Over the past few weeks a group of Cedars students have been taking part in the lessons from Auschwitz programme run by the Holocaust Education Trust.

The first part of the programme involved attending a seminar where they learned about pre-war Jewish life, and also heard the account of a Holocaust survivor. Leslie had been removed from his home aged 14, forced into a ghetto, and was later taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

He was separated from his family who later perished. The story of his survival was both shocking and inspiring; he truly showed the strength of human endurance in the face of extreme cruelty. He gave a message of hope in overcoming adversity.

The following week four students flew to Poland for the day, where their visit consisted of three parts. Firstly, they visited the town of Oswiecim, which prior to the Second World War had a 58% Jewish population, however today has no Jewish citizens. This helped them associate the horrors of the Holocaust with real people and the deep personal impact it had.

From there they went to Auschwitz- Birkenau where they had a guided tour. They saw possessions that prisoners had taken with them, such as shoes, pots and bags. What they saw represented only a fraction of the prisoners who perished, but the sheer number of them gave them an indication of the huge, unthinkable scale of the genocide.

They were also taken through the only surviving gas chamber and crematorium. Standing in a building where hundreds of people were murdered was a strange and unsettling experience however it allowed the students to think of the true human cost of the Holocaust.

They visited the prisoners’ living and sleeping facilities at Birkenau and the deprivation and sparseness of them was shocking. To the students it seemed as if the prisoners were being kept and herded as animals, and it was impossible to imagine how anyone was able to survive these conditions.

One of the most profound sites visited was the ramp at the end of the railway that took prisoners to the camp. For the majority of them it was the end of the line physically, metaphorically and spiritually. Many went straight from the ramp to the gas chambers and some were shot before they even made it that far.

It was where families were separated and was the final time they would see their loved ones. This was an emotional part of the day as the students thought of all the families who, as they were unloaded from the ramp were separated, removing possibly the final shred of their previous lives, and realising there was nothing they could do.

After this students visited an exhibition of photographs of Jewish people before the Holocaust, helping them to remember that these were real people, real lives, that had been destroyed. By treating the prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau like animals, the Nazis had dehumanised them.

One of the aims of the Holocaust Education Trust is to re-humanize the victims, and for people to remember the individual tragedies of the Holocaust. At the end of the day students took part in a memorial service led by a Rabbi who had travelled with them. This time allowed them to contemplate what they had seen and learned.

At the final seminar of the programme the students reflected on their experiences and discussed what they would do next.

There was huge emphasis on relating the Holocaust to current issues such as intolerance, prejudice, bullying and standing by and allowing cruelty to happen. Students’ ideas for the future include teaching what they have learned in classrooms and creating projects that the whole school can get involved in.

They also want to relate it to important world-wide issues, perhaps combining it with Amnesty International.

Overall the programme was important for the students: It forced us to see the evidence of what intolerance and prejudice can result in. Whilst not always an easy or enjoyable experience, it has given us a valuable opportunity to learn from the past and we are looking forward to taking what we have learnt back to Cedars and sharing our knowledge, in hope that we can create a more tolerant, united community so atrocities such as the Holocaust are never repeated.

(Report from Cara Darroch, Hannah Young, Heather Frost, Rachel Garratt)

The Clark Howes Group in conjuction with Osborne, Morris and Morgan Solicitors are holding a Leighton Buzzard Business Briefing and Networking tomorrow (June 5).

It takes place between 10am and 12noon at Mentmore Golf Club.

A spokesman for the Clark Howes Group said: “We would be delighted if firms could join us at the newest business briefing and networking event in Leighton Buzzard, designed to bring together local businesses in the surrounding areas for an informative and topical business update with the opportunity to network with like-minded professionals.”

Book your place by emailing amyh@clarkhowes.com. There’s a booking fee of £5 (payable on the door).

Tea, coffee and refreshments will be provided.

Speakers are Yvonne Hardiman, HR Consultant who will speak on ‘Gaining a competitive edge through Performance Management’, and Rachael Tarbox, Cygnit who will talk about ‘Modern IT Solutions’.

“Things like this don’t happen in neighbourhoods like ours…”

Welcome to a tale of crime and punishment, a sort of Hunger Games for adults where in a near future the government of the USA has decreed that each year on one day all crime is permitted for a 12-hour period.

