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“Chaidh pàirtean den sgriobt a thoirt bho chùisean fìor agus bha an carthannas Refuge an sàs anns an rannsachadh. Bha mo charactar Heidi an sàs nas tòcail agus mar sin bha mi a’ faireachdainn gur dòcha gu robh i air eòlas fhaighinn air seòrsa de dhroch dhìol san dachaigh i fhèin.
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“Le bhith a’ roinn seallaidhean diùraidh le Charlie Dale agus Jack Ellis agus cuideachd a bhith a’ faicinn mòran de mo charaidean Emmerdale rinn e obair air a chuimhneachadh.
Tha Welch pòsta aig a cho-chleasaiche Tim Healy agus tha i na màthair don phrìomh sheinneadair 1975 Matty Healy.
Tha i cuideachd air cur ri Unfastened Ladies bhon bhliadhna 2000 agus nochd i ann an còrr air 450 prògram de Coronation Avenue eadar 1997 agus 2000.
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One in 4 girls who’ve given start within the UK have reported a damaging expertise, new analysis finds, with campaigners calling on the well being secretary to take pressing motion to repair a “damaged” system.
Analysis carried out by marketing campaign group Delivering Higher additionally discovered that of those that reported a damaging expertise, greater than half (54%) stated they have been much less more likely to wish to have extra youngsters.
Greater than a 3rd of all moms stated their start expertise left them with long-term psychological well being points, a determine which jumps to seven out of 10 when respondents suffered a poor birthing expertise.
In September, the Care High quality Fee warned failings inside NHSEngland maternity companies have been “extra widespread” than beforehand thought. Well being Secretary Wes Streeting responded saying the findings have been “trigger for nationwide disgrace”.
The warning got here months after a maternity knowledgeable behind a key report informed Sky Information she was “indignant” about inaction from the earlier authorities.
After saying the “disaster in our maternity companies… is among the largest points that retains me awake at evening”, Mr Streeting in October launched a “nationwide dialog”, asking workers and sufferers alike about their expertise of the NHS to assist construction a plan to repair it.
However Delivering Higher, which is made up of campaigning moms, stated proof is already obtainable with an estimated 1,600 infants being born within the UK day by day.
Jo Cruse, who based Delivering Higher following her personal expertise of a traumatic start, stated: “My start gave me my stunning daughter, but it surely took away my dignity.
“I developed suspected Submit-Traumatic Stress Dysfunction, and the long-term bodily and psychological well being impacts nonetheless have an effect on me three years later.
“But, based on the NHS my start expertise was recorded as profitable.”
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Talking of what she described as a “maternity care disaster”, Ms Cruse stated there have been “1000’s of moms damaged by births”.
She went on: “What human value needs to be paid earlier than we begin to see pressing change? Everybody deserves to provide start with dignity. But day by day, girls, their infants, their households and the healthcare professionals who endeavour to look after them are being failed by a damaged system.”
Amongst Delivering Higher’s suggestions are a larger continuity of care all through being pregnant, as a overwhelming majority of girls (88%) need the chance to see the identical midwife all through their being pregnant – however provision varies considerably throughout trusts.
The group can be calling on GPs to examine in additional recurrently with new mums, at three and 6 months post-partum to observe their bodily and psychological well being.
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Girls affected by modifications to the state pension age is not going to obtain compensation, Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has introduced.
Girls In opposition to State Pension Inequality (Waspi) have advocated for help for girls who have been born within the Fifties and say they didn’t get satisfactory warnings about modifications to the state pension.
“The Authorities doesn’t imagine paying a flat charge to all ladies at a value of as much as £10.5 billion can be truthful or proportionate to taxpayers,” Ms Kendall instructed the Commons.
Ms Kendall did settle for the Ombudsman’s discovering of maladministration and has apologised for a 28-month delay in writing to Fifties-born ladies.
In an announcement, she stated: “These two info: that almost all ladies knew the state pension age was growing and that letters aren’t as vital because the Ombudsman says, in addition to different causes, have knowledgeable our conclusion that there needs to be no scheme of economic compensation to Fifties-born ladies, in response to the Ombudsman’s report.”
She added: “The choice put ahead within the report is for a flat charge compensation scheme, at degree 4 of the Ombudsman’s scale of injustice, this would offer £1,000 to £2,950 per individual at a complete value of £3.5 billion and 10.5 billion.
“Given the overwhelming majority of girls knew the state pension age was growing, the Authorities doesn’t imagine paying a flat charge to all ladies at a value of as much as £10.5 billion can be truthful or proportionate to taxpayers.”
