Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
‘One in three’ go at easyjet
Matt waves farewell ..but he’ll be back
parents fear she is at considerable risk. Bridget, a school cook, said: “I worry all the time when Charlotte goes to work but she keeps saying to me it’s her duty.”
Bridget’s neighbour, photographer Pete Ashton, 45, captured the moment when the couple visited their son on May 10.
He said: “When Charlotte and Daniel walked down the short drive to the front window George lit up. His smile was full of happiness – it was beautiful.
“To share in their precious time was humbling and joyful.”
The images have been entered into the Hold Still competition – headed by the Duchess of Cambridge. It aims to capture the nation during the pandemic.
Millions have made sacrifices to help the UK beat the virus.
Grandparents, Margaret, 69, and Peter Lee, 74, were left crying tears of joy when their granddaughter left them a lifesized cardboard version of herself.
Six-yearold Oriah Hoggett used to visit them daily in Lowestoft, Suffolk, before the pandemic. To see them through, her mum Karen had a 4.1ft cut-out created.
Now the cardboard version of Oriah goes “everywhere” with the couple as they move around the house. She is even tucked up in bed while Margaret reads a story.
Margaret admits she touches the cut-out’s cheek each time she walks past so she feels connected to her granddaughter.
Karen, also of Lowestoft, said: “My mum cried – she was absolutely thrilled.
“My dad just had a little tear and a big grin. Oriah loved it – she was crying and was thrilled, and I was crying as well.”
Margaret said: “It’s lovely for me because I get up in the morning and look at her as I walk into the room and wish she was here – I find it quite emotional.”
Other pensioners have been seeing family in drive-throughs.
Susan Holding chatted with mum Barbara Webster yesterday from her car window at Gracewell care home in Adderbury, Oxon.
Peter Garrett also spoke with family as residents were allowed to see relatives for the first time since lockdown began.
IT was a case of The Departed yesterday as Matt Damon bid farewell to Ireland.
The Hollywood hotshot had been quarantining in Dalkey in South Co Dublin since March but has now jetted back to the US.
However, the Contagion star confirmed he would be returning when he said: “Of course I’ll be back, gotta finish the movie.”
The 49-year-old had been due to shoot the new Ridley Scott directed film The Last Duel here, but it was delayed due to the pandemic.
While living life as a local, The Country Bake on Castle Street was a firm favourite with the Boston actor and the business took to Facebook to wish him all the best.
It said: “Our last visit from Matt and his family for a while. Safe travels and thanks for bringing some excitement to Dalkey during this pandemic.”
The Good Will Hunting star was spotted with stunning wife Luciana Barroso travelling through a near-empty Dublin Airport yesterday morning.
BUDGET flier easyjet plans to axe up to 4,500 jobs, around a third of its workforce, as it cuts its fleet.
The Luton-based airline will restart flying on June 15 but believes demand will take three years to return to 2019 levels. It expects its 2021 fleet to be 302 planes, 51 less than expected.
Boss Johan Lundgren said: “We want to protect as many jobs as we can.” Union Unite says the jobs threat is unnecessary and hasty.
Air passengers arriving in the UK fell from around 7.1 million in January to 112,300 in April.
A WAR veteran died after being sent back to his care home from hospital. Former RAF engineer Francis Chapman, 96, was the fourth resident of Pelham House, in Folkestone, Kent, to die in a week and 18 of its 20 residents were infected. Owner Roger Waluube said: “It’s like losing a friend.”