• The Mediterranean diet contains lots of fruit, veg, seafood and nuts

By Victoria Allen

Published: 19:18 EDT, 16 August 2023 | Updated: 19:55 EDT, 16 August 2023

HEALTH NOTES: Lung injections to tackle life-threatening blood clots can cut the risk of death by HALF

By Mail on Sunday Reporter

Updated: 19:40 EDT, 5 August 2023

Medical degrees are set to be slashed from five years to four in a drive to put tens of thousands of extra doctors on hospital wards.

Ministers plan to take advantage of Brexit to change rules on training, which were previously imposed by the EU.

The move forms part of a package of measures aimed at slashing waiting lists by boosting the NHS workforce, with 60,000 more doctors and an extra 170,000 nurses by 2036/37.

Bosses also expect to have an additional 71,000 allied health professionals such as physiotherapists, midwives and pharmacists.

The ambitious proposals are detailed in the first NHS Long-Term Workforce Plan, which is published today and supported by £2.4billion of Government funding.

The blueprint warns that staffing shortages within the health service could more than triple over the next 15 years – from 112,000 to 360,000 – as a result of a growing and ageing population, coupled with new treatments. 

The NHS says it will seek to embrace more homegrown talent and reduce its reliance on overseas employees as competition for healthcare workers is rising around the world.

A record recruitment drive will also allow it to become less dependent on expensive agency staff, cutting the bill for taxpayers by around £10billion between 2030 and 2037.

Amanda Pritchard, chief executive of NHS England, described it as a ‘once-in-a-generation opportunity to put staffing on a sustainable footing and improve patient care’.

Measures in the plan, which comes ahead of the NHS’s 75th anniversary on Wednesday, include:

• Doubling medical school training places to 15,000 by 2031, with new schools and more places in areas with the greatest shortages;

• Increasing GP training places by half to 6,000 by 2031;

• Almost doubling the number of adult nurse training places, with 24,000 more nurse and midwife training places a year by 2031;

• Allowing staff to ‘earn while they learn’, with apprenticeships that lead to a full degree but more-on-the-job training;

• Greater reliance on ‘associate’ roles that can help with less demanding tasks, freeing up senior colleagues for complex cases;

• Expanding training for clinical psychology and child and adolescent psychotherapy, with places rising by more than a quarter to 1,300 by 2031;

• A renewed focus on retention with better opportunities for career development, improved flexible working and pension reforms to keep 130,000 staff working in the NHS for longer.

The NHS and Government will consult with the medical regulator and universities on introducing four-year medical degrees. Graduates would still need to follow their degrees with a further two years of foundation training in a hospital, as is currently the case.

Prior to exiting the EU, UK training was governed by the Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications directive (MRPQ), which stipulates 5,500 training hours and at least five years to become a doctor. 

The Department of Health and Social Care says that now the UK is no longer bound by the directive it can consider options on how to shorten training periods.

The General Medical Council would need to be assured of no risk to patient safety but last night appeared to back the move, saying there is ‘a strong case for innovation in medical education’.

Over the next five years alone, medical places may increase by almost a third, nursing degrees will increase by more than a third and GP training places will jump by a quarter. 

Meanwhile, 16 per cent of all training places for clinical staff will be offered through apprenticeships by 2028 – including more than 850 medical students. 

Mrs Pritchard said: ‘The publication of our first-ever NHS Long-Term Workforce Plan now gives us a once–in–a–generation opportunity to put staffing on sustainable footing for the years to come.

‘As we look to adapt to new and rising demand for health services globally, this long-term blueprint is the first step in a major and much-needed expansion of our workforce to ensure we have the staff we need to deliver for patients.’

Louise Ansari, chief executive of Healthwatch England, said patients will ‘really welcome the news’ that the NHS will train more doctors and nurses.

But Dr Latifa Patel, workforce lead at the British Medical Association, said: ‘Accelerated undergraduate degrees and apprenticeships are untested, and must not mean a two-tiered system of doctors.’

Rishi Sunak said: ‘On the 75th anniversary of our health service, this Government is making the largest single expansion in NHS education and training in its history. This is a plan for investment and a plan for reform.’

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said: ‘Our plan will end the reliance on expensive agency staff, while cutting waiting lists in the coming years and building an NHS which can match up to the scale of tomorrow’s challenges.’

Professor Sir Chris Whitty, chief medical officer for England, also backed the proposed reforms to training and staff retention, saying they will ‘create opportunities for more people to study and train in parts of the country that have historically struggled to recruit’.

