta-l crime, the Gazette can reveal.
Slawomir Blsiak mped a 1$ yetrdd girl aiter he formd her coniemplating stricide at a Coich- ester car park-
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"If he tri6 to get in with his real nme, he wi]l t e sent awayi so he will aot he a dm- ger to the people of Colchester my more."
His sntencs were tlacked by Y!'onne I'ems, reviewing lar+yer for the Crosr Prosecu- tion Service.
The incident happened in May 2008, and sinc tlen the 43-yetr- o1d Polish mtional, who ws liY- ing in Sittmg Closg Colehester, reIEaaedly denied the attack.
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Gail Adm, UK Border Agency regional director for the Midlands ed Etrt, said: "This w6 m aplH-lling crime md my thoughts re *ith t}le victim.
"'14"e s'ould like to prais her t'or coming forward under what musi haat been Yery dif- ficult circmstancm md we would ensmage my YictiEs of crime to repod it."
In cout, his victim ws forced to relive hef, ordeal via video link, being subjected to cross- exmimtion by the delence lawyers.
"The UK Border Agency watchlist contaitr certain details of oversas criminal con- victloffi, only where thi.s infor- mation has been made available by the individua-i's colutry of origi4.
1Ii this me $,ouldn't have been in the conntly, so could not hal€ cornmilteil this rape. It is absolutel-v horrendous md heads should roil in Polaxd for tlEt."
Ms Read ieels tor the tee.nage victim of the horrific c]:ine. She added: "He pleaded not gxilty as w-e11, which put he.r tlrough ill even more horrific ordeal"
Last month, a jury foud him guilty of rape md fotr counts of sexual activity with a chiid.
'By the time Interpol advised the UK Border Ageney of the trrest warrmt for Blasiak - rclating to a robbery in Polud he w6 already in police custody in comection with t}re offene for which he hru now ben jailed.
Blaslak h6 now b€n given m indeterminate prison sentene
Even ther. Blsiak will not be allo{ed to return ro his hoile in Colcliester. but u,il1 be deported.
Det Con Tim Harris, from Colchester CID, said: "It w6nt mtil he wm in custody md we started making inquiries with Irterpoi in lryarsaw that we dis- covered his p*t.
Investigating oificer Det Con Tim lltrris, from Colch- e$ter CID, spoke after Blasi- ak's sentencing.
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Lindse-v Read. manager of Colchester's Cenh'e for Action on Rape aid Abuse, said it seemeil the victim's ordeal could have been avoided.
She sald: "If the authorities ln Potmd had done t]leiriob proper"
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Critim siil it mulil mm a bryum for elite miversities such s Oxford anal Cambridge while iloing little for red- brick imtittrtioG.
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mrd-style exceltrerc md mtless dher less elite urlversitiB in ihe USA the appmnt determination to emulate the Amsican system is deply woraying-"
Doming Street hops the *hemewill gsmte 9600milli@ atral Ircmote a lrst- ing culhreof pmple givingcash to their old univemities.
It follows plms for more money from Oxfordmdcambriatge,whichsyt3,00 tuitionfees ffi not enough forthemto compete with the worlds bet univer- sities.
[[r Blair$mts a[6UeAs to mimin the Amerim tradition of soliciting gifts and bequests from formtr stuilmts who hflegmontoslffi.
Under his schme, the Govment will gire a 91 rewd fffi wery 92 that uni- vereitis mis Aom their om efforts.
But Sally Hunt, joint had of tle Uni- vemity md College llnion, saiit 'lAly exha money is to be welmmed, but the obsession with cherry-picking parts of the American model is not the way forward.
"tlrcre is trot the sme culture in t}Iis comtry of fomer stutlents alomting to their alm matel and no guarants that all univemiti6 wouLl benefit."
Gemma Tumelty, president of the National Union of Shralents, said Amer- ice fmdmising hed widmed the gap betremlvylragueuniremitie6analless prestigiou rivals.
'Given tfle huge divide between IIar-
Mr Blair said: "It is important that ow ulivereities have every oplnrhl- nity to mise the resource they need. That's why this tunakaisilg plan is so importmt."
mlmtary howing adviser wholivea in Fmwick Place saiat'1 hm knom Billy sine he ws fow or flve, md I know his sister f,:lizabeth md his parents lbm mdKim. lbmis very hafll-wo*ing: they arc a wry nie family
A No l0 report foud that almmt a thid of Harvard's inmme re from mdownts wort}r more tim tli| billim Twical gift inmme for IJE uiwBitim w6 jmt 1-4IErcent.
A similil incentive scheme wx "a mjorsumess" inCmadawhilethepoten- tial m revuled when St John's Cou€ge Cambridge, m a glmillion shere.
'TIe m vsy nice and inoffemive not tle kind of peM who would epi inwlved with arything he sh@ldn't"
He claimedup to fou youths from the neighbouing Claphm Road 6tate reresntalkiig toBilfo at his home in tfie afternool
Mr Par*er saiil : "I think this is a lcal feual md I foHast that it-or smekind of violene -willhaplEn again in about two u tIre weeks' time on motlrer e6tate.
"I hare aheady mg ry muter- part on ttre Clapham Rmd state to wam her of what I believewillhaP pen."
Neighbou$ remember Billy m a plffit mal normal boy who used to play footbal with ottra cbjldren ftom llrc state.
Othere said Bily haal been getting into trouble in roent months IIe w# a pupil at the Emest Bwin Col- lege in Tooting but hail appmntly ben expelled reently It wffi also claimed he hatl mtly ben in trou- ble wiih Wmdsorth polie.