Called The Purge, this session of approved anarchy where there are no laws and no emergency services is designed as a release which allows people to channel their murderous dark side and attack whoever they want.

This means that no one is safe and masked gangs roam the streets killing anyone they come across.

Unless you’re lucky enough to afford a full home security system like James Sandin (Ethan Hawke) – who has got rich selling such home defence packages – you’d better hide somewhere or find a weapon with which to protect yourself.

The Purge’s concept is a strong one, if hopefully a little far- fetched, and director James DeMonaco has a lot of fun putting Sandrin and his family – wife Mary (Lena Headey), young son Charlie (Max Burkholder) and teen daughter Zoey (Adelaide Kane) – through a night of hell.

The family think they are safe in their high-tech protected luxury home but when Charlie lets a desperate homeless man (Edwin ‘All The Boys Love Mandy Lane’ Hodge) take sanctuary within their walls, it draws the attention of a group of masked lunatics led by a chilling, polite and ruthless rich kid psycho (Rhys Wakefield).

The violence, when it comes – and it does – is seriously brutal, pushing the limits of a 15 rated movie. There is some wry social commentary at work here, too, which lifts The Purge from just being another nasty low budget effort and adds enough dystopian ‘what would you do?’ dilemma to keep you busy discussing it afterwards.

Everything is well put together and boosted by some nifty additions such as a first-person feed from a freaky radio controlled unit – a one red-eyed doll on tank tracks built by Charlie.

The cast goes about its bloody business with gusto and all are good even if Wakeman steals the show with his icy baddy.

If you can stand the violent content, then The Purge is a strong dark thriller with an interesting premise and decent scares.

The notion of a society with no law, even if it is only for a brief period, is actually is actually a sight more terrifying than any ghosts and ghouls efforts you might see this year.

So, here’s the proof, if any were needed: mobile phones are making us dimmer by the day, and it won’t be long before they take over the world.

The tipping point for me came when I was reading about a sharp rise in pedestrian injuries caused, it would seem, by people so attached to their hand-held communication devices that they’re just not looking where they are going.

They might be texting, they might be surfing the net, they might be engaged in a game or a conversation, but whichever way you look at it those are not practices which should be pursued when you are propelling yourself along a crowded pavement.

All it needs is for you to encounter some other distracted phone addict coming the other way and you’ve got an accident on your hands.

You could call it the modern equivalent of walking into a lamp post or slipping on a banana skin but let’s face it, there are very few banana skins littering our thoroughfares these days and lamp posts and other items of street furniture, while undoubtedly not the sort of thing you want to come into contact with at speed, at least play the game and don’t jump out at you.

With mobile phones, the clue is in the name – everyone’s got one, and everyone’s on the move.

Cue cracked heads, fall injuries and all sorts down at your local A&E.

Now here’s where the human race, with a decent track record in modifying its behaviour when it results in pain, is faced with two courses of action.

Option 1: If I walk around glued to my phone, there’s a chance I could get hurt. Therefore I will keep my phone in my pocket and pay attention to where I am going.

No, that’s far too simple – and, crucially, it might cause a modicum of inconvenience.

Option 2: Get the mobile phone which is causing the problem in the first place to offer a solution. Yes, boffins are already hard at work on a crash alert system which can be fitted to a mobile phone, and which will sound an alarm if it looks like you’re about to collide with something.

The high-tech option will, of course, mean that before too long our High Streets will be resounding with buzzes and bleeps as blinkered walkers, headphones in place and eyes glued to their screens, manoeuvre their way through the crowds like so many reversing dustcarts.

The same sort of system is about to be employed in cars, too. We are promised that collisions on the roads will soon be a thing of the past.

That may all seem very well to you, but ask yourself this: What happens when the mobiles develop their own intelligence, and no longer want to ensure that you don’t end up under a bus? You’ll walk right into it, and their master plan will be achieved overnight, you mark my words.

A 29-year-old Leighton schizophrenic, who claimed that his pet rats talked to him, has been found guilty of animal cruelty after one was found with four shattered legs.

RSPCA inspectors called at Adam Cheeseborough’s Hockliffe Road flat after reports of a rodent infestation. They found, Luton Magistrates Court heard on Thursday, up to 80 rats running loose through every room and there was an overpowering smell of urine and faeces.