The Health Secretary said the plan was about getting ‘care to patients quicker’ as he pledged to boost domestic training and improve job opportunities for staff already working in the service.

Steve Barclay told Sky News: ‘It is a hugely important day for the NHS. It is something that many in the NHS have been asking for, for a long time, to have a long-term workforce plan.

‘It is the biggest ever expansion in workforce training in the NHS’ history. It is backed up by £2.4billion of additional funding over the next five years.

‘And what it will do is train more staff, more doctors, more nurses, more midwives, but also give more opportunities to the staff within the NHS in terms of apprenticeships, developing more skills, their continual professional development.

‘And it will also look at how we reform some of our training, making that more efficient so that we can get care to patients quicker.

‘We recognise from the pandemic that there are big waiting lists, we’ve got a plan to clear those but in terms of the longer-term position of the NHS, we also need to boost our domestic training, and that is what the plan today sets out, that long-term vision for the NHS.’

Latest NHS performance data shows that the waiting list for routine operations soared to another record high.

More than 7.42million patients in England — or one in eight people — are now in the queue for ops like hip replacements. This includes 370,000 people stuck in limbo for at least a year, often in pain.

Experts have warned the backlog won’t start to shrink until the huge staffing crisis engulfing the ailing health service starts to ease. 

But strikes by up to 34,000 NHS consultants over two days next month, is likely to lead to the cancellation of more than 300,000 appointments, hampering efforts to clear record waiting lists.

It is estimated that more than 650,000 routine operations and appointments have been put off since December due to industrial action. 

Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting told Times Radio he had been calling on the Government to adopt Labour’s plan for the biggest expansion of of the NHS workforce in history.

He added: ‘To be fair to the Government, it looks like they’re about to adopt our plan, and that’s important because having had an understaffed NHS for more than a decade.

‘Knowing how long it takes to train new doctors, new nurses, new midwives, it’s really important that we get our skates on as a country. And if the Government have swallowed their pride and adopted our plan, why wouldn’t I welcome that?’

Asked if he would stick to the plan if Labour won the next general election, Mr Streeting said he would be speaking further to Steve Barclay, adding: ‘It is important that we do long term planning and I think one of the reasons the NHS is in the state that it’s in today is because for 13 years now, we have not had a consistent plan.’

He added that the ‘lesson from the last Labour Government is that it’s investment that matters but also reform and where we would go further than the biggest expansion of NHS staff in history, which we’d already committed to, is a reform agenda that seeks to modernise the NHS and make sure it’s fit to meet the challenges of 2048 rather than 1948 when it was created.

He said care needed to be shifted into the community and the NHS needed to switch ‘from an analogue NHS to a digital NHS’, adding: ‘We’ve also got to shift the focus so that we’re not just the national sickness service, but one that focuses on promoting good health – prevention is really crucial.’

He said the NHS ‘is a service not a shrine’ and ‘we’ve got to stop kind of just thinking of it as a national religion and make sure that it is an institution and a system that delivers the best outcomes and it’s got the potential to do that, but it does need reform.’

Alex Scott and Emma Bunton led the way in the style stakes on Thursday as they attended the star-studded Attitude Pride Awards at London’s Langham Hotel.

Presenter Alex, 38, stunned in a strapless pink gown as she graced the red carpet of the awards, which celebrates celebrates some of the biggest LGBTQ + names from from film, TV, music and theatre as well as honouring unsung everyday LGBTQ+ heroes.

The former footballer’s dress perfectly hugged her curves and featured a sweeping train that trailed behind her.

Alex kept her accessories to a minimum for the occasion, adding simple diamond jewellery, while her brunette locks were styled in glamorous waves.

Meanwhile, Emma Bunton was chic in a plunging polkadot black jumpsuit.

The Spice Girl, 47, teamed her ruffle-sleeved outfit with a silver clutch and towering heels, with her look finished with sliver delicate jewellery. 

Emma allowed her blonde tresses to cascade over her shoulders and flashed a dazzling smile as she posed for photos. 

The ladies were in good company on the night as Monroe Bergdorf turned heads in her racy ensemble.

The model sizzled in a gold chest plate worn over a black dress with a daring front split.

Monroe teamed her dress with gold heels and appeared in great spirits as she posed up a storm.

Meanwhile, singer Loreen flaunted her washboard abs in a racy black bralette and matching maxi skirt.

The Swedish singer showcased her famously long nails as she posed this way and that for the camera.

Claire Richards meanwhile caught the eye in a satin floral jumpsuit teamed with a plunging leopard print top. 

