Pictured: M1 hero driver who died while trying to help man who jumped to his death off bridge

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This is the first picture of the Good Samaritan driver who was tragically killed after he pulled over to try and help a man who jumped to his death from a motorway bridge.culled from Mirror

Grandfather Spencer Bell, 71, was today described as “the most loving, funny and generous person, by his devastated family after he stopped on the M1 to help 67-year-old Alan Tretheway.
Mr Bell, from Bushey, Hertfordshire, stopped at Bucknalls Bridge near Watford at 10.45am yesterday to help Mr Trethewey, but was then hit by another car.
Paying tribute to him, his family said: “Spencer was the most loving, funny and generous person. Everyone who knew him loved his quick wit and kindness.
“We cannot imagine life without him, he always had a smile on his face and loved life.”
His family said: “Knowing he died in such a selfless way is no comfort.
“But we would not have expected anything else of him. He loved and was loved dearly, by his wife Wendy, his three children, sons in laws, seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren.”
Mr Trethewey’s family have told police they want privacy as they come to terms with his death.
Paramedics and an air ambulance were called to the scene yesterday morning, but both were declared dead at hospital.
Eye-witnesses said Mr Trethewey had been standing on a parapet on the bridge before jumping to his death.

A woman travelling in a coach described the moment the traffic came to a sudden halt.

Rebecca Martin, who was travelling northbound on a Megabus, said: “We came to a screeching halt and it sounded like a car accident had happened in front of us or something. We then found out a man had jumped from the bridge in front of us.

“We were just three or four cars behind it. Then another car stopped and a man got out to help and was hit by another car. An air ambulance came and took both of the men away.”

She added: “It was quite worrying when we came to a halt and it was quite close to being a massive accident. It is really bad that it’s happened and that someone who was trying to help got run over is just awful.”

Police and ambulance services were called to the scene at around 10.50am after receiving calls of “concern for the welfare of two people.”

Both carriageways of the M1 between Junction 6 at Watford and 5 for Bricket Wood were closed when police and ambulance staff arrived at the scene.

The southbound carriageway was reopened but the northbound carriageway remained closed until 3.30pm.

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‘I love Kerry Washington, she’s amazing’: Michelle Obama admits to binge-watching Scandal during her last vacation

Even First Ladies have guilty pleasures, and Michelle Obama has one of her very own: watching Scandal.
In a radio interview on Thursday, the 50-year-old told Ryan Seacrest that she just started watching the political thriller starring Kerry Washington during her last vacation.
‘You know what, I hadn’t watched it until this past vacation — and we went to Hawaii so I had a long flight — so I watched all the seasons,’ she said. ‘I caught up on Scandal.’
So far, ABC has released three seasons of the show, in which Ms Washington plays Olivia Pope, a political fixer who has an ongoing affair with the President.
 Undeterred by a storyline based loosely on her own surroundings, Ms Obama said she loves the White House drama, especially because of Ms Washington’s performance.

‘I love Kerry Washington. She is amazing, so it makes the show fun,’ the First Lady told Mr Seacrest. ‘It really does – it was fun to watch.’

Ms Obama’s revealtion comes more than a year after the National Enquirer reported that the First Lady had banned Ms Washington from the White House because she was ‘too flirty’ with the President.

The First Lady was said to have had a ‘watch list’ of women that were to be kept away from her husband, including Ms Washington — despite her honorary post on the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. 

A White House official told MailOnline that the story is ‘100 per cent false,’ adding that Ms Washington is a keen Democrat and campaigned for Obama in the 2008 president race.

Boy, six, suspended from school for four days after breaking school lunch policy

A six-year-old boy who went to school with a bag of Mini Cheddars in his packed lunch has been suspended for four days after teachers said it contravened its healthy eating policy.
Riley Pearson, from Colnbrook, near Slough, was excluded from Colnbrook C of E Primary School after teachers discovered the snack and called in his parents.
After a meeting with headmaster Jeremy Meek, they were sent a letter telling them Riley would be excluded from Wednesday until Monday because he had been ‘continuously breaking school rules’.
The school, which was placed in special measures after Ofsted inspectors deemed it ‘inadequate’ in 2012, introduced a healthy eating policy at the start of term.
A letter was sent to parents saying that from 14 January, packed lunches should be ‘healthy and balanced’.
Parents were told: ‘Chocolate, sweets, crisps and fizzy drinks are not allowed.
‘If your child’s lunchbox is unhealthy and unbalanced they will be provided with a school lunch for which you will be charged.’

Today Riley’s mother, airport shuttle worker Natalie Mardle, 24, said: ‘We just do not see how they have the right to tell us what we can feed our son.
‘If anything, Riley is underweight and could do with putting on a few pounds.’
Miss Mardle, who is expecting her fourth child, added: ‘Having a balanced diet also includes eating some carbohydrates, sugars and fats.

