Sean Wilson was known for his iconic role as Martin Platt in ITV soap Coronation Street, which he played for 20 years. However, the actor is living a very different life now

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Most people know Sean Wilson for his iconic role as Martin Platt in ITV soap Coronation Street, which he played for 20 years. However, the actor is living a very different life now.

Wilson joined Corrie at the age of 19 in his role of Martin Platt. His character was central to many major plots, most notably his marriage to Gail Tilsley (Helen Worth) and being father to David Platt (Jack P. Shepherd). However, he left the role back in 2005 after refusing to film a controversial storyline involving an underage girl. Wilson did however make a brief return in 2018 for David’s male rape storyline.

After leaving his Corrie role, he appeared in dramas such as Waterloo Road, Silent Witness, Casualty, and The Royal.

However, he later underwent a significant career change and became a chef and a professional cheesemaker, founding the Saddleworth Cheese Company.

He has also worked in Michelin-starred restaurants and written several cookbooks. In 2025, he launched a dedicated artist website too, to showcase and sell his artwork.

Wilson toured the UK with celebrity chef Rosemary Shrager in a live stage show called “Posh Teas & Artisan Cheese” in 2025. The show featured a mix of Q&A sessions and live “cook-offs” between the two experts.

Despite his new career, Wilson was scheduled to return to Corrie as part of Gail Platt’s exit storyline in 2024.

However, he was axed mid-filming following an unfounded historical allegation from 1997. Police confirmed in late 2024 that no further action would be taken, clearing his name, but his scenes had already been scrapped and rewritten.

Instead, John Thomson, who played Jesse Chadwick between 2008 and 2010, returned to play a romantic role in Gail Platt’s exit storyline.

Wilson said at the time his “whole world was blown apart” by the allegation, which “ruined” his life “in eight minutes”.

He told The Sun: “I had no idea who had made this complaint or anything about it but I lost my job. It’s been hell. I’ve been low all the way through.”

Wilson has stayed quiet on social media since his failed TV return, however he did take to Instagram in the last week to promote his art.

One fan was happy to see his return, as they wrote: “Great art brother.”

It seems like art is Wilson’s main focus as reports suggest Saddleworth Cheese Company is not actively trading.

Despite this, he still names himself as a cheese producer and actor on his Instagram page and says he’s available for cooking demos.

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Huddersfield Town struck in the 106th minute to beat Leyton Orient in a dramatic League One encounter on Monday – but Ryan Ledson’s goal was completely missed by ITV’s highlights show

Furious fans have let rip on social media after ITV’s EFL highlights show failed to air Huddersfield Town‘s last-gasp winner at Leyton Orient, instead saying the game finished 1-1.

The League One clash at Brisbane Road looked to be ending all-square after Bojan Radulovic cancelled out Radinio Balker’s own goal just before the break. But Ryan Ledson popped up in the 16TH MINUTE of second half stoppage time to ensure Huddersfield remain in with a chance of making the play-offs.

While Huddersfield’s fans were left celebrating Ledson’s dramatic winner, Monday night’s highlight show inexplicably missed it, with the final score graphic saying the match ended 1-1.

Eagle-eyed fans quickly flocked to social media to tear into the programme, which has been criticised frequently since ITV acquired the rights to show highlights from Quest.

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“The EFL need to find better guardians for TV highlights than this awful ITV programme,” one social media user fumed. “Today, they completely missed Huddersfield’s winner at Orient, announcing that the game had finished 1-1 instead. Absolutely pathetic.”

Another wrote: “That is absolutely outrageous from ITV. Give it to someone who’s cares, the BBC did a great job but was on at midnight. Quest had a superb host and actually gave some decent analysis. Something needs to change because the ITV coverage is worse than amateur.”

Huddersfield’s win means they are three points off Stevenage in sixth, though Alex Revell’s men have a game-in-hand on the Terriers.

Defeat for Orient means their six-game unbeaten run is over with the O’s now just four points above the relegation places.

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Your browsing history, your location, your political preferences. For years, tech companies have found ways to turn personal data into profit. Now, a new and far more intimate frontier is opening: the electrical signals produced by your brain.

