The mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has said the Conservative Party has 'forfeited the right to govern' and it's 'very hard to see how' Prime Minister Liz Truss will survive.
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A Manchester aid worker captured in Ukraine sent a message to his two daughters telling them 'I love you so much' before he tragically died - and it's now been delivered to them in person by a freed hostage he was held and tortured with, reports the Sunday Mirror.
Paul Urey, 45, from Manchester, was captured along with another worker, 22-year-old Dylan Healy, on April 25 at a checkpoint south of the city of Zaporizhzhia in south-eastern Ukraine. Mr Urey later died in captivity.
Mr Healy, reveals the Sunday Mirror, told Mr Urey's grieving daughters, sisters Courtney and Chelsea: "Your dad loved you and thought about you every day." He has told how he and Mr Urey endured a mock execution and were relentlessly tortured by Russian troops.
The aid workers were ambushed during an aid mission in Ukraine, ordered out of their cars and forced to kneel by the roadside, Mr Healy said. One soldier cocked his gun - and he said he feared the worst. But it was a sick hoax as the man fired a shot into the ground between them before they were both bundled off to a prison, reports the Sunday Mirror.
After their ordeal, the pair vowed to each other that if the worst ever did happen to one of them, the other would contact their family. And after father-of-four Paul, 45, later died in captivity, Mr Healy kept that pledge during an emotional meeting with his pal's daughters Courtney, 17, and Chelsea, 21.
The human rights ombudsperson for the Moscow-supported leadership in Donetsk has previously said Mr Urey died in July of chronic illnesses and stress. He had Type 1 diabetes as well as a heart condition.
Contrary to reports, Mr Healy said he was at least able to tell Courtney and Chelsea the Russians did give their father medication. He
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