UK weather: Swathes of country face alert over freezing conditions - The Telegraph

Forecasters have warned this week could see the coldest day of the year so far as swathes of the country face a weather alert over freezing conditions.

The UK Health Security Agency issued the cold weather alert and has placed north-east England, north-west England and Yorkshire under a level three alert, with the rest of England at level two.

The level three alert means there is a 90 per chance of severely cold weather, icy conditions or heavy snow, which could increase the health risk to the vulnerable and elderly. All areas are under alert between 1am on Monday and midnight on Thursday.

Yellow weather warnings in Scotland and northern England

On Sunday yellow weather warnings for snow in Scotland were brought forward as Arctic air moved over the country and down to northern England.

The Met Office said temperatures could drop below minus 10C on Monday night on higher ground in northern Scotland, with northerly winds making it feel even colder. In some parts of Scotland temperatures could fall to as low as -15C over the coming nights while south of the border could also face below freezing conditions.

The wintry conditions could lead to up to 10cm of snow on higher ground in Scotland and 5cm at lower levels.

A road warning sign for ice on the A82 through Glencoe in January Credit: Jane Barlow/PA

The Met Office has warned those living in the areas covered by the weather warning to prepare for disruption to travel, with “some roads and railways likely to be affected with longer journey times by road, bus and train services”.

From midnight on Sunday, the yellow warnings of snow and ice spread to north-western England and north-eastern Scotland, and creep further down the east coast as far as Hull on Tuesday.

'Pretty cold conditions and snow showers'

Honor Criswick, a meteorologist for the forecaster, said: “We are expecting a few more snow shower outbreaks into this evening and seeing a bit more snowfall early on, which is why the warning was brought forward.

“We are expecting pretty cold conditions and snow showers over the next few days across Scotland and northern parts of England.

“Temperature wise, we could possibly see lows of minus 10C in the sheltered glens and higher ground across northern Scotland on Monday night, so it’s going to be feeling quite cold and the breeze is picking up a little bit so will be feeling rather chilly.”

She added that temperatures could drop below the previous low of this year set in January. “Potentially we could see some of the coldest temperatures so far this year. The lowest we have seen was in January at minus 10.4C, so we could see something turn lower than that.

“We are expecting between 5cm and 10cm of snow across higher ground, so if we see more accumulations on lower ground of between 2cm and 5cm we could see some travel disruption on Monday into Tuesday.”

Areas affected by the warnings could experience power outages, delays to road, rail and air travel, icy surfaces and some rural communities may be cut off by the freezing conditions.

Dr Agostinho Sousa, head of extreme events and health protection at UKHSA, said: “During periods like this, it is important to check in on family, friends and relatives who may be more vulnerable to the cold weather, as it can have a serious impact on health.

“If you have a pre-existing medical condition or are over the age of 65, it is important to try and heat your home to at least 18C if you can.”

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Rishi Sunak vows to end asylum claims from small boat arrivals | ITV News - ITV News

ITV News' Carl Dinnen reports on the asylum legislation expected to be announced as soon as next week

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The prime minister has vowed to put an end to the “immoral” illegal migration trade as the government prepares to unveil new powers to crack down on small-boat crossings in the Channel.

The legislation, promised as part of efforts to tackle illegal migration, could come as soon as Tuesday, as Home Secretary Suella Braverman said that the only way into the UK would be a “safe and legal route”.

The legislation is expected to make asylum claims inadmissible from those who travel to the UK on small boats. It would see a duty placed on the home secretary to remove “as soon as reasonably practicable” anyone who arrives on a small boat to Rwanda or a “safe third country”.

Under the proposals, arrivals will be prevented from claiming asylum while in the UK, with plans also to ban them from returning once removed.

