Missing boy found at M1 roadworks
A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy who was left at a motorway service station during a school trip survived nine hours of near-freezing weather before being found by roadworks on the M1.
Aadil Umair Rahim was discovered safe and well after a major overnight police helicopter search.
His father Umaair, from Nottingham, thanked the police and volunteers who looked for him after he vanished during a toilet break at Newport
Pagnell services in Buckinghamshire, saying they “gave me and my wife a second life”.
The Pakistan-born company director added on Facebook: “There were more than 1,000 people looking for him.”
Aadil vanished after his school coach stopped for a break at the service station at 7.15pm while returning to Nottingham from a trip to the Museum of London.
Police released a CCTV image showing the youngster running towards a car park at the services in a witness appeal.
Volunteers helped with the search, along with a police helicopter and sniffer dog teams.
Aadil was found just before 4am having suffered near-freezing conditions in just a jumper, a long top and trousers.
Amy Clements ofthames Valley Police said: “We are so very glad he has been found and are thankful to everyone assisting.”
DIPLOMATIC cars were on the wrong side of the road in two separate incidents near the RAF base in Northampton where Harry Dunn was killed last year.
In one, a police car was struck and Chief Constable Nick Adderley wants talks with the base commander saying: “Incidents just cannot keep happening.”
Motorcyclist Harry, 19, died and driver Anne Sacoolas claimed diplomatic immunity, returning to the US. Calls for her extradition have been refused.
Germany had fallen, all the kings and princes and grand dukes of Germany had gone.they had to make sure the monarchy was still at the heart of things in Britain and they believed it was very important to be seen.and so they toured quite a lot and appeared at parades.”
The film, which is, for now, Downton’s final instalment, depicts the unhappy marriage of Princess Mary, a bright young girl married to a stuffy, distant older man. In real life, her wedding was a sensation, featured on Pathe News and invogue.
ACENTURY later, not much has changed. Meanwhile, we like to think the woes facing the royal family or, indeed, any corner of our society are a modern phenomenon, but Julian says they were simply better at hiding it in the past. “That was window dressing,” he smiles. “Disobedient sons were sent to some colony and told never to come home and disobedient daughters were married off to foreigners and exported to Naples. People are people, and they will get up to a certain amount of shenanigans, whenever and wherever they live.”
Colonies and whoever might be sent there aside, Julian gleefully points out how his show would have looked very different if it had been made in other decades. “If it had been made in the 1950s,” he grins, “all the family would have been gracious and charming and the servants would have