The boy who htr not bmofficially med by rnlie, is of mixed roq with a white father and a Thai mother
Forensic teams were today mn- alucting a seilch of the property There have beell no rcts.
Police m investigattlg possible linkc betwen the shootinganal thN of Michael Dosunmu mal James Andrc fuartt-Ford, although mm suggested there is no aplmnt @n- ns:tion.
It uas about 4pm anal there werejust flashing lights md police every- where. It is the last thirg you exlEct to be onfronted with aft er a long dry at work. It's quite scary to know someone got killed jmt a short time before."
Iet's ilo something about this"'. Ms CoIE, who lives minutm fitm where Michrel m shot said Sir Im had "blood on his hanals" for not mting eillier "Tomorrcw is tm late. It's not going to bring this chiLl back," she saiil. "Why dialn't they do this when Andre (Smtrtt-Ford) m slrot, orwhenMichaelm shot?"
In a statement Scotlmd Yard sid: "Psple re mderstandably very concemed anil we fimt to ressure them. The Mekopolitan Polie is tak- ing mch cme very serioushr md we have a ftrll investigation tem oa eacb-"
A Metropoiitan Police slnkewoman said the inrctigation woultl toilay be hmded owr to OIEr- ation Trident, adding "Not bmse the victim is black, but bmme it is a shooting and Opemtion 'Itident is already dealing with the two other shootings involving teenagers in rrcent weeks."
She called for more plice to be put on the strets md fm snior offlere to make public appearmces to reas' srepmple.
IMryrei&bomof trcCu$mily sid fr ey m Sdred d tre $mtinc; ChristinaPilualu. 35, saitt "Ithini
"The perpetrators are getting yomger md $ are the victirc," she said.
about my osn daughterwho isjut two yeils younger mal I m just shmked. He ws a nie kiil. I have nerer la]m mything like this to happetrmmdhere."
The murder of Michml Dmtmu has been tinked to mother fatal attack, the stabbing of Javtrie Crightoq 21, in the adiaent r0aal, at lmc.htime on SaturdayB FebruarY
Clauilia Webbe, vie chair of the OperationTtialentinalepenilmt advi' mry group, sid gun rime re "dev- astating london's shets '.
Another neishbou, who diil not srant to be name4 sid: "There hrye ben a lot of incidents in other parts of Irnd&" frke Pecldm, but I rever thought it muld bappen in Claphm. There hs not ben anything like ihis ftr a trong long time, it is jGt a hueeslmk "
Lucy Colre, founder of campaign group Mothem AgaiGt Gm, said she felt "physicaly sick" when she heard aboutthe latst shmting.
She said: "We hare, tr a mmtrl to do something.
"How many more dmths is it going to tal(e before sommne says to lbny Blair tr Ian BIaif, 'We're had mouglu
She sid: "Whatwe really ilonedto deal with is the prevention in the firet place, Iong before tllat tlullet hffibenfir€d.
"Far too many of ouyowE people know where, how anil whom to gDt a gun ftom ard that is worrying.!'
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Jacqmlire PloEq 29, who lim a few minuts walk from the murder sene, sid: "I ouldn't beliere what I mw wknl walked out of the Ilrbe.
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The father of the first British female soldier to be killed in Afghanistan has told how the death of a second women in combat in the country took him back to "square
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By Emily Parsons 9:10AM BST24APr2011
Gorporal sarah Bryant, 26, was killed while on a mission in Helmand province in June 2008' she was only the second female member of intemational forces to be killed in Afghanistan' An only child' cpl
Bryant's death tore apart her parents' lives'
Her father Desmond Feery, who separated from her mother Maureen before his daughter's death, still lives in the country cottage where Cpl Bryant grew up, surrounded by memories of his daughter'
.Every time there is news of a fatality on the television it stops your day'" he said'
,,Your heart is grieving because you know what their parents are going to go through' when I heard the news about captain Head, and I knew she was the second British female to be killed in Afghanistan' that
took me right back to square one'"
He added: 'The grief is just as equal for a son aS for a daughter; it's a parent'S loss"' he said'
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,,The raw grief and pain was as obvious on the faces of the families of the men who died alongside Sarah, as it was for Sarah's mother and me'"
As the third anniversary of cpr Bryant's death approaches, Mr Feery said his pain is as raw as it was the day he learned his daughter, a member of the lntelligence corps, died'
ln the months that followed, Mr Feely, 57, wrote a children's hok entitled Monty and Tyler Take the Top Road, in which he linked together his daughtels favourite anecdotes about her childhood pets'
Focusing on this task helped him get through each day, with only the inquest ahead of him'
The coroner ruled that cpl Bryant and three sAS reservists died at the hands of the Taliban but said that the use of lightly-armoured 'snatch' Land Rovers, as well as inadequate training' caused by a shortage
of equipment, had been a cause oJ concem'
Her father is stilt haunted by nightmares filled with the details he read and heard about her death in the course of the inquest'
Mr Feely, a catering contractor, has not worked since his daughtefs death and is now full-time carer to his 87 year-old mother.
,,v1/tlen you do finally decide to restart your life, you find yourself down so many dead end streets"' he said.
,,rt is rike a ba[oon that bursts; you hord a happy memory for a few seconds until it pops and reality hits you.
