Mark Andrews: Disgrace of Letby hospital's PR campaign and Edinburgh Fringe in a nutshell

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While police investigated the murders of seven children at the hands of Lucy Letby, the hospital which employed her spent £325,000 on public relations consultants to mitigate the damage to its image.

Says it all, doesn't it? This was over a period from 2019 to 2023, so while the NHS grappled with the coronavirus, the Countess of Chester Hospital was blowing the budget on its media profile.

There will now be an utterly useless public inquiry into the Letby affair, which will rumble on for years and tell us 'lessons will be learned'.Each to their own. Stacey Jackson, 34, and Carl Jones, 42, have been banned from the centre of Walsall because of their bizarre penchant for urinating in public.Carl was the more prolific, managing six offences in the space of three months, while Stacey took it a bit steadier, getting on the scoresheet four times between January and May.

One wonders whether Walsall Council is missing a trick though, when it could instead seize the opportunity to jump on the inclusiveness and diversity bandwagon. Wouldn't it be a great metaphor for 21st century Britain if Walsall declared itself as the town that provides a warm welcome to people who enjoy peeing in public?The Edinburgh Fringe festival in brief: Father Ted creator Graham Linehan had to perform on a makeshift stage in the street, because the normal venues banned him for not being woke.

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