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Lily Hua Yu
Princess Diana
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I AM pretty sure the conspiracy theory that Princess Diana was
pregnant before she died is wrong.
I haven’t carried out any investigations in Paris, I haven’t
even been following the Lady Di story all that much.
But, by accident, I think I may have stumbled on the truth about
whether she was pregnant at the time of the tragic crash in the
Paris tunnel.
The rumours have been around for sometime but they recently re-surfaced
after the national press claimed that a new investigation revealed
that she had been embalmed on the orders of the British authorities
to prevent tests which could have confirmed whether or not she was
carrying her lover Dodi Fayed’s child.
And what is my source? Incredibly enough, my local acupuncturist
Dr Lily Hua Yu.
I was in the middle of treatment when somehow talk veered to the
latest rumours about Lady Di – and then Dr Yu staggered me
with her story about Lady Di.
“Of course, she wasn’t pregnant at the time” she
told me.
How did she know?
Because Dr Yu told me she was treating Lady Di a week before she
died in the crash in the Paris underpass.
Dr Yu then told me she used to treat Lady Di twice a week at the
AcuMedic Centre in Camden High Street, Camden Town.
She attended for a session of acupuncture a week before the fatal
crash, polite, smiling and cheerful as usual.
“Lady Di was very interested in Chinese medicine. She came
twice a week for acupuncture and herbal treatment. I checked her
pulse and tongue, as usual, and if she had been pregnant at the
time I would have been able to tell. I also asked her a few questions
in that terrible week and she said she was on her period.”
Rumours about the tragic princess have persisted because the Royals
refused to allow her body to be exhumed thus blocking any investigation
of her condition at the time of the tragedy.
“Diana was a beautiful person inside and outside,” Dr
Yu told me.
“I have never met anyone with such a good and genuine heart.
“She treated everyone equally. I think it was such a big loss
for the country – she was a wonderful symbol for England and
the whole world loved her.”
The dame’s parting shot?
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SHE will tell you that it wasn’t a parting shot at the
top brass in Camden’s Labour Party but it certainly sounded
like one to me.
Leader Dame Jane Roberts (pictured), who stepped down on Monday
after six years in charge, fired off a provocative email to members
on Sunday in which she suggested that her successor should chose
their own ‘cabinet’.
Rather than staging internal elections, Dame Jane told colleagues
she thought the leader should have more of a say over who got
the key jobs at the Town Hall.
She wrote: “Now that I cannot possibly be seen as having
any axe to grind, I’d like to raise an issue that group and
future group members might ponder – and yes, I know that
some will be outraged at the suggestion but… I think that
in order for the leader/cabinet model to work as effectively as
possible, the leader should be able to decide who is on the Executive.”
Of course, Dame Jane insists, the suggestion should not be taken
that she had faced problems with any troublesome cabinet colleagues
over the years.
“I stress that this is not at all because I found the current
Executive problematic – quite the reverse,” she insisted.
“But because I do think that in principle, the leader should
have some influence on the make-up of the Executive for the more
effective running of the council.”
The idea didn’t impress her successor, Councillor Raj Chada
who told me he would not be spending any time or money researching
the idea. He said: “I’d prefer to focus on things that
will make a difference to the public services we provide.”
On yer bike, Jonny
AMIABLE Conservative councillor Jonny Bucknell (pictured) sparked
a security panic at the party’s annual conference in Blackpool
on Tuesday.
He left his push bike chained up outside the conference to see David
Davies, his preferred choice to lead the party, and chat with members
about his chances of victory.
But when he returned: No bike. Police had removed it and taken it
to a nearby station for an examination. Jonny said: “ I hadn’t
a clue where it was. I had to walk three miles back to my hotel.
It turned out the police had taken it away to a police station.”
Transport expert Christian Wolmar, who lives in West Hampstead and
who was speaking at a fringe meeting, might have advised Jonny to
take a tram for the conference.
I spoke to Mr Wolmar as he alighted from one in the seaside town
and he told me that although they could do with a lick of paint,
he would love to see a similar system operating in Camden.
Patricia’s eye on the private sector
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HOW machiavellian can health secretary Patricia Hewitt get?
I have discovered that while it is planned that more and more
NHS patients are being lined up for cataract operations in private
medical centres – known as Independent Treatment Centres
– fewer and fewer posts are being earmarked to train junior
eye doctors at hospitals.
It’s commonsense that the rundown of these posts will force
Trusts to funnel more patients towards the welcoming doors of
private centres.
Training for junior eye doctors is partly funded by a central
overseeing body known as the Deanery which is funded, in turn,
by central government. Now, the Deanery’s funds have been
severely cut by Whitehall, forcing it to reduce posts for young
doctors.
In 2007 training posts in eye clinics in Britain are likely to
be savagely cut from 400 to 200, according to a scheme proposed
by the Department of Health. Inevitably, this will encourage hospital
managers to pack off patients to the ITCs.
The DoH say it is trying to streamline training or, in management-speak,
Modernising Medical Careers.
Seduced by her big idea to shift NHS resources into the private
sector, Patricia Hewitt says it will only swallow up one per cent
of the NHS budget.
But playing with percentages cannot hide the fact that she is
acting as a recruitment sergeant for private companies.
Moss on form
LAST week I told you about former Camden mayor Ramen Bhattacharya’s
brush with security at the Labour Party conference in Brighton as
he heckled Prime Minister Tony Blair.
But it seems he was not the only Hampstead and Highgate member who
had a problem with the guards. Delegate Bernie Moss (pictured) was
caught up in mountains of forms and told he could not pass through
the security barriers. He told me afterwards that MP Glenda Jackson
turned out to be his saviour at the front door. “She told them
that she wanted her constituency represented at the conference and
helped me out,” said Mr Moss.
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