Baby Number Three for Wills and Kate the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Are Expecting a Third Child, Kensington Palace Announced This Week
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The british Weekly, Sat. September 9, 2017 Page 1 Rooneys at the brink as Wayne strays again - page 5 California’s British Accent ™ - Since 1984 Saturday, September 9, 2017 • Number 1695 Always Free Baby number three for Wills and Kate The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting a third child, Kensington Palace announced this week. The announcement of extreme morning “Their royal highnesses was made as the sickness, or hyperemesis the Duke and Duchess duchess was forced to gravidarum. of Cambridge are very cancel an engagement In a statement, pleased to announce that on Monday because Kensington Palace said: the Duchess of Cambridge is expecting their third child. The Queen and members of both families are delighted with the news. “As with her previous two pregnancies, the duchess is suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum. Her royal highness will no longer carry out her planned engagement at the Hornsey Road children’s centre in London today. The duchess is being cared for at Kensington Palace.” The announcement comes in the same week the couple’s eldest child, four-year-old Prince George is to start school at Thomas’s Battersea, south London. His sister, Princess Charlotte, is two. Hyperemesis gravidarum can be so acute that it requires supplementary hydration, medication and nutrients. Kate, 35, was admitted to hospital because of morning sickness during her first pregnancy. EXPANDING BROOD: The Duchess of Cambridge, The baby will be fifth AND A BIG DAY FOR THE LITTLE GUY....William and George pose for the pregnant with Princess Charlotte in 2015 cont. on page 4, col. 1 photographers ahead of the young prince’s first day at school (page 3) News from Britain 2-5 • Meet a Member 8 • Crossword/Sudoku 8 • Stargazing 9 • Book Review 9 • Brits in LA 10 • Sean Borg 11 • Sport 18-20 Page 2 The british Weekly, Sat. September 9, 2017 News from Britain Scottish cities to fine We can win border poll in polluting drivers five years, says Adams n n £30-a-day penalties in Edinburgh, Unionists rally against ‘divisive’ demands Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen by 2020 Sinn Féin have called for a referendum on a Motorists who drive per day. campaigners have united Ireland within heavily polluting Number-plate welcomed the initiative, five years, a move vehicles are likely to recognition cameras will saying there was clear denounced as “divisive face automatic fines for record the details of any evidence that pollution and destabilising” by entering Scotland’s major motorist breaking the low- from vehicles was linked unionists. cities just three years from emission zone rules and to poor health. Gerry Adams, the now, ministers have said. they will be notified of Speaking in the Scottish party’s leader, told Under the changes, fines through the post. The parliament, Patrick colleagues on Wednesday which have been penalty could rise for those Harvie, for the Greens, that Brexit had re- championed by the first who fail to pay promptly. said: “For some time we energised the debate minister, low-emission The zones are part of have been calling for more about a united Ireland. zones will be created in the a package of measures than the one pilot low- Arlene Foster, the Arlene Foster said Gerry Adams’s calls for a four biggest cities, in effect designed to persuade emission zone that the Democratic Unionist referendum on Irish unity were divisive barring such vehicles from drivers to give up vehicles Scottish government has Party leader, immediately the centres of Glasgow, powered by fossil fuels, supported, so I welcome dismissed the notion of a in the next five years. take place without the Edinburgh, Dundee and a campaign that Nicola the commitment to have border poll. We believe that this is consent of the Irish people. Aberdeen by 2020. Sturgeon hopes will four such zones.” The public spat achievable and winnable. Ms Foster described the However, one of the culminate in the removal But motoring threatens to derail talks We also believe that this call as a “narrow political cities involved, possibly of all petrol and diesel organisations and about the restoration of should be government project”. Glasgow, could have its vehicles from Scotland by opposition politicians said power-sharing. Simon policy,” Mr Adams said. “There is no evidence low-emission zone up and 2032 - eight years before that the plan represented Coveney, the foreign He described Brexit as of overwhelming support running as early as next the rest of the UK. yet another attack on affairs minister, met the most serious social, for a united Ireland. year, ministers said. The first minister said: motorists. representatives from economic and political Holding, or indeed even Motorists in London “Some of the changes Nicholas Lyes, Stormont’s five main threat to the island of just proposing, a border- with the worst exhaust that will be involved for spokesman for the RAC, parties in Belfast this Ireland for a generation. poll within five years is emissions will face a £10 a low-emission zone . said motorists would be week to ascertain whether “The people of the North not sensible,” she said. charge from next month do involve behavioural “reeling” from the news the appetite was there for voted against Brexit. The with a more stringent change, they do involve that they could be fined further negotiations. Irish government has a ‘wishful thinking’ ultra-low emission zone things that can be difficult from as early as next year. responsibility to defend “It will propel Northern due to be brought in by for people. But the scale He said: “Nobody ‘new approach’ that vote and to act in the Ireland into a cycle of 2020. of this challenge and doubts the need for bold “Brexit has re-energised best interests of all the referenda. This is nothing The Scottish government the importance of this decisions being made to and reshaped the debate people of this island,” he short of wishful thinking has decided to introduce challenge means we’ve got tackle Scotland’s pollution about a united Ireland,” said. by Gerry Adams. It is fines rather than charges to do these things.” issue in its biggest cities. Mr Adams said, opening In response to his call time he and those around and while the amount will She added: “There will However, the outlined Sinn Féin’s two-day think- for a border poll Ms him lifted their eyes and be set by councils, they are be difficult things in here, measures could have in at the CityNorth hotel Foster dismissed the considered the damage likely to be higher than the that’s inevitable, but there’s serious financial and in Co Meath. idea, claiming it was not recent instability is London charges, possibly lots of wins for us as well if practical impacts on those “That demands a sensible. having upon everyone in with fines of £20 or £30 for we do this properly.” living and working in and new approach aimed “Northern Ireland Northern Ireland.” each polluting motorist Environmental around these cities.” at unlocking Unionist needs stability,” she said. While all party leaders opposition to a new future “That means we need a agree on the need for by reminding them of functioning government devolution, Ms Foster’s 171 Pier Ave. Ste. 121 • Santa Monica CA 9005 the positive contribution to make vital decisions. offer of proposals to Tel: (310) 452 2621 • Fax: (310) 314-7653 they have made to society We do not need a divisive address the Irish language [email protected] on this island. 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