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7NEWS
08-08-2025
- Entertainment
- 7NEWS
Australian swimmer Libby Trickett shares very relatable mum moment in hilarious new video
Australian swimming great Libby Trickett posted a new video on Instagram that has struck a chord with parents and grandparents. The mum-of-five shared a clip of herself on Thursday driving while the nursery rhyme Five Little Ducks is playing. The four-time Olympic gold medallist captioned the funny footage, 'POV: This is now the theme song of your life.' The video features the remixed version of Five Little Ducks by The Wiggles and DJ and producer Lenny Pearce. Pearce — twin brother of Purple Wiggle John Pearce — has found fame for remixing classic children's songs into techno tunes. He collaborated with The Wiggles on an EDM (electronic dance music) remix album titled The Wiggles Sound System: Rave of Innocence. Trickett also captioned the post, 'On. Repeat.' with a list of hilarious hashtags including #quackquackquackquack #wiggleshavegonefulldoofdoof. Parents and grandparents left comments revealing they too could relate to the realities of parenting, which comes with having to listen to their child's favourite song on repeat! 'Anything for peace in the car,' one person said. 'Oh I remember those days!! We had to play The Wiggles and so many times I would get all the way home, after dropping them at kindy, before I even realised I was still listening to them!,' another shared. 'It's a vibe,' one followed added. Trickett and her husband, Luke, welcomed their fifth child, Archie, on April 3. The couple are already parents to Poppy, 9, Edwina, 7, Bronte, 5, and Alfred, 1. After the birth of baby number five, Trickett said: 'The shape of our family is now complete.' Alongside clips from her Sportish podcast, Trickett's social media is filled with regular updates of her life with her growing family. On Wednesday, Trickett shared an open letter about motherhood for World Breastfeeding Week. 'Archie is super lucky that he's baby number five and my boob is basically just a tap that he doesn't have to do much for as he's got a weak little suck. But it works for us right now,' Trickett shared, honestly. 'All that is to say, that overall, breastfeeding can be really challenging. It can be really weird, and it can be special. All of those things are true. 'Whatever the journey looks like for you is going to be different to others. I used to feel bad that I wasn't just so in love with breastfeeding, but now I know that it doesn't actually matter. 'I'm doing it in the way that works for me and works for the team mate/baby I have because as well, each team is different.'I don't know how much longer we'll do it for, I'm proud of what my body is doing to build my child AND I also know that ultimately when our time is done, fed is best.'
Daily Record
29-06-2025
- Politics
- Daily Record
Labour faces electoral carnage with welfare u-turns and policy blunders
New research shows hundreds of MPs could face ballot box chaos as a result of Labour's policy blunders. Labour could have faced electoral wipeout if it went ahead with £5billion of benefits cuts according to new research from one of the party's own MPs. A dossier compiled by Jon Trickett and shared with the Sunday Mail details 176 seats with a Labour majority less than the number of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants. The veteran parliamentarian used House of Commons data to prepare a report comparing MPs' majorities to the number of disability benefit claimants and Winter Fuel Allowance recipients in their constituencies. Both groups face being hit by cuts aimed at rebalancing the country's finances. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has performed a partial u-turn on winter fuel, and last week agreed to limit changes to PIP in the face of a backbench rebellion, however serious concerns remain within the party. According to Trickett's research deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, health secretary Wes Streeting and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper are among those whose majority was smaller than the number of PIP claimants. In Scotland - where the Scottish Government controls the equivalent benefit to PIP - all but one Labour MP has more winter fuel claimants than their majority. Trickett, said his report 'shows the enormous damage which the welfare changes would inflict on thousands of disabled including some of the most unfortunate people in every single community.' The MP added: 'It also shows clearly the potential political damage to the Labour Party from policies that make people worse off, are unjust and which fail to deliver the positive change people need. 'The PM finally saw that he needed to find reverse gear. However the current proposals don't go far enough and we need wiser counsel to put matters right. 'The battle for justice is not yet over.' The Prime Minister had to make concessions to the welfare bill as more than 100 of his own MPs backed an amendment that would have effectively killed it. Speaking to the Welsh Labour conference yesterday Starmer promised to reform welfare 'in a Labour way' and said his party wouldn't 'take away the safety net that vulnerable people rely on'. DWP Secretary Liz Kendall confirmed on Friday that existing PIP claimants wouldn't be affected by new eligibility criteria due to come into force in April 2026. The health element of Universal Credit, given to those with disabilities or health problems affecting their ability to work, will be halved to around £200 a month for new claimants. Existing claimants and those with terminal or life-long and severe illness will be exempt. Despite the changes some Labour MPs are still not satisfied and will continue to oppose the plans when they come before the Commons on Tuesday. Grangemouth MP Brian Leishman said: 'It sounds to me like it will be the creation of a two-tier welfare system. That is completely unacceptable. There has not been any consultation with organisations and charities. 'We've got to have a proper system that is caring and compassionate and meets people's needs. That is not what they are offering with these concessions. 