The variety of tuberculosis instances linked to an outbreak within the Kansas Metropolis space continues to swell, in keeping with the Kansas Division of Well being and Surroundings.

The outbreak, which started a yr in the past, killed two individuals in 2024, Jill Bronaugh, the well being division’s communications director, stated in an replace Tuesday. As of Friday, no less than 67 sufferers have been being handled for lively tuberculosis in Kansas.

All however seven of these instances have been in Wyandotte County, the place Kansas Metropolis is, whereas the others have been in neighboring Johnson County. Throughout the 2 counties, the well being division has additionally confirmed 79 inactive tuberculosis infections, which means the host isn’t contagious and doesn’t have signs. If left untreated, round 5% to 10% of inactive instances turn into lively illness.

Final yr, the well being division reported over 70 lively and greater than 200 inactive tuberculosis instances, although Bronaugh stated the “case counts are nonetheless provisional, as they are going to be reviewed and confirmed formally by the CDC close to the top of March.”

Dr. Dana Hawkinson, director of an infection prevention and management for the College of Kansas Well being System, stated he normally sees “a handful of instances of lively tuberculosis,” yearly, however this outbreak has been differentiated by “the scope and the numbers.”

Hawkinson added that almost all of tuberculosis sufferers he has seen in the course of the outbreak haven’t been considerably sick, although some have developed severe signs.

In its replace, Kansas’ well being division described the tuberculosis outbreak as “the most important documented outbreak in U.S. historical past” because the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention started monitoring and reporting instances within the Fifties.

However the CDC rebutted that characterization, pointing to a tuberculosis outbreak in Georgia homeless shelters from 2015 to 2017, during which greater than 170 instances of lively tuberculosis and over 400 inactive instances have been detected. The company additionally cited a nationwide outbreak in 2021 linked to a bone graft product that affected 113 sufferers after surgical procedure.

Tuberculosis is an airborne bacterial an infection that primarily impacts the lungs. These sickened can have chest ache, really feel weak and cough up blood or mucus from the respiratory tract, in keeping with the CDC.

For sufferers with tuberculosis — lively or inactive — remedy includes antibiotics and may take months. If left untreated, the illness might be deadly. Tuberculosis was answerable for 25% of all deaths in Europe from the 1600s to the 1800s, in keeping with the CDC.

Hawkinson stated remedy for a severe tuberculosis case normally lasts about six months.

“We initially begin with 4 medicine for about two months, after which the remainder of the time we’re capable of transition to a two-drug routine,” he stated. “However usually, when you begin on remedy, after about 10 days or two weeks, you’ll be able to turn into non-infectious and capable of be going out into the neighborhood.”

A vaccine for tuberculosis — first developed in 1921 — just isn’t typically used within the U.S. however is run to infants and kids in nations the place the illness is extra widespread.

The outbreak in Kansas “remains to be ongoing, which implies that there might be extra instances,” Bronaugh stated within the well being division replace.

Hawkinson stated the danger of contracting tuberculosis in Kansas is low total and that the state has been seeing fewer infections during the last couple of months. He emphasised the significance of public well being funding for investigations into instances to assist cease the illness’s unfold.

Within the U.S. total, tuberculosis instances rose annually from 2020 to 2023 — the most recent information obtainable — in keeping with the CDC. That upward development ended almost three a long time of decline.

Prospects of Barclays Financial institution have been left unable to entry internet app and on-line banking, make funds to and from their accounts, or entry buyer providers, within the wake of a major IT outage on the financial institution which struck on Friday 31 January.

Based on Ookla’s Downdetector service, stories of points affecting UK prospects started shortly after 5am on 31 January, and have remained comparatively fixed since then, with peaks at roughly 7am and 9:20am within the morning.

In a press release posted to social media community X (previously Twitter), Barclays confirmed it was experiencing an ongoing outage and apologised to those that have seen points with its providers in consequence.

“We’re having some issues with a few of our programs at this time – we’re sorry about this and we’re working laborious to repair the problem,” a spokesperson mentioned.

“You might have bother utilizing some options in our app, On-line Banking, in addition to funds out and in of your accounts – we’re additionally unable that can assist you over the phone or our Message Us service.