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“I do know there are girls born within the Fifties who need and deserve a greater life, they’ve labored exhausting in paid jobs and in citing their households,” she stated.
“Many are struggling financially with the price of dwelling and fewer financial savings to fall again on, they usually fear about their well being and the way their youngsters and grandchildren will get on.
“To these girls I say, this Authorities will shield the pensions triple lock, so your state pension will enhance by as much as £1,900 per 12 months by the top of this Parliament.
“We’ll drive down ready lists so that you get the therapy you want with an additional £22 billion of funding for the NHS this 12 months and subsequent. And we’ll ship the roles, houses and alternatives your households have to construct a greater life. I do know that on this particular determination, many Fifties-born girls will likely be upset, however we imagine it’s the proper determination and the truthful determination.”
However the Lib Dems stated the choice was a “day of disgrace for the federal government”.
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It could not be truthful on taxpayers to compensate ladies affected by adjustments to their retirement age, the federal government has mentioned.
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall at the moment issued an apology for a 28-month delay in sending out letters to these born within the Nineteen Fifties impacted by the state pension adjustments – so-called “waspi” ladies.
Nevertheless, she mentioned she does not settle for that compensation must be paid.
Ms Kendall mentioned the “nice majority of girls knew the state pension age was growing” and {that a} state-funded pay-out would not be “truthful or worth for taxpayers’ cash'”.
The announcement was branded a “day of disgrace” by the Liberal Democrats, who accused the Labour authorities of “turning its again on tens of millions of pension-age ladies who have been wronged”.
It comes after an investigation by the Parliamentary and Well being Service Ombudsman (PHSO) discovered that 1000’s of girls could have been adversely impacted by the federal government’s failure to adequately inform them of the change to their retirement age.
The watchdog prompt that ladies ought to obtain compensation of between £1,000 and £2,950 – however the findings weren’t legally binding.
The report adopted a long-running marketing campaign by the Ladies In opposition to State Pension Inequality – typically often called Waspi ladies – who say tens of millions suffered financially as they weren’t given adequate warning to arrange for the later retirement age.
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Zephen Xaver, 27, appeared to gulp however in any other case confirmed no emotion as Decide Angela Cowden pronounced the sentence on the Highlands County Courthouse in Sebring.
At gunpoint, Xaver ordered his victims, all girls, to lie on the ground after which shot every the top as they begged for mercy.
Cowden stated the weeks of planning that Xaver carried out earlier than the 2019 murders at Sebring’s SunTrust financial institution, the enormity of the crime and the worry the victims felt as they have been shot vastly outweighed the 2 dozen mitigating elements his attorneys had introduced, together with his historical past of psychological sickness, his benign mind tumor and his jailhouse embrace of Christianity.
“Might God have mercy in your soul,” Cowden informed Xaver.
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Zephen Xaver, 27, was sentenced to dying for the 2019 homicide of 5 girls in a Sebring, Florida, SunTrust financial institution.
Xaver pleaded responsible to 5 counts of first-degree homicide. He had herded the ladies right into a room and shot them execution-style.
The choose known as the pre-meditated killings “calculated, heinous, and merciless,” stating that the annoying elements outweighed mitigating elements like Xaver’s psychological sickness.
Relations of the victims delivered influence statements expressing their grief and anger.
Xaver’s protection argued for a life sentence to keep away from extended appeals, however the dying sentence will likely be robotically appealed below Florida legislation.
Hours earlier than the murders, Xaver started an extended, intermittent textual content message dialog with a former girlfriend in Connecticut, telling her “that is the very best day of my life” however refusing to say why. Fifteen minutes earlier than the shootings, he texted her, “I’m dying as we speak,”
Then, from the financial institution car parking zone he texted, “I’m taking just a few individuals with me as a result of I’ve at all times wished to kill individuals so I’m going to attempt it and see the way it goes. Look ahead to me on the information.”
After a two-week penalty trial, a jury in June voted 9-3 to suggest that Cowden sentence Xaver to dying.
Xaver pleaded responsible final 12 months to 5 counts of first-degree homicide for the slayings of buyer Cynthia Watson, 65; financial institution teller coordinator Marisol Lopez, 55; banker trainee Ana Pinon-Williams, 38; teller Debra Prepare dinner, 54; and banker Jessica Montague, 31.
Kiara Lopez informed Xaver and the court docket that her mom Marisol had welcomed him into the financial institution with a smile, an act he repaid by murdering her.
“You shattered me into one million items,” Lopez stated. “I’ll have fun the day you die, every time that could be. Let it’s identified that you’ll at all times be a killer, a coward, a no person and a waste of human life.”
