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Immigration AttorneyPage 1 Steven Landaal • Green Cards through Marriage and Family • Employment Visas • Monthly Payments Available Tel: (310) 395-2828 RIP: Victoria Wood (page 5) See our ad on Page 3 California’s British Accent ™ - Since 1984 Saturday, April 23, 2016 • Number 1623 Always Free Prince hails Queen’s ‘life of dedication’ n Charles pays tribute to “a life that has inspired and encouraged millions of people...” PRINCE Charles led tributes to the Queen for her 90th birthday on Thursday, declaring that her life has defined our age. The heir to the throne the service of our great the postal service she and described the years since imperial family to which Prince Philip visited her her 21st birthday speech we all belong,” she local Royal Mail delivery in South Africa back in vowed. office on Wednesday, 1947 – when she vowed to In a special just a short walk from devote her life to service – documentary shown Windsor Castle. as the Age of Elizabeth. on British television on Dressed in a cerise “As we celebrate her Thursday evening, the Stewart Parvin outfit 90th birthday, she, like Queen and Charles were with matching hat by all of us, can reflect on shown sitting together Rachel Trevor-Morgan, a life that has inspired reflecting on a selection the Queen was given an and encouraged of the Royal Family’s early rendition of Happy millions of people in home movies shot by the Birthday, met Britain’s the United Kingdom, monarch herself, Prince longest-serving postman the Commonwealth Philip, and by her father and was introduced to and around the world,” King George VI and the Janette Warburton, 60, said Charles, 67, who Queen Mother. who delivers the mail to will hosted a private Among contributors staff at the castle. Royal Family dinner for were Charles, Princess The Queen, whose own the Queen at Windsor on Anne, Prince William, mail goes via London and Thursday evening. Prince Harry, the Queen’s is delivered by a special “In many ways, it’s a niece Lady Sarah Chatto royal postman, was also life that has defined our and three of the Queen’s given flowers by what age.” cousins, Princess may well be the youngest Sixty-nine years ago the Alexandra, the Duke person to hand her a then Princess Elizabeth of Kent and Margaret bouquet, 18-month-old took to the airwaves to Rhodes. Charlie Capper. broadcast the speech to The Queen spent much During her tour of the Empire from Cape of Thursday morning the office, now renamed Town, where she was on plowing her way through the Queen Elizabeth tour with her parents and an especially large bag of Delivery Office in her younger sister, Princess birthday mail. The Royal honour, Moya Greene, Margaret. Mail traces its origins back the Royal Mail’s chief “I declare before you to 1516 when Henry VIII executive, told her that all that my whole life, knighted Brian Tuke, the the service now delivers a whether it be long or first Master of the Posts. billion parcels a year. short, shall be devoted So to commemorate “I’ve probably added to to your service and the 500th anniversary of that,” the Queen quipped. MANY HAPPY RETURNS: The Queen turned 90 on Thursday Inside: News from Britain 2-6; Meet a Member 7, Crossword 7, Stargazing 9, Book Review 9, Brits in LA 10, Sean Borg 11, Legal Notices 12-17, Sport 18-20 Page 2 The british Weekly, Sat. April 23, 2016 News from Britain NONSENSE! Critics slam Osborne’s Brexit CLEAR AS MUD, THEN? The Treasury has been blasted for using this sums as ‘gobbledegook’ equation to demonstration the clear benefits of the UK staying in the EU baffling formulas to try “permanently poorer”. a former Treasury AS THE war of words Treasury economists to Treasury analysis to prove whatever they His 200-page Treasury colleague of the surrounding Britain’s forecast the impact of a below uses a gravity like but nobody is really dossier suggested that Chancellor, said: “A pivotal in/out EU Brexit. None included model specification going to understand cutting ties with Brussels much fairer way to referendum continued figures used to arrive with country-pair fixed what they are on about. would leave a massive present this argument to heat up, Chancellor at their conclusions – effects, recognising that “The referendum black hole in public would be to also look at George Osborne seemed specifically that leaving more recent empirical debate is about whether finances. the impact if we remain to score a massive the EU would reduce studies have included we can regain control But critics pointed out in – on further migration, own goal this week by national income by 6.2 other explanatory of our borders, stop that the forecast assumed further pressure on issuing a complicated per cent and cost every variables.” sending £350million to that the Government