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GRAZIANO Di Prima has announced he’s returning to the UK with a huge gig after fleeing the country following the Strictly scandal.

He was sacked by Strictly Come Dancing bosses last year when it was claimed he “hit, spat at and kicked” former show partner Zara McDermott.

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The Sun later told how Graziano, 30, had fled the UK to start a new life in Italy with his wife Giada.

But now he’s revealed he’s back in the UK with an exciting new gig.

Graziano took to Instagram to tell fans he’s running a London dance class and urged them to sign up.

He said: “Ciao everyone.

“I’ve finally got beautiful news. April 27, I will be in London at the Dance Attic teaching you two incredible classes.

“I cannot wait to see you all and most of all to dance with you all – we’re going to have fun!”

Following the damning allegations last year, Graziano later admitted to kicking Zara, 28, during rehearsals.

His representative, Mark Borkowski, told PA: “There is never a time when kicking, or any sense of that is right, and he knows that.

“He knows he’s made a mistake. He apologised at the time.”

Revealing Graziano fled the UK after being fired, a source at the time told The Sun: “He is in pieces and filled with remorse. He knows, quite rightly, there is no way back for him in showbiz in the UK. His Strictly dancing career is over.

“He’s fled back home and is living on a farm, earning a pittance, and throwing himself into manual labour.

“He says he is literally living next to some cows- it’s an astonishing fall from grace.”

A BELOVED booze shop has launched huge closing down sale with wine and beer scanning at 50% off.

Milby’s in Chester, which specialises in rare wine and whiskey, announced earlier this week that it would be closing for good.

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In a statement on Facebook, owners explained the store would be closing for good on March 30.

To help shift stock before it closes, it has launched a half price sale on its booze.

The store has stocked a range of premium whiskeys including The Glenlivet and Santis Malt.

It will be a blow to locals in the area who in the past described the shop as a “great shop” and a “hidden gem”.

While another said: “Really good selection of drinks. Great to see local brands too.”

And a fourth said: “Great variety of all Wines, Gins and Whiskey. Proprietor very knowledgeable.”

Its not the first time Chester locals have had to wave goodbye to a store.

High street staple Matalan closed its branch in the area for good back in January. .

The store in Stadium Way near the Greyhound Retail Park shut for good three months ago.

A spokesperson for the clothing and homeware store told The Sun it was closing the shop as the landlord wants to “redevelop the site”.

They added: “Our priority is to support our colleagues and we are working closely with all those affected and where possible offering them alternative positions.”

A Homebase branch in the area also shut as part of mass closures following its administration late last year.

Revolution Bar in Chester also closed last year as part of a major overhaul.

TROUBLE ON THE HIGH STREET

Plenty of other retailers are closing stores across the high street as households lean more towards online shopping and amid high business rates.

Soaring inflation in recent years has also dented shoppers’ pockets.

The Centre for Retail Research’s latest analysis suggests 13,479 stores, the equivalent of 37 each day, shut for good in 2024.

Of those, 11,341 were independent shops while 2,138 were shut by larger retailers.

The data also showed over half the stores that closed last year were shut due to the store or retailer going through insolvency proceedings.

This is when formal measures are taken to deal with tackling a business‘s debt.

Retailers are also shutting stores in 2025.

New Look is ramping up a store closure programme ahead of April’s National Insurance hike.

Approximately a quarter of the retailer’s 364 stores are at risk when their leases expire.

This equates to about 91 stores, with a significant impact on its 8,000-strong workforce.

The company has restructured its store estate twice in the past six years, reducing its portfolio from around 600 UK stores in 2018.

It also closed all of its 26 stores across Ireland, marking the end of a two decade tenure in the country.

DREAM TEAM managers have until 1:30pm on Saturday to select their captain for Gameweek 28.

There are no double headers to target this coming Gameweek so it’s simply a case of identifying the player most likely to cash in this weekend.

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Salah has an excellent record against Newcastle[/caption]

Mohamed Salah (£8m) has been the most popular captain for the last 12 Gameweeks and Liverpool’s main man is set to maintain that status ahead of Sunday’s Carabao Cup final.

The Reds will meet Newcastle at Wembley to determine the first trophy winners of the season.

Salah has racked up 454 points via 32 goals and 22 assists in what will go down as one of the all-time great Dream Team campaigns; clearly he is a strong captaincy option.

Furthermore, he boasts a fantastic record of ten goals and eight assists in 17 games against the Magpies.

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However, cup finals are often cagey affairs and Eddie Howe’s side will do everything in their power to frustrate the Egyptian superstar, who wasn’t at his best in either leg of the Champions League round of 16.