Michael Prepare dinner, Debra’s husband, additionally known as Xaver a coward and informed the choose, “I’ve completely no sympathy for him.”
The mugshot of Zephen Xaver
Xaver’s lead public defender, Jane McNeill, had requested that Cowden spare her shopper, saying a life sentence would put an finish to the case as a substitute of dragging it out for a decade of appeals and probably a retrial if the sentence is overturned.
“The one method for this matter to be dropped at an finish in order that the households of the victims and this neighborhood is ready to transfer ahead is a life sentence,” McNeill argued. The sentence will likely be robotically appealed.
Beneath a brand new Florida legislation, dying penalty sentences could be rendered by a jury vote of 8-4 reasonably than a unanimous suggestion. The change was adopted after the 2018 Parkland highschool shooter couldn’t be sentenced to dying for murdering 17 individuals regardless of a 9-3 jury vote. McNeill known as the brand new legislation unconstitutional.
Xaver moved to Sebring, a metropolis of about 11,000, in 2018 from close to South Bend, Indiana. In 2014, his highschool principal contacted police after Xaver informed others he was having desires about hurting his classmates. His mom promised to get him psychological assist.
A Highlands County Sheriff’s SWAT car is stationed out in entrance of a SunTrust Financial institution department, Jan. 23, 2019 (Copyright 2019 The Related Press. All rights reserved.)
He joined the Military in 2016. A former girlfriend, who met him at a psychological hospital the place they have been sufferers, informed police he stated becoming a member of the navy was a “solution to kill individuals and get away with it.” The Military discharged him after three months. In 2017, a Michigan girl reported him after he despatched her textual content messages suggesting he may commit “suicide by cop” or take hostages.
Regardless of his psychological issues and dismissal from the Military, Florida employed Xaver as a guard trainee in November 2018 at a jail close to Sebring. He give up two months later, two weeks earlier than the shootings and the day after he purchased his gun.
Hundreds of thousands of ladies eagerly awaiting information on potential £3,000 compensation may quickly have their replace, because the Authorities has supplied a contemporary response within the aftermath of a penetrating enchantment from a cross-party group of MPs. Earlier this month, they wrote to ministers, pushing for an “replace Parliament in your progress in responding to the PHSO’s report” earlier than the Christmas Parliamentary recess, marked for this Thursday (December 19).
Throughout questions on the Division for Work and Pensions, the delay was spotlighted, with inquiries about when a decision can be revealed. The surge of public assist is palpable, with a petition imploring the Authorities to “pretty compensate” impacted ladies amassing over 135,000 signatures.
This afternoon, Seamus Logan MP (SNP) pressed additional: “On December 4 my colleague the honourable member for Moray West requested the Prime Minister about WASPI ladies and was instructed the federal government was working at tempo. Since then 14 or 1500 extra ladies have died with out justice of compensation. Can the minister inform us what ‘working at tempo’ means and provides us a timeline.”
Emma Reynolds, the Parliamentary Beneath-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, responded, acknowledging the gravity of the state of affairs: “I thank him for that query. I used to be the primary minister for eight years to fulfill with the WASPI campaigners to hearken to their considerations. The ombudsman took six years to analyze six instances.”
She added, “We’re working at tempo on this difficulty. We hope to return to the home quickly to replace him and the general public on what we’ll do subsequent.”
In a response on December 9 to the petition, the DWP said it’s nonetheless “reviewing” the Ombudsman’s report and can “define its strategy” as soon as the assessment is full. Supporters of the marketing campaign, together with MPs, have referred to as for compensation payouts of £10,000 or extra, consistent with the PHSO’s prime tier for redress.
The Authorities has additionally indicated that it’s “listening respectfully” to the ladies affected, with pensions minister Emma Reynolds having just lately met with WASPI campaigners. Nonetheless, WASPI marketing campaign chair Angela Madden disagrees, asserting: “Respect just isn’t proven simply by ‘listening’ to WASPI ladies as ministers have indicated.”
“It’s proven by performing swiftly on the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s clear directions to compensate these affected.”
The petition rapidly gained momentum, surpassing 100,000 signatures quickly.
Madden highlighted this as proof of “the overwhelming assist throughout the nation for truthful compensation”. She pressed the Authorities: “Solely the Authorities has the facility to ship it. With one WASPI girl dying each 13 minutes, ministers can be sensible to carry their compensation proposals to Parliament with none additional delay.”
It is value noting for these nearing retirement that the state pension age is about to rise once more quickly.
The present retirement age of 66 for each genders is about to progressively rise from 66 to 67 between 2026 and 2028. An additional enhance will see the age go up from 67 to 68 between 2044 and 2046
Rapper Slowthai has damaged down in court docket after being cleared of raping two girls at a home celebration following one among his gigs in Oxford three years in the past.