The prime minister has made "stopping the boats" one of his five legislative priorities. Credit: PA

Rishi Sunak said the powers are a step towards fulfilling his pledge to “stop the boats once and for all”. He told The Mail On Sunday: “Illegal migration is not fair on British taxpayers, it is not fair on those who come here legally and it is not right that criminal gangs should be allowed to continue their immoral trade. “I am determined to deliver on my promise to stop the boats. So make no mistake, if you come here illegally, you will not to be able to stay.” The bill will be published on Tuesday, according to The Sun On Sunday, with Downing Street confirming that the legislation will come in due course. Ms Braverman told the paper: “Enough is enough. The British people want this solved. They are sick of tough talk and inadequate action. We must stop the boats. “That’s why myself and the prime minister have been working flat out to bring forward necessary and effective laws which will tackle this problem, once and for all. “It has to be that if you come here illegally you will be detained and swiftly removed. “Our laws will be simple in their intention and practice – the only route to the UK will be a safe and legal route.”

The prime minister - who has been under considerable pressure from his own backbenches to tackle illegal migration - has made “stopping the boats” one of his five priorities.

Adopting a similar viewpoint, Ms Braverman has repeatedly promised to take a hard line on illegal migration and Channel crossings.

"Stopping the boat means fixing our problem relating to illegal migration. Last year we saw over 40,000 people arrive via small boats on the channel to the United Kingdom. We need to stop that," the home secretary told ITV News last month.

She said she was "very confident" in the government's plan to stop illegal immigration - with the threat of deportations to Rwanda forming one deterrent - and insisted there would be a "dramatic reduction in the numbers arriving" .

Ms Braverman would not, however, commit to stopping the crossings completely.

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Suella Braverman on what Rishi Sunak's pledge to 'stop the boats' means in practice

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The government’s plans have come under fierce criticism from campaigners, with concerns too about whether some of the policies are compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.

In April last year, then-home secretary Priti Patel signed an agreement with Rwanda for it to receive migrants deemed by the UK to have arrived “illegally”, and therefore inadmissible under new immigration rules. The Rwanda scheme went on to become mired in legal challenges, and so far no flights carrying migrants to the Rwandan capital Kigali have departed.

The prime minister is expected to meet French President Macron in Paris on Friday to discuss further measures for preventing small boat crossings. But Labour says there is already more that can be done. "What we need is action to crack down on the criminal gangs who are smuggling people across the Channel," Labour MP Jonathan Ashworth said. "We need action to deal with the huge backlog in asylum claims that these criminal gangs are exploiting," the shadow work and pensions secretary added.

The latest Home Office figures show 2,950 migrants have crossed the Channel already this year. Critics expressed concern at the latest plans, arguing that the legislation will be ineffective.

Christina Marriott, executive director of strategy at the Red Cross, said: "The Home Office's own research shows that people coming to claim asylum don't know about our asylum system before they come here.

"We know this from the 30,000 refugees and asylum seekers we work with every single year. They just don't know the system.

"So, making the system harsher won't stop people from coming here."

"To claim asylum you have to reach the UK but this bill will then say that if you reach the UK you won't be able to claim asylum. And that is a real catch 22," Ms Marriott added.

Sonya Sceats, chief executive at Freedom From Torture, meanwhile, called the proposals “vindictive and dysfunctional”. “This legislation will do nothing to reduce the number of deaths in the Channel or the chaos and incompetence that blights our asylum system, nor will it guarantee sanctuary for those who need it. “Instead, it will lead to more torture survivors being unfairly denied protection and potentially removed to Rwanda.”

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Weather warning as Met Office predicts when temperatures will plunge - Liverpool Echo

More cold weather could be on the way soon as temperatures are set to plunge.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) previously issued a Level 3 alert from 1am Monday, March 6 until midnight on Thursday, March 9 due to a drop in temperature. A Level 2 cold weather alert is in place for the remainder of England, for the same time period.

UKHSA guidance states: "This weather could increase the health risks to vulnerable patients and disrupt the delivery of services."

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The Met Office has issued warnings for parts of England for snow and ice which is expected to bring some disruption. The forecaster states: "The snow showers will predominantly impact northern and eastern areas, however, it will be cold across the UK, with widespread freezing conditions overnight."

