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Mel Stride says that markets won’t be settled if government’s policy change just ‘nibbles at the edges’ A senior Conservative MP has said that Liz Truss must not “nibble at the edges” but instead perform a “powerful” and “significant” U-turn with its so-far disastrous economic plan. Mel Stride, the chair of parliament’s Treasury select committee, told the BBC’s Today programme: “My personal view is that it [a U-turn] should happen, we have reached a point where we need this very powerful and significant signal to the markets that fiscal credibility is firmly back on the table, and I think that…

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Rob plays Daniel Osbourne in Coronation Street (Picture: WireImage / ITV)

Coronation Street star Rob Mallard has revealed that his essential tremor has has ‘got worse’.

The actor, who plays Daniel Osbourne in the ITV soap, first discussed his essential tremor – which is a nervous system disorder that causes involuntary shaking – back in 2018.

The 30-year-old star later explained on This Morning that he was diagnosed at the age of 14, but did not realise ‘how serious it was’ until he was in his mid-twenties.

‘You assume with shaking it’s an old people thing’, he told hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby at the time.

‘It’s common in young people and often misdiagnosed as anxiety, or people may think your withdrawing from something, whereas it’s actually neurones in the brain that are firing incorrectly, causing involuntary shaking’.

Rob has opened up about living with an essential tremor in a new interview, revealing that it has ‘steadily got worse’.

‘It’s got worse,’ he told The Express.

Daniel has been at the centre of many Corrie storylines (Picture: ITV)

‘It used to just be my hand but now the whole of my arm shakes, my legs shake, the back of my neck and head shake. It looks like I’m saying ‘no’ to everything all the time.’

The soap star told the publication that he manages it ‘with humour’.

‘You get very wound up in yourself so I just kind of take it with a humorous perspective,’ he said.

‘With work, they’re all aware of it. If there’s something that comes up or if I need to do something I’ll usually just practice and practice and practice.

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‘But if I do shake and it’s very obvious I’ll just stop and say “can I go again?”

Rob has played Daniel Osborne, son of mainstay and legend Ken Barlow, since 2016.

He has featured in various huge storylines, with Daniel often at the centre of all the drama, and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

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Royal Mail to axe up to 6,000 jobs amid strike action Royal Mail has announced that 6,000 jobs are to be axed by August saying that the ongoing strike action and rising losses at the business are to blame for the incoming redundancies. The company said it had begun notifying workers of its plans, which aims to reduce its overall headcount by a total of 10,000. The majority of the cuts will be made through redundancy and the rest will be achieved through natural attrition. The company added that it expects its yearly losses to hit £350m. It said this…

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