Some were crammed in a filthy cage which had no food. A drowned rat lay on a windowsill, another was found with half a tail and one rat was discovered suffering from a huge cancerous growth.

But worst of all was a rat whose four limbs were broken and turned the wrong way around, with the bone jutting through its wounds. It was so traumatised that it was unable to squeak and could only move by crawling on his bare bones. He later had to be put to sleep by a vet.

Cheeseborough appeared in court charged with one offence of causing unnecessary suffering to a rat by failing to provide veterinary care and two charges of failing to meet the welfare needs of two other rats. He denied all three charges which had been brought by the RSPCA.

The animal’s owner told inspectors that the rat had jumped out of a third-floor window. He wasn’t found until the next day and Cheeseborough refused to take it to the vets because he feared the pet would be put down.

As the inspectors collected the flat’s rats they found one on Cheeseborough’s bed suffering with a lump and another behind a piece of furniture with half its tail missing and the stump looking red and swollen. It was later operated on but suffered a heart attack and died. None of the animals had previously received veterinary treatment.

Cheeseborough told the court that he had kept rats for up to 15 years, slept and bathed with them and even took them out with him to the shops.

“I had more than 70 rats and I loved them all. I kept the females in one cage and the males in another and I’d let out one cage at a time to allow them to run around.

“Somehow, one night, one of the male rats got out through the window and I found it the next morning in the grass. I thought that it was waiting for me.

“I picked him up and didn’t think anything was wrong with him. When I got back to the flat I realised that he couldn’t walk but I was nurturing him back to health. If he’d been in pain or squeaking I would have taken him to the vets.

“When the RSPCA came to take my rats I cried all day and night.”

Referring to the rat with the lump he said: “I can communicate with them and she told me that she didn’t like being left in a cage and she didn’t want to go to the vets. I told the RSPCA inspector who came to take them away. He felt it and said I could keep her and that there was nothing wrong with her.”

Talking about the rat with half a tail Cheeseborough said: “I had so many rats. One had a bad tail. I don’t know what happened. I saw that it was sore so I kept it clean and treated it myself. He seemed quite happy. I didn’t think there was anything that a vet could do for it.”

The case was adjourned until June 18 for sentencing.

Jobseekers will be able to find out about opportunities at the new Woburn Forest Center Parcs at a community exhibition.

The Bedfordshire holiday destination will be holding a meet and greet event at The Rufus Centre, Flitwick on Wednesday, June 19, from 10am to 8pm.

As well as an update on progress of construction so far and what the finished village will look lik, job hunters will be able to find out what it’s like to work for Center Parcs and examine specific job opportunities.

Local businesses will also be able to find out about opportunities to supply the new venue. Center Parcs buyers will be around to meet local businesses who have an interest in supplying goods and services to Woburn Forest.

A feisty 78-year-old great-granny has vowed to carry on walking alone through Leighton despite being the victim of a horrific attack.

Tiny Frances Gordon was slammed into a nettlebed, throttled and punched in the face and chest as a robber tried to snatch her bag.

It was the second vicious assault on women in Riverside Walk within three days and police aren’t ruling out that they may be linked.

But the brute left behind a vital piece of evidence after Mrs Gordon’s attack - a gold-coloured “Rolex” watch - and detectives hope it may snare the man.

She said: “He threw me down into nettles. He put his arm around my throat and a hand over my mouth as he tried to get my bag off. But when he couldn’t get the strap over my head he lost his temper and hit me in the face and chest and ran off.

“A passer-by came and helped me. He later took police back to the spot and they found the watch.”

Anyone with information about the incident, which happened between 5.30pm and 5.45pm on May 26, should contact DC Brecknock, on 01582 394499, the non-emergency number 101, text information to 07786 200011 or contact Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111 or online at crimestoppers-uk.org.

*Read tomorrow’s LBO for the full story.

Two immigration offenders have been arrested by Home Office immigration enforcement officers at a car dealership.

Acting on intelligence, officers visited A5 Auto Group in Watling Street, Hockliffe, on Wednesday.

Checks revealed that two Pakistani men aged 33 and 25 were working in breach of their visa conditions.

The 25-year-old was detained while arrangements for his removal from the UK are made.