The Met Office warns that the wintry conditions are likely to be felt from Sunday evening with "patchy frost" expected. On Monday it predicts: "Cold and windy with sunny intervals and snow and hail showers in north."

For Tuesday through to Thursday, it states it will be "very cold" with some snow showers expected. Liverpool could see temperatures drop to 0C with highs of 4C on Tuesday, however it will likely feel closer to -2C, the Met Office suggests.

Deputy Chief Meteorologist, Chris Almond, said: "Very cold air will spread across the UK from late on Sunday through early next week. This brings with it snow even to low levels in the north and east through Monday and Tuesday, and in excess of 10cm could accumulate, most likely on high ground in the north, but also settling for a time at lower levels.

"With freezing overnight temperatures and the risk of ice, there’s a risk of some travel disruption and wintry hazards are likely to persist through much of next week, even further south for a time, so keep an eye on the Met Office forecast for the latest information."

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Rishi Sunak vows to end asylum claims from small boat arrivals - BBC

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Anyone arriving in the UK on a small boat will be prevented from claiming asylum, under new laws expected to be announced next week.

Ministers will have a duty to "detain and swiftly remove" anyone who comes to the UK through that route, said Home Secretary Suella Braverman.

The prime minister has already said that "stopping the boats" is one of his five priorities.

The British Red Cross charity called the plans "extremely concerning".

Ms Braverman is expected to introduce the new legislation on Tuesday.

Currently, asylum seekers have the right to remain in the country to have their case heard. Under new legislation, those who arrive in small boats will be prevented from claiming asylum in the UK, removed to Rwanda or a "safe third country" and banned from returning permanently.

• How is the UK stopping Channel crossings?
• How many people cross the Channel in small boats?

Rishi Sunak told the Mail on Sunday: "Make no mistake, if you come here illegally, you will not be able to stay."

He is expected to travel to Paris for a UK-France summit on Friday. The meeting with President Emmanuel Macron will be the first UK-France summit since 2018.

It is thought the two politicians will discuss the small boats crisis.

Mr Sunak has pledged to "stop the boats once and for all" - a pledge he had previously made twice in his first major speech of 2023.

"Illegal migration is not fair on British taxpayers, it is not fair on those who come here legally and it is not right that criminal gangs should be allowed to continue their immoral trade. I am determined to deliver on my promise to stop the boats," he told the Mail on Sunday.

And speaking to the Sun on Sunday, Ms Braverman said "the only route to the UK will be a safe and legal route".

There are still many questions about how this new plan will work.

The Home Office says there are a number of "safe and legal" routes to the UK. However, some are only available to people from specific countries such as Afghanistan and Ukraine, or for British National status holders in Hong Kong.

Other asylum routes only accept a limited number of refugees according to precise criteria.

The announcement comes after days where the news agenda has been dominated by leaked WhatsApp messages from Matt Hancock as well as Boris Johnson's Partygate investigation.

The British Red Cross said the plans would do little to stop people risking their lives to seek safety.

Another charity, Freedom from Torture, which provides therapy to asylum seekers, called them "vindictive and dysfunctional".

The government's pledge is not straightforward. No migrants have been sent to Rwanda and plans to do so are currently on hold. There is also no returns agreement in place with the EU.

Last year, the government announced a deal with Rwanda to send asylum seekers there on a one-way ticket.

However the plan has yet to get under way after it was met with fierce opposition from campaigners and legal interventions.

Opponents argued Rwanda was not a safe destination and the scheme broke human rights laws.

However, in December the High Court ruled the scheme did not breach the UN's Refugee Convention. That decision is expected to face further challenges in the courts.

Under the plan, asylum seekers may be granted refugee status to stay in Rwanda or seek asylum in a "safe third country".

The government says it will discourage others from crossing the English Channel but so far there is no evidence that has happened.

A total of 45,755 migrants crossed the Channel to Britain in 2022, according to government figures collated by the BBC.