,,lf you,ve ever watched a spider trying to dimb out of a bath, it keeps fatling back down again' My grief has been a pit of depression like that. some days you think you'll be able to carry on as normal' and the next it's like you fall down a great big hole and can't get out'
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,,people seem to think your grief and ability to talk about it is compartmentalised in some way but it can take the slightest trigger to totally destroy you again'
,,r went out for the first time since sarah died to a New year's Eve party to see in 2011, and then spent the next three weeks in a world of guilt and grief. How dare I enjoy myself when Sarah is dead? That is
the strange way this kind of grief affects you'
,,1 contemplated getting away from it all, moving to Germany where lwouldn't hear about soldiers dying' but on a visit out there r rearised they are having just as tough a time, with their own soldiers being
killed."
lnstead, Mr Feely takes each day as it comes, never knowing when something witl remind him of his daughter.
,,Although those soldiers have lost their lives in so many different ways, the parents and families of those soldiers have lost their lives too," he said. You are never ever going to be the same person again'
You wonder if there is ever going to be a right time to laugh again; to joke again; to sing your favourite song again. And the moment you do, you find yourself checking yourself, saying 'what are you doing'
and wondering how you ever started it'
You wouldn't want to get over it, but you don't want your life to be totally swamped with it' I would hope there would 6" a point where it will assume a natural perspective in the scheme of things, but it's nearly
three years now and it's almost as if it just happened yesterday'" @ Copyright of Telegraph Media Group Limited 2011
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a coat around a young boy’s shoulders When Cumbria
Streets of fear: A clown waits on an Egremont street, one of many reported across Cumbria
AS Cumbria floundered in the face of a new villain, a hero emerged from the darkness.
It began as a joke: teenage clowns jumping out to scare other youths in the dead of night. But it rapidly spiralled out of control, tak- ing on a chilling edge with reports of preg- nant women left terrified, frightened children unable to sleep and thugs bran-
dishing weapons.
Angry residents vowed to fight back
against the menace of the creepy clowns, and it appeared only a matter of time before someone was seriously hurt.
And so, when Cumbria needed him, Batman arrived.
The caped crusader took to the streets of Whitehaven for a touch of poetic justice, before becoming the face of hope for petrified youngsters around the world.
In his one-and-only interview, the man behind Batman has revealed how his role quickly evolved – from one of calm reassur- ance to that of clown protector in the
I’d heard about clowns scaring youths... then it got a bit darker. There were reports of women with buggies being scared and children having nightmares. We thought it would be good if we went out to give them a taste of their own medicine
Batman, Whitehaven
face of violent vigilantes.
“I’d heard about these clowns scaring
youths,” he recalled, “and then it got a bit darker. There were reports of women with buggies being scared and children having nightmares.
“We thought it would be good if we went out to give them a taste of their own medi- cine.”
The crime-fighting superhero donned his mask and headed out to confront their local teenage clown.
“When the clown saw a 6ft bat coming towards him he was terrified,” continued our hero.
“We reassured him we weren’t going to do anything bad to him and we weren’t going to hurt him, but we asked him what he was doing with himself.
“He went home with his tail between his legs.”
A flippant post by Cumbria Superheroes on Facebook the next morning, reporting on teaching the clowns a lesson, captured the public imagination – bringing hope amidst the fear.
superhero...
Meet the man who answered the call
Emily Parsons talks to Batman, scourge of clowns, internet sensation... but a father first and foremost
needed a
“That was the only time I have been out tackling clowns,” Batman admitted, “from there it was really about being a reassuring figure.
“I was on the phone constantly with parents who were asking if I could write a message to their daughter or son.
“That was then followed up with responses from children or parents, saying they couldn’t believe Batman had
written to them. We even visited
a few children who were suffer- ing terrible nightmares.
“Most of all, we’ve just had thank yous – from all over the world.”
He continued: “The one that stuck with me was a boy, only about 13, who had been living in England
for about three months. He was foreign and his English
As the story hit global news channels, Bat- man received fan mail from American youngsters proclaiming him their hero, with many desperate to be like him.
Entertainment website The Lad Bible put together a video about Batman and his Cum- brian antics, and posted it on their Facebook site. As of yesterday, it had been shared by 265,000 people – and viewed almost 18m
wasn’t great, but he was scared that there were people wanting to stab and kill children.
“We just wanted to reas-
sure those children that
the clowns are
just jokers, and they want to hurt people.”
don’t
times.
“It’s just bizarre,” he said. “We’ve had contact from China on Facebook, via an interpreter, asking
to use our photos.
“In my world I’m a father,
a husband – and Batman last. I go to work during the day and spend time with my family in the
evening.
“I’m just a
hero at the weekend and to be dropped in
this is mad.” While the majority of the world sees him as a super- hero, like his DC Comics namesake there


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to let him know that the world hadn’t ended
Standing guard: Whitehaven’s own Batman watches over the town at night
Clowning around
AT its height, police were called to 23 clown-related incidents in one 24-hour period.
Officers warned it was “no laughing matter” and vowed to take action against anyone caught terroris- ing the public.
Among the most chilling incidents were a teenage girl threatened by a clown on Instagram – who said he planned to cut her throat and rape her; a man chased around Hammond’s Pond in Carlisle; and a small child confronted by a clown brandishing a stick.
In my world I’m a father, a husband – and Batman last. I go to work during the day and spend time with my family in the evening. I’m just a hero at the weekend
are some who viewed Batman in a different light.
He continued: “We had some very scary messages, and a lot of them were from ex- military men.
“We had messages saying ‘we need you in Leeds’ or wherever, because they were plan- ning to go out with knives and hunt clowns.
“These were really scary comments, and we became clown protectors too. We were just advising people not to go out, telling them these were just youths.