The 33-year-old, who had already booked his flight back to Pakistan, was released on immigration bail pending his departure from the country.

The business now faces a potential fine of up to £20,000 - £10,000 per illegal worker – unless it can demonstrate that appropriate pre-employment checks were carried out such as seeing a passport or Home Office document.

Melanie Partridge, from Home Office Immigration Enforcement, said: “We are working hard to track down and remove from the country those who seek to abuse the UK’s immigration laws.

“Operations like this are carried out regularly and we have no intention of slowing down.

“The public can be a huge help in our work and I urge people with information about suspected immigration abuse to get in touch.”

Anyone with information about immigration crime can contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 anonymously or visit http://www.crimestoppers-uk.org

Employers unsure of the steps they need to take to avoid employing illegal workers can call the Home Office Employers Helpline on 0300 123 4699.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a 63-year-old woman was robbed at knifepoint as she walked along a lonely footpath in Leighton Buzzard.

The victim was on a path near Riverside when she was grabbed and threatened by a man who demanded her handbag. The terrified woman handed over the bag and her attacker ran off with just a small amount of cash.

The robbery took place at 4.15pm on May 23 as the pedestrian took a short cut home. Moments before the attack she had walked past a man who began to follow her before he stopped her and threatened her.

The mugger is described as white, about 33-years-old, 5’10” tall, and was wearing black trousers and a black jacket.

The officer in charge of the investigation, Detective Jabbar Khan, is looking for witnesses who saw the robbery or anyone who saw a man matching the description in the area.

Anyone with information should call DC Khan on 01582 394436, Beds Police on 101, text information to 07786 200011 or contact Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.

A person is currently trapped in their vehicle after an accident on the A5 near Heath and Reach this afternoon.

Bedfordshire Police were called at just after 1pm and have now blocked the road from the Harvester on Watling Street, Hockliffe, about a mile from the accident.

The police have confirmed that fire crews are in attendance because a smoking vehicle.

For further updates follow @LBOamanda

Bedfordshire’s business awards season is in full swing with a host of glittering events gearing up to congratulate the county’s best.

The Bedfordshire Business Excellence Awards has announced a new sponsor, Luton’s own Crescent Hall, in Dunstable Road, supporting the Community Investment category.

A host of other supporters, including headline sponsor Barclays, are aiming for a night to remember in November. Firms can enter for a chance of an £8,200 advertising prize via www2.bedfordtoday.co.uk/businessawards2013/

Meanwhile, tomorrow (Thursday, June 6), the winners of a £5,000 advertising prize from Premier Newspapers will be announced at the FSB Bedfordshire Business Awards at The Conservatory at the Luton Hoo Walled Garden.

Next will be Bedfordshire BusinessWomen’s Awards and Silver Anniversary Ball, on June 20, in Sharnbrook, near Bedford. Visit http://beds-businesswomen.org/

Dunstable Business and Community Awards has been launched with categories including Retailer and Community Business. The awards will be handed out in November at Dunstable Conference Centre.

Katey Horne from Networking at Dunstable, one of the awards committee, said: “With our committee working hard we are certain we will be offering something bigger and better with a change in entry forms to make it easier for people to enter and our new improved website.”

Phone Katey for details on 07876 244822.

Smith & Son is the story we’re being sold for this week’s big new release – glossy special effects thriller After Earth features both Will and his boy Jaden, both of whom are perfectly bankable names bearing in minds their past successes.

Will has been a bit quiet of late, the third instalment of Men In Black aside, but he’s got sequels for Hancock and I Robot and even Bad Boys 3 in the pipeline.

Jaden, who also shared screen time with the old man in The Pursuit of Happyness in 2006, made a good enough fist of his first big role in the 2010 remake of The Karate Kid that we can dismiss any mumblings about nepotism in the film world.

So what have we got here? Well, think what would happen if the bloke in I Am Legend had custody of a stroppy teenager instead of a loveable dog, add in some Star Trek style and just a pinch of Paper Moon and there you go.

Will and Jaden play father and son, dad’s a top military commander and the lad is trying to follow in his footsteps but not impressing the teachers at space commando college because he takes too many risks, goes his own way, disobeys orders – you know how it goes.

They’re supposed to be spending some bonding time together when an unfortunate accident finds them stranded on Planet Earth, abandoned 1,000 years before because it was just too dangerous for humans.

