Student, 18, Studying Animal Management Wins Battle With College

A vegan student studying animal management has won a fight with her college over the right to skip a farming module that would have included a trip to an abattoir, forcing tutors to find her a more suitable assessment.

Fiji Willets, 18, didn’t expect the topic of farming to come up when she signed up for the BTEC National Extended Diploma in Animal Management in South Gloucestershire and Stroud College.

She joined after reading it was excellent for people who like animals but was horrified to learn that the animal management course could see her work on a farm and perhaps visit an abattoir.

The teenager complained to tutors, who told her the unit was compulsory, so she enlisted the aid of vegan rights advocates to upturn their decision.

After many complaints, and despite assurances from the college that the module would be ethically planned, she’s finally been told she can do a more suitable unit instead, while other students stay with the original course.

The 2021 prospectus for the BTEC course says it’s ‘Great for people who love animals, want a career within the animal care industry, are passionate about conversations and the countryside, like hands-on work and varied responsibilities and like being outside in all weathers.’

Fiji, from Downend, Bristol, said that she’s a vegan because she loves animals, so to visit a farm where she would be supporting a farmer would be wrong and that she would have been denied a college education.

And she said that she couldn’t just break her way of living solely to pass a course and that she hopes she can now be an example to other vegans so they don’t have to go through the distress she went through.

But after joining, she realised she had to take and pass, a module on farm industry, the branch of agriculture which centres on breeding animals for produce.

Students were expected to visit working farms and an abattoir visit was also discussed, according to the Vegan Society, which supported Fiji’s case.

The society claims that Fiji began suffering from anxiety and raised concerns with her tutor, but was told she had to complete the module or fail.

It’s alleged that she tendered a formal grievance to the college, which maintained a backup module was not available.

A similar complaint was issued to the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA), who supported the college. However, the case was escalated to the awarding body for non-compliance with equality law, and college tutors subsequently changed their minds.

Being vegan is up to the individual, but actually, we can’t eat anything without ending its existence, and plants are just as viable as animals and humans, so all we can do is eat mindfully and not to excess, although some people might say that plant life is nothing like an animals life or human life, simply because plants don’t have a brain or nervous system – hence they can’t feel pain and animals can.

Plants might not be alive in the human sense, nor do they have a nervous system or feelings, well not that we know of, and some people have difficulty eating dead animals but have no problem having a fun day out fruit picking, can you spot the difference?

What it boils down to is some people can eat vegetables, someone else might eat meat, and both are fine as long as we don’t eat people, and you should see how many animals are sacrificed to harvest vegan crops – rodents, birds, insects et cetera, and all because they’re not large ruminant animals, but that doesn’t mean they don’t count.

Why Making Women Retire Later Comes With Hidden Costs

A study has found that reforms that pushed back the age women can claim the state pension have not saved the taxpayer money, and it said that women who stay working into their sixties compensate by reducing the care they provide for their parents.

Researchers said in a report that for every woman working 30 hours a week in her sixties, it costs £5,600 to make up for the care she would otherwise have provided for older relatives.

It points to a serious downside to pension reforms that swept away women’s retirement age of 60 and pushed back the point at which women can claim the state pension by six years or more.

Academics led by Ludovico Carrino of King’s College London said that women in the United Kingdom who work more hours due to the rise in their state pension age reduce free caregiving to older parents, who get less overall care as a result.

The paper, presented at a conference of the Royal Economic Society, weakens ministers and civil servants assumption that later retirement benefits the country.

The study was based on more than 7,000 women aged 55 to 65 who were tracked from 2009 to 2018 in the Understanding Society project.

Many stayed working in their sixties which researchers said had a significant impact on the £130 billion-plus yearly cost of care for the elderly given free mainly by middle-aged daughters.

The study found the likelihood that a woman would give more than 20 hours a week of care to her older relative dropped by half if she worked after the age of 60, and a woman working 30 hours a week would decrease the care given to her parents by 330 hours a year.