The Steps star added an oversized silver clutch bag to her look, while finishing things off with coordinating pointed silver heels.

She was in great spirits as she also posed alongside fellow Steps singer H, who certainly made sure all eyes were on him in a purple suit complete with a huge tulle flower on the front. 

The Tragedy hitmakers appeared to be enjoying the night as they also posed alongside Loreen on the night. 

Also in attendance was former Coronation Street actor Charlie Condou who donned a blush pink suit. 

While TV’s Dr Ranj Singh stood out in a bold blue number and Nick Grimshaw dressed up in an all-black outfit.

Great British Bake-off star Sandro Farmhouse cut a stylish figure at the event, while human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell opted for a smart striped shirt. 

The Attitude Awards showcase the very best of the global LGBTQ community and give a platform to role models while supporting the Attitude Magazine Foundation, which raises money for LGBT causes. 

Revolutionary cancer blood test will speed up diagnosis and help cut NHS backlog — while drug that slashes chances of breast cancer is returning

• NHS trial found the ‘Galleri’ blood test detected two out of every three cancers
• The test pinpointed where cancer was in 85 per cent of cases of 5000 people

By Kate Pickles

Updated: 19:16 EDT, 2 June 2023

Bam Margera says estranged wife Nicole Boyd has cut off his contact with their son Phoenix

By Adam S. Levy For Dailymail.com

Published: 20:24 EDT, 31 May 2023 | Updated: 20:24 EDT, 31 May 2023

Channel 4 have confirmed that they are no longer working with Escape To The Chateau stars Dick and Angel Strawbridge following an independent investigation into their conduct.

Sources claimed Two Rivers Media, the company that produces Escape To The Chateau, raised concerns about Dick, 63, and Angel, 45. and they will not be working on any new productions ‘following a review’. 

The latest news comes two years after the popular couple first brushed off bullying claims, which they vehemently denied at the time.

Show bosses are refusing to confirm exactly what has been alleged but their review has concluded and they are cutting ties with the couple. 

Here, MailOnline looks at what caused the channel to fall out with the Strawbridges, if we will see them again on screen again and if there have been any other fall-outs…

What caused Channel 4 to cut ties with the popular duo? 

The exact nature of the allegations is not known, but Deadline reported that three of their former colleagues alleged the couple have clashed with producers.

A source told the site : ‘There has been a deteriorating relationship between Two Rivers and Dick and Angel’s Chateau TV for various reasons and it all came to a head.’

Were there been any other signs of conflict? 

In 2021, it was reported that sources close to Spark Media had accused Dick and Angel of bullying.

Dick was accused of pushing one crew member around a room, and threatening to throw another ‘out the f*****g window’ while brandishing a hammer. Both were also said to have sworn at TV staff.

Meanwhile, the show apparently haemorrhaged producer directors (PDs) during the first four series, as it was claimed three out of six left prematurely following rows.

Dick and Angel categorically denied the accusations at the time. 

In testimony via their representative at the time, the couple emphasised the warm atmosphere among the team, but also their long-held, high professional standards, which they say has helped bring their chateau fantasy to successful fruition.

Their representative said production members associated with the couple over many years found ‘working with our clients at the chateau is a lovely experience’. 

They also made accusations of their own of outrageous behaviour among the Spark’s production team. 

At the time, Channel 4 denied all knowledge of the row: ‘Channel 4 does not tolerate bullying or abusive behaviour in any of its productions.’

Dick told Daily Mail at the time: ‘It’s not even worth investigating. We don’t talk about it because it’s not worth worrying about.’ 

He points out that they have a very low turnover of crew, most of whom have stayed for years and were so annoyed about the gossip that ‘they were all saying they wanted to sell their happy story, as it were, to put the truth across’. 

‘I would say that we are loving and open – what you see is what you get. If you come into our home – and it’s our home, not a TV set – and maybe treat us in a certain way, then we may reciprocate,’ added Angel, firmly (if not a little cryptically).

‘We have so many people coming through, and we always like having selfies and everything like that. There is a line, though, and if you cross it… end of.’ 

Will we see any new episodes of Escape To The Chateau? 

The ninth and final series aired in late 2022, but spin-off travel show Escape To The Chateau: Secret France was already in the works.

The programme has reportedly wrapped and is currently being edited, but Channel 4 has not yet confirmed whether it will be broadcast.

Sharing a sneak-peek of filming for the spin-off in January, former engineer Dick and designer Angel previously wrote on Instagram: ‘We are busy filming our new series for Channel 4.

