CAR VICTIM IS CARPETED.Byline: PAUL BYRNE Paul Byrne, born in Dublin on 19 May 1986, is a footballer, currently playing with Eircom League side UCD. University College Dublin A.F.C. (current squad) DF Bermingham • MF C. A PREGNANT woman has torn a strip off the police for allegedly being more interested in her wallpapering than the speeding driver who nearly ran her over. Mary Mary, the mother of Jesus Mary, in the Bible, mother of Jesus. Christian tradition reckons her the principal saint, naming her variously the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady, and Mother of God (Gr., theotokos). Her name is the Hebrew Miriam. Cooke dialled 999 after nearly being knocked down outside her home. But she claims that instead of trying to find the driver who nearly killed her, a female officer noted the condition of her home and alerted the local council. Mrs Cooke, 27, who is 10 weeks' pregnant with her first child, said she and husband Peter were wallpapering when police arrived. So she was stunned stun tr.v. stunned, stun·ning, stuns 1. To daze or render senseless, by or as if by a blow. 2. To overwhelm or daze with a loud noise. 3. when a letter from the local council''s children services department arrived, saying she had been reported to them. Mrs Cooke said: "The letter made me feel sick. Someone was judging me for decorating the house and I can't believe it. I'm in the first stages of pregnancy. I'd never dream of bringing a child home to a house being decorated dec·o·rate tr.v. dec·o·rat·ed, dec·o·rat·ing, dec·o·rates 1. To furnish, provide, or adorn with something ornamental; embellish. 2. ." Mrs Cooke said the officer spent five minutes in the hallway and living room of her semi-detached home in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs, to take the statement, and she would have seen the stripped walls and floors. A spokesman for Staffordshire Police Staffordshire Police is the Home Office police force responsible for policing Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent in the West Midlands of England. It is made up of four territorial Divisions; Stoke-on-Trent, North Staffs., Chase and Trent Valley. said yesterday: "Our police officers aim to act in the best interests of everyone they come into contact with." CAPTION(S): HOME Cooke's town Newcastle-under-Lyme |
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