This is not science fiction. Nor is it about brain implants for paralysed patients or experimental medical procedures. A fast-growing consumer market of non-invasive neurotechnology – wearable headsets, brain activity-reading headbands, focus-enhancing devices – is already here, already being sold and already collecting neural data from ordinary users. But the legal and ethical frameworks to govern it are struggling to keep up.

A landmark case from Chile shows why this matters.

In August 2023, Chile’s Supreme Court issued the world’s first ruling on commercial neurodata. The case involved Senator Guido Girardi and Emotiv Inc, a San Francisco company selling the Insight wireless headset – a consumer device marketed for focus, meditation and cognitive performance.

When Girardi began using it, he discovered that accepting the terms of service meant granting Emotiv a worldwide, irrevocable and perpetual licence over his brain data. Unless he paid for a premium account, that data would be stored in Emotiv’s cloud with no way for him to access or export his own neural records.

The Chilean Supreme Court ruled that Emotiv had violated Girardi’s constitutional right to mental integrity, concluding: “The data obtained from Insight users … overlooks the preliminary requirement to have express consent for its use for scientific research purposes. Information collected for various purposes cannot be used differently without its owner’s knowledge and approval.”

The Supreme Court ordered the company to delete Girardi’s data immediately and prohibited sale of the Insight device in Chile until its privacy policies were revised. The headsets remain on sale in other countries around the world.

The ruling was a first. But the problem it exposed is global – and the legal pressure is building. In the US, Colorado and California enacted the first state-level privacy laws specifically governing neural data in 2024, and at least six other states are now moving in the same direction.

At the federal level, US senators Chuck Schumer, Maria Cantwell and Ed Markey announced plans in September 2025 to introduce the Mind Act – Congress’s first serious attempt to bring the neurotechnology industry under a dedicated regulatory framework.

A market growing faster than its rules

Emotiv is far from alone. Companies such as Muse (marketed for meditation and sleep) and Neurosity (aimed at software developers seeking focus) have built a consumer neurotechnology sector that is projected to double in value to more than US$55 billion (£42 billion) within a decade. It is attracting investment from some of the world’s wealthiest technology figures.

These devices read electroencephalography (EEG) signals – the brain’s electrical activity – through sensors worn on the head. Some go further, using photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors to measure heart rate and physiological responses. Think of this like a fitness tracker – but instead of counting steps, it is reading signals from your nervous system and, in some cases, inferring your cognitive or emotional states from them.

When fitness trackers first appeared, few people thought carefully about where their heart rate data was going, who could access it, or what it could be used to infer. Neural data raises those same questions – at considerably higher stakes. Unlike step counts, brain signals can potentially reveal attention patterns, stress responses and emotional reactions that users themselves may not be aware of.

Where the law has not yet caught up

We research these issues as part of the interdisciplinary group at Lund University, which brings together law, neuroscience, medicine, ethics and economics.

The Emotiv case turned on Chile’s constitutional protection of mental integrity – a provision the country had specifically enshrined in 2021. Most jurisdictions have no equivalent. The question of how neural data fits into existing legal frameworks remains open.

Under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, brain signals could potentially qualify as biometric or health data, both of which attract stronger protections. But consumer neurotechnology, when sold as wellness products rather than medical devices, often falls into a regulatory grey area, sitting awkwardly between health law, consumer protection and data privacy rules.

What remains unresolved across most of the world are the basic questions. What are users consenting to when they accept terms of service for a neural headset? How long can that data be retained? Can it be sold to third parties, used to train AI models, or shared with advertisers and insurers?

The Emotiv case showed that, in one instance at least, a company had retained a user’s neural data for research purposes under anonymisation provisions, without that user having any meaningful awareness of what was being collected or why.

The stakes here are higher than with most forms of personal data. Neural signals are not like a credit card number that can be changed if compromised. Generated by your brain in real time, they can increasingly be used to infer things about you that you have not chosen to disclose – such as emotional responses, cognitive patterns, and other reactions you may not consciously be aware of.

