Linzi Page: Last News

Linzi Page’s holiday is legally exempt from a travel ban that comes into force tomorrow.Linzi, who has stage 4 bowel cancer, made a plea to the First Minister in an email last night.Nicola Sturgeon has told a dying mum she is able to go on a family holiday to Tenerife on compassionate grounds.Read the full story.A fall in the R Number in Scotland indicates the “current tough measures” to tackle coronavirus are working, Nicola Sturgeon has said.But the First Minister stressed regional variations across the country justify the need for the more restrictive measures that will be implemented from Friday.Telling MSPs the R number – the reproduction rate of the virus – is now “very slightly below one”, she said: “That indicates that the current

Linzi Page 's holiday is legally exempt from a travel ban that comes into force tomorrow.Linzi, who has stage 4 bowel cancer, made a plea to the First Minister in an email last night.Legal travel restrictions will come into force on Friday for people who live in tiers 3 and 4.Leaving these areas will be a breach of the law unless the trip is “essential”.However, while international travel is allowed, in many cases it will be unlawful for people to travel to an airport in level 3 or 4.We told how Linzi, who is from Burntisland in Fife, is due to arrive in Tenerife on November 26th for a family holiday, days after the ban kicks in.But the 38-year-old mum of two, who believes Tenerife could be her last holiday, feared she would be breaking the

Nicola Sturgeon to allow her to go on a final family holiday to Tenerife. Linzi Page, who has stage 4 bowel cancer, fears the Government’s covid travel ban may criminalise her for going to the airport.

cancer faces running out of money for a life-extending drug available in England at a fraction of the cost.Linzi Page, 37, has been forced to pay £1400 every three weeks for Avastin, a treatment unfunded on the NHS that is keeping tumours in her bowel, liver and lung at bay.The medicine is giving her precious time with son Calan, six, and three-year-old daughter Charlotte, after she was given two years to live in April 2018.But Linzi, of Burntisland in Fife, will soon no longer be able to pay NHS Fife for the drug that she believes is keeping her alive.And she has been left devastated to find patients in some English and Welsh health boards are being given access to Avastin for as little as £350 a cycle, while she is charged four times as