The Philip I knew was the best of company – and the best of men
As the Duke s biographer, Gyles Brandreth found him to be a brave man who showed unexpected moments of sensitivity
Gyles Brandreth knew the Duke of Edinburgh for almost 50 years
In the summer of 2000, in the run-up to the celebrations marking the 100th birthday of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, I asked the Duke of Edinburgh, then 79, if he fancied the idea of living to be as old as his mother-in-law. “God Almighty,” he harrumphed, “I can’t imagine anything more ghastly. I’ll be dead long before then, I hope.”
Campbeltown Courier
P6 pupils from Castlehill Primary School about to set off on their 5K Santa dash.
Want to read more?
At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time has now come to reinstate our paywall.
However,
To access all other news will require a subscription, as it did pre-pandemic.
Clover Hill VA Infant School and Nursery in Bowthorpe.
- Credit: Google
A teaching assistant who exaggerated the extent of the injuries she suffered while restraining a disruptive six-year-old pupil has lost an appeal that the school had been negligent.
Sharon Durrant had made a claim over injuries to her left shoulder, chest and limbs, and for post-traumatic stress disorder, following the incident at Clover Hill VA Infant School and Nursery in Bowthorpe.
She had argued the school’s ‘Sunshine Room’, a calming-down area for disruptive children, was an unsafe place of work and that the school had not effectively operated systems for monitoring and management of difficult pupils.