“You possibly can nonetheless use your playing cards and money machines as regular,” mentioned the spokesperson, though this goes towards stories from buyer, a few of whom are saying that they’ve had their playing cards repeatedly declined.

The financial institution additionally mentioned that if individuals have been unable to make a fee, they need to not try to make it once more. Extra data on affected providers is offered right here.

Banks and different monetary providers organisations are acutely weak to IT disruption given the extent to which they’re relied on by shoppers and companies alike, and such outages should not rare.

Earlier this month, an outage at Capital One in the US noticed prospects locked out of on-line banking providers for days following a provide chain incident that was finally traced to an influence outage at FIS International, a third-party provider of fintech providers reminiscent of fee processing that works with Capital One.

On the time of writing, there isn’t any proof or indication to recommend that the downtime at Barclays has been brought on by a cyber assault or different type of safety or provide chain incident.

In cases the place they’re responding publicly to questions, Barclays’ customer support groups are presently referring solely to “technical points”.

Barclays has not defined the reason for the IT issues, or how many individuals are affected however has apologised and says it’s “working exhausting to repair the difficulty”.

Within the early hours of Saturday morning, Barclay’s web site indicated that its app had begun working once more – however that points endured with funds and transfers.

Prospects replying to Barclays’ announcement concerning the outage, exterior on social media have reacted with fury whereas reporting a sequence of issues it’s inflicting them.

One stated their card had been declined regardless of them having funds – one other stated that that her January wages “had disappeared”.

A household has informed the BBC they can not transfer into their new home due to the outage, branding the state of affairs “ridiculous”.

Scott, 27, and his spouse, who’s 4 months pregnant, stated that they had bought their home on Friday morning, however the cash for his or her new house had not gone by but as a result of issues at Barclays.

Scott informed BBC Information they had been successfully homeless, and had been left ready of their automotive at a service station in Horsham, West Sussex.

“As a result of the system is down, the cash cannot undergo”, he stated.

“We simply have to take a seat and wait.”

(RNS) — On the day after President Donald Trump was reelected, the Rev. Joseph Evans, a Berkeley College of Theology professor, puzzled, together with a few of his colleagues: “What are we going to do now?”

The next collaboration of greater than two dozen Black ministers answered with a press release, “A Credo to Legatees of the Black Church Custom,” urging those that had been raised in or now run African American congregations to defy White Christian Nationalism and take acts of resistance, together with investing in Black banks, supporting Black companies and offering scholarships to assist college students attend vocational colleges and traditionally Black faculties and universities.

“We imagine, Black folks ought to return to the ecumenical Black Church custom and renew fellowship with their brothers and sisters,” the doc concludes, “to assist combat and resist hegemonic practices which proceed to endorse under-resourced private and non-private funding to abolish human poverty.”

The assertion, dated Jan. 1 and revealed later within the month within the Black digital media outlet Reel City Information, is a critique of Venture 2025, a sequence of conservative proposals that some Black denominational leaders had nervous could possibly be solidified in a second Trump administration.

“Venture 2025 is knowledgeable by White Christian Nationalism,” reads the assertion, accomplished previous to its authors seeing a few of the venture’s proposals put in place by way of Trump’s first govt orders.

“We imagine our Credo is impressed by the Spirit of the Lord: Subsequently, our Credo isn’t a response to Venture 2025. As an alternative, it’s an moral response to White Christian Nationalism.”

The Rev. Barbara Williams-Skinner, a coordinator of Faiths United to Save Democracy and the onetime govt director of the Congressional Black Caucus, is among the many doc’s supporters.

“I added my title to the Credo as a result of it prophetically calls Black clergy again to the theology of ethical resistance within the spirit of Frederick Douglass and plenty of different righteous resisters to injustice and oppression like these inherent in Venture 2025,” she informed RNS in an e mail message. “Venture 2025 is an all-out assault on over 60 years of civil rights safety of African American folks within the U.S.”

In his first days again in workplace, Trump — whose title was talked about solely in a footnote of the ministers’ assertion — signed govt orders that terminate DEI federal applications, places of work and positions; urge private-sector entities to finish DEI preferences; and revoke govt orders that supported affirmative motion in therapy of presidency contractors and promoted variety and inclusion within the federal office.