'I have not changed my mind. I hope the reasoned amendment will still be there and it gets selected. If not then I will be voting against the government.' Disabled people in Scotland don't receive PIP, instead getting Adult Disability Payment directly through the Scottish Government although it is funded via the block grant from Westminster. Labour's changes would have a direct impact on the Scottish Government's funding with Holyrood ministers likely to have to make cuts to Scotland's benefits bill as well. Senior Scottish Labour sources fear the government's very public concessions on the welfare reforms and winter fuel payments as well as their refusal to compensate WASPI women could damage them at the next Holyrood election. One MSP said: 'This has been a disaster and makes us look completely incompetent. When the Prime Minister is lurching from one position to another on major policies it looks as though he doesn't know what he's doing. 'I'd be surprised if this mess didn't have an effect next year for us.' Trade unions have also spoken out against the reformed welfare bill, with Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham calling for it to be scrapped completely. Scotland's most senior trade union leader, the STUC General Secretary Roz Foyer told the Sunday Mail the plans were a 'pernicious attack' on vulnerable people. She said: 'These welfare reforms from Labour might as well have been typed on a Tory letterhead. 'In no way is this the 'change' that voters were promised during the election. 'Irrespective of the Bill's fate, with inequality growing, billionaires getting richer and working people finding it harder to keep their heads above water, it's incredulous that a Labour Government would make carers, the sick and disabled their first targets for so-called reform. 'Almost 400,000 people look set to fall into poverty as a result of this pernicious attack, 50,000 of whom are children. 'There will also be a clear knock-on effect to the Scottish Government's ability to mitigate yet more UK Government austerity. 'These are neither Labour values nor the values of the Labour movement.' SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn called for Scottish Labour MPs to vote against the plans while Citizens Advice Scotland said the government's concessions were 'nowhere near enough'. Of Scotland's 37 Labour MPs, 10 signed an amendment to the original bill which would have stopped it progressing. Since the concessions were announced, only Leishman has declared he will continue to oppose the bill with the other nine Labour MPs failing to respond to requests from the Sunday Mail.
BBC News
10-03-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Bowel surgery robot 'significantly improves outcomes'
Major bowel operations assisted by robots have "significantly improved outcomes for patients", a hospital trust have been assisted in 100 operations at Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation da Vinci surgical robot uses clear 3D images and instruments with 360-degree mobility to remove and reconstruct sections of patients' Trickett, Robotic Lead at the trust, said the 100th surgery marked "an important milestone which has improved the lives of many of our patients". Mr Trickett continued: "Using our da Vinci robot, we have seen a decrease in the length of a hospital stay, fewer complications, including surgical site infections, and fewer readmissions."The da Vinci surgery robot was introduced in July 2023 and 500 patients across the UK have benefited from has been used primarily for cancers, but also treats conditions such as endometriosis, diverticular disease, colitis and Crohn's disease. Dr Mark Roland, chief medical officer, added: "It is fantastic to see this remarkable piece of equipment being put to such good use. "The potential to treat more patients means we can make sure that our local community receives the best possible care."
BBC News
18-02-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Bowling alley plan for former Debenhams store in Wakefield
A former Debenhams store could be turned into a bowling alley if plans are application for the building in Wakefield's Trinity Walk Shopping Centre would see the alley created on the upper permission for the ground floor to be converted into four smaller retail units has already been store shut in May 2021 as part of a nationwide closure after the department store entered administration. It had been based in the shopping centre since it opened in 2011. Calls for more city centre leisure facilities, including a bowling alley, have been made in recent years by members of the public, councillors and the business community, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.A report said planning permission would not be required for a change of use of the building to include a bowling application, by Savills estate agents, said a "ten pin unit is agreed between landlord and tenant" but the planned retail units "currently do not have a confirmed end user".Michael Graham, the council's cabinet member for regeneration and economic growth, said bringing a bowling alley to the city was a priority when he took over the portfolio in 2023."For a long time, people in Wakefield have been telling the council that they really want to see more leisure in the city," he Trickett, president of Wakefield Civic Society, has previously called for the store to converted for leisure purposes."If there is no retailer willing to take on the building, then it might be time to think about dividing the building into smaller units or repurposing it in some way for some new use," he said in 2021."That might be something exclusively associated with leisure - such as a bowling alley, cinema, live music space and so on, or it could mean converting the building into a mixed-use facility, something that is part leisure and part retail but with smaller boutique shops, for example."No date has been set for the council to consider the to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North or tell us a story you think we should be covering here.