will public services, security mathematical equation to household £4,300 a year Tory MP Tom Brussels every week and fail to deliver a cut in and so on. You have explain why the country by 2030. Pursglove said of take back control of our migration even if the to present a balanced is better off sticking with And accompanying the document: “This country.” UK quits the EU. A view.” Europe. text supposed to looks like complete Osborne was also senior Tory minister Former Tory chancellor The lengthy algebraic explain the bewildering gobbledegook. Few plunged into a row over rubbished the dossier as Lord Lamont said the formulas in a Whitehall calculations only made voters will make head or mass immigration after “extraordinarily biased”. Treasury forecast was document published by things worse. tail of what it’s all about. claiming that quitting the Energy minister “spurious and entirely Osborne were used by It read: “The HM “Officials may use EU would make Britain Andrea Leadsom, unbelievable.” Brexiters fury at Beefy backs Brexit US ‘meddlers’ n Sir Ian Botham is on the front foot, ANGER over American interference in the EU going to bat for the Leave campaign and referendum campaign intensified this week after eight aiming to knock the EU for six former US Treasury chiefs urged Britons not to vote to cut ties with Brussels. Sir Ian Botham has Writing in the In a joint letter, the senior figures in both the Democrat waded into the Brexit Sunday Times, the and Republican parties warned that quitting the EU was debate, slamming the man nicknamed ‘Beefy’ “risky”. European Union as thundered: “Cricket is a But campaigners for a “leave” in the in-or-out “corrupt” and a “racket”. game where you achieve referendum on June 23 were furious about the American The cricket legend said the greatest success when attempts to influence the outcome of the vote, with senior it’s “insane” that Britain you are confident in your Tory MP Liam Fox accusing the eight former Treasury doesn’t have the freedom own ability to go out and chiefs as being out of touch. to to reach agreements stand proud. Britain has BOTHAM: described the EU as ‘a corrupt racket’ The former defence secretary said: “I respect their to trade freely with that spirit” authority, but some of them do go back a long way. natural allies in the Botham’s column came Writing in The Sunday communities,” he said. “The most important failure of the analysis is that they Commonwealth. after Work and Pensions Telegraph, Mr Crabb “No-one should be have failed to take into account the decline and failure of And he said the £350m Secretary Stephen Crabb warned of the “self- complacent about the the European economy itself. a week Britain pays the warned quitting the harm” that a vote to potential consequences “With a falling share of world trade, a smaller and less Union in membership EU would cause an leave would cause. for working people and important destination for UK exports, and with chronic fees “staggering”. “economic rupture” Lost jobs and their families if Britain unemployment. If you look at Britain’s unemployment He used a cricket with “disastrous livelihoods take an votes to exit the EU. rate of 5.1%, the European Union averages 8.9%, and the metaphor to back up his consequences for enormous, indelible This is not a theoretical eurozone is 10.3% - that is a failing European economy.” argument. families. toll on families and debate.” Hare and The Hounds Now featuring delicious, traditional handmade pies and pasties from Deli-SA. Chicken curry pasties, Cornish pasties, Steak & Kidney...and much more Teas • Candy • Pastries • Bangers • Meat Pies • Heinz Beans • China Teapots • Tea Cozies • Gifts Quality Imports from the British Isles... 2995 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks. (parking in rear) Open: Mon-Sat. 10.30-5.30 • Sun: 12-6 • Tel: (805) 495-4042 The british Weekly, Sat. April 23, 2016 Page 3 News from Britain William: I’ll avoid politics, just like my granny does... PRINCE William wants to be a non- interventionist monarch like the Queen, rather than one taking up issues like Prince Charles. In an interview to mark his grandmother’s 90th birthday, William admitted he thinks about what sort of King he might be and how to modernise the monarchy. George steals the show at shoot He also defended himself against Prince George is appearing on his first stamp after a secret photo shoot allegations that he is captured the Queen and her three direct heirs to commemorate Her “workshy”. Majesty’s 90th birthday. PRINCE WILLIAM: the future King described the The second-inline As this behind the scenes picture shows, the two-year-old future king had to Queen as ‘probably the best role model I could have.’ said his grandmother stand on blocks to make him the right height for the picture.