‘Escape to the Chateau: Secret France will be on your screens later this year – we can’t wait to share our discoveries with you!’ 

In 2021, the couple said: Did they not consider, I wonder, with all the hard work that goes into their business, just disappearing from public view and never doing another series of the show? ‘We consider it every year,’ Dick said. ‘It’s always a choice.’

What’s the show all about?  

Escape To The Chateau became one of the channel’s biggest hits when it started airing in 2016, with many tuning in to see Dick’s handiwork and Angel’s creativity when transforming their home.

The couple bought the run-down 45-room chateau for just £280,000 in 2015, with Channel 4 launching a popular series following the transformation in 2016. 

The villa is called Chateau-de-la-Motte Husson and it is in the picturesque Loire region of North West France around 200 miles from Paris.

Dick and Angel previously worked with Spark Media Partners, which launched Escape To The Chateau back in 2016 and produced its first four series. 

The series was full of arguments and tiffs over stressful renovations, precious moments with their children Arthur, nine, and Dorothy, eight and creating happy memories with newlyweds.

The chateau has since been valued at £2million but the couple have also cashed in through TV rights from Channel 4 for the series. 

How long have the couple been together?

Dick and Angel had two children – Arthur (eight) and Dorothy (seven) – before marrying in 2015. 

Almost immediately the pair decided to uproot their young family for a new adventure in Northwest France.

Dick has a daughter called Charlotte, 35, from his first marriage, to environmental activist Brigit Weiner – the pair wed in 1982 and divorced in 2010 after 28 years. 

They also have a son – James, 37 – a chef who has appeared on Escape to the Chateau. 

Dick a former lieutenant colonel and engineer, met second wife Angel, 43, in 2010 at a mutual friend’s 40th birthday party. 

What do Dick and Angel argue about? 

In 2021, the couple spoke to Daily Mail about life during the pandemic and homeschooling and Angel said: ‘ I’m too much of a rebel.’

Angel joked that she joined her children in Dick’s homeschooling class and said: ‘Let’s hope we never have to do that again, as I thought Daddy’s School was too strict.’ 

Dick  gleaned his strict side from a childhood in Northern Ireland and a career in the military. 

And talking about their career side projects, such a book they created called Living The Chateau Dream, they were asked if they had spectacular rows. 

‘No! This is the nice thing,’ Angel said. 

‘We definitely have disagreements…’ Dick interjected, ‘…and then Angel goes and gets an email that proves she was right!’ ‘I do,’ laughs Angel, ‘There’s no limit to what I’ll do to prove I’m right about something.’ 

Tesla owners have filed a lawsuit against the Elon Musk-owned company, claiming a their vehicles’ car batteries with ill-conceived automatic software updates.

In some instances, the suit alleges, plaintiffs were compelled to buy brand new batteries, at a cost of up to $15,000, to replace those bricked the ‘bad software.’

The Tesla owners claim these software updates came ‘without warning’ and cut their cars’ driving range by at least 20 percent. 

And a few of the owners spent between $500 and $750 to undo the offending update, according to the suit.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs stated that the class action applies to the company’s Model S and Model X vehicles and that other Tesla owners, based on the public response to this class action, appear to be affected as well.

‘We have had a lot of interest,’ Steve Berman, an attorney representing the Tesla owners, told the Dailymail.com.

‘We brought a not to unsimilar case v. Tesla and were successful,’ Berman says.

‘When car owners purchase their vehicles,’ the lawsuit reads, ‘they reasonably expect that unforeseen events — like weather, accidents, or flat tires — may impact the performance of their vehicles and lead to costly repairs.’ 

‘But no reasonable consumer would expect that the car manufacturer itself, through an automated system, would deliberately and significantly interfere with the car’s performance,’ the suit claims, ‘through software updates that reduce the operating capacity of the vehicles.’

That said, however, previous suits against Tesla have accused the automaker of similarly ham-fisted software patches, as the new complaint makes plain.

One such case, filed on August 7, 2019, claimed that Tesla defrauded its customers by ‘placing an artificial, software induced limitation on the total number of usable kilo-watt hours (‘kWh’)’ thereby undermining customers’ ability to ‘charge the battery cells up to the natural and normal amount of approximately 4.2 volts.’  

Attorneys for Tesla moved to settle that 2019 case almost immediately, ultimately offering to compensate each qualifying party to the suit $625 apiece.