Will’s crocked but can use high-tech gizmos to keep in touch with the boy, Jaden has to cross territory filled will all sorts of special-effects demons to retrieve a beacon which will send out an SOS so they can get rescued.

The pair don’t actually share a great deal of screen time as Jaden does battle with the green screen and Will lingers back in the crashed spacecraft, offering wisdom from a distance, and it’s a solid enough sci-fi story but for the posturing of director M. Night Shyamalan.

This is the first time in 20 years that Mr Sixth Sense has tackled anything other than his own screenplays, apparently, and there’s a reason – and it’s because most of his other output has failed to hit the mark.

You can see the money that’s been lavished on this big-budget blockbuster in every scene, but that doesn’t mean to say you’re going to fall in love with it.

Elsewhere you’d be well-advised to avoid The Last Exorcism: Beginning Of The End, which sadly doesn’t do what it says in the title.

As its predecessor made a solid enough bunch of change at the box office, we get another 15-rated frightener which puts the wobbly camera motif to one side now it’s so unfashionable but serves up Ashley Bell trying to get back to normal life after the unpleasantness of the first outing. Do you know what, she can’t...

Major upgrade work is currently taking place between junctions 10 and 13 on the M1.

The northbound entry slip road at junction 10 will be closed tomorrow (June 6) between 10pm and 6am the following morning.

For further details visit: http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/road-projects/m1-Junction-10-13-improvements/

Diversions are in place after a serious road traffic collision on the A5 between Heath and Reach and Hockliffe this afternoon.

Bedfordshire Police were called to the scene at just after 1pm and have blocked the road from the Harvester on Watling Street, Hockliffe, to the The Flying Fox on Sheep Lane, Woburn.

The road is likely to remain closed into this evening’s peak period while police investigation takes place after the incident that involved a tipper lorry, Volkswagen Golf and a Peugeot 206

Drivers travelling southbound should follow the solid black square diversion route via Woburn and the A4012 to rejoin the A5. Drivers heading north will follow the same diversion in the opposite direction.

A person who was trapped in their vehicle is thought to have been taken into the air ambulance that arrived on the scene alongside the police and fire service.

Police are asking people to avoid the area because it is expected that the road will be closed for several hours.

Drivers are being urged to consider alternative routes or delay their journeys until traffic conditions have improved as traffic along the diversion route is far heavier than normal.

For more updates, follow @LBOamanda

A man in his 60s has died following a collision on the A5 in Heath and Reach yesterday.

Roads Policing officers are now appealing for witnesses to come forward after one of the vehicles involved failed to stop at the scene.

The incident happened at about 1.05pm on the A5, Watling Street, close to the junction of Eastern Way.

A spokesman for Bedfordshire Police said: “It is believed that as a silver Volkswagen Golf tried to overtake a vehicle, it collided with a red Foden Tipper lorry which had tried to swerve out of the way.

“Emergency Services quickly arrived at the scene but the driver of the silver Volkswagen Golf was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.

“Officers have spoken to a number of witnesses, including the driver of a blue Peugeot 207 which was following the tipper and was damaged by debris. “However, officers are keen to speak with the driver of the vehicle that the Volkswagen Golf was attempting to overtake. The driver did not stop at the scene and other witnesses could only describe the vehicle as being a ‘dark car’.”

PC Martin Longley from the Roads Policing Unit is investigating the incident and would like to hear from anyone who saw what happened or knows more about the dark car which the Volkswagen Golf was attempting to overtake.

If you have any information about this RTC please contact PC Longley on 01438 757500 or via email: martin.longley@herts.pnn.police.uk. Alternatively, you can call Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.

Over 30 people turned out to pay respect with a peaceful protest to the soldier killed in an attack in London last week.

Shane Cushnan gathered together people from Leighton Buzzard at the war memorial on the High Street on Saturday to pay their respects to Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.

Shane said: “We organised it to pay our respects because I think to be killed on the streets of London in the way that he was was disgusting.

“I just thought a group of people would show how many people felt the same. We wanted to show a united front against terrorism.

“It was a very nice peaceful protest, there was no trouble at all.

“At first I was quite disappointed with how many people came at first, but then it was a last minute decision to do it, so it wasn’t bad really.”