“We sent message after message telling people not to be hurting children – and not to risk hurting themselves.
“That was my biggest fear: I kept imagin- ing turning on the news and seeing that a child had been killed.”
Batman added: “They were just youths and teenagers who get ahold of these crazes and think it’s a bit of fun.
“Sadly, this time it took a sinister twist.”
While the media circus goes on around him, Batman prefers to keep a low profile, turning down requests for interviews on ITV’s This Morning and even to appear on Judge Rinder.
The creepy clown craze appears to finally be calming down.
And so Batman says he will now slip back into the shadows ... until Cumbria needs him again.
Was Whitehaven’s Batman right to take on the clowns? Did he make the situation worse or better? Voice your opinion on our website at www.newsandstar.co.uk or on our Facebook page facebook.com/newsandstar
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'Loss, heartache and devotion my week's stories from Cumbrian floods
Emily Parsonsisa journallst in Carlisle. This is her account of a week covering stories of heroism, stoicism andanger amid helland high water across
the county
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I'm wondering ifthe rain u'ill ever stop. I t began yesterda-v and T w* up all night checkingriver levels. It's now justbefore midnightand, rvith oniy m hour'sbrief respite, still itrains.
I've done everything I can - the llood defences are on- the neu'river flood u,all is holding - md-yet the uater keeps comingin. Itis seepi[g
up trhrough the kitchenfloor and the sandstone walls. It is already in the bottom ofthe kitchen cupboards... md still itrises.
The ners toda).has been au'fuI: flood defences inApplebli Kesrvick. Cockermouth od Kendal have all fallen and thevare waming that Crlisle q.ill be next. Ruml communi- ties hare been ilmed iao islads.
I m hoppingbenreen newschar- nels ud T\,iner md Facebook.It's filled with images ofboats being rowed down usuallybusy sreets, fmilies clutching their belongings il plmtic ba1p. Thefr6 5qsns5 mostC[mbrims never thoughtthey'd see again.
'lhe poiice declared amajor iuci- dent this afternoon and suddenly it became real.our comunity flood group had alreadr sprung into acrion, deiivering dr1'sacks, clearing a l0- meue chunl< of6r ree from the river md checkingon neiglrbours. Four homes uere cut offfrom the rest ofthe village by early aftemoon.
I speit hours lifting fumiture, briig- ingin the freezer raisingthe fridge ud empq.ing e\c[' bolcom dra*er md cupbord sheifinthe kitcheL l'm now baricaded inside md. to all intents and purposes, helpless. It{v only rations re a humiedly put-together surivai kit compri.ing a kertle. u'ine. ronic q'rrcr. co1Iee md loe ofchocoiate.
There wc a briefmoment ofpanic earlier u'hen l wmphinged into dark- nes, but I managed to wade to the fu* box andresetit rurmoutthe flood had shon-circuited the oven. For noq. all Ican do is u.ait...
whata night- and what adal'! I'm now sutrivitrgon two hours'sieep. adrenalin md lots ofcoffee. After going to bed at 3m I w6 up at 5.3oar, ha\- ingbarely sleptbetween checking the river levels and nighm*es of waking to find mybed floating.
I was fortunate: while dle waterws knee-high outside md in the grage, m1, holseis builton agende slope and so is slightlyhigher Thewatercmre to onlyabout eight ioches in the kitchen md hs already drained away. Aptrt from the oven oddishwasher, u'e
have saved everything. Our 1,il1age, too, largely escaped unscathed.
We've been tlte lucky ones. The nervs is the worst possible parts of Csrlisle have succumbed, ud still the rivers ue rising
As assistantnews editor at the lveus &Stdrin Carlisle, t head straightitrto the oflice, takingover web coverage from our headof content whohas been up all nighr He ishavingabrerk to shower md chuge, then heading back in. Reporteremd photographers pass in and out in ablur; mmy ofthem have been going all night. Tal6 of
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The togof di:helief mdgrief isswr ing to pts. md he replar'ed wirh mger. Why didn'tthe defenres hold?What more cm be done?The mihister stops of innyviliage md looks atthe wo.k done ud hou, it nay hare saved thoe homes. beiore headinginto the citr to see rie realityof those rvorst hit
Ir{ore tlan 10O bridges in the county remain clopd hecause ofconcems over safew; dozere ofroads ue blocked or impassable. N{osrschools hare mauged to reopen, butthree *cond- ary *hoo1s md Culisle College we.e mong the u,orst hit md there ue question marks over whether theywill reopen this 1e*. People re rolling up their sleeves od car4.ingon. Crlisle United fbotballers - u.hose pitch hm ben mined ard some of rvhom lost rheir orrr homes - have heen out help- inli in their local corrnunity.
I'm looking at photographs of people's homes. I've witten about the devmution. I've inteniewed people - I even lived it myselftwo years ago - yet nothing prepares you for that sight Carpets md fl oorboards ripped up paintwork bubbling ploter peelitg md piles md pil* of discrded belonginp5.
A iayer ofthick red silt covers much of tlle county s the clem-up begins-
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watchingthem crep up - and up. Howerer, m"v river is oflittie con- sequence a l'm also glued to social media u arching in real rime m lhe vii- lage o{ Gienridding gets washed au'ay 6y dre second flood this reek.
ItbegN witi ples for help md sandbags on Twitter, beforethe
cries got Drore desperate - and tien photographs emerged ofrescres. It isheartbreaking to see a community u.hi ch spe nt four days b atd i ng to lind
a semblance of normalitv being ripped apatagain. The army, mountain res- cue volunteers and police have spent this evening lightingto protect villag- ers. butcu do littleto save their homes md businesses.
