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14 December 2020 • 12:01am Haulage trucks near Dover. The split from the EU is fuelling an increasingly frenzied demand for goods, creating traffic jams at ports and highways on both sides of the English Channel  Credit: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg SIR – I voted for Brexit and still strongly believe it will be to the benefit of our country in the medium to long term. What staggers me, however, is the blind belief by our politicians that the European Union would agree a deal that gives us unf...

‘Alzheimer’s makes caring for a loved one so much harder’ Following Dame Barbara Windsor’s death from the disease, Steve Acklam talks about looking after a beloved wife who is slipping away Steve Acklam at his home near Cambridge Credit: John Lawrence When Steve Acklam first met his wife, Veronica, it was the late Sixties, and she was a brilliant PE teacher at a leading Cambridge secondary school. “She was very physically active, alert, highly intelligent,” he says. Today, however, ...