Time journal reported on Friday (Jan. 24) that its evaluation decided that near two-thirds of Trump’s govt actions at that time mirrored or partially mirrored Venture 2025 proposals.

Along with critiquing Venture 2025, the assertion’s writers additionally questioned the practices and beliefs of White evangelicals.

“We imagine, that many within the White evangelical church have dedicated irrefutable political, financial, and spiritual idolatry,” the Black ministers state. “White evangelicals are drunk on the faith of White Christian Nationalism which doesn’t discover its footing within the gospel of Jesus of Nazareth which is to ‘proclaim excellent news to the poor.’”

The assertion is interwoven with the names of African theologians reminiscent of Athanasius of Alexandria and Augustine of Hippo, and the phrases of students and activists reminiscent of W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, James H. Cone and Angela Davis.

Its signatories embody Baptist leaders, such because the Rev. James C. Perkins and the Rev. Tisha Dixon-Williams and the Rev. Otis Moss Jr., in addition to current unbiased presidential candidate Cornel West and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and the Rev. Otis Moss III, pastor emeritus and present pastor, respectively, of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ.

The Rev. Joseph Evans. (Photograph courtesy of Berkeley College of Theology)

Evans stated the Black ministers’ assertion, which requires collective motion by Black people and Black church buildings to assist Black organizations — with an openness to cooperation with different Black religion traditions — is a necessity within the present political local weather.

“In gentle of what’s happening, we have to reinvent our infrastructure,” stated Evans, who is also director of Berkeley College of Theology’s Middle for Reality, Racial Therapeutic & Restorative Justice. “If we didn’t be taught anything from this final federal common election, (it) doesn’t appear like anyone’s coming to assist us. We’re going to have to assist ourselves.”

Evans, whose middle is about to co-host a city corridor in February on “Therapeutic by way of Justice: Coverage Options by way of Traumatized Communities,” factors for example to the assertion’s name for Black psychiatrists, psychologists and social employees to assist handle the psychological well being wants of African American communities.

“It is among the largest challenges that’s underserved, goes undernoticed,” he stated.

Evans expects totally different features of the credo would be the topic of upcoming on-line and in-person workshops and boards.

The assertion comes at a time when different Black spiritual leaders are also in search of subsequent steps to reply particularly to the Trump administration’s anti-DEI stance.

The Rev. Al Sharpton introduced at a rally on Inauguration Day, which coincided with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, that his Nationwide Motion Community would work with others to find out two corporations it plans to boycott amongst people who have pulled again on DEI applications. The Rev. Boise Kimber, president of the Nationwide Baptist Conference, USA, introduced earlier this month that he had created an financial improvement committee to fulfill with politicians and main companies which were rolling again their initiatives to handle variety, fairness and inclusion.

“We have now to applaud Reverend Sharpton and Dr. Boise Kimber for taking that specific subject very, very critically,” stated Evans, who anticipated that collaborators on the credo will even proceed working with others on that subject.

PARIS — France soared to an Antoine Dupont-inspired 43-0 victory over Wales in Paris on Friday that proved they imply enterprise on this yr’s Six Nations.

Dupont, who skipped final yr’s championship to arrange for the Olympic Rugby Sevens event which France received, delivered a hat trick of assists as Les Bleus handed Wales their thirteenth consecutive Check defeat.

“We tailored to the circumstances within the rain and managed to get the bonus level, and a pleasant factors common,” Galthie stated.

Whereas they had been all the time going to be up towards it, Wales seemed calm underneath strain within the opening exchanges and defended bravely towards world class opposition.

Nonetheless, France quickly took management, and it was 20-year-old winger Theo Attissogbe who scored the primary factors of the Championship, due to a second of brilliance from Dupont. The France skipper nailed a pinpoint cross-field kick that discovered the younger winger in area on the fitting hand facet.

With the early nerves subsided, France quickly scored a second. This time they performed the ball via fast fingers to the fitting, the place left winger Louis Bielle-Biarrey had swooped across the again to choose up the final cross and get a attempt of his personal.

To compound Wales’ woes, centre Owen Watkin was pressured off after sustaining a knee damage. His absence pressured a reshuffle within the backline with Ben Thomas transferring to the midfield and Dan Edwards approaching for his debut to take over at No. 10.