During that case, Tesla’s outside counsel Sean P. Gates admitted via court declaration that ‘Data from Tesla shows that 1,743 2012-2016 Model S vehicles in the United States were subject to a 10 percent voltage limitation caused by a May 2019 software update.’

The issue, Gates said, was reportedly corrected in future software updates over the course of the next ten months. 

Controversy has trailed the software updates implemented on Tesla vehicles in recent months, both at home and abroad.

Last week, a recall of 1.1 million Tesla vehicles in China — nearly one full quarter of all Teslas on the road to date — was vowed to be corrected with a remote software update fixing trouble with each car’s ‘regenerative braking system.’

Critics with consumer safety groups have said that this energy-saving, automated braking system has led to accidents by conflicting with the driver’s own input via the traditional foot pedals.

But Musk has downplayed the gravity of software update issues in recent months. In February, the billionaire criticized the United States National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) for describing any Tesla issue that could be fixed via a software update as a ‘recall,’ regardless of the circumstances.

‘The word ‘recall’ for an over-the-air software update is anachronistic and just flat wrong!’ Musk announced via Twitter. 

The NHTSA website specifies that the agency issues a recall whenever its regulators or the car’s manufacturer determines that ‘a vehicle, equipment, car seat, or tire creates an unreasonable safety risk or fails to meet minimum safety standards.’ 

The agency sys that it only requires manufacturers to fully repurchase vehicles from owners in ‘rare cases.’ 

Steve Berman, one of the attorneys representing the Tesla owners in the new class action, described the recall debate as ‘an interesting question,’ but ultimately a semantic issue with no ‘legal significance.’

‘A consumer doesn’t care how its characterized but rather cares what the impact on the car might be,’ Berman told the Dailymail.com via email. 

‘Here the impact is to adversely effect the most important selling point for an electric vehicle, THE BATTERY!’

Russia ‘must cut all British power and internet cables if Ukraine uses UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles’, State TV pundit demands

• The deployment of the UK’s weapons to Kyiv is said to have infuriated Moscow
• The GPS-guided missiles have a range long enough to strike targets in Crimea

By Will Stewart and Christian Oliver

Published: 07:02 EDT, 12 May 2023 | Updated: 07:05 EDT, 12 May 2023

Hunter Biden’s baby mama has lit the touch-paper on next week’s courthouse showdown – by accusing the president’s son of hiding assets and posing as a ‘destitute’ artist to get his child support payments slashed.

Lunden Roberts, 32, wants to know how Hunter can plead poverty in their paternity case while deploying a stable of super lawyers charging up to $855 per hour in his various lawsuits and congressional probes. 

She’s arguing that attorney-client privilege does not shield her 53-year-old former flame from having to reveal precisely how much he’s shelling out, and to whom.

Roberts further accuses Hunter – who spent this past week at a Democrat donor’s $50 million California vineyard – of vacuuming up perks, loans and non-cash benefits from rich pals but not declaring it as personal income.

The huge sums involved will paint a ‘very different story’ about the First Son’s finances, her attorney Clinton Lancaster claims in a motion filed Thursday in circuit court in Independence County, Arkansas.

Cutting the money Hunter contributes to four-year-old Navy Joan Roberts’s upbringing would therefore be ‘inappropriate and unjust’ – and the dad-of-five should instead pay more if he’s caught hiding his true wealth, the filing argues.

‘Voluntarily reducing income, or hiding assets, is not a basis for a reduction in support,’ warns Lancaster.

‘The court must consider whether the defendant has unclean hands or is otherwise perpetrating a fraud upon the court regarding his income.’

Hunter was ordered to appear before Judge Holly Meyer for a contempt hearing this coming Monday in rural Batesville, Arkansas, after Roberts suggested he be slung in jail for not complying with discovery deadlines.

The pair appeared to have put their dispute behind them in 2019 when a DNA test proved Navy Joan was his daughter and he agreed to a reported $2.5 million settlement.

But the recovering drug addict abruptly reopened the case in September by claiming he had suffered ‘a substantial material change’ in his income and couldn’t afford the payments.

Furious Roberts refused to buckle and raised the stakes by petitioning the court to officially rename her daughter Navy Joan Biden to ‘benefit from carrying the Biden family name,’ a move Hunter dismissed as ‘political warfare’.

She hit him with a discovery request containing hundreds of questions covering his assets, earnings, overseas business dealings in Ukraine and China plus a list of people who bought his artworks after he reinvented himself as a painter.

Lancaster’s latest motion takes aim at the pricey legal team comprising ‘some of the most expensive attorneys on planet Earth’ that Hunter has assembled to fight multiple lawsuits and ongoing federal and congressional probes.

