NOT CLEVERLY
Wills’ kids go lambing Bullied boy rugby treat Tory flies in copter after brag about green record
THE Duke of Cambridge revealed his family has spent the week lambing.
Prince William, patron of the Welsh Rugby Union, spoke to injured players before joining almost 74,000 fans at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff for Wales v France.
He praised Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones, telling those supported by Welsh Rugby Charitable Trust: “The man is a legend.”
Teacher Rhian Roberts, 34, backed by the trust after suffering a neck injury, told William she married into a dairy family in West Wales.
The Prince replied: “We’ve been lambing with the children this week.
“Charlotte wasn’t sure at first but George was straight in there. Louis loves the tractors. They love feeding the lambs.”
A BOY of nine who told his mum he wanted to die after being bullied at school for his dwarfism led an all-star rugby league team into a packed stadium yesterday.
Australian schoolboy Quaden Bayles became an anti-bullying ambassador after mum Yarraka filmed him crying in the family car last Wednesday and the video went viral.
He was invited to walk the Indigenous All-stars on to the pitch in front of a 23,000-strong crowd on the Gold Coast before a clash with the Maori All-stars.
Supporters cheered as he entered the field with captain Joel Thompson. He also met league legend Johnathan Thurston.
More than £250,000 has been raised to send Quaden to Disneyland. Screen idol Hugh Jackman is among stars to speak out for him, saying: “You are stronger than you know, mate.”
A TORY bigwig who took a 400 mile helicopter trip boasted about his party’s green credentials. James Cleverly told how the Conservatives care for the environment then boarded the aircraft.
The former party co-chairman flew 200 miles from the rally in Guildford, Surrey, to another event in Montgomeryshire in Wales then another 200 miles back to London. Campaigners have blasted the carbon footprint caused by the Braintree MP’S £4,800 jaunt, paid for by property giants Gallagher Developments Ltd.
A Guildford event guest tweeted: “Great to hear James Cleverly emphasise Conservatives’ proud record of caring for environment, fighting poverty, standing up for human and animal rights.”
It said they Tories need to “spend more time talking about these achievements”. But Labour’s shadow environment secretary Luke Pollard did not agree. He said: “Cleverly is carrying on as if the climate crisis did not exist.
“The UK is hosting a global conference on carbon reduction this year but ministers have got their heads stuck in the sand over the scale of the issue.
“We need to reduce aviation emissions as part of a wider green industrial revolution.” The round trip may have emitted up to 2.5 tons of carbon dioxide. In a car it would have been 0.2 of a ton.
Greenpeace UK’S Graham Thompson said: “Helicopters are amazing machines that can take you to places almost no other form of transport can reach.
“But they’re very high-carbon. If you’re going to a location which is already served by trains, buses, coaches, taxis, bicycles and other less polluting forms of transport, please, leave the chopper at home.”
Meanwhile Tories in Wrexham, near Montgomeryshire, marked the party’s election win with a cardboard cut-out of Boris Johnson.
Mr Cleverly did not comment.
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