Wales hooker Evan Lloyd survived a crimson card scare after a shoulder to the top of Bielle-Biarrey. He was despatched to the sin bin however the offence wasn’t deemed worthy of an improve.

Whereas the guests had been instantly treading water, France had been looking forward to extra and their scintillating younger wingers offered.

Dupont confirmed why he’s the participant everyone seems to be speaking about by splitting the Welsh defence down the center, discovering area on his personal earlier than handing off as soon as extra to Attissogbe.

To not be outdone, Bielle-Biarrey obtained his second on the stroke of half-time as effectively, thanks once more to an exquisite broad cross, this time to the left, from Dupont.

Fullback Thomas Ramos was good with the boot, giving the hosts a 28-0 lead on the break.

Whereas it was France’s silky abilities that helped them reap rewards within the first-half, their opening attempt of the second got here through pure power, producing a textbook maul from a lineout which Julien Marchand completed off.

In a close to mirror of their opening attempt, Émilien Gailleton acquired a cross subject kick from returning fly-half Romain Ntamack as Wales, albeit not for need of attempting, crumbled.

Nonetheless, the temper shortly modified for Ntamack.

In his first check since earlier than the 2023 World Cup, the No. 10 was proven a yellow for a shoulder to the top of Ben Thomas. In contrast to Lloyd’s within the first-half, Ntamack’s was upgraded to a crimson card in what was one of many few black marks for a largely spectacular France outfit.

After a short scuffle when tensions boiled over, the match simmered in the direction of the tip as France picked up a bonus level, whereas Wales had been left licking their wounds as soon as extra as they registered a thirteenth straight loss.

“We tried to play some rugby, most likely on a few performs overplayed a little bit bit,” Wales coach Warren Gatland stated.

“I believed we scrummaged effectively and the forwards labored actually arduous, when it comes to attempting to get front-foot ball. However there is not any excuses in regards to the consequence. I believed we created a few alternatives and we did not end them.

“Most likely the penalty name wasn’t in our favour, I believed there have been a few robust calls. We have simply obtained to verify we get again on the horse and stay up for getting ready for subsequent week.”

France’s efficiency may have been eagerly watched by England, who host Les Bleus at Twickenham subsequent week, whereas Wales journey to Italy.

Info from Reuters contributed to this report

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That is it from Paris, sadly for Wales it went just about to script.

France ran in a powerful seven tries, with Antoine Dupont starring.

However he’ll doubtless be with out his half-back associate for subsequent weekend’s recreation towards England after Romaine Ntamack’s unnecessary purple card.

It is again to the drafting board for Wales, they’ve now misplaced a report 13 Assessments in a row, and 7 on the bounce to the French.

They head right down to Good this week now earlier than dealing with Italy, and the importance of that recreation can’t be overestimated.

It is completely large for Wales and for Warren Gatland.

Till tomorrow!

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps have gotten underway at the beginning of the Trump administration, a number of raids in cities throughout the U.S. have been filmed and extremely publicized. Newly confirmed Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem says the aim of recording the raids is to create an “accountability measure.”

“It is not a spectacle,” she informed CBS Information. “That is our nation’s regulation enforcement — judicial course of. The scales of justice are equally utilized to everyone. We wish transparency on this. I consider that that is an accountability measure.”

Contained in the ICE subject workplace in Manhattan on Tuesday, the company’s ranks have been enlarged by different companies, together with Noem, now ordered by the Trump administration. The plan was to hold out a number of predawn raids focusing on undocumented immigrants with legal data, with expenses starting from homicide to theft to kidnapping. The short-term aim is 500 arrests over a weeklong operation in New York.

One of many targets of Tuesday’s raids was a Venezuelan nationwide and suspected gang member wished out of Colorado on a number of felony warrants for kidnapping, housebreaking and a gun crime, in keeping with authorities.

Round 5:30 a.m., closely armed brokers raided an house constructing within the Bronx and located the suspect and three different male associates. They have been all handcuffed with out incident. Three youngsters have been additionally discovered within the house, however their immigration standing was not instantly identified. Authorities will now verify to see if they’ve a caregiver or if Baby Protecting Companies must be introduced in.

The following cease was a residence lower than two miles away. After some negotiation, the officers made their manner inside, however got here up empty as a result of their targets weren’t house.