Businessman Akon Ullah was ordered to pay nearly £1,200 after materials from refurbishment work at his restaurant ended up in a pile waiting to be burned on a village bonfire.

When the Ivinghoe Entertainments Committee, which manages the bonfire in the village, examined the materials on November 3, 2012, they immediately rejected them as likely to cause polluting and noxious smoke if burned.

The committee reported the waste to Aylesbury Vale District and Bucks County councils and an investigator traced it to refurbishment work at Haldi Bangladeshi restaurant in Pitstone.

Aylesbury Magistrates’ Court heard that Ullah had originally taken refurbishment waste to Aston Clinton household waste and recycling centre site himself, but as time grew tight nearing the restaurant re-opening he had asked local man Aaron Edwards to take waste to the dump instead.

In court Ullah, 38, of Marsworth Road, Pitstone, and Aaron Edwards, 23, of Glebe Close, Pitstone, both admitted failing in their duty of care after waste was found dumped illegally.

Ullah said he had been trying to help Edwards earn money by using his services and provided information which allowed investigators to trace him.

Edwards denied leaving the waste at the bonfire area and said he had taken it to Aston Clinton as intended.

But he admitted he was not registered as a waste carrier and he could not provide proof, in the form of waste transfer notes, to confirm he had taken it there.

As well as a £200 fine, Ullah was ordered to pay clean-up and prosecution costs of £934.93 with a victim surcharge of £20 – a total to pay of £1,194.93.

Edwards was fined £190, and ordered him to pay clean-up and prosecution costs of £750.57 with a victim surcharge of £20 – a total to pay of £960.57.

The case was brought by Buckinghamshire County Council on behalf of the Waste Partnership for Buckinghamshire, which has secured 365 convictions for illegal dumping and related offences since launching its Illegal Dumping Costs campaign in November 2003.

The council says this has resulted in a halving of reported incidents and significant saving to the Buckinghamshire taxpayer through reducing removal and disposal costs.

Illegal dumping can be reported on 0845 330 1856.

Did you know your the Rotary Club of Leighton-Linslade organises all the following events?... The May Day Fayre; Santa Float around the local neighbourhood; Christmas Carols on the High Street; Brain of Leighton Quiz; plus many other local events.

Would you be interested in getting involved with the club and these events?

If so, the club is holding an open evening on Monday, June 17 at Tilsworth Golf Club. A spokesman said: “It’s fun, worthwhile and raises thousands of pounds annually for local charities and good causes.”

Call Martin on 07904 185123 or David on 07970 959813 if you’re interested in finding out more details.

People living with diabetes in Bedfordshire are being asked to join the Diabetes Voices network to help improve care in the region.

> To get involved and find out more contact diabetesvoices@diabetes.org.uk or call 020 74241008. You can also visit www.diabetes.org.uk

The Mayor of Leighton-
Linslade says she hopes to raise the profile of a support group that helped her family when her son was diagnosed with autism.

Councillor Amanda Dodwell has chosen Mencap, which provides support and opportunities to those with learning disabilities in the town, as one of the mayor’s charities this year.

Mrs Dodwell, whose son Jack was diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder when he was three years old, said: “I felt that Mencap were very supportive to us as a family. We were having quite a few problems at pre-school and I didn’t really know where to turn.

“They were a good listening ear and I felt that people were very accepting at the way he was. I didn’t feel like I constantly had to explain. It was also nice to be among mums who had similar problems.

“Hopefully it will raise their profile because it deals with children with all disabilities and highlights their world and the issues that carers face.

“Groups like Mencap give mothers the chance to share tips and to feel as though there is somebody listening to them.”

Seven-year-old Jack attends Ramsey Manor Lower School in Barton Le Clay, but had been part of the Opportunity Group at Mencap for under fives.

Mrs Dodwell said: “Socially he has done very well since he has been at school.

“They have been brilliant at trying to get him to relate to other children.

“He is naturally quite friendly, which is quite unusual for an autistic child. He is not at all withdrawn.

“He likes to make friends with people, but doesn’t pick up on social cues so some of the responses he gives aren’t always appropriate. He will introduce himself to everybody, we’ll be going round a supermarket and you find yourself being introduced to all and sundry. With Jack, he is my only child so whatever Jack does, to me, is normal.”