Piers Morgan insists 'he won't be going back' to Good Morning Britain as petition calls for return

Piers Morgan has insisted "he won't be going back" to Good Morning Britain.

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  • Soldier killed himself after lockdown 'took everything from him', inquest hears

    A former soldier with no history of mental illness killed himself after lockdown “took everything from him”, an inquest heard. Sean Bradley died by suicide on July 7 last year after becoming increasingly distressed that his business would fail because of a lack of financial support from the government, his sister told an inquest. After the hearing his sister, Angela Wray, said: "People need to realise just how many this pandemic has affected." Neighbours discovered the 53-year-old’s body with "catastrophic injuries" after hearing a loud noise at his home in Church, Accrington. Mr Bradley's medical records showed no evidence of self-harm, depression, anxiety or mental health issues, the inquest at Accrington Town Hall heard. Ms Wray, said her brother felt frustrated by the lack of Government support for businesses such as his and more understanding was needed. Mr Bradley, born in Bury, Greater Manchester, had served "with distinction" in the King's Hussars and the Royal Armoured Corps before studying with the Open University and becoming an IT consultant with blue-chip companies. Described as "a lad's lad" who also enjoyed camping and shooting, he missed his outdoor lifestyle and gave up his IT career to go travelling around the world for six years. Mr Bradley, who was not married and had no children, then studied the martial art form Krav Maga in Israel and returned to the UK to set up his own club in the north west of England. But it all went "out of the window" when the UK went into lockdown last March, the inquest heard. James Newman, area coroner for Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen said: "He can't go out, he can't do the things he loved, he can't do his job. It's all taken away from him. "It seems the effects of lockdown, certainly financially - Tony was a martial arts instructor training a lot of people, it was his life, his profession and that went out of the window in lockdown. "He had built up and started a business that had taken time to develop and grow and all of a sudden, as a new business, he didn't have any funding from the pandemic.” The coroner recorded a verdict of suicide, after Mr Bradley's "business and lifestyle was severely curtailed by the restrictions due to the Covid 19 pandemic".

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  • Apology over failure to honour black and Asian troops who died for Empire

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  • Four killed in Taliban bomb attack at Pakistan hotel hosting Chinese ambassador

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  • Pete Bennet hits back after Imogen Thomas says he ‘betrayed’ Nikki Grahame by sharing her final text

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  • Vladimir Putin says Russia could reach COVID herd immunity by autumn

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  • Black Army soldier responds to racist tirade at IHOP: ‘This is America’

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  • Derek Chauvin trial: Even the way George Floyd's killer was handcuffed and led away proved the inequality

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  • Universities could allow students back early to play sports or for 'entertainment'

    Universities could allow students back early to play organised sports or for “entertainment” purposes, as they prepare to use the latest loophole in official guidance. Vice-Chancellors are already making use of "exceptional circumstances" to let undergraduates return to campus, which include suffering from a mental health issue or having inadequate study space at home. But now university chiefs are examining a new way to permit students to take up residence at their term-time accommodation. In a letter to senior administrators, the higher education minister Michelle Donelan said: “The existing exemptions still apply for students with inadequate study space and/or mental health and wellbeing issues that would warrant a return to their term time address despite their teaching still being online. “Please do also consider appropriate provision to support access to university facilities for all students for the purposes of online learning, to safeguard students’ wellbeing and to prevent isolation and mental ill health. “In line with wider coronavirus restrictions, this may include supporting access to organised sport and entertainment.” A university source told The Telegraph that the wording of the letter indicates that the Government is widening the grounds on which students can return. “We interpret sports and entertainment as being additional reasons to allow them to return,” they said. “The university high command has been studying it. “I am guessing that other universities - particularly ones with big sporting facilities - will probably have said something about this. "It could also be that classic Government thing of ‘we have screwed up so lets just give them bits back in dribs and drabs.” Last week the Government announced that around one million university students will not be allowed to return to campus for another month. The only students allowed to return to campus following the Christmas break were those doing degrees that require face-to-face teaching for a professional qualification, such as medicine and dentistry. On March 8, students on creative or practical courses such as performing arts were also allowed back. But around half of the UK’s student population - including humanities and social science students - will continue to be banned from taking up residence at their term-time accommodation and resuming face-to-face lectures until May 17 at the earliest. University leaders have attacked the decision to delay the return of students as “illogical” since they are now legally able to visit a gym, theme park, zoo or spa as well as go on a self-catered holiday.

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