That makes the cost of taxpayers of replacing the hours of care lost for each working middle-aged woman £5,600 a year, a sum determined from a standard pay rate for carers of £17 an hour.

The study didn’t account for the income for the nation generated by women working in their sixties who wouldn’t have been paying much less in income tax had they retired, and the report said parents who get less help from their daughters do not get more help from other family members or formal services as a counterbalance.

Consequently, care for older parents narrows when their daughters work longer due to deferred state pension age, and researchers said reforms could incorporate more free care for old people whose family carers have jobs, or subsidies for employers to allow adjustable hours for older workers who have caring responsibilities.

Although it’s not actually retirement age, it’s state pension age because there’s actually no retirement age in the United Kingdom, implementation of retirement went out with the dinosaurs.

But never the less many women can’t afford to retire to care for elderly relatives because they can’t claim state pension, particularly single women.

However, this then becomes sexist because why can’t a man provide care for the elderly, and why is it always women’s work?

Times are evolving and men should be stepping up to care for their elderly, and it appears that this research has been extremely sexist, and this is just gender typing and we women should be irritated by the lack of equality.

This is blatantly sexist because it says that a woman’s role is to care for the elderly, and it seems that only women are competent in caring for someone!

What Are Remploy Workers Doing Now?

About 2,000 workers lost their jobs when Remploy factories closed.

Remploy was set up in the 1940s, and it was perceived as a new way of tackling the issues of disability and employment, with one purpose, to give disabled miners and those injured in war, a job for life.

But now, the concept of segregated employment seems an antiquated concept to many.

The Government said that the Remploy factories were running at a loss, and their focus was to help disabled workers into mainstream employment, but that doesn’t appear to be the case because when disabled people are looking for a job, employers take one look at them, after being handed their CV and they never call them back, and numerous disabled people still feel excluded from mainstream jobs.

And the Government said that disabled people would work together in harmony – that might be the case in a perfect world, but the world isn’t perfect and there are still countless obstacles to overcome.

The Government further said that attempts were being made to fill the gap and that they were getting numerous people into work or training each day, and they had specialist disability employment advisors available in Jobcentres, although the Government was criticised by the Work and Pensions Select Committee for a lack of specialist advisors for disabled people.

Even though the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said it had employed 300 more advisors with disability training, taking the total to 1,400.

Since the factories wound up, Remploy evolved into a specialist recruitment service that has managed to find several disabled people jobs, but not all of them, which means many of those being employed by Remploy were out of work.

The Remploy factories were set up after World War Two to provide work for servicemen and civilians who were injured and disabled, and for almost seventy years the factories provided sheltered, paid work for thousands of people with disabilities, doing things like making radiation protection suits for the Army, wheelchairs for the NHS and furniture for schools, but Remploy sold or closed its remaining factories in 2013.

Employees at Remploy were left in tears when they were told that the factories were to be shut down, and they were left heartbroken because they worked so hard, and were proud because it meant that they could pay their own way, rather than getting any benefits.

However, a spokesperson for Remploy at the time said that the move would allow for more disabled people to be found work in mainstream employment, and he said that it was not a cost-cutting exercise.

However, one Labour Euro MP at the time who had fought to keep one of the factories open, said it was nonsensical to think many of the staff could work in mainstream employment, and he said that they’d been fighting for months with workers and unions in Southend to keep the factory open and that the truth was that many of those workers would not be able to adjust to a mainstream workplace.

And that they needed the opportunity to remain in the kind of workplace which not only gave a pay packet but also a sense of pride, respect, social outlet and independence of being in a dedicated working environment.

Remploy was set up under the 1944 Disabled Persons Employment Act by Ernest Bevin, who was then minister of Labour, to become yet another plank in Welfare State formed by the Attlee government in 1945.

