News about John Butler

Only 7.9% of Brits diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2014 could live to be five years old. The odds in Australia were almost double at 14.9 percent. It comes as top analysts have warned that Britain is woefully 15 years behind other nations due to a lack of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Thousands of patients are reportedly being refused potentially life-saving medication on the NHS, according to the bleak report. And for patients who did get medical care, they were still waiting, raising the risk of their disease spreading and slashing survival odds.

Elnaugh (right), 59, who appeared in season two of the BBC reality show (inset), purchased a 70-acre plot in Cressbrook Dale, Derbyshire, for £79.99. By erecting a teepee and building a parking garage, she and a group called Phoenix Rose began to expand the site (left). However, the company did not have the required planning permission from the Peak District National Park Authority (PDNPA), and was told to demolish the buildings and return the land to its former state. Park officials have now dismantled the building and delivered the £35,000 bill to Phoenix Rose after failing to reverse the changes in the ensuing weeks.

JANE FRYER: Save Cressbrook Dale, a group of local people with a website and, perhaps, more plastic protest banners than the teen village of Cressbrook, population 135, can properly accommodate. On the other hand, mother-of-five Rachel Elnaugh, 58, a retired Dragon on BBC show Dragons Den and the first female business consultant (until her own business, Red Letter Days, went bankrupt in 2005 and was a little too late to go back to work). Rachel is a devoted anti-vaxxer and 5G conspiracy theorist who once argued that overworked chief medical officer Sir Chris Whitty should be hanged, just like those convicted at the Nuremberg Trials.

On Saturday, beloved Australian/American folk singer John Butler took the spotlight at Bluesfest Melbourne. At the inaugural music festival, which is an offshoot of the famous Byron Bay Bluesfest, the crooner, 48, performed a solo set without his famous trio. Butler, dressed in a striped short-sleeved shirt, pin-stripe tuxedo vest, and blue jeans, was the pinnacle of bohemian style.

According to Mold Crown Court, former soldier John Butler, who departed the army in 2010 after three tours of Iraq, assaulted his mother in the bath and threatened her with a knife. Butler, a baker from Mostyn, North Wales, was found guilty of assaulting Teresa Butler and breaking a door. Butler was given a three-year suspension order excluding him from calling his mother, as well as a prison term, according to the court, but the court ruled that Mrs Butler could petition a judge to have the order dismissed early if it had been delayed.