It’s a struggle

SIR ROD STEWART said he can’t get a response to his re‐quest to provide free MRI scans.

While he says he is “well on their side” about the doctors and nurses strikes, he said he can’t get a response about his plans to give away MRI scans.

In February he paid for some members of the public to have scans in a mobile unit at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Essex. It was in a Sky News phone in that he pledged to help when talking about the state of the NHS. He had just re‐turned from a scan himself.

“I said when I did Sky TV that I wanted to try and do them all over the country.” He said, “Iam not going to show up and be photographed, I just wanted to do it.”

But he says he struggling to get his plans off the ground. “It’s like banging your head against a brick wall.”

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IN a historic moment, the Ger‐man President Frank‐Walter Steinmeier became the first head of state to ask for for‐giveness for the atrocities committed by Germany dur‐ing the Second World War.

On the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on Wednesday, April 19, Stein‐meier joined his Polish and Is‐raeli counterparts to mark 80 years since the doomed Jewish uprising against Nazi occupiers.

Standing at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Poland’s capital, Steinmeier asked for forgiveness for the crimes committed by Germans during the war. He also criti‐cised Russian President Vladimir Putin for waging war against Ukraine, breaking inter‐national law and bringing im‐measurable suffering, violence, destruction, and death to the people of Ukraine.

The Warsaw Ghetto Upris‐ing was the largest single act of Jewish resistance against the Germans during the war. The Jewish insurgents launched their revolt on April 19, 1943, preferring to die fighting than be sent to a death camp.

About 7,000 Jews died in the battles, and a further 6,000