Donatiore ue now pouing in from all overdre counr,v - Preston Mulim Cultural Centre hm dispatched a van, rriti promises ofothersto follou.. Of more immediate help ue the ofrers ofsupport still coming in.I've lielded phone calls from Devon, Su{folkand York m people ofer their home for a fanilythis Christmas. The mood is hud to compreherd unless 1ou live herc. People are stoic, heroic, defimt ... md "vet still they *e Iorced to tal<e each day as itcomeq the thoughtof Chrisms a longway fiom most peo- ple's minds.
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Private security fims ue beingcot- iracted to patrol Cillislc forfear of looting - something Cumbria police insist is notawidespread problem.
I will go tobed with aslightsmile tonighg at t}le overwhelming gen- erosit_v of humanl<ind. The {lurubria Community Foundation Apped
hit rtm today, barelyfive days after launching. Ttratcane aJongside a g5Oo,O00 pledge ofcash. rnmpo*.er and rercurces from the EnergyCoast Alread1,, 34 fmilies have been giver emergelc-v hudship granre totalling more thil1 923.000, s the countyoffers drem a lileline.
Today itu'as the mrn ofLabour's JeremyCorbyo, u.ho s.andered tie sfeets ofCockermoutl and Carlisle alongside MEPJulieWqd. He wre greeted difrerendy from cmeron
- perhaps people hare fewerexpeca- tions ofthe leader ofthe opposition than ofthe prime ministe.. Corbyo smg happy b irthday to a woran cel- ebratingher 65th birthday. md offered ahugto alother Its's a moment's reliefin q,hat is becoming an endiess rudge on the road to recovery
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Exhaustiol is eviclent throughout the ciry fi'oo those still in the throes of the clean-up operation to the heros who have batded day after da_v to ofer rvhctcrer help rher cm. lr i.airnosrtie end of one of the longestweeks mury can rernembet but there is no respite ia sight- justthe promise ofavisit $om Amir Khm tomofrou,.
I don'tknowwhether to laugh orcry 6 the N{etOltrce today issues further weather wunings for tomorrow. Rain ard/or heary snow isexpected to bat- ter Cumbriafor Il hours. As someone mkedmetoday: horvmuch more cm Cumbriatake?
Sdurdat
The rain fell and rive'r leveisshot
up again, but bdaymrked amajor chmge in the couty. \\.hile so muy homes and businesses ue still tryingto rebuild. there ha" been a quier mLrmen- turn gathering.Itwill take mily months for some ofthe worst-afected to refuo to a sernblance of uormalit_v. Ho*erer, *,hile thatuork is going on, we ned your help.There is no point lighting to rebuild if businesres are forced to clo*because trade dries up.
The message is simple; Cumbriais open. Plee. visit our atfactions, buy &om ourshops. The countyis doum butit is iotoul These people are brave and determined to succeed r but they
n ill ned aiittle helpalongtheway.
Enr i{y ?crsons is assi stant news editor dt Carlisle's Nqrs & Star
rerues, heroics ud bravm.ae old again md again.
Ald still the river ri*s. S* aths of the city ue ia duknes. toqns od cities are cut in half ftains have been halted and at iemt nvo major super- mukets re u[denvatet No one can quite believe it This is the l(ess ick. Cockermouth ad Carlisle floods lion Lhe p*r l01err - i'ut siil urrmrcus']. andwith other towm added in. ID a decade the cout1. hm experienced tiree "once-in-a-lifetime" inciclens. How mmy mo.e cm one lifetime take?
Receptioa cenffes have been st up in fl ood-hit tou,ns, uking.. in puene.
Emlly FarsonstE hs dI|re, wlth ttE flood wats.*hhE the top of hcr adt€i
fherehavebeen decadesotfamily merntri€slct, weddingscancelled andddldrenteft terifiedof water
children, grandmas mddogs. One rvoman rerealed how she'd saved her *eddingcale liom tl:e flood - the big day is Saturday. Another mmshakes his head c he says he nerrrthought hell live tbrough itagain.
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Each day takes iB enlotional toll the ralcs oI loss hecrtache md devstation eDerging e\ery minute of every hour rre seemingly endless. Decades of [m- i11, memories lost, weddings cmcelled, children left terrifi ed of water.
Police begin this rnorning wit+r yet anodrer rescue effort on Crylisle's Warwick Road, assistedby the RNLI inboats. Those stoic househoiders who suck itoutuntil now re linally leaving as the realityofunchmging water levelsmd lack ofelectricit and heatilghecome too much.
OIIers of assistuce are coming in. t'ur u hile the rescue cfforr i" still going on, there hass't jetbeen a coordinated effort. CN Group (owner ofthe ne*'s- paper) launched spir'tofcumbria.co.uk to coDnectthose ir need with thore offeringhelp, ud a *spiritofcumb.ia hsh og to shoucue tJre counn's dere.- miration and generosiry
At 6pm it so(nds like awu zone ouside the oflicelyou cu hear norhing butsirens md the almost continuous drone of helicopters overhead.
David Cmercn came today, donning his weiiies to visit the $orst-allected rec md talk to the heroes who are stillworkingtirelesslytosecure our cilr Somewelcomed his visitaod the nationai spotlight it shone on Cumbria; others called for actioi not*brds.