This is the highest number since these figures began to be collected by the government in 2018.

The latest Home Office figures show 2,950 migrants have crossed the Channel already this year.

The asylum seekers coming to the UK are from a range of countries, including Albania, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.

Most who come by boat claim asylum on arrival in the UK and, if their case is accepted, they can apply to remain in the UK.

However, asylum claims made on or after 28 June 2022 can be rejected if the applicant has a "connection to a safe third country", such as EU countries.

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Matt Hancock leaks lead to cover-up fears over ‘eat out to help out’ scheme - The Guardian

Rishi Sunak faces calls for an inquiry into whether Treasury officials buried or ignored evidence that his £849m “eat out to help out” scheme fuelled the spread of the pandemic.

Officials dismissed a Warwick University study in October 2020 that said Sunak’s initiative may have caused a significant rise in Covid-19 infections. The report estimated 8%-17% of detected new clusters could be linked to the scheme.

Despite the government categorically rejecting the findings, the publication of former health secretary Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages appears to confirm that there were concerns about the then chancellor’s scheme in summer 2020 driving an increase in infections.

In the leaked messages obtained by the Daily Telegraph, Hancock told the cabinet secretary, Simon Case, that he had “kept it out of news” that the initiative was spreading the virus. He said his department had informed the Treasury and was “protecting” officials.

Jonathan Portes, a professor in economics and public policy at King’s College London and a former senior civil servant at the Treasury, said: “It looks on the face of it that [the Treasury] was deliberately trying to conceal what the evidence was about eat out to help out.

“We need to know what exactly the Department of Health told the Treasury, what was said internally about the data and what the advice was to ministers.”

He said the evidence to date suggested there may have been a “cover-up” and the Treasury needed to publish all the relevant documents. He said it was “disgraceful” and “unprofessional” to dismiss the Warwick University paper, which was on a matter of significant public interest, and there should now be an inquiry.

The scheme, which was launched in August 2020, was one of Sunak’s measures when he was chancellor to support the economy as it reopened after lockdown. It offered a 50% discount, up to £10 per head, on meals and soft drinks on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Businesses could claim the money back on a weekly basis from HM Revenue and Customs.

A working paper published by Thiemo Fetzer, an economics professor at Warwick University, found the initiative was closely linked to an increase in new cases during August and into early September. The paper found the virus spread more rapidly in areas with lots of participating restaurants and said the scheme might have “public health costs that vastly outstrip its short-term economic benefits”.

Fetzer said on Saturday he had made a submission to the Covid-19 public inquiry and he considered the scheme should now be examined as part of the hearings. He said: “The second wave of the pandemic was seeded in the summer and eat out to help out contributed to that.

“It was only available on Monday, Tuesdays and Wednesday, so people shifted their dining patterns. It created crowded spaces.”

He said the Treasury had dismissed his work, but had not provided any substantial evidence that the scheme did not cause a rise in infections. “They did not do a rigorous analysis,” he said. In January 2021, the Treasury said its own analysis had shown that areas with a high take-up of the scheme had low subsequent Covid-19 cases. The Institute for Government said that analysis was “pretty thin” and did not engage properly with criticisms of the scheme.

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The concern in government that the scheme was spreading the pandemic is revealed in Hancock’s WhatsApp messages. On 24 August 2020, while the initiative was still running, he wrote to Case, saying: “We have had lots of feedback that [eat out to help out] is causing problems… I’ve kept it out of the news but it’s serious. So please please lets not allow the economic success of the scheme to lead to its extension.”

Hancock later referred to the scheme in another message in December 2020 as “eat out to help the virus get about”.

A government source said: “We’ve been over this so many times. Many European countries experienced an uptick in virus transmission at the exact same time as the UK, including those without similar hospitality support schemes.” Officials say that many European countries experienced an increase in infections at the same time, but did not introduce policies targeted at increasing demand in the hospitality sector.

They consider it is difficult to isolate reasons for transmission, but say it appears the spread of the infection was largely driven by private gatherings, household transmission and not following social distancing measures.

