Western Daily Press (Saturday)
WHAT THEY SAY
I’m used to being a cheerleader and a helper, so it felt very odd being so cold. By the end I couldn’t help but show how much I cared about them, but at the beginning, yes, it was deeply weird. The producers had to really persuade me to send two people home as soon as they arrived. I couldn’t really cope with it, but they said, ‘This sets the tone, don’t be wet’. So off they went – Claudia Winkleman on her role as presenter of reality show The Traitors, which returns for a second series in January.
It was a tiny wedding but so romantic and intimate. A day we will never forget. We are bursting with happiness. It wasn’t a ‘secret’ wedding, just a private one – BBC weather presenter Carol Kirkwood thanks wellwishers after revealing she and husband Steve tied the knot this week.
The No 10 press office has lost all credibility as a reliable, truthful, objective operation. Even respectable journalists treat it with caution – part of a relentless politically-dominated spin machine – Tony Blair’s private secretary, Jeremy Heywood, warns the then-prime minister in newly released papers that the No 10 press office had lost “all credibility” under communications chief Alastair Campbell in 2003.
The circumstances of his death, although tragic and unfathomable to us, his family, show the sort of man he was – to go to help rather than to turn away – The family of Chris Marriott, who died after being hit by a car while giving first aid to an unconscious stranger in Sheffield, pay tribute to the 46-year-old.