Body found by empty car
THE BODY of a 25-yearold man was discovered near an abandoned car in Lanarkshire early yesterday morning.
Police rushed to the scene at Overtown near Wishaw when the alarm was raised just after 4am.
There are no suspicious circumstances. A COURT in Bolton heard John McLaughlin, 33, cuffed his partner to the bed at night because he feared she’d cheat on him. REUNION Just some of the giant brood of grandchildren BY ADAM ASPINALL WINNY Stokes has a lot of birthdays to remember – she’s just welcomed her 100th grandchild into the world.
The 90-year-old had 14 children who went on to have 34 kids of their own.
When you add great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren, it takes the total to 100.
The supergran couldn’t wait to hold latest arrival, baby Hunter, in her arms.
Widow Winny, from Gloucester, said: “I just couldn’t believe it when I was told I had 100 grandchildren.
“I had 14 children altogether. Sadly, John died when he was just three hours old, and we lost Tony 13 years ago when he was 51 years old.”
Winny, who was married to Ken, said her children would top and tail in bunk beds every night growing up – and they were all in bed by 7pm.
As the extended family grew, the annual family holiday to Blackpool required a 52-seater coach.
She said: “Ken was ever so good, getting the washing up together and I would be downstairs in the kitchen with the children peeling the potatoes for the dinner.”
Daughter Tracey Stokes, 54, said of her upbringing: “We all REMINDER Winny’s poster of family faces had jobs to do. Dad would always be ‘one up all up – do your jobs’. “Dad would get all the get the children up on Sunday and they would get in the washroom. “The cleanest children would go in the bath first, so the girls would go in first and the boys afterwards. “There was always moaning from one or the other complaining that they did not want to get in the bath with one of the others because they picked their nose or something.” “Dinner time was always eventful. The children were not allowed to leave the table until their plates were cleared. They were guaranteed three hot meals cooked a week. “Winny would knit for all the children with plenty of hand-me-downs passed through the generations.”
Number of children Winny had herself with her husband, Ken