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Simon Schama urges UK Jews to condemn Israel’s ‘horrifying’ shift to far right - The Guardian

British Jews must speak out over the “complete disintegration of the political and social compact” that underpins the state of Israel, the historian Simon Schama has said.

His call comes amid mounting disquiet among Jews in the UK and the US at the threats to Israeli democracy, violent attacks on Palestinians and a police crackdown on Israeli protesters.

Next Sunday, Israelis living in the UK will take to the streets to voice their opposition to the actions of the most rightwing Israeli government in the country’s 75-year history.

Protests are also planned by expat Israelis and Jews in other countries in solidarity with huge demonstrations in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem against the government.

In a sign of the changing mood, the Board of Deputies of British Jews, considered to be a conservative and staunchly pro-Israel body, issued a rare statement condemning a call by a senior Israeli minister that a Palestinian town in the West Bank should be “wiped out” in response to the murder of two Israelis.

“We utterly condemn Bezalel Smotrich’s comments calling for the Israeli government to ‘erase’ a village which days ago was attacked by Israeli settlers. We hope that this and similar comments will be publicly repudiated by responsible voices in the governing coalition,” the board said.

The board’s statement was a reflection that British Jews across the political spectrum are deeply troubled by “dangerous extremists” in the Israeli government, said one insider.

Speaking to the Observer, Schama said that Israel was at risk of becoming a “nationalist theocracy” with the inclusion of ultra-religious, far-right parties in the coalition government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu.

Key government posts have been handed to extreme hardliners Itamar Ben-Gvir and Smotrich – both ideological settlers committed to Israeli annexation of the West Bank.

The government has begun moves to undermine judicial independence and expand Israeli settlements in the occupied territories.

The army has failed to contain a surge of settler violence, and the police last week fired stun grenades and water cannon at peaceful protesters in Tel Aviv.

“This is of concern to Jewry all over the world,” said Schama. “It’s absolutely, utterly horrifying.” Israel’s 1948 declaration of independence – “a noble document, which promised equal civil rights to all religious and ethnic groups” – had disintegrated, he said. Jews must speak out, he added. To do so was “not a betrayal of Israel, it’s a passionate declaration of support for the enormous number of people [in Israel] who feel as anguished as we do. We should not be lily-livered about it”.

Margaret Hodge, the veteran Labour MP and parliamentary chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, said an “assault on democracy” combined with “vicious attacks on Palestinian rights” was creating a “dangerous moment” for Israel.

She had always been a “critical friend” of Israel, but said she and other British Jews must now be “more vocal. The voice of the Jewish diaspora must be stronger, we must exert what pressure we can to curtail the excesses of the Israeli government.”

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Anthony Julius, one of the UK’s most prominent Jewish lawyers, said the Israeli government incorporated “the worst features of the populist, anti-liberal democratic parties that operate in Europe and in America as well, but with a special kind of antinomian Jewish intensity”.

Sweeping reforms to give the government total control over the appointment of judges and to allow parliament to override supreme court rulings were “destructive”, he said in Haaretz newspaperlast month.

According to Rabbi Jonathan Romain, the “vast majority” of his congregation in Maidenhead, Berkshire, was “deeply worried” about what’s happening in Israel. “The extremist faction in the government is anti-gay, anti-women, anti-civil liberties, anti-pluralism, hostile to Palestinians,” Romain said. “The mood is shifting from British Jews being out-and-out supporters [of Israel] to being critical friends – and voicing that criticism publicly.”His constituents were “more worried about the direction of Israel than at any time previously”, he said.

Next weekend’s protest, under the banner “Defend Israel’s democracy”, is open to all expat Israelis “and all supporters of Israel and democracy”, the organisers said. Reuven Ziegler, a law professor at Reading University, who will be speaking at the protest, said: “The demonstrations are a very patriotic act because they are an attempt to save Israel from making substantive mistakes that would ultimately change its character. They are anything but hostile to the Israeli state.“Since this government was formed, it has given many reasons for people in the diaspora to find themselves alienated from it.

