So we scrimped and saved to have him educated privately at Lisvane a

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Published: August 22, 2010

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So we scrimped and saved to have him educated privately at Lisvane, a preparatory school for Scarborough College.”At nine, he passed the scholarship examinations for Scarborough, but we were told we had to pay 50 per cent of the fees – about £400 a term We just could not afford it. Because of his age, Paul had to return to the top year of the juniors in state school, repeating work he had already done.”It got worse when he went to the local comprehensive He became bored, didn’t work at all and got poor grades. I begged the school to help but they said they wouldn’t give a place in the top set to someone who wasn’t willing to work.”Paul turned to other things that seemed more exciting than schoolwork – shoplifting and stealing from home. Despite doing no work, he managed to pass five GCSEs but by then he was beginning to live in a fantasy world. He claimed he was a Kung Fu instructor, or went round telling people he had won £25,000 on premium bonds.”He left school and did a series of dead-end jobs: working in a shoe shop and in just about every restaurant in town. He began dabbling in drugs when he was 19 and was jailed for three months for stealing cash from pool tables.”On release he tried a fresh start, living with his grandmother But the trouble never stopped. He forged my signature to get a bank loan, then stole a gold bracelet from his grandmother and pawned it, yet left the ticket on display.

He wasn’t a clever crook – these were cries for help.”Then he split up with his first serious girlfriend, Sarah, and took an overdose. Several other suicide attempts followed and Paul was diagnosed as clinically depressed. But the doctor said he could not prescribe drugs until Paul was seen by a psychiatrist, and it would be 16 weeks before he could have an appointment. Paul said: “I won’t be here then, Mum.” As usual, he was right.”I had been so desperately worried about him and what he might do that I reported him for stealing £200 from my safe at home. I didn’t want to hand over my own son to the police but I felt I had no option. I hoped the police would put him in custody and he could finally get help, but they simply bailed him.”Six days later he was dead.” ©London Daily Mail/Atlantic Syndication. The news that British Nuclear Fuels will be able to bring a shipment of flawed nuclear fuel from Japan back to the UK was hailed yesterday by the participants in this sorry affair as a diplomatic victory, a commercial victory, and pretty much any other kind of victory you like to name.

In reality, it looks set to be just the beginning of yet more chaos. The news that British Nuclear Fuels will be able to bring a shipment of flawed nuclear fuel from Japan back to the UK was hailed yesterday by the participants in this sorry affair as a diplomatic victory, a commercial victory, and pretty much any other kind of victory you like to name. In reality, it looks set to be just the beginning of yet more chaos.
On the most obvious level, it may seem that employees at the Sellafield nuclear plant will benefit, not least because – if Sellafield’s commercial reputation is at least partially restored – job losses on a large scale no longer seem inevitable. There is, of course, a bill to be settled: BNFL (with the generous assistance of the taxpayer) will be obliged to fork out £40m compensation in order to get the show back on the road.


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