Chile has showed that courts can act. Legislators in several jurisdictions are beginning to follow. The harder question is whether the frameworks being built are moving fast enough to match a market that, in the quest for competitive advantage, does not want to hang about waiting for them.

The four astronauts on Nasa’s Artemis II mission have travelled further from Earth than anyone in human history, in a dramatic lunar flyby that brought spectacular images of the planet from rarely seen angles.

The Orion spacecraft’s crew lost contact with mission control for 40 minutes as they circled behind the Moon, as was expected. With communications re-established, astronaut Christina Koch said: “It’s so great to hear from Earth again.”

The team also witnessed a total eclipse of the Sun as the Moon blocked out its light, before beginning their journey back home.

After the flyby, President Trump spoke to the team and congratulated them: “Today, you’ve made history and made all America really proud, incredibly proud.”

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Feeling stuck in climate anxiety? These five small actions can help you feel more grounded, connected, and purposeful

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Anxiety is a marketer’s best friend. Someone is always ready to sell you a miracle solution, and, desperate for a fix, we fall for it. But quick patches never satisfy our underlying needs. Instead of buying your way out of anxiety, try making something. Moving from passive consumption to active creation reduces waste while increasing joy, skill-building, and community exchange. Whether you bake bread, mend clothes, or grow vegetables, manual labour and craftsmanship restore agency, pride, and connection — things no retail therapy session can deliver.

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Emergency services including the air ambulance were called on Monday evening (April 6), at 11.02pm.

The patient was taken to hospital for further treatment.

A spokesperson from the Great North Air Ambulance Service said: “On Monday (April 6), our critical care team was activated at 11.02pm to reports of an assault in Darlington.

“We had a paramedic and doctor on a rapid response vehicle, and they arrived on scene at 11.12pm.

“Our team worked alongside the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) to assess and treat a patient.

“The patient was taken to hospital by a NEAS road crew, accompanied by our team.”

A spokesperson from The North East Ambulance Service said: “We received a call at 10.58pm on Monday, April 6, to reports of an incident at a private address in Darlington.

“We dispatched an ambulance crew to the scene and requested support from our colleagues at the Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) who attended by road.

“One patient was taken to hospital for further treatment.”

Durham Police have been contacted for more information.

Australia’s most decorated living veteran has been charged with allegedly killing five unarmed Afghans between 2009 and 2012.

Police have not named him but it’s widely reported to be Ben Roberts-Smith, a 47-year-old former SAS corporal.

He was awarded the Victoria Cross and the Medal of Gallantry for his service in Afghanistan – but now faces five counts of war crime murder.

Roberts-Smith was arrested when he landed at Sydney airport on Tuesday.

Police said he had been denied bail and would appear in court for a bail hearing on Wednesday.

“It will be alleged the victims were detained, unarmed and were under the control of ADF [Australian Defence Force] members when they were killed,” said police commissioner Krissy Barrett

Roberts-Smith is the second veteran to be charged after a 2020 report found evidence Australian SAS and commando troops had unlawfully killed 39 prisoners, farmers and other non-combatants.

Oliver Schulz, 44, is the other former Australian SAS veteran who’s been charged.

He is alleged to have shot an Afghan man in the head three times in a field in Uruzgan province in May 2012. Schulz has pleaded not guilty.

War crime murder in Australian law is defined as the intentional killing of someone not taking an active part in hostilities, such as civilians, prisoners of war or wounded soldiers. It carries a potential sentence of life in prison.

Roberts-Smith sued several newspapers over articles in 2018 that accused him of various war crimes. He has consistently denied allegations of wrongdoing during his service.

But in 2023, a civil court found he had likely killed non-combatants unlawfully, and in September, Australia’s highest court refused to hear his appeal.

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The criminal charges will need to meet a higher bar; proving the allegations beyond reasonable doubt rather than on a balance of probabilities.

Commissioner Barrett said the charges were “not reflective of the majority of members who serve under our Australian flag with honour, with distinction and with the values of a democratic nation”.

Julie-Ann Bowden was speaking after an event she helped organise in which more than a dozen fellow riders took to routes around the borough in an attempt to raise awareness of what the Highway Code says about how to overtake horses.