“In the past, faced with certain expressions of antisemitism, many Jews have felt the need to defend Israel, right or wrong. That sentiment may be weakening, but ultimately the blame for that lies squarely with the current government.”Hannah Weisfeld, the director of Yachad, a UK organisation that advocates for a political resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said: “There is real disquiet in the community over Smotrich and Ben-Gvir. The settler attack on Hawara was quite a gamechanger.”

People, she said, were starting to understand there was “a connection between the undoing of democracy and settlers running wild in the West Bank.

“It’s very painful for British Jews, particularly those from an old-school Zionist background. Many have family in Israel who are telling them that a dictatorship is coming. We’re not quite at a tipping point yet, but I think we’ll get there.”

Six European countries, including the UK, on Saturday condemned recent Palestinian militant attacks that killed Israeli citizens in the occupied West Bank and called on Israel to halt expansion of settlements there. “We urge the Israeli government to reverse its recent decision to advance the construction of more than 7,000 settlement building units across the occupied West Bank and to legalise settlement outposts,” said the countries in a joint statement.

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Prince Harry says marijuana 'really helped' him in live interview with Gabor Mate - The Independent

Prince Harry, Meghan Markle getting kicked out of UK home

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Prince Harry has revealed in an interview with author Gabor Mate that marijuana “really helped” him mentally.

The Duke of Sussex, speaking during the livestreamed conversation on Saturday evening, said cocaine “did nothing” for him. He added: “Marijuana is different, that actually really did help me.”

He also said that some British soldiers were not “necessarily” supportive of military efforts in Afghanistan.

Dr Gabor Mate said he did not align with the West during the conflict. Harry responded: “One of the reasons why so many people in the United Kingdom were not supportive of our troops was because they assumed that everybody that was serving was for the war.

“But no, once you sign up, you do what you’re told to do.

“So there was a lot of us that didn’t necessarily agree or disagree, but you were doing what you were trained to do, you were doing what you were sent to do.”

It comes after the Harry and wife Meghan have been asked to leave Frogmore Cottage by King Charles.

Sources claimed that the couple are “not fighting” the decision, as they are said to be making arrangements to have their remaining belongings shipped to California.

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Prince Harry reveals drugs were a ‘comfort’ to help deal with trauma

Prince Harry has revealed that using marijuana and psychedelics helped him deal with trauma in his life, as he is diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) during a livestream interview.

The Duke of Sussex spoke to Dr Gabor Mate, a trauma expert, and they covered a wide-range of topics, including his mother’s death, drug use, his time in the army, and his relationship with other members of the Royal Family.

On using drugs, Prince Harry said: “(Cocaine) didn’t do anything for me, it was more a social thing and gave me a sense of belonging for sure, I think it probably also made me feel different to the way I was feeling, which was kind of the point.

Joe Middleton4 March 2023 22:33

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Prince Harry reveals how he handles his children’s ‘outbursts’

Prince Harry has shared some of his parenting strategies when raising his children and how he responds during their “outbursts”.

During a live streamed conversation on Saturday about personal healing with author Dr Gabor Maté, the Duke of Sussex spoke about his four-year-old son, Archie, and one-year-old daughter, Lilibet, whom he shares with wife Meghan Markle.

During the Q&A portion of the event, one event guest asked for advice on how to raise children to be “kind, emphatic, and humble humans”. In response, Harry said how important it is for children to feel “love” and be given the opportunity to “be themselves”.

Joe Middleton4 March 2023 22:30

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Prince Harry reveals drugs were a ‘comfort’ to help deal with trauma

Prince Harry has revealed that using marijuana and psychedelics helped him deal with trauma in his life, as he is diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) during a livestream interview.

The Duke of Sussex spoke to Dr Gabor Mate, a trauma expert, and they covered a wide-range of topics, including his mother’s death, drug use, his time in the army, and his relationship with other members of the Royal Family.