The 29-year-old, whose actual title is Tyron Frampton, had been standing trial at Oxford Crown Court docket alongside his buddy Alex Blake-Walker, 27.
Each have been cleared of three joint fees of rape towards two girls, and Blake-Walker was additionally cleared of a further cost of sexual assault towards the second complainant.
The jury got here again with their verdict after greater than 10 hours of deliberation, following a two-week trial through which it was alleged the 2 defendants assaulted two girls within the early hours of 8 September 2021.
The Grammy-winning rapper burst into tears as jurors delivered their verdicts, whereas his spouse, singer Anne-Marie, sighed in reduction.
Decide Ian Pringle KC acknowledged the extent of emotion within the courtroom, telling the court docket this case has “raised plenty of excessive emotions”.
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Frampton had carried out at The Bullingdon music venue within the metropolis on the night of seven September 2021, the place he met the 2 complainants, one among whom the court docket had heard was a “big fan” of his.
After the present, the complainants had returned to Frampton’s tour bus, earlier than heading to a buddy’s home celebration, accompanied by Frampton and Blake-Walker.
It was at this home celebration the ladies had alleged they have been raped on an out of doors roof.
Picture: Frampton, who walked from the court docket with Anne-Marie, declined to touch upon the verdicts. Pic: PA
Frampton and Blake-Walker each agreed that sexual exercise happened with the complainants on the evening of the alleged assaults, however mentioned it was consensual.
In his proof to the jury, the rapper mentioned the allegations introduced up towards him have been “simply not true” and that the ladies have been “mendacity”.
Frampton accepted that he and Blake-Walker had “fist-bumped” on the time however denied this was encouraging one another.
The Northampton-born performer, who was nominated for a Grammy in 2021 and a Mercury prize in 2019, was faraway from the Glastonbury, Leeds and Studying pageant line-up after being charged final 12 months.
The court docket had beforehand heard {that a} backlog of instances had triggered a delay between Frampton’s arrest and cost, which got here when he was in New York for {a magazine} shoot.
Each Frampton and Blake-Walker walked free from the dock after the decide informed them they have been in a position to go. Frampton, who walked from the court docket together with his spouse, declined to touch upon the verdicts.
Frampton married singer Anne-Marie in 2022 in Las Vegas. The couple have a 10-month-old daughter. He additionally has a two-year-old son together with his ex-partner, Russian singer and mannequin Katya Kischuk.
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On Tuesday’s episode of the ITV panel present (10 December), the celebrities have been discussing the pitfalls of constructing a toddler select between their dad or mum or a possible associate.
Dialogue moved on to how divorced dad and mom deal with conditions once they need to attend occasions when their ex is there, with Langsford stating: “I believe it’s very egocentric if you hear dad and mom say nicely if they’re divorced then I’m not coming to your wedding ceremony if he’s coming or if she is there and I simply suppose it’s so egocentric isn’t it as a result of it’s their day.”
Fellow panellist Mariella Forstrup chimed in: “That’s an entire different topic isn’t it? The best way to divorce nicely,” with Langsford, not lacking a beat, replying: “Oh, inform me about it.”
Everybody within the studio was clearly shocked by Langsford’s remark and, by laughter, the host informed viewers: “Anyway, funnily, it’s now time for a break.”
Former This Morning co-hosts Langsford and Holmes, each 64, wed in 2010 after 13 years collectively and are mentioned to be “decided to remain pals and preserve issues amicable”.
Ruth Langsford made uncommon Eamonn Holmes divorce touch upon ‘Unfastened Ladies’ (ITV)
Holmes, who now presents his personal present on GB Information, has a brand new girlfriend, Katie Alexander, and lately mentioned he will probably be “glad to see the again of” 2024.
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The host has three kids together with his first spouse, Gabrielle, whom he married in 1985. Their relationship led to 1994. He started relationship Langsford two years later, however the pair stored their romance a secret out of respect for Gabrielle.
After six years collectively, Holmes and Langsford had a son collectively and, in June 2010, they married at Elvetham Corridor in Hampshire.
Through the years, the couple have hosted various reveals collectively, together with ITV quiz present Reward Wrapped (2014), Channel 5’s How the Different Half Lives (2015-17) and weight-reduction plan collection Lose a Stone in 4 Weeks, which debuted on Channel 4 in 2019.
In addition they introduced Eamonn & Ruth’s 7 Yr Itch (2017) and Do The Proper Factor with Eamonn and Ruth (2018-19).
