Author: News Desk

Sir Chris Hoy says the treatment he is receiving for his stage-four prostate cancer is ‘working’ and he is hopeful of living beyond the diagnosis he has been given by doctors. Having first been diagnosed with cancer in September 2023, Hoy, a six-time Olympic champion, announced last month that his condition was terminal. The 48-year-old first confirmed he was undergoing chemotherapy in a heart-wrenching statement in February of this year, revealing how the decision to go public with the news ‘had been forced’. Tragically, Hoy’s wife Sarra was diagnosed with a ‘very active and aggressive’ form of multiple sclerosis just…

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Male model charged in gruesome New York City apartment lobby stabbing A 20-year-old male model has been charged in the stabbing death of a man in New York City, prosecutors said Saturday. On late Friday, 20-year-old Dynus Saxon was arraigned and charged in the Nov. 10 killing of 35-year-old Kadeem Grant. He has been charged with second degree murder, first degree manslaughter, and fourth degree criminal possession of a weapon. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) previously confirmed to Fox News Digital that they found the 35-year-old victim stabbed in his chest in a Mott Haven apartment building. “Police…

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How ref’s cope with the abuse and noise of the Premier league. Darren Cann is the most experienced match official in Premier League history, he overtook Mike Dean’s record of officiating at 562 top-flight games last month and he has a simple strategy for coping with the verbal abuse that comes the way of referress. How ref’s cope with the abuse and noise of the Premier league The 55-year-old from Norfolk, who has refereed and run the line for two decades in front of 50,000-plus crowds – often impassioned by decisions against their team. He was also assistant referee at…

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A fan of the Life Is Strange franchise is disappointed by latest entry Double Exposure and argues it exacerbates all the lingering faults of the series. I find the Life Is Strange series fascinating. I’ve enjoyed the series ever since the first episode of the original Life Is Strange dropped a decade ago, but as much as I appreciate the cosiness and light-heartedness the games can provide in terms of settings and social situations, it can be painfully obnoxious, hard to care about, full of try-hard dialogue, and characters who attention seek and over-exaggerate to facepalming extremities. Can we admit…

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Mason Ryan is living his best life in Cirque du Soleil a decade after leaving WWE and undergoing an incredible transformation. The 42-year-old wrestler, whose real name is Barri Griffiths, grew up in North Wales and caught the eye of the sports Entertainment giant 2009 before appearing on TV two years later and working with the likes of John Cena and current SmackDown star Randy Orton. In 2014, he left the company and returned to the independent scene, but WWE still changed his life even after letting him go. Speaking exclusively to Metro.co.uk, the musclebound star explained how WWE put…

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Mariah Carey is excellent at any time of the year but there’s something particularly special about her at Christmas, and in a similar vein, Gilmore Girls is a comfort watch in every month, but in autumn, it reaches another level of lure. Fans of the classic 00s TV show have long participated in a seasonal tradition of clicking play on season one, episode one on September 1. But how did the 2000 series become directly associated with three months of the year? The concept isn’t particularly autumnal – a comedy-drama about the exploits of close single mother Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren…

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The big topic of conversation recently has been focused on who will be the next James Bond, but what about the next villain? While Theo James, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Regé-Jean Page, Idris Elba and countless other handsome Hollywood heavyweights battle it out to become the next 007, there is a person lurking in the shadows, just waiting to be the next character we love to hate. With big shoes to fill, including those of Richard Kiel, Joseph Wiseman, Mads Mikkelsen, and, most recently, Rami Malek, the aspiring bad guy’s job is not going to be easy, but it seems there is…

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Hunt for tourists who handed in backpack of vanished hiker  The family of a missing hiker are looking for two tourists who found his backpack after he vanished on Giant’s Causeway. Lester McLennan, 20, travelled to the iconic rock formation from Belfast by bus at 9.30am on Friday 1 November. He hasn’t been seen again. His mother, who had joined him on the trip from south London to visit family in Northern Ireland raised the alarm when he failed to return to their Belfast accommodation from the trip. “I think we’re looking for his body now,” his devastated mother Lalitha…

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Allison Pearson: Police investigating criminal offence after ‘dumbfounded’ columnist’s social media post Essex Police have confirmed they are investigating alleged criminal racial hatred after columnist Allison Pearson said she was “dumbfounded and upset” when she was questioned by police last week. Ms Pearson said she was being investigated over a year-old deleted post online, claiming the investigation was related to a Non-Crime Hate Incident (NCHI). This refers to an act which is prejudiced towards a person with a particular characteristic, but is not illegal. Her claims have gained widespread attention and attracted significant criticism towards Essex Police, including from leader…

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