Additionally, Arne Slot is expected to be without Trent Alexander-Arnold at Wembley and it’s the talented right-back who often finds Salah in promising positions with his wide range of passing.

Many Dream Team bosses will be tempted to captain Bruno Fernandes (£6.4m).

Manchester United’s captain is red hot right now having earned a whopping 39 points in Gameweek 27!

The Portuguese midfielder scored a superb free-kick against Arsenal at the weekend before a clutch hat-trick against Real Sociedad on Thursday night to ensure his side’s progression to the Europa League quarter-finals.

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Granted, two of his goals came from the penalty spot but what’s more relevant is that Fernandes is hoarding almost every point available at present.

He must therefore be considered a viable skipper ahead of the Red Devils’ trip to Leicester this weekend.

The Foxes have lost six consecutive games in all competitions, including a 2-1 defeat at Old Trafford in the FA Cup.

Fernandes banked nine points from that encounter but it wouldn’t be a surprise if he notched double digits this time around given he averages 12.6 points-per-game across his last eight outings!

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Manchester City are at home to Brighton and so Erling Haaland (£8.1m) is in the captaincy conversation.

The prolific No9 has scored 28 goals in all competitions this term but the Seagulls are in great form and so this match-up can’t be considered a friendly one – Fabian Hurzeler’s side won the reverse fixture on the south coast.

But if you want to strap the armband to a big centre forward with a favourable fixture this Gameweek then perhaps Chris Wood (£3.9m) fits the bill.

Nottingham Forest’s target man has plundered 18 league goals and he will be hopeful of adding to that tally at Portman Road on Saturday.

Ipswich are 18th in the table having conceded 58 goals, only Southampton and Leicester have shipped more to date.

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A MUM was left with life-changing injuries at the hands of a bungling surgeon who was sacked for botching almost 100 operations.

Angela Glover, 51, was offered a six-figure sum in compensation but now lives in constant pain from irreversible damage inflicted during procedure she didn’t even need.

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Angela underwent surgery she didn’t need after being told she’d dislocated her shoulder[/caption]

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Doctor Mian Munawar Shah, the surgeon who operated on Angela, was later sacked after he botched operations so badly that some patients had the wrong bones removed.

Angela suffered a muscle tear in her shoulder after a fall at work in 2018 but was incorrectly told by Mr Shah that she had dislocated it.

The mum-of-one was subjected to three operations at Walsall Manor Hospital at the hands of the disgraced surgeon, where he chipped away at her bone and installed metal bolts into her shoulder.

But the series of procedures left her in constant “excruciating pain”, unable to move her right arm and feel her thumb.

A further CT scan in 2020 revealed the surgeon had bolted down the shoulder bone in the wrong place.

Angela, who works at the same hospital, reported Mr Shah before an internal investigation found he’d botched a total of 91 operations.

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust has since apologised to the patients after a report found Mr Shah did not have the “necessary” competencies to carry out the treatment.

Angela, who lives with partner Simon Roberts, a delivery driver, said: “He told me I had partial shoulder dislocation after I saw him over pain in my shoulder after a fall.

“I work in the scan rooms and a lady slipped out of the wheelchair onto the floor. She pulled onto my shoulder and caused a muscle tear. I had physio but it didn’t get better.

“I went and saw this consultant Dr Shah and he said I needed some pins putting in.

“Off we went and had the surgery and then two or three weeks later I was back in A&E. I was on lots of medication and painkillers because it was that painful. Long story short it didn’t feel right.

“After a while I had a mental breakdown, nothing was working. We did a CT scan and found that he had bolted the shoulder bone down and done the bolts in the wrong place.

“I had lost all feeling in my thumb. I went to the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham and they said I hadn’t got a shoulder dislocation so what he’d done wasn’t needed.

“They took all the metal out in a series of operations.”

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An X-ray of Angela’s shoulder – Mr Shah installed metal bolts in her shoulder[/caption]

After logging a complaint to the hospital Angela began a lengthy legal battle with the trust – which eventually awarded her a six-figure settlement.

But due to Mr Shah’s work, Angela says she can’t hold her new granddaughter due to weakness and general day-to-day tasks are virtually impossible.

Angela, who has worked at the hospital since early 2018, said: “I struggle with tasks, opening jars, getting out of the bath, I don’t go to the gym anymore. I can’t ride my bike.

“Birmingham have operated after Mr Shah but they can’t keep operating as I’ll have no bone left.

