“Young people go out with their mobile telephones and their knives now. I’ve noticed a lot more violence, I’ve noticed bad language. Literally, you can’t get some young people to do joined up writing, let alone joined up sentences,” says the Duchess.

Sarah Ferguson, The Duchess of York, has spent more than 10 days on a Manchester housing estate to learn more about the problems of ‘broken Britain’ in the new two part show The Duchess on the Estate.

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‘Fergie’ The Duchess Of York is said to have thrown her hat in the ring for ITV’s This Morning vacancy.

Fern Britton will be leaving the show in July and Fergie is said to have offered her services to ITV bosses in a recent meeting about future projects on the channel.

A channel source told The Sun: “The Duchess came in to see the team and later that evening she called back to ask if she could be kept in mind for Fern’s replacement.

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Sarah Ferguson, The Duchess of York will spend time on a housing estate in a new programme for ITV1 called The Sarah Ferguson Project.

Having spent much of the last decade in the States, Sarah was shocked to return to the UK to find a place she didn’t recognise with a lack of community spirit. As a mother, she believes that women in fractured communities hold the key to making things better. She wants to galvanise the women in the households and empower them to raise standards, expectations and ambitions. And Sarah wants to inject a heart into the neighbourhood – could a local hall harness the wasted potential and pull the community together to make a difference?

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