It's my birthday today, but my mummy's a Taliban prisoner.
CELEBRATIONS for the birthday today of Daisy Ridley - whose journalist mother Yvonne is being held prisoner in Afghanistan - have been postponed until she safely returns home, the family has said.Ms Ridley, 43, a former deputy editor at the Echo's sister paper Wales on Sunday, was arrested by the Taliban early last Friday when she was discovered in Afghanistan reportedly wearing local dress and without papers.
Her daughter Daisy, who is nine today, has written to the Prime Minister asking him to intervene, and the British High Commissioner to Pakistan Hilary Synnott met Taliban representative Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef in the Pakistan capital Islamabad.
Daisy is to spend the day at her Lake District boarding school, Yvonne's mother Joyce Ridley said.
The 74-year-old grandmother, of West Pelton, County Durham said: "When Yvonne comes home Daisy will have her official birthday.
"We will have a big party then. The school thinks she should just have a normal day - perhaps she can open a few presents tonight."
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BIRTHDAY GIRL Daisy Ridley, nine years old today, anxiously awaits news of her mother's release.
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| Publication: | South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales) |
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| Date: | Oct 3, 2001 |
| Words: | 182 |
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