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Just when 1ou think things cil't get anyworse, Mother Nature srikes again. l'm once again spendingu evenirg moritoring my rirer levels,


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BILLIE PIPER, ElBhas b*r at tbe centre af spmlatioe thaa she is noi a'ell{mugfi to appes e s1a$ ir lhe West E!rd, hs mne ost frghting saying: "1'H deiEg really rYell"
EMITY PAR56NS
Tlre2+!s{ld fomer Docts \{ho star hiE faaEd r$IsuN that siE suld nrt eoile sith the eroqtisnslly d€Eal(litrg rol" io ?ruts.
tion sirBd ls her kidBeys She s6 also rtrmoured to be a "neF3us Eeck" o!'er her demeding rcle in the Christopher Hampten plal, in r$hich she plafs a joil0ralist tqE betf€en t{o 0eD.
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She sliap*d shcrtlt before going on slage lbr a pre{ie* perforEde Iast sek, Stls has also hen spotLd cryiEg at a afe el*se to her trorth I$dqn hoEe anrl being snfeted by ex-husirat]d Clvis Erans-
B[ta*s wargheronstage, E:ffi s6 tull rf pmise. As he left the iheatre he si& "I tlEsglrt BiIl lYas irriliiafi. Il1len sha cri€d, 1 cried."
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kst night E!'ffi 1RS in the audi €n€ st the Cc$ick Th€atE to see Pitxr in a preYieu beloE the olEcial olEuing on Thursdali
Prcducer Bill Ifunlsi$rt. sho iast ts@k t@k t]1e uaprefedertsd dei- sion to tEstpqne lhe offrcial apen- iDg lor a $ek to gi"€ Rper a chec ao re*rs and ptepare llerealf to face the qiti6, al$ praised her pr forEilce
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is s}}e left the srage dOor BiIh toyltiend and s'star ?B-year€ld L1wre Pox Piper toldihe E*ning SERdard: ", am doing retly r.ell- ft is goirg Eeil and fm renllt'pl€ased."
I'te si* '"This kid is rtle htrd6t *'orhin-s. mqst mgeti€ iady in the industry"
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She thaEked EBns for his Nppori sa!,ing: "It $as really good h*ing Chrir hcre-I sr{d tearlim laueh- in*" Bless him t*r tleing sutp€rtiE-"
The foffier pcp star misse{ dB tirct prr"ie* niglt afler she was taken io h6pit3l nineda-"s ag! $iah m illness beliel'ed to ire a r*urrerce of haesorrha€ing c]tstitis.
Tha corditigtr ffiusefl h€r t0 col lsFse ir 3.}00 {'1r€r &e bladder i}i€-
Tbe rudierce also gave Pipr tleir bac* ing.
showiE rertrairh Fox md an erdfiusiastic fan with Bill Ksffiigfit h Ute backgrcund. Right, post-show shoPPint fortHts
€EotloEal play It m't be easY to aci ffithj.glike that. but I tlpu$a slre did a aerf. good joh-*
KenKight's tem ae tmrlmtood t0 hare dnw up @[tjngencyPl0s iD es Piper mnnot ftrllll her tlrre month e*lDit&ent to tie Plali A slEkesman l0r itra prodtcer sid: "Billie is uaderan gnmoE ailou1t 0f pssure al lhe msmsi."
Play thne: the ttukia ffilinegamsmu
{;amrs s'ill cost around g6 aud pla-1"r$ \rill also lle able to chat olline and c\'cn pla]'
Greg lYilt3n, :?, said: '1 hale mt leffinailf tlregtrtd€ r?s that 1*!* deriul in any of her T! perlgr- oaares, but she autshote ey {f dos mles thii senin!: i thonglrt she 1Hs reallf gmd and ertainlY held her$m.
lems. they E?res't brought tc thc stagg'
'she perfasned iike a profssi&al actrs ard there was m sense ef hs'goirg Amilgh an"!'peMnal prcl,-
JumlrcWalkef, s, t€[ $.atrold. uid: "She *6 reall! gaod. I me€ ta wher *ally ard ffis eulied atter eErSth:ng I had Hd atEat ber in the papffi, but she cstalnly per- formed toDigbt.- Frieild Mandy Thomas, 41, added: -It is cert"idf Errth Ht{t}ing, alt}*lgh lt is a wtt
Lek Who.s hee: Billie Pipr with bcyfrimd lasr$ce Fsx and forrra husband Chris lvans aiter the Ganick show
Free dorrnload turns existing Nokias into games consoles
N()lilA has unleiled plans ro lurn Biliions oluotlile fltoncs into onlitre gantes $nsoles.
it hopr5 lo rake on l\licFlsoft nnd Sotry llt upglrdiug
lho[es alrr0dy ln usc \tith the nct rofrlure, call({l li- Gagc. Ithas signt'd np major
MARI( PR!G6 Te(hnoloov Corresmndent in San FrJncisco
again5i {:tch other'. Tlre sof{Eiuc ltill be f*e to do\rrrload to handtets. and lrs game! {rials \iil1 f}e aBitahle. Customers s'ill otil!' pa if tirs]' {leckle ts keap a game-
SleakiBg at the Cante Derelopus Conl'eactrte in
Sar l'ranL'isco, JaaLk0 !i.ridcsoja oiliokia iaid: -\1e hil? milliols r)f pir(trre$ illi?ad-! i, pe{rpl8's l}ockcts. so \!e lPjiel'c tllat ir Bill hale n ntajor ftd1ttrta:io .JrPr our Iirtrls ... \k lxrliele th$re is a hug.j market fgr xrolrile ,h$nc gatr!)r. Otrr krssarcll
has loutrd tltat tn arcrage psple play for 48r 20 Einutes a da]"."