On using drugs, Prince Harry said: “(Cocaine) didn’t do anything for me, it was more a social thing and gave me a sense of belonging for sure, I think it probably also made me feel different to the way I was feeling, which was kind of the point.”

Joe Middleton4 March 2023 21:30

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Prince Harry reveals how lack of physical affection throughout childhood impacts how he raises his children

Prince Harry is speaking out about the lack of physical affection he received throughout his childhood and how it affects him as a father today.

On Saturday, the Duke of Sussex discussed his four-year-old son, Archie, and one-year-old daughter, Lilibet, whom he shares with wife Meghan Markle, during a live streamed conversation with Dr Gabor Maté. The conversation centred on mental health awareness and personal healing.

During the conversation, Maté pointed out that in Harry’s tell-all memoir, Spare, he wrote about the lack of hugs he received from members of the royal family. When asked how this family dynamic has impacted his parenting skills, the duke said it encouraged him be more affectionate with his children.

Joe Middleton4 March 2023 20:38

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Inside Royal Lodge: The 30-room mansion Prince Andrew may have to vacate for Frogmore Cottage

The Duke of York has resided in the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park for nearly 20 years, but reports suggest his time there may be coming to an end.

It is understood that the King has offered Andrew the keys to Frogmore Cottage after requesting the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to vacate it.

Read everything you need to know about the Royal Lodge here:

Kate Ng4 March 2023 20:00

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Prince Harry diagnosed with ADD

Dr Gabor Mate diagnosed the Duke of Sussex with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) during their livestream conversation on Saturday night.

Dr Mate told Prince Harry that he had the condition after reading his book Spare.

The Duke of Sussex responded: “thanks for the free session”.

Joe Middleton4 March 2023 19:17

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Prince Harry left Royal Family because he felt ‘different’

Prince Harry said that he made the decision to leave The Firm as his felt “different” from the rest of his family.

The Duke of Sussex said: “People have said that my wife saved me, I was stuck in this world and she was from a different world and helped draw me out of that.

“But none of the elements of my life would have been possible without me seeing it for myself.”

Joe Middleton4 March 2023 19:11

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Prince Harry discusses use of psychedelics

Prince Harry has spoke of the benefits of using psychedelics and that it helped him deal with the trauma caused by his mother’s death.

His comments came after Dr Gabor Mate discussed the use of Ayahuasca with his patients.

The Duke of Sussex said: “It was the cleaning of the windshield, removal of life’s filters.

“It removed it all for me and brought me a sense of relaxation, release, comfort, a lightness that I managed to hold onto for a period of time

“For me I started doing it recreationally and then started to realise how good it was for me. I would say it is one of the fundamental parts of my life that changed me and helped me deal with the traumas and the pains of the past.”

Joe Middleton4 March 2023 19:03

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Rebel Wilson claims Meghan Markle is ‘not as cool’ as Prince Harry

Rebel Wilson has described the Duchess of Sussex as “not as cool” or “naturally warm” as her husband, the Duke of Sussex.

The Pitch Perfect star recalled her first encounter with the royal couple, which she said happened through a mutual friend who is a polo player.

Find out what she had to say below:

Kate Ng4 March 2023 19:00

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Therapy helped me overcome my mother’s death, says Duke of Sussex

The Duke of Sussex said that therapy helped him overcome the death of his mother when he was a child.

During the livestreamed conversation with author Dr Gabor Mate, the trauma specialist said that therapy was like “bursting a bubble.”

Prince Harry responded: “My awareness to my own story my own self was distorted, perhaps because of my environment and what it foes to you but also because of society.’

He added: “When I started to unpack 12 year-old Harry and when my mother died it was scary.

“I thought that when I went to therapy that it would cure me, and that I would lose whatever I had left of my mother... it was the opposite - I turned into what I thought should be sadness to show that I missed her into knowing that she would want me to be happy.”

Joe Middleton4 March 2023 18:55

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