After the Second World War, Clement Attlee’s Labour government wasn’t about to repeat the pitiful scenes 30 years earlier of limbless soldiers playing mouth organs on the streets.

So, Remploy was formally established in April 1945, and its first factory opened in Bridgend, South Wales, in 1946. It made violins and furniture and many of the workers were disabled miners.

Remploy was an early brand name that was first registered by the Ex-Services Employment Corporation.

Derived from ‘re-employ’, the name was adopted by Remploy in 1946, until then, it was called the Disabled Persons Employment Corporation.

At its height Remploy had about 100 factories scattered across England, Scotland and Wales, employing over 10,000 disabled workers, and the factories produced and manufactured goods and services ranging from, in the early days, violin making and bookbinding through to furniture making – Remploy workers were skilled covering a broad spectrum of sectors from textiles to motor components.

But it was Tory Minister Michael Portillo who kick-started Remploy’s dissolution when in 1994 he ended a scheme guaranteeing the factories priority for government contracts, and this imposed competitive tendering on the company.

By 1995 Peter Thurnham, a then Tory MP who crossed the floor to the LibDems in 1996, wrote a paper calling for Remploy to be taken under the private sector umbrella, where he believed it would be more successful.

In late 1999 Remploy announced it was going to merge a number of its factories and close others, and anything up to twenty sites were to be affected, and on a cold February afternoon about 60 Remploy workers and trade union activists from about the country convened outside Parliament and held a 24-hour vigil.

And though few in number they made their presence felt, and MP after MP came out to give them their support and solidarity to their cause.

Even John Snow newscaster stopped and chatted with them for half an hour, and inside a few days of the protest a cessation was placed on the closures, and Remploy was saved for the time being.

From January 2006, each Remploy factory had the right to a minimum of one reserved public contract, but despite this, the company did very little to seriously take advantage of this resource, and as a result, the factories continued on a downward trajectory until in May 2007 the company announced a tranche of factory mergers and closures.

This galvanised the unions into action, and demonstrations and gatherings were organised up and down Britain, and every major city with a Remploy site held some kind of action.

Las Vegas Family Is Awarded $29.5 Million After Aspiring Actress Is Left Brain-Damaged

A jury has awarded $29.5 million to a family of a woman who’s been left brain-damaged after being treated for a severe allergic reaction by an ambulance service in Las Vegas in 2013.

Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that aspiring actress and model Chantel Giacalone, who was 27 at the time, went into anaphylactic shock after biting into a pretzel infused with peanut butter while in Las Vegas for a convention.

Chantel is now a quadriplegic and lives in her parent’s dining room where they give her 24-hour care.

She can only communicate with her eyes and has to be fed through a tube.

Giacalone’s lawyer, Christian Morris, said she lost oxygen to her brain for minutes after seeking treatment from MedicWest Ambulance, which was running the medic station that day.

Christian Morris argued in a civil lawsuit that MedicWest Ambulance negligently treated her allergic reaction, and he explained that neither of the two medics on-site that day had IV epinephrine, an adrenaline treatment for severe allergic reactions that is required by the Southern Nevada Health District.

According to testimony during a three-week trial, the requirement was established by a task force the company sits on.

Christian Morris said the medics instead used intramuscular epinephrine, but IVs are needed for full anaphylaxis, and he argued that the price of the medication was only $2.42.

The lawsuit was seeking more than $60 million in damages for medical expenses and emotional distress, but MedicWest dismissed any wrongdoing and said the outcome was inevitable because of Giacalone’s heightened sensitivity to peanuts.

Attorney William Drury argued Giacalone never lost consciousness.

Father Jack Giacalone said after the verdict was delivered on Friday that at least his daughter would be taken care of and that he was happy about that, and he said that all the agony that they’d been through for the last eight years, he was not thrilled about and that he hoped MedicWest changed their ways.

Giacalone had roles in productions such as the 2009 movie ‘The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations’, ‘Hollow Walls’, and ‘Skyler’.