“They said if I’d had persistent physio and no surgery that I would’ve made a full recovery in six months. He’s taken so much away from me.

“He basically didn’t have any competence in the work he was doing, he wasn’t trained in the Latarjet [a surgical technique to treat shoulder dislocations]. I think he was an orthopaedic consultant.

“It’s like a rollercoaster, I live with the pain on a daily basis. I’m on medication for it. I live with it, it’s been so long I put up with it.

“I’ve got a new granddaughter and I can’t hold her, she’s 13 months old. I can’t hold for her some time because of the pain. It’s caused nerve damage too.

“I have to have a chair to support my back and my neck, I have an up and down desk, I can’t move beds and any of the physical stuff because my shoulder won’t allow me.

“I’m trapped, I can’t forward my hospital skills in the workplace now.”

Damning report

An internal review was carried out and discovered that Mr Shah had actually injured 91 patients in total during wrist and shoulder examinations.

A Trust report that was released this week raised concerns over his “technical competence” to complete operations, saying it was the “most significant area of concern” relating to his practice.

The report added: “It was the area of concern that was by far most likely to be assessed as having contributed to having caused direct patient harm.”

It found Mr Shah was originally undertaking the duties of a more “general” trauma and orthopaedic consultant.

However, he moved into more specialist and more complex upper limb surgery without having developed the necessary abilities.

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Angela added: “We’ve been to hell and back, it’s been a nightmare injury. The trust solicitors wanted an independent expert to assess my shoulder.

“We’ve been to 36 private experts all over the country, for physio and psychiatrists.

“He’s fused the wrong bones before and took the wrong bones out.

“I want people to know, why shouldn’t people know what he’s done? I don’t care if I work for the trust.

“There’s loads of us that have had something done by him.

“He was reassuring and very polite, I had no doubts whatsoever. It wasn’t until I started to dig deep that I realised something was on.

“They offered me an injustice payment of £10,000 initially.

“But I don’t care about my six figure sum – I want to see him in a court room.”

ROYAL fans have been left amazed at the striking resemblance between Prince Harry and his rarely-seen first cousin Louis Spencer.

Louis, whose title is Viscount Althorp, turns 31 today and largely shuns the spotlight.

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Louis is the son of Princess Diana’s brother Charles, the 9th Earl Spencer, and his first wife, Victoria Lockwood – and has three glamorous older sisters, Lady Kitty, 34, and twins Lady Eliza and Lady Amelia, 32.

This makes him Princess Diana’s nephew and a cousin of Prince William, 42, and Prince Harry, 40.

Due to his fair hair and Spencer features, he’s even been given the nickname “Harry Lite” in the past. 

One of his first major appearances came at the 2011 wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton when he was 17 years old.

Meanwhile, at Prince Harry’s 2018 nuptials to Meghan Markle he also turned heads and is said to have received numerous marriage proposals from smitten fans.

In 2019, he was named one of Britain’s most eligible bachelors by Tatler, who called him “tall, debonair and very handsome.”

He is expected to later inherit his father’s title and will become the 10th Earl Spencer, a British peerage title dating back to 1765.

He is also set to get the Spencer family home, the Althorp Estate, which is estimated to be worth a staggering £100m.

It comes with 13,000 acres of land and a treasure trove of art and historical artifacts.

The Grade I listed Georgian mansion has been in the Spencer family for over 500 years and boasts 90 rooms and 28-listed buildings.

Despite being the youngest of the Spencer kids, Louis is first in line for the estate due to the traditional primogeniture system, which favours male heirs.

Elder sister Kitty spoke about the tradition to Town & Country, saying: “Primogeniture can be a tricky topic because, as times are changing, so are attitudes. 

“We’ve grown up understanding that it’s Louis who will inherit, and Louis will do an incredible job.”

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The spectacular country estate is also the final resting place of Princess Diana, whose grave is nestled on an island in the beautiful Oval Lake.

While his three stylish sisters have modelled for magazine covers and run charity events, Louis is said to be “super private.”

Following the huge amount of exposure which came with Princess Diana’s marriage and separation to the now-King Charles, the Spencer family relocated to Cape Town in 1995.

After attending the £13,955 a year Diocesan College, he came back to the UK to attend the University of Edinburgh, before pursuing acting at the ArtsEd drama school in Chiswick.

He now performs under the stage name Louis John Lyons and is even managed by the same talent agency – Tavistock Wood – who represent Lily James and Dominic West.

Louis is said to be close to his family and walked his eldest sister Kitty down the aisle at her extravagant Italian wedding, with Charles Spencer controversially not attending.

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