‘It is not about excluding some foods, it is about getting the mix right.’

Riley’s lunchbox usually contains a sandwich, yoghurt tube, Dairylea Dunkers cheese spread snack, and a packet of Mini Cheddars, with water to drink.

His mother, who lives with his father, airport worker Tom Pearson, said the 3ft 9ins tall schoolboy who weighs 3st 2lbs, eats home-cooked meals and plenty of fruit and vegetables at home.

Miss Mardle said: ‘I would understand the exclusion if he was constantly throwing tables around or bullying other children, but it is just ridiculous for a packet of Mini Cheddars.

‘Surely the headteacher has better things to do with his time than search lunchboxes?’

Riley’s parents, who both work at nearby Heathrow Airport, will be attending a meeting with the head on Tuesday to learn whether their son can return to the 290-pupil school.

Headteacher Mr Meek said the school had one family who ‘do not agree with the policy.’

He said: ‘We have had a wonderful response and the parents and children are on board and pleased with the way the policy has been impacted on our pupils.

‘We cannot talk about individual circumstances, but there is one family who are not prepared to support the policy.

‘We are in discussions with them about how we move it forward. We have excluded [the pupil] for four days due to lack of support for the policy.

‘It is to avoid putting the children in a difficult situation. If the policy is not being abided by, then that potentially harms that pupil.’

Immigration clamps down on alleged baby factory in Ondo

 The Ondo State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Services has raided a house allegedly used as a baby factory in Ilutitun, Okitipupa Local Government Area, arresting 24 persons.

The suspects included a 66-year-old man, Mr. Aliu Ojo, who claimed to be a retired Assistant Commissioner of Police and the alleged leader of the factory, Mrs. Happiness Ogundeji (aka Mama Pota) aged 45.

They were paraded on Wednesday at the state headquarters of the service.

Five ladies at different stages of pregnancy and eight men, some claiming to be husbands of the women, were also brought to the headquarters.

Parading the suspects, the Comptroller of NIS, Ondo State, Mr.Musa Al-Hassan, said the raid on the house and the arrest of the suspects were sequel to a tip-off from the Comptroller General of the NIS, who directed the command to work on a circular that emanated from Calabar, Cross River State.

Al-Hassan said when he received the circular, which pointed out that searchlight should be beamed on Imo and Ondo states in search of perpetrators of human trafficking and baby factories, he instructed the Head of Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Labour Section of the command, Mrs. Abiola Obisesan, to swing into action.

He said the efforts of the command paid off after several months of surveillance with the discovery of two flats being used for the illegal operation at Ilutitun.

According to the Comptroller, leader of the syndicate, who had another branch at Ore, in Odigbo Local Government, relocated to Ilutitun, Ondo State from Port-Harcourt, where she had been doing the illegal business.

He stated that the woman had been doing the business in conjunction with a Cameroonian, adding that the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Person had requested that the arrested people be brought to Lagos.

Al-Hassan attributed the success of the operation to the collaboration among security agencies in the state, noting that the operation was carried out by men from the NIS, the police and the army.

Obisesan, explained that the suspects resisted arrest and insisted that the service must get a warrant of arrest.

She added that the woman wanted to escape through a ladder that was placed on the fence.

She said , “The house was stocked with foodstuff like tubers of yam, rice, garri while the place was littered with used baby care products and other instruments allegedly being used for child delivery.

Ogundeji, however, insisted that the house was not a baby factory, but a herbal clinic. She admitted that she was once invited by the police over the arrest of a Cameroonian, who was accused of stealing a baby, but said the suspect had been released after she was investigated.

“I don’t know my offence. I am a business woman. I am operating a natural herbal clinic. I was in my clinic when the people came to arrest me along with other occupants of the house. Some of the people that were arrested are my visitors,” she said.

She added that she had once lived in Port-Harcourt, but relocated to Ilutitun when her former husband, Okeke, died and she remarried to Abiodun Ogundeji.

Ojo, on his part, claimed that he had retired from the Police since 2000 as Assistant Commissioner  of Police after serving in Imo State and was only on a visit to his sister who heads the place.

Blessing Anike, 21, one of the ladies paraded by the NIS, was seen holding a two-week old baby. She said she was brought to the house by her husband, Godswill, who told her that the woman was a doctor.

The new mother added that she was a hairdressing apprentice before she was impregnated.

Pregnant 20-year-old Chinazo Miracle from Imo State said she was brought to the house for treatment.

It was later learnt that the suspects had been moved to Lagos  in line with the request from NAPTIP.

Source: Punch