Noltia usfs wilL doxnload gaees to tlBlr PC, vlerc they €n t e mpled t* a phone, 0r dircctly f{on: their l}bone. i#men-onty gmes arr also b€ing planned.
games such as i'IFA 2llo8 for tle Iaunch later thit ]eai
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Homes
Councils at loggerheads
THE urost hotly debated Part of rhe Regional Spiltial StElcgY (RSS) @ocernod llle number of homs to t e built il the aE.
Derek Stebbing, from Chelmsford council, iold t}le inquiry: 'we believe the RSS allMtion for Chelmsford borough is appmpriate ed @ be delivered in a sustaitrable atrd attainable waY
grcBlh $'ith further housing, rhe Ebs need to be there rc try ud Ehin those People within tlle districi.
The issue is I contrcvesial that even i}le lMl authorities if,wlved could Dot agxee.
"Hosevel you sill hear messages, writteD and verbal' that wilI no doubt implore You to add further io the Ievel of housing grow.th for Cheimdord.
'HaliBg eid tha! qe f*l the buiiding mte is quite small ud nrch' ssBinable md most of ihat en be on brownfield land ed we should be able to cope sitbout having to consider Grsn Belt rei€se."
Esss Couuty Council tricd to peEuade the EiP Pdel to redu@ the housitrg allo@uon in the mid-Esex region -- but both Chelffi lord Borcugh Council sd tfaldon District Council plantring policy mnaBem sid they were sdsfied.
"The borcugh @uncil similuly uaes You to 6is1 thot, beGuse in the @ntext of the employmenvhousing mislMtch ilY iurther housing srowth mighl wcll em€rbate ihat mismatch ild, erEinlY u my opinion, lead 10 Pobltially unsustainable leveis."
The Cmpaign tor the Prcktion of REI England backed the @uDtY @ulcil on the E@lmended reduction.
Fact File
EssEx hd bo€r 6matksd for 12i1,4{X) mw h@3€ stth 14,(xlo ln Ch€lffitord !ryosgh {suroit populauon @B than ,5?,OOO); 2,4m lo ths Maldon dl3t ict (popolafq 60,300); 7'?OO ttr B.altrks dlsttlct (popd.{@ r3s,Oilr}i 8,Oo(} ln t}tdos,ord dtBt'lst (populatt@ 69,fiX!); AEotwood botdgt 2,9OO; ehtust6r dlstrlct 17,1Oq thurt@k UA a8'5oq Baifidotr 1O,?OOi E9plng Forcst rl,{Xrq Castle Polot 4,OOO; llatlow 8,O{x}; Bo6hfrod 4'600;
S@thsd UA 6,0oq Iuddng a'5q,.
Patrick Amos, eprwnung l}le @uty council giaL "Essex is cotr@rned about the gle of houshg 8rcwth belng PrcPosd.
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"1{e thirk the Plm watrts to be se.ied back slightly dd qe de signin@ilY opPoed b sipifiEnt growth over sd above that which h8 been pepo*d."
The muEty sugg6ted ChelNford's allffi tion be redu@d fmm l'l,000 to u,500' 4d Maldon's frcm 2,'100 to l'gfi), Surprisingty both borcugh ild disrict @uncils dig8reed.
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Tony IffGtef Ircm Nialdon coMcil. sid although ihe population of the Maldon district hs risn m Per ceDt m the l6t 20 Yes, the council b.1cks the frsE, Prcvidirg the rclevant infrctncture is in pla@
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Derek Stebbing, of CheLEford Borcugh Council. told t}}e isel there are currently trc homs to every job, which is both .worNine-Mildaldiostnurbing".
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Eveir District Council'
EMmiGtion -in Public backeil &is viewmlnt. with ttlaldon Districi Coucil ana itelmrord ud Brentwood Borcugh Councils havitr @lmi$ioned theA os report on @rcmic stability in tho regon.
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116,000 more jobs
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SUC,GESTEDemPloymentfigx6 for outbvtheUni\tEltyofSourhWBt 'ltmi€itonlybeasdaltlhmdo&tof
mid-Esx e l@ low and Bould en@un€e out.@tmuting arcording to a develoDment agenqr
Enelud, e not Publi{ }?l t}k @uncils toH the mnel t}e eulE shouBl the M wEre more sct&ble thM tie Pld suseests.
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The Rccional SBtial StEtcgY PIm wanE to s;t a hEet o[ 9,600 more jots ir mial-Essex over the next l5 yes- The @unty s a whole will treed a further 116.000jobq i1 sys.
ifl thrc councils qere ale Eorried tle fisFs would euerbaE the current -;isroth" bet*s hom6 ild joba
childre! to Iiee tbee" Mager t atrick Am6. OlaminB Policy "In atEsx CosryCoscil,@suwncililisisewd:king
-Althoueh the reporfs findinES, @ried development of the rig$t tlTe
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chelroford the @ulY wheE lhere is a to have bl@kofdevelopmentfutw @nomic cltr sile PrcIEjoedb grcsth sd &e develoDmst and supported bY e-ffili i" Properly
towns dd @untry villages. claimcd the I-rgures were neither physically clear nor challenging enough.
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but working suitable beBuse of its Other rePwntatives at the resmNlble for a diskicr of sroll l@ket "Ma.ldon is not s a small milkel
cllr shilon RiNb€k. deputy mayor of Maldon. agreed:'We nced trusport links sd employmenl links to give us some
town, wilh Creater uere-ii the north mofethnetioned as a Mior
l{ot good enough
THE key mlwge to the emining Pdel. reEilding mid Esx rudq bus and trams *Eit"ri o" r*Port system is not Eood enoueh.
ln lhe @sly claimhg it is 'alEady overl@ded".