These include Washington ‘power fixer’ Abbe Lowell ‘who charges a rate of $855 per billable hour’, according to the filing, and whose past clients include Bill Clinton, former vice-presidential candidate John Edwards, and Jared Kushner.

Also listed are prominent Chicago attorney George Mesires and Hunter’s ‘sugar brother’ pal Kevin Morris – who reportedly loaned him $2.8 million to pay off a 2021 tax bill and has represented Hollywood stars Chris Rock, Scarlett Johansson and Matthew McConaughey.

‘The plaintiff has evidence that the defendant has not fully disclosed his income sources, residences, assets, and property,’ Lancaster states. ‘This evidence is bolstered by the fact that the defendant refuses to provide full discovery in this matter.

‘What Mr. Biden has paid, or received as a contribution, for paying these elite attorneys has a definitive and quantifiable value that goes directly to his income for child support purposes.’

Lancaster argues that privilege does not apply to client identity and fee information and even wants to see how much Hunter is paying Brent Langdon, the lawyer representing him in the paternity suit.‘

‘Mr Biden claims to be nothing more than a Yale educated attorney/artist who is somewhat financially destitute and needs his child support adjusted. However, for an artist living on meager means Mr Biden is living lavishly,’ he continues.

His remarks about Hunter’s home and car are redacted but he notes that Hunter jets around the world on ‘the safest and most comfortable airplane in existence – Air Force One.’

Only someone with ‘the ‘prestige, power and influence associated with the name Biden’ could land such a peerless legal team, bolstering Roberts’s case that Navy Joan would benefit from taking her dad’s name.

‘Payments to attorneys will show … there is no difficulty that a person with the last name “Biden” cannot fix with a Biden-paid or funded attorney,’ Lancaster adds.

‘These payments will evince that there is respect, admiration, power, accolades, and not harassment or hardship due to the name “Biden”.’

Hunter’s lawyers filed a request for a continuance Wednesday afternoon, pleading for more time to ‘properly prepare’ for Monday’s showdown, but it was denied by Judge Meyer. Langdon claimed that his client needed longer because Roberts has retained Garrett Ziegler, a former Trump administration staffer and longtime Hunter nemesis, as an expert witness.

He dropped his motion to exclude Ziegler Friday morning and suggested the court ‘might consider rescheduling’ or canceling Monday’s hearing as a key issue had been cleared up.

Langdon recommended a phone or video conference instead to save ‘time, expense, logistical challenges, and especially the media event any in-person hearing would create.’

But his appeal fell on deaf ears as Judge Meyer ruled that Monday’s hearing must take place and that ‘all parties are to physically appear for all future hearings.’ 

In a final throw of the dice Langdon asked late Friday if Lowell – who has previously played no part in the Arkansas proceedings – could ‘participate on behalf of Hunter Biden.’ 

Navy Joan was born in August 2018 but she remained a secret until Roberts sued Hunter for child support in her native Arkansas.

The adorable, blonde-haired girl is the fourth of Hunter’s five children but neither he, nor his parents Joe and Jill Biden, have ever met the child or publicly acknowledged her existence.

 Hunter claimed during the original 10-month paternity case that he was ‘unemployed and had no monthly income’ despite living in a $12,000-per-month Hollywood rental and driving a Porsche.

But when a judge ordered him to produce financial records he repeatedly failed to do so and instead settled out of court, the two sides announcing a ‘global, final settlement of all issues’.

Hunter claimed in his 2021 memoir, Beautiful Things, that he went on such a ‘rampage’ in the wake of his 2017 divorce from Kathleen Buhle that he couldn’t remember the names of the women he bedded.

‘It’s why I would later challenge in court the woman from Arkansas who had a baby in 2018 and claimed the child was mine – I had no recollection of our encounter. That’s how little connection I had with anyone,’ he wrote.

It was initially reported that Hunter met Roberts while she worked as a stripper at a DC club which Hunter frequented.

But texts retrieved from his notorious abandoned laptop proved that she was in fact on the payroll at Rosemont Seneca, Hunter’s investment firm.

She and Hunter conceived Navy Joan around December 2017 while he was still in a relationship with his brother Beau’s widow, Hallie, but he stopped responding to her texts during the pregnancy.

Hunter has never seen Navy Joan and could not pick her out of a photo lineup, according to court filings.

And Navy has never met her grandpa Joe, 80, despite the President fawning over his six other grandkids and frequently bringing them along for events and speeches.