Her father added that before attending the trial he told his daughter not to worry and that the truth would come out, and that they were finally going to find out what happened to her that day.

He said that she began crying, and he said that she’s still in there, she still has emotions, and she’s crying.

Her reaction was so severe that a full IV was needed, and that is supposed to be on hand, but it wasn’t! And she ended up with brain damage, and no amount of money can fix or compensate for that.

No one can perceive the pain her parents and family have been through. The money is enough for her to be cared for, but it’s never enough for the life long emotional cost to those who love her.

One-Jab Janssen Vaccine Is Set To Be Approved Within Days

Britain’s fourth COVID vaccine would be just days away from being approved for use, as the Government plans to extend the rollout to the under 50s.

A decision by the health regulator on the single-dose Janssen jab is expected to be made within the next ten days, and the Government’s order of 30 million doses, which it secured last summer, will add to the UK’s increasing stockpile.

The announcement comes as hundreds of thousands of the 17 million doses of the Moderna vaccine are also coming on stream.

The first injections were given in Wales last week, and are now being stretched to the rest of the United Kingdom, and the renewed speed of the rollout means that Ministers are now in a position to offer jabs to the under 50s, just as lockdown rules are eased tomorrow and pubs, restaurants, gyms and hairdressers prepare to welcome back their customers, and more than £300 million is expected to be spent on the hospitality industry this week.

The United Kingdom also smashed its daily record for second jabs for the second day running, with 450,136 doses given on Friday, taking the number of second jabs to 6,991,310, or 13.3 per cent of all UK adults.

A total of 32,010,244 people have received their first dose, which is approximately 61 per cent of all adults, and on April 6, the latest day for which data was available, just 221 people were admitted to hospital with COVID 19, while the 2,589 positive tests represent a drop of nearly a third in a week. However, another 40 deaths were recorded.

A Mail on Sunday poll has found that the return to pubs, restaurants and shops has been welcomed by huge numbers of people, and the most popular change to lockdown rules is the return of visits to the homes of friends and family, which has been welcomed by 86 per cent of people.

Deltapoll discovered that voters overwhelmingly supported the use of vaccine passports to speed up the relaxation of COVID restrictions, with 63 per cent in support and only 25 per cent opposed.

The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is studying data from trials of the Janssen jab, made by the US firm Johnson & Johnson, amid allegations that its use has led to extraordinary rare incidents of blood clots.

It uses similar technology to that being used in the AstraZeneca vaccine, which was last week restricted in the United Kingdom to the over 30s because of the same rare side effect.

As for people supporting vaccine passports in real life, are these findings questionable, or flat out fake poll propaganda? And what we’re putting into our bodies is not really a vaccine because a vaccine by definition gives immunity to a disease, and at the moment we have no idea if this jab gives immunity to anything.

In the best-case scenario, it simply decreases the risk of getting a severe case of a virus if one catches it. Therefore, this is a medical treatment, not a vaccine, and do you really want to take medical treatment for an illness you don’t have?

The establishment insists that this medical procedure is safe, but they can’t possibly know this because the long term effects are entirely unknown, and will not be known for numerous years. They may speculate that it’s safe, but it’s dishonest for them to make such a claim that can’t possibly be known, and it’s only a COVID suppressant at best!

Vladimir Putin’s Fearsome Special Unit Of Tank Robots Will Go Into Action Soon

The first special unit of tank robots is to be established soon in the Russian army amid new strains of war with neighbours Ukraine.

Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu inspected his unmanned firepower at the 766th Production and Technological Enterprise in Nakhabino near Moscow, and the defence ministry declared that the first unit with strike robots would be set up in the Russian Armed Forces to operate five Uran-9 robotic systems or 20 combat vehicles.

And it was announced that troops would undergo training to operate Uran-9 robotic vehicles in special military units.

A video shows the unmanned tank in action, and it’s armed with a 30mm automatic gun, Ataka anti-tank missiles and Shmel flamethrowers.