Federal regulation enforcement is working with restricted assist from the New York Metropolis Police Division due to town’s legal guidelines defending undocumented immigrants. New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams, nonetheless, has been cooperative with ICE and DHS.

“I talked to him on the telephone most likely 4 or 5 instances final evening, and the way considered one of these people was so harmful, and that we wanted the backup of the NYPD to be there in case issues went south,” Noem mentioned.

Tuesday’s Bronx operation required round three dozen regulation enforcement brokers that yielded a handful of arrests. Noem mentioned it is a ratio she’s snug with.

“I will not doubt what they want for assist and backup,” she mentioned.

Vice President JD Vance has advised deporting a million undocumented migrants yearly, a little bit beneath 4 instances the quantity deported by the Biden administration final fiscal yr. But it surely’s not clear DHS can have the manpower to hold that out.

“We’re engaged on it,” Noem mentioned.

“We can have the personnel as a result of we’re gonna proceed to recruit and ask individuals to assist us,” she added.

Michael Baggott, antiques skilled and star of the BBC TV present Flog It!, has died on the age of 51, a social media assertion has confirmed.

Baggott died in hospital after struggling a coronary heart assault – and had additionally skilled a stroke in October, a publish on his Fb web page mentioned on Wednesday.

He was well-known amongst followers of the programme, which aired from 2002 to 2020, and had a selected curiosity in speciality silver and spoons.

Rob Unsworth, head of BBC daytime and early peak commissioning, mentioned he was “deeply saddened” to listen to of his loss of life, describing him as considered one of Flog It is “most memorable characters”.

He mentioned: “Although the sequence hasn’t been in manufacturing for a number of years, we hope Michael’s household can take consolation from how a lot viewers have continued to take pleasure in his appearances on this ever-popular present.”

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Auctioneer Charles Hanson, who additionally appeared on Flog It! and owns Hansons Auctioneers, described him as a “big of our vintage trade”.

He recalled how Baggott was “by no means afraid” to name out an skilled after they have been improper – together with himself.

“Michael’s thirst for information for the ‘object inside’ merited much more TV time too for a real and correct skilled,” he added.

Baggott’s profession noticed him progress to Christie’s public sale home after which change into head of silver at Sotheby’s Billingshurst.

He labored as a non-public guide in vintage silver, carried out his personal analysis, and was a broadcast creator.

In keeping with the social media announcement, a memorial service shall be held for him within the coming weeks.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem stated Wednesday that the Trump administration has revoked a choice that will have protected roughly 600,000 individuals from Venezuela from deportation, placing some liable to being faraway from the nation in about two months.

Noem signed a discover reversing a transfer by her predecessor, Alejandro Mayorkas, within the waning days of the Biden administration to increase Momentary Protected Standing. The change is efficient instantly and comes amid a slew of actions as the Trump administration works to make good on guarantees to crack down on unlawful immigration and perform the largest mass deportation effort in U.S. historical past.

“Earlier than he left city, Mayorkas signed an order that stated for 18 months they have been going to increase this safety to individuals which might be on Momentary Protected Standing, which meant that they have been going to have the ability to keep right here and violate our legal guidelines for one more 18 months,” Noem informed “Fox and Pals.”

“We stopped that,” Noem stated.

Consultants and advocates stated the quick impression amongst these affected can be uncertainty and concern.

“I’m scared though I’m right here legally and I arrived legally,” stated Caren Añez, a 41-year-old single mom who requested TPS in 2023 and obtained it in 2024, after arriving within the U.S. on a vacationer visa. “I’m distraught, seeing how else I can keep right here legally.”

Añez stated she left Venezuela as a result of she feared being arrested for working as an unbiased information reporter for a Venezuelan web site. She now works as workplace supervisor in Texas and stated returning dwelling isn’t an possibility.

“I can’t enter Venezuela as a result of my life is in peril,” she stated.

Greater than 7.7 million Venezuelans have left their dwelling nation since 2013, when its financial system unraveled and President Nicolas Maduro took workplace. Most settled in Latin America and the Caribbean, however after the pandemic, migrants more and more set their sights on the U.S.

Venezuelans’ need for higher dwelling circumstances and their rejection of Maduro and his insurance policies are anticipated to maintain pushing individuals to to migrate.

