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A PENSIONER battered by thieves who tried to steal her £1,300 mobility scooter has thanked police and the public for their support.
The Mirror told last week how Ida Brown, 79, who is being treated for leukaemia, was left black and blue after foiling the robbery outside her home.
She has been inundated with gifts, hot meals and messages of support after coverage of the 5.30am raid on February 28.
Ida, who has had a free CCTV system installed, will also receive more than £5,000 from a fundraiser set up by locals in Gateshead, Tyne & Wear.
Yesterday the pensioner, who lives with her three cats, said: “Everyone has been so good.”
Northumbria Police is “committed to trying to identify those responsible”.
Boris Johnson’s lies don’t come cheap. He’s lashed out £2.6million on a theatre for his spin doctors to parrot the official line. The official lie comes from the despatch box during Prime Minister’s Questions.
I was a member of the secretive Westminster lobby in the 1990s, when Christopher Meyer and Gus O’Donnell were the Downing Street spokesmen. These discussions were off the record, but we were professionally briefed. The Boris Footlights will be a media circus, with telly correspondents desperately seeking celebrity.
It’s already happened with the No10 Covid press conferences, where point-scoring show ponies compete to humiliate politicians. And we are none the wiser.
Brannick has been on the hunt for serial killer Goliath, looking to weed out a bent copper.
But has it been him all along? Good cops Birdy (Chris Walley) and Niamh (Charlene McKenna) know Goliath must be someone currently on the force who was there for the original 1998 case.
That leaves Brannick, left, boss DCS Jackie Twomey (Lorcan Cranitch) and investigator Dinger (Michael Smiley). Brannick is surely the prime suspect and we know he’s a murderer – too obvious?
Twomey hasn’t been honest and Dinger could be distracting us with his quips. Or could Goliath be Brannick’s wife Emma? Where’s AC-12 when you need them?