The Russian army currently holds mine clearance robots called Uran-6, firefighting Uran-14s, as well as assault Uran-9s.

Underwater and spy robots are also in development.

Shoigu ordered the robot designers to improve the technical capability of his unmanned army to overcome the impact of strong electromagnetic radiation as well as radioactive pollution.

He said that they expect to continue expanding the range of robots, which, of course, were already in demand in the military today, and he said that these would be heavy robots, for mine clearance, and everything related to the further development of scouts, radiation and chemical reconnaissance robots, and that this applied to surface and underwater robots.

The strike and mining clearance robots have been battle-tested in Syria, ahead of the formation of the first unit, and Vladimir Dmitriev, head of the Kalashnikov Concern said that faults had been identified during the tests in Syria. In particular, the issues of control, decreased mobility, and poor military intelligence and surveillance functions that had been considered by engineers and were corrected.

It’s unclear if Russia is deploying its new-age robot tanks with the massing of firepower now underway on Ukraine’s borders, but it’s pretty bad when adult men can’t solve anything diplomatically, but on the other hand, Vladimir Putin is hardly what you would call a grown man – he’s more of a gnome with a superiority complex.

Robots fighting a war, why doesn’t Vladimir Putin take it to the next stage and make it into a video game, that way no lives will be lost or harm done, and he can still have some fun!

Philip’s Funeral Is Set To Be Next Saturday

Straight to the point in death as in life, the Duke of Edinburgh always maintained he wanted a funeral with minimal fuss.

His wish for what is known as a royal ceremonial funeral similar to the Queen Mother’s, rather than a full state funeral, had already been granted.

But the pandemic will have a significant bearing on those plans, and the Queen and her senior officials have been discussing how best to proceed, with final approval down to Her Majesty.

Sources say it’s almost certain, however, that any aspect of the arrangements expected to attract a crowd will not take place, meaning the ceremonial aspects will be restricted and mourners will total no more than thirty.

Under the previous plans, known in the royal household as ‘Forth Bridge’, his body would have been embalmed immediately and taken to the Albert Memorial Chapel by St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle.

The Mail understands that Philip’s coffin was at the castle, where the Queen is in residence, most probably resting in her private chapel of worship, but during the weekend it was likely to have been moved to the Albert Memorial Chapel, which was built by Henry VII as a royal mausoleum. Philip’s coffin is likely to rest there with little ceremony, resting on two simple wooden platforms called catafalques.

Under pre-COVID plans, it would have been taken to London by road and brought to St James’s Palace to reside temporarily in the intimate Chapel Royal.

The College of Arms said there will be no laying in state and Philip’s coffin would rest at Windsor Castle before his funeral in St George’s Chapel, most likely next Saturday.

It’s likely to have been dressed with his personal standard, which displays references to his Danish and Greek royal heritage, his Mountbatten roots and Edinburgh title, and a decorative garland from his family.

A vigil by his children, Charles, Anne, Andrew and Edward, is expected to take place at Windsor, and on the day of his funeral, Philip’s coffin is expected to be taken by bearers from the Queen’s Company, First Battalion Grenadier Guards.

And the duke will be placed on a gun carriage belonging to the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery, drawn by a Royal Navy gun crew, the carriage, being a personal request by Philip, which is the one that carried Queen Victoria at her funeral in 1901.

Maybe when the maniacs governing the nation decide to drop their dogmatic constraints on our Civil Liberties, then perhaps a National Memorial Day could be held in honour of Prince Philip, so that the British people that want to, can pay their respects to a man who served the Queen and Britain for so long.

And perhaps this Government could allow at least one exception to the COVID regulations because it’s not every day that a British Queen loses her husband, and I’m so weary of the fact that this Government seem to be in control of public life.

And it appears that our Government have their fixed agenda, howling from every corner of the media, and the cowards in Downing Street and parliament continue to hide behind their sofas.