Forward of the presidential election final yr, a nationwide ballot by Venezuela-based analysis agency Delphos confirmed a couple of quarter of the inhabitants occupied with emigrating if Maduro was re-elected. Earlier this month, Maduro was sworn in for a 3rd six-year time period regardless of credible proof that he misplaced July’s election by a two-to-one margin.

Underneath the Biden administration extension, protections for Venezuelans have been prolonged till October 2026. That now reverts to 2 separate designations — one which expires this April and one in September.

Venezuelans would lose their means to work within the U.S. and be liable to being deported.

Noem has till Saturday to determine what to do in regards to the group whose protections expire in April and till July 12 for these whose protections expire in September. If she does nothing, the protections mechanically lengthen for one more six months.

The U.S. doesn’t have diplomatic relations with Venezuela, limiting deportation choices.

Federal rules enable the extensions to be terminated early, although that’s not often been accomplished, and teams sued when Trump took steps to finish the protections throughout his first time period.

The Nationwide TPS Alliance, an advocacy group, stated Wednesday that it’s ready to problem this resolution in court docket.

Congress created TPS in 1990 to stop deportations to international locations affected by pure disasters or civil strife, giving individuals authorization to work in increments of as much as 18 months at a time.

About 1 million immigrants from 17 international locations are protected by TPS, together with individuals from Venezuela, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Sudan, Ukraine and Lebanon. Venezuelans are one of many largest beneficiaries.

The TPS designation offers individuals authorized authority to be within the nation however doesn’t present a long-term path to citizenship. They’re reliant on the federal government renewing their standing when it expires. Critics have stated that over time, the renewal of the safety standing turns into computerized, regardless of what’s occurring within the particular person’s dwelling nation.

Along with Venezuelans, the Biden administration in its waning days additionally prolonged the protections to greater than 230,000 Salvadoreans, 103,000 Ukrainians and 1,900 Sudanese already dwelling within the U.S.

Noem didn’t say what would occur to them, and the DHS discover solely refers to Venezuelans.

The coverage change was first reported Tuesday by The New York Occasions.

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Regina Garcia Cano contributed from Caracas, Venezuela

Michael Baggott, an vintage skilled who appeared on the BBC sequence Flog It!, has died from a coronary heart assault aged 51.

An announcement posted on his X account stated he had suffered a coronary heart assault in October and died on Sunday in hospital.

“He was a dearly liked son, brother, nephew and uncle who will likely be deeply and profoundly missed, the assertion learn.

Paying tribute, Rob Unsworth, head of BBC daytime and early peak commissioning, stated Baggott “was one in all Flog It is most memorable characters, skilled in all method of collectables”.

Baggott’s experience on the present had been targeted round vintage British silver, packing containers and early spoons.

He beforehand spoke about how his curiosity in antiques started as a toddler and he bought his first vintage – a Chester silver Vesta case for £22 – whereas he was nonetheless in school.

Previous to Flog It!, Baggott labored at Christie’s after which Sotheby’s the place he ran the saleroom’s south silver division for 4 years. He then labored as a personal marketing consultant in vintage silver.

He has additionally written numerous books on antiques and silver.

Fellow Flog It! skilled, Nick Corridor, referred to as Baggott a “true connoisseur and ambassador of the antiques world”.

“A font of data and beneficiant together with his data, a raconteur and all spherical prime bloke, a pleasure to have recognized you Michael.”

Unsworth stated Baggott had an “unrivalled data and enthusiasm for vintage spoons and silver”.

“Although the sequence hasn’t been in manufacturing for a number of years, we hope Michael’s household can take consolation from how a lot viewers have continued to get pleasure from his appearances on this ever-popular present.”

Baggott had beforehand posted on X to say he had been in hospital for 5 weeks after struggling a coronary heart assault. In December he stated he was feeling “barely happier, barely extra hopeful”.

Flog It! was a BBC daytime tv present that ran from 2002 to Might 2020.

Just like Antiques Roadshow, members of the general public introduced their antiques to be valued by consultants, however had been then given the choice to promote them at public sale.

The assertion asserting his demise added: “There will likely be a memorial service within the coming weeks, the main points of which will likely be shared right here [on X].”