Daily Star

Rylan’s taking Morning break

HGVs are left unlocked

- Oliver.pritchard@dailystar.co.uk

RYLAN Clark-Neal has announced he is taking a break from his hosting duties on This Morning, – much to the disappoint­ment of viewers.

The former X Factor star, who appears as the resident showbiz reporter on the ITV show, broke the news live on yesterday's programme.

He told presenters Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield: “After Christmas I’m going to be going away for a bit.”

Willoughby said: “I feel like you’re our child who is going off travelling to go and explore new things.”

Clark-Neal replied: “It’s definitely not goodbye but I’m going to be taking a little bit of a break in the New Year.”

He did not share his reason for taking a layoff from the programme, nor did he say when he might return to the role.

Clark-Neal later confirmed he would still be on the show next week.

He tweeted: “Thank you for all your lovely messages. I’m sure I’ll be back soon see you next week xxxx @thismornin­g.”

One fan wrote on Twitter: “Sad to see u go! Showbiz will never be same.” FOOD tech teacher Susan Whilding, 70, has retired without taking a single day off sick in 47 years at The Bishop of Hereford’s Bluecoat School.

BURST DOZENS of lorries are being left unlocked in areas where migrants routinely stow away in UK-bound vehicles.

The Daily Star visited HGV parks along the main trunk road to the Calais ferry port and Channel Tunnel.

Most of the vehicles were unsecured and only had catches on their rear doors which could be opened by hand.

Our team also saw numerous desperate migrants loitering suspicious­ly around trucks on the A16 and A26 motorways. In from OLIVER PRITCHARD in Calais the Saint-Hilaire-Cottes service station, near the town of Norrent-Fontes, we saw a suspected migrant climbing on to a HGV that was carrying two campervans.

He then disappeare­d at the site, which is notorious for asylum seekers trying to hide in vehicles.

French police, who searched in vain for the man, said such incidents were a “nightly occurrence”. A worker at the service station said: “It happens all the time.

“They are constantly here. It’s worse at night and I’m scared to go outside.

“There was a migrant camp nearby but they knocked it down about three weeks ago. Things haven’t got any better since then because the migrants are still about – they’ve just moved to a new camp.

“They’re talking about closing the service station because it has got so bad.”

A Polish driver admitted he often left his truck unsecured to stop migrants vandalisin­g it. He said: “I leave the doors open with the documents on it which sa ys I’m heading to Holland. If I lock the doors they will slash the sides of my lorry to see where I’m going.

“By letting them see I’m not heading to the UK they leave me alone.

“If they want to get to Holland they don’t need to stow away. They can just get a bus or train or walk.” Only

 ??  ?? TOO EASY: Oliver finds the rear doors of some lorries are not hard to open. Right, a suspected migrant at Saint-Hilaire-Cottes
TOO EASY: Oliver finds the rear doors of some lorries are not hard to open. Right, a suspected migrant at Saint-Hilaire-Cottes
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LAX: An unsecured lorry at the service station
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HEADING OFF: Clark-Neal
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