However, the rules are Her Majesty’s rules – indeed they’re enacted in her name in law, so of course, she will expect her subjects to respect them as well, and it seems that Prince Philip made very specific arrangements for his funeral and had aimed at something low key than an enormous London event.

Having said that, his extensive lifetime of service appears to have been cheated of final honour and dignity that numerous people will believe he deserved, and that his funeral must now be greatly curtailed, despite the hundreds of representatives who would otherwise have been present and are surely still more than willing to attend, and likewise the very many thousands of ordinary people who would have turned out to pay their respects, who will now be asked to watch at home.

George Floyd Was Exhibiting Signs Of Air Hunger

A forensic medicine expert has told the jury in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial that when George Floyd cried out that he couldn’t breathe, he was exhibiting the desperation of air hunger.

Building on the testimony from other prosecution witnesses earlier on Thursday, Dr William Smock was asked to give his medical opinion on George Floyd’s cause of death.

Dr William Smock beat down any other suggestions, saying that George Floyd died from positional asphyxia, which he said was a fancy way of saying he died because he had no oxygen left in his body.

He said that when the body is stripped of oxygen, in this case from pressure on his chest and back, he slowly succumbed to lower and lower levels of oxygen until he died.

Dr William Smock said that he’d considered and excluded other causes including the defences causes of choice – fentanyl overdose and excited delirium.

One by one, he described the symptoms of excited delirium, including extreme sweating, being unaffected by pain and superhuman strength, and dismissed them, pointing out that George Floyd was cold to the touch, complaining of pain from the time he was on the ground and unable to force the police officer from his back.

Questioned by prosecutors how many of the ten identified symptoms he observed, Dr William Smock replied: ‘Zip’.

He rejected fentanyl overdose as a likely cause of death because he said, George Floyd was not falling into a coma, snoring, or slowing down in breathing.

He was, instead, fighting for his life and demonstrating air hunger as he fought to breathe.

He pointed to George Floyd’s weakening voice as evidence that the life was draining from him and recognised George Floyd’s fading moments in his altering facial expressions and anoxic seizure when his legs kicked out straight behind him.

Dr William Smock revealed that since George Floyd was a habitual drug user, the levels of drugs and their metabolites detected in his bloodstream meant precious little, and he said that you don’t rely on the level, you look at the patient.

The defence has pointed to the fact that there was no bruising on George Floyd’s neck and throat post mortem as proof that Chauvin’s knee didn’t dig into him until the life was squeezed out of him, but Dr William Smock, who’s also a specialist in strangulation, said that you can be fatally strangled and die of asphyxia and have no bruising, and this recent testimony is not looking good for Chauvin, and I’m sure he will be extremely popular in prison.

George Floyd was complaining that he couldn’t breathe all through the arrest and there’s video evidence. But the post-mortem says different, and opinion outside of the facts does not matter, it’s the science that does because science tells us the story of what occurred.

And eventually, he wasn’t calling out because he’d stopped breathing, but DC wouldn’t have known because he failed to do the most fundamental of life-saving skills, like check for a pulse.

There are these things called arteries, which when collapsed, will not allow enough blood to flow to move the oxygen in the bloodstream into the brain and other organs.

The airway is central, and the arteries are closer to the surface of the neck.

Oxygen exchange is the reason why we have lungs, and when lungs are unable to expand because grown men are stacked on top of your back, that process is considerably diminished until it’s halted with each fleeting breath, because each time they lose expansion rate – did no one else pay attention to basic biology in class?

Upsetting The Chinese, Indians And Men With Goatee Beards

Prince Philip was known for his energy and constant sense of duty, but maybe what gained him most attention over the years were his unashamedly non-PC remarks.

The Duke realised his capacity for making gaffes, and even had a term for it, ‘Dontopedalogy’.

This he described as the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, a science which he practised for a good many years.