She told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) that while “the majority” of drivers show the beasts the respect they deserve, there are others who refuse to be held up for the short time it takes to pass a horse safely – and then fly into a rage when challenged.

Julie-Ann says such incidents are an increasingly regular occurrence, having recently experienced two in the space of a week, close to the livery stables she uses in Whittle-le-Woods.

Confronted in the first with the sight of a BMW heading towards her horse at high speed, she gave a hand signal to request the driver slow down – but got a very different gesture in response.

“He was coming really fast down Cophurst Lane, [which is] a small country road with parked vehicles, and I shouted and [indicated] for him to slow – but he just did his own hand signals and actually stopped, reversed and hurled a load of abuse at us.

“[Another day], on Town Lane, myself and a friend had gone into a bit of a gap between parked cars to allow a van to come through – and, as he was approaching, my friend on the horse behind me asked that I try to slow him down.

“But he just carried on and as he went past, something in the back of the van made a really loud noise, because of the road surface, and my friend’s horse turned and wanted to run away. That made my horse want to go as well – and it was [only because] we were so experienced that we weren’t unseated.

“We shouted after them [and asked them] to stop and have a conversation. The passenger got out and we got the usual – ‘You shouldn’t be riding your horses on the road if they’re not safe, you should be in a field,’” Julie recalled.

The latter incident – which was reported to the police, complete with camera footage – was a dispiritingly fitting precursor to last weekend’s awareness-raising ride. The procession boasted 18 riders at any one time along the route and was arranged as part of the ‘Pass Wide and Slow’ campaign.

The initiative aims to promote caution and consideration around horses on the road – and, in particular, knowledge of rule 215 of the Highway Code, which advises motorists how to negotiate the animals when they encounter them.

It says that they should “slow down to a maximum of 10 mph” and “when safe to do so, pass wide and slow, allowing at least two metres of space”.

Motorists are further warned: “Be patient [and] do not sound your horn or rev your engine” – and they are also reminded that children are often amongst groups of horse riders on the road.

Julie-Ann says that patience is in short supply amongst the motorists most irritated by the sight of horses on the highway – but appeals to them to think about the many potential consequences of their actions.

“The real danger is that the horse spooks and the rider is thrown…[maybe] into the oncoming traffic or it could be onto the [overtaking] vehicle itself. [That vehicle] may end up with the horse on [its] bonnet, which I’m sure the drivers really don’t want.

“And a loose horse on the highway could obviously cause even more issues if it tried to run off and head for home.

“I just don’t understand why [people] will put themselves and other road users in danger,” Julie added.

HORSE RIDING HORRORS

According to the British Horse Society (BHS), in 2024:

● 3,118 road incidents involving horses were reported;

● 58 horses died;

● 97 horses were injured;

● 80 people were injured.

However, figures from the Pass Wide and Slow survey suggest that these sobering stats are significantly underreported, with only 29 per cent of incidents being logged on the BHS app.

A cyclist was taken to hospital with serious injuries

A bus company has released a statement after one of its vehicles was involved in a crash. A Stagecoach bus was involved in a crash with a bike at around 6pm on Saturday (April 4) on Station Road in Cambridge.

The cyclist was taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital with serious injuries. No arrests were made and the bus driver remained at the scene.

Darren Roe, managing director of Stagecoach East, confirmed it was a Stagecoach bus involved in the crash. He said: “Our first thoughts are for the welfare of those affected – safety is our absolute priority and we will carry out a full investigation into the circumstances.”

Cambridgeshire Police attended the scene and continued its investigation into the crash. A police spokesperson said: “We were called at about 6pm on Saturday with reports of a collision between a bus and a cyclist on Station Road in Cambridge.

“Officers attended and the cyclist was taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital with serious injuries. The bus driver remained at the scene. No arrests and investigations are ongoing.”

The East of England Ambulance Service also attended. An ambulance spokesperson said: “One ambulance, a paramedic car and East Anglian Air Ambulance were called to Station Road Cambridge on Saturday, following reports of a cyclist injured in a road traffic collision.

“One patient was transported by road ambulance to Addenbrooke’s Hospital for further assessment and care.”