内容摘要：Mr Durrant received two WW2 campaign medals as well as the Burma Star medal for his time serving.

Mr Durrant received two WW2 campaign medals as well as the Burma Star medal for his time serving.

On the eve of this year's party conference in Birmingham, she made headlines with a claim that not all cultures were "equally valid", citing as an example "cultures where women are told that they should not work".She also got attention in Birmingham for quipping that 5-10% of civil servants were so bad they should be in prison. She has previously strongly denied bullying officials.

But she backtracked after an interview in which shethe current level of maternity pay was "excessive". She claimed her words had been "misrepresented", saying she had been talking about excessive business regulation and maternity pay was "a good thing".In 2018, Badenoch admitted that, a decade earlier, she had hacked into the website of then-Commons leader and deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman as a prank. Harman accepted her apology.

Among public spats, in February, she accused the Post Office chair she had sacked of seeking "revenge" by "making up" claims he been told to delay compensation payments for sub-postmasters affected by the Horizon IT scandal.Henry Staunton said he had been told to stall pay-outs to allow the government to "limp into the election", apparently to ease the public finances.

Nor has Badenoch shied away from public clashes with MPs on her own side - including when she rejected calls to make it illegal to discriminate against people going through the menopause.

Appearing before a Commons committee, she told chair Caroline Nokes "loads of people" wanted to use equalities law as "a tool for different personal agendas and interests".Jayne Hunt, 55, from Melksham, Wiltshire, was riding her horse Moomin down Bollards Hill near Seend on 9 July 2023. Police said she was apparently startled by a motorcycle near a blind bend.

David Ridley, HM Senior Coroner for Wiltshire and Swindon, made the decision to refer the case to the CPS over inconsistencies in evidence.A two-day inquest at the coroner's court was due to begin on Wednesday.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s decision to scrap planned changes to the care system in England has been described as a "tragedy" by Sir Andrew Dilnot, the man who authored the proposals in 2011.Speaking to the BBC's Today programme, Sir Andrew said: "We've failed another generation of families."