内容摘要："I've been on half term, so I don't know how they're going to react when I see them," he said.

"I've been on half term, so I don't know how they're going to react when I see them," he said.

He said he would like the minister to "sit down properly with our representatives and have a discussion about the needs that general practice has and respect those needs rather than just dismiss us".In a statement, the department said it was "a matter of regret" it had not been able to reach agreement in relation to the 2025/26 GMS (General Medical Services) contract.

It said the minister stated on 19 May that "he remains open to discussion as to how best to secure the future of general practice."The £9.5m associated with the 2025/26 GMS contract represents additional investment in core GP services, with no 'strings' attached in terms of additional workload, or no requirement for additional patient consultations," it said."Total investment in GP services this year will be more than £414m.

"Given the extreme budgetary challenges facing the department, however, the minister has made clear to the BMA that the £9.5m contract offer, which will provide support directly to GP practices in Northern Ireland, was the best and final offer for 2025/26."It added: "The department and minister remain committed to the principle that GP services should remain free to all patients at the point of access and do not agree that the privatisation is the way forward for GPs."

A collection of paintings by renowned artist Barrington Tabb are going under the hammer.

Tabb, from South Gloucestershire and who past away in 2022, had a distinctive style due to an eye condition that causing blurring of his central vision.The title of her autobiography, due out in September, is synonymous with her most famous character - Stacey Shipman - but Page believes Lush also sums up her own personality.

She admits to crying "constantly" throughout filming of the final episode last year, then while watching with with her own family on Christmas Day and then being left a "wreck" after watching the documentary that followed."I'm just such a sentimental and emotional person anyway. My emotions are always so much on the surface that it got to the second day [of filming], I mean we were only on day two, I just started crying," she said.

"There was so much joy and so much laughter because we all knew this will be the last time that we're here, playing these characters in these costumes, all together, doing this story."You think about how far all our lives have gone. I started it when I was 29, and for something to be there in the background for the whole of your life.