Some people, inevitably, took offence at some of his more vociferous comments but most welcomed his banter, which saw him through myriad official engagements, and many people who met Philip remarked on his ability to set them at ease with an entertaining comment.

This helped jolt them out of the stuffy formality that sometimes characterised royal events, and here are some of his most legendary gaffes over the years.

In his state visit to China in 1986, in one of his offensive outbursts, the Duke of Edinburgh advised youngsters in China during a state visit that ‘if you stay here much longer, you will be slitty eyed”.

In a BBC documentary to mark his 90th birthday, he remarked: ‘I’d forgotten about it. But for one particular reporter who overheard it, it wouldn’t have come out’.

In a state visit to Australia in 2002, the Prince asked an Aboriginal cultural park owner called William Brim: ‘Do you still throw spears at each other?’ Mr Brim replied: ‘No, we don’t do that anymore’.

In a trip to Bromley in South London, 2012, when Prince Philip spotted Hannah Jackson, 25, in the crowd during a trip to Bromley. The ageing royal turn to the policeman standing next to her and gestured towards her eye-catching peplum style dress which had a zip running the length of the front, saying: ‘I would get arrested if I unzipped that dress!’

In Chadwell Heath Community Centre in Dagenham, east London, for its opening in 2015, while visiting a London community centre group, Philip asked a group of women: ‘Who do you sponge off?’

Ms Zamir, who founded the Chadwell Heath Asian Woman’s Network which meets at the centre, said the Duke inquired who we sponge off? She said that they’re all married so it’s their husbands. He was just kidding and it’s comparable to what she calls her husband – the wallet.

At a Buckingham Palace garden party, August 2009, a Buckingham Palace guest with a goatee told Prince Philip he was a designer. He responded with: ‘Well, you didn’t design your beard too well, did you?’ It was later reported that the guest was 38-year-old Stephen Judge, who said of the Duke: ‘I could see a twinkle in his eye’

Prince Philip Dead At Ninety Nine

The Queen today announced with profound sadness the passing of her husband Prince Philip at the age of 99.

The Duke of Edinburgh spent his final days at Windsor Castle with his wife following a 28-night stay in hospital having been admitted in mid-February for an infection and a pre-existing heart condition.

Her Majesty announced her husband’s death at midday and Buckingham Palace said in a statement that it was with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen announces the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

And that His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle, and that further announcements would be made in due course. The Royal Family join people around the globe in mourning his death.

His passing plunges the country and the Royal Family into sadness and brings to an end Philip’s lifetime of service to Britain and to Elizabeth, the Queen who adored him since her teens.

Boris Johnson addressed the country outside No 10 Downing Street and said that we give thanks, as a nation and a kingdom, for the remarkable life and work of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

He added that speaking on their golden wedding anniversary, Her Majesty said that our country owed her husband a greater debt than he would ever claim or we shall ever know and that he was sure that estimate was true, as we mourn today with Her Majesty The Queen.

Boris Johnson said that we shall remember the duke for all of this and above all for his constant support for Her Majesty The Queen. Not just as her consort, by her side every day of her reign, but as her husband, her strength and stay, of more than seventy years.

And he said that it’s Her Majesty, and her family, that our nation’s attention must turn to today because they’ve lost not just a much loved and deeply respected public figure, but a loving husband and a proud and caring father, grandfather, and in recent years, great grandfather.

Boris Johnson also praised his Duke of Edinburgh scheme, which has shaped and motivated the lives of many young people.

Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said that as we recover and repair after the disastrous trial of the coronavirus pandemic, we will require determination and a deep understanding of dedication to helping others, and that during his life, Prince Philip demonstrated those attributes in abundance, and that he prayed that we can take inspiration from his example.

Prince Philip was always his own man, and he had an amazing life.

Prince Philip once famously said that if he’s reincarnated, he would like to return as a deadly virus, so that he can contribute something to solving overpopulation.

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