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on london rivals chelsea. and it may be a chilly start for some, but i find out ahead for the vast majority. rain in northern scotland later. details on breakfast. good morning. it s wednesday, may 3rd. a man has been arrested outside buckingham palace on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon. it happened yesterday evening, just hours before rehearsals for the coronation took place overnight. a controlled explosion was carried out following the incident, which is not currently being treated as terror related. our reporter vincent mcaviney is live outside buckingham palace. clearly the authorities on high alert, vincent? good morning. goad alert, vincent? good morning. good morninu. alert, vincent? good morning. good morning- there alert, vincent? good morning. good morning. there is alert, vincent? good morning. good morning. there is a alert, vincent? good morning. good morning. there is a huge alert, vincent? good morning. (emf. morning. there is a huge securi ....
earlier in the week. the tesla founder elon musk has been cleared of wrongdoing for a tweet in which he said he had funding secured to take the electric car maker back into private ownership. the former sex pistols frontman, john lydon, has failed in his attempt to represent ireland at the eurovision song contest. he d hoped his song hawaii would give him the chance to raise the issue of his wife s alzheimer s disease, but his band public image limited came fourth out of six acts. from dublin, daniel rosney reports. ladies and gentlemen, it s the late, late show. eurosong, 2023. welcome. john lydon s song was a tribute to his wife nora, who lives with a form of dementia. # remember me. # i rememberyou. and you ve been together many years. yeah, nearly 45 now. 45 and she s not so well. yeah, she, unfortunately, got alzheimer s. - and so this song from an idea from the fabulous lou here i we pieced together to try and tell the story as genuinely and real. as we po ....
Believe she had dementia. thank you so much. no problem. oh, look, we re both in green! it s like we planned it. i mean, from the beginning, there was no support. there s. .. there s nothing. i m an only child, my mum lives on her own, so it s just the two of us. but also, there s no support from anyone or anything. so the gp basically says or the memory clinic says 0k, your mum s got alzheimer s, here s some pills, here s some tablets, and we ll see you in a year s time. and mum obviously didn t. decide that she didn t have alzheimer s, kept throwing the tablets down the toilet. pfff, crazy things like that. i d find tablets hidden under the sofa and i had to just try and keep everything going. mm. calling up companies, trying to sort out bills, and they re saying things like, oh, 0k, well, yeah, we can talk to you as her daughter, ....
That s not a problem. if you could just put your mum on the line and i ll ask questions. and i ll be like, ok, you can put her on the line, but when mum gets asked what her date of birth is and what her address is, she s got no idea. it s astonishing, isn t it? because you re like, the reason i m calling is because this person doesn t have capacity. and yet you re asking for me to put that person on the phone. exactly. and then i d, like, write things down for mum so she could read it. but it soon got to a point where she couldn t read things and it was. it was ridiculous. and then i would be speaking to the utilities or the bills or the people, and i don t want to sit there and go, look, my mum s got alzheimer s, because mum s sat next to me thinking she doesn t have alzheimer s. yeah. so then mum would go crazy i don t have alzheimer s! you re lying! it s all pretend! so.i m just stuck in this really awkward position of on the phone to whoever the utility company mum d ....
Alzheimer s, the woman saying, i just need to get her name and address. charlotte, i was in exactly the same position i remember trying to cancel his car insurance because he d had his licence taken off him. they wanted to speak to him. i had a one year old on my knee. he kept saying, what are they asking? what do they need to know? and the sort of stress that that builds within you is enormous, isn t it? huge. it s huge. but what we found, and what charlotte found, was once the piles of paperwork were sorted, once the right care was in place, everything changed. if it s a loving care home and it s the care the right care home for them it s the best place to be. because now and i m sure you re the same i feel like the daughter again. yes! sorry. that is absolutely what me and my sisters have said that we can be as kids again. that we can be his kids again. yeah. ..and he can be our dad. the frustration and the ....