Our Girl gets tough on smear tests
BY LAURA HARDING OUR Girl star Michelle Keegan has admitted putting off her smear test as she urged women to be screened for cervical cancer.
In a series of videos and posts on Instagram, she said: “It’s time to talk cervical screening examinations... AKA the dreaded SMEAR test!
“I’m going to be honest, I’ve had numerous letters come through my front door that I’ve pushed aside. I’ve also ignored my mum’s tiresome pleas telling me to book an appointment with my local GP.”
But she said she “finally got my finger out and went to my appointment”.
She added: “SMEAR TESTS SAVES LIVES.
“My advice to you... STOP making excuses, book, and go for your bloody smear!” BY STEPHEN STEWART s.stewart@dailyrecord.co.uk A TWISTED husband who was jailed for poisoning his wife with laxatives and stealing her money will be free in time for Christmas.
David Smith, 62, got threeand-a-half years in March last year for what a sheriff called “a prolonged and evil course of conduct”.
But he’s due out in weeks after serving a fraction of his sentence.
He repeatedly put laxatives in his businesswoman wife Elizabeth’s food, leaving her so gaunt and weak, her family feared she was dying.
He also stole thousands of pounds from her bank account.
Gran Elizabeth, 62, from Ayr, said: “Where is the justice in this? Sentenced to 42 months, only to serve less than 21. I suffered for three-and-a-half years at the hands of this evil man.”
News the serial liar and fantasist was being freed early outraged politicians.
Smith falsely claimed he served in the SAS and helped