---tt i* thu on" * ofthe inquw in which the felincs of the rEking repwntatiom were alm*t umimos. EveryoE agree<l tbat bo additioBal hoEs or robs wuld be fesible unl6 substantial md dffiiic cbilgs were made to the region's tBnsport svstem.
A lengthy di$ussion al$ eEued into the impact [he new CrcssBj] liDe, shich will Ermitrate at Shenfield would haw on @mutes ed the aM's susainabilitY
- Esx Coutv Coucil taiked about ib pdk end ride shere due to be @mpleted s@n' rhe reibilitv of a new northern Chelmsford mi; sEtion dd the smingly Permilent @ng6tion of large #tchB of the Al2'
stops at every
station ed lal6 at 16t 40
Countv cowcil pla$ing policy Mager' Fatrtck Am6, tou rhe EiP ttEt lhe @uncil is palticulariy oneaed about infrElructure
minutes. doubt that lor The inquily was left in no
mid.Esi toffi sd lhei. regios to remain sugtainable, better @ds ne€ded to be built or more money needed to be SPent on the existing @ng6tion zones, including ilre Almy ild NavY rcudabout in CheLnsford'
thirkiDe Nlaldon people to bring their to reti.i', we wet
sDpeEted develoDments for Chelroford
Beaulieu Pdk mixed employment md oppo"tuity for
A countY @uci] sPoksma sid @mule6 would Prefer to be cl:ffied onto a f$t train taking just B minut6 to Shenfield. ths on a Crc$Bil hain wbich
Essex Chronicfe, Thursday, Match 2, 2006
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Irvine welsh, best knom for Miiing the cult bestseller T?airepoltilg, is retuning to the comty he once lived and worked in to speal< at the Essex Book Festival-
The pailime DJ was born Md Br.w up in Edinburgh, but decldes Essex will always have a place in his heart.
He once lived in Colcheste! workirg on the Hrywich to Ho1lmd Sealirli feries, and has a 1ot of *ierds who live in Ilford, Rorrford md the Emt End of London.
Irvine said the comty will always be a "port of call" for hiu.
"1 feel very comfortalrle in that part of the world," the 44year-old explained. "It's a very diverse kind of place. It's a bit of a microcosm; it's a bit oflondon; it's a bit countryt it's a bit ofthe seaside ed it is parties. It's a mixed bag."
Despite being the autior of seven books, including Filth, Glue ed Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, lryine claims writing was never sometiing he particulilly wmted to do.
"I'd done music for yetrs without much sucress and I wmted to do something creative: writing was the last tbrow ofthe dice for me."
The inspiration for Trainspotting was born out of a desire to potray the poorer sides of Britaitr in a realistic way
"I read a 1ot of books about workirg class life in Britain md they never seemed to ring true, They always seemed to be wriilen by people who were on the outside, sorl ofjudging i! a matedalistic way or generalising, making it real salt ofthe
f I read a lot of books about working class life in Britain and they never seerned to ring true. !
BACf, IN ESSEX: Irvine Welsh is comitrg to Hillow; (below left) the flln version ofwelsh's Trainspotting with Ewen Bremer, Jomy Lee MilleL Ewe Mccregor mal Robert Carlyle
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Before Trainspotting made him famous, lrvine Welsh used to live and work in Essex. Ahead of an appearance at the Essex Book Festival, the cult author tells Emily Parsons that he never wanted to be a writer
THE lconic author of one of Britain's most kfluential novels is returning to Essex-
eatth kind of stufl'. 1 never bousht into that." Altiough not an author by mbition, kvine had
codidence in his own abilities, eticipating Trainspotting's success.
"1 thought it would be kind of successful
because I i]1ougilt it was quite good. It was a shock when it becme a success globally thoug!, because it s@med to be specific to Britai!-
"It's quite sceT x'hen people say it's a big cultual artilact ofthe 90s Ijut see it as a book I've done and I've moved on from it reall]r
"I get people coming up saylng 'this book has chmged my life' md ifs quite humbling becaue it's nice it cu have such m ialBct but tlere is not a lot you cm really say"
He feels it is lougher for young authors to breah
desryibing the llook indusbxr as belng as comerciali$ed as the music industry lrvine believes book shops de stickitrg with faithful sellers like JK Rowli.g in the see way that music shops favow well-known artists lihe Coldplata
His mcssage thou8i is to pprspvore.
To Irvine, this ilvasion of the chtracters is noi a unfmiliar one.
"You thint you choose who you have in a book, but sometimes I thirk it ch@ses you. You sometimes get the feeling it's au alEost supernatual ptocess, where a-11 the elements have come together in you head at one pafliculil time.
"You don't expect to go down the pub and bump into thes, but they have got a kind ofreference point."
I Irvine Welsh will be speahing at the Playhouse Theatre on March 2B as part of the Essex Book Festival, For more iftformation or to book tickets calT 01279 43Iq45 wwosspxh^nkfpsfivrl ore.rrk
"You have to sttrt believing you're not gonoa make &y money and do it because you enjoy j1-" Trainspottitrg took the world by storm, beiag
adapted into atr equally iconic t'r]m staring Ewe Mccregox but bvine conlbsses he did not choose his most recent novel, Porno, to be a sequel.
It came atlout when he realised the chtracter he was describing was identica.l to ihat of Sick Boy and would remain that way whatever he nmed
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