ALDI Ireland has opened a major €3.8million store in a big city – and they have an exclusive range of Specialbuys to celebrate.

The supermarket was officially opened by the local team, led by Store Manager, Robbie Kavanagh and Munster and Ireland rugby player, Jack O’Donoghue.

The new store in Waterford City, located in City Square Shopping Centre, will replace the existing store at The Glen.

The Glen store, which opened its doors in 2006, was the first Aldi store in the county.

And the supermarket will be stocking an extensive range of Specialbuys including a 6.2L Air Fryer, Cyclonic Stick Vacuum, and Deluxe Air Bed for just €24.99 each as well as kettles, toasters, and mops to celebrate.

Aldi Waterford City Store Manager, Robbie Kavanagh said: “We are delighted to open our new store in Waterford City, continuing our support for the local community.

“Our team is excited to welcome customers to this new state-of-the-art store in Waterford City centre and provide them with the high-quality products and exceptional service that our customers know and love Aldi for.

“We believe this new store will be a great addition to the area, offering a wide range of products at unbeatable prices, and we look forward to continuing to serve the people of Waterford for many years to come.”

Munster and Ireland rugby player, Jack O’Donoghue, added: “It’s fantastic to be here today to see Aldi expanding its presence in Waterford.

“The new store right in the heart of the city will not only offer great value to shoppers but also strengthen Aldi’s ties with local suppliers and the community. 

“Aldi’s commitment to making a positive impact in the communities it serves, to supporting local grass roots organisations and to helping make quality, healthy food affordable to all, is something I’m very proud to be associated with.”

Aldi has introduced self-service checkouts at the brand-new Waterford store which will feature nine self-service checkout terminals.

Existing staffed checkout lines will remain in operation alongside the new self-service tills, with Aldi committed to retaining this service for customers, while continuing to innovate with new initiatives.

There is 500 car parking spaces shoppers can avail of, five of which are equipped with electric vehicle charging stations.

Meanwhile, shoppers are rushing to buy a new Charlotte Tilbury dupe in the middle aisle this week – and it’s €44 cheaper.

The Luminous Filter Glamour Foundation will be back in stores around the country from March 9.

The 30ml beauty product is priced at €5.99 and comes in six shades.

The retailer said: “Get that glow with this Lacura Luminous Filter Glamour Foundation!

“The perfect addition to your makeup bag.

• Helps to illuminate the complexion
• Glowing and youthful looking skin
• Formulated with finely milled powders
• Helps to blur the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles for a glamorous and  airbrushed finish.”

The foundation is a great dupe for Charlotte Tilbury’s Flawless Filter Foundation which is priced at €50.

The retailer will also have the Lacura Concealer With Vitamin C for €4.99.

Aldi said: “Give your skin a radiant boost and step out with glowing skin.”

The concealer comes in six shades and “stays put for up to 12 hours.”

Aldi says its “streak and crease-free finish reduces the appearance of dark circles, fine lines and wrinkles”.

AFTER falling heavily in love with a charming and caring man she met at a community centre, Alison found herself in an intense and passionate romance.

But, just as she was planning her future with Mark Cassidy, imagining a family life with children, he suddenly vanished from her life – leaving behind a letter saying he was leaving the country.

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Searching for answers unearthed the shocking revelation that the man of her dreams was not who he said he was at all. In fact he was an undercover police officer.

This was no isolated incident but a top secret policy which saw a special unit of undercover police spying on members of the public for 40 years.

More than 60 women were deceived into deeply intimate relationships with officers who they had no idea were deployed in covert operations.

The officers had fake identities, shockingly using the names and birth dates of dead children.

The ‘spycops scandal’ is the subject of an almost decade-long £88 million public inquiry and now, a gripping three-part documentary series for ITV1 and ITVX. The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed, which begins tonight, sees the women share their stories on camera for the first time.

Alison, a secondary school teacher, was in her late 20s and had become involved with a local community centre when one of the group brought along a new member she was immediately attracted to.

“He was burly with cropped hair, had a lovely (Liverpudlian) accent and told us his name was Mark Cassidy and that he was a joiner. I fancied him straight away,” she says.

“One night he drove me home from the pub and I invited him in for a drink and that was the beginning of the relationship.

“Mark was a great boyfriend. Because we were part of the same political group, we had that kind of shared perspective. He was interested in anti-fascism and family justice campaigns and really blended in.

“He had an old van and he used it to ferry people around in the group and take them home after meetings. He was really good fun. I filmed a lot of our time together.

“I had a young nephew and niece and he was absolutely natural with them. I sensed he would be a good father. I definitely saw my future with him and it was with children, but Mark didn’t have a big loving family of his own.

“His father had been killed in a road accident by a drunk driver and he was estranged from his mum. I didn’t want to poke at things that were upsetting, but I felt there was something he wasn’t telling me.

“One weekend Mark went out to the shop and I decided to have a look in the pockets of his leather jacket in the hall. I didn’t expect to find anything really but in the inside pocket was a bank card in the name of M. Jenner and the signature was his handwriting. I thought, ‘This is weird. What the hell is going on?’

“I heard him come back and I called, ‘Mark, can you come in here a minute?’ I wielded the card at him and he put his hands on his head and said, ‘Oh my God, I’ve been so stupid. It’s nicked and I bought it off a bloke in a pub. I’ve only used it once.’

“I got some nail scissors and chopped the card up and told him I couldn’t believe he could be so stupid. But I believed everything he told me, more or less. We believe people that we love and I trusted him.”

World crumbles

In 1999, after five years together, Alison desperately wanted to start a family but every time she brought the subject up, Mark refused to talk about it.

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“He withdrew emotionally and I became deeply worried about him and his well-being and our future as well.

“I came home one day, expecting him to be there, but the house was silent. In the corridor I saw a letter on the table. Without even reading it I knew it was an ‘I’ve left you,’ letter. “My world had crumbled around me. I was hysterical and sobbing and shouting.”

Searching for answers or any sort of explanation, she turned to a friend who worked in the passport office.

“He said they could do a search on Mark’s details but when he got back to me he said it was a bit weird because when he put his name and details in, it flashed up ‘File stored in CE.’ He had no idea what it meant.”

It was only later revealed that CE was part of an undercover police squad that spied on left-wing campaigners.

A conversation with another member of the community centre left Alison’s head spinning.

My brother said, ‘He has left you because you’re a pain in the arse. You don’t have to come up with some James Bond theory to make yourself feel better.’

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“We were in pub and he was asking me questions about Mark, like did he have a bank account or did he pay for things in cash? When I asked him why he was asking me these questions he said, ‘We just want to rule out that he’s not a spook – a spy.’

“I came out of that meeting and there was shift in my head. Spook? Hang on a minute. That makes sense. That’s why I had never met any of his family or seen any photographs of his childhood and that’s why he doesn’t want me to find him.

“But people were finding it hard to believe my theory that he was an agent of the state. My brother said, ‘He has left you because you’re a pain in the arse. You don’t have to come up with some James Bond theory to make yourself feel better.’

“I knew I had to try and move on, which I did, until I received a message from a woman called Helen Steel.”

Identity unmasked

Helen, a renowned animal welfare activist had had a remarkably similar experience to Alison. In the late 80s, working with a local campaign group, she got chatting to John Barker who shared her empathy with animals who were suffering.

Like Mark, he used to give people lifts home from demos and meetings in his van and had a lack of any meaningful family telling Helen he had grew up in the UK but moved to New Zealand as a teenager and had lost both his parents in a fairly short space of time.

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“We grew closer and he told me he loved me. No one had ever really said that to me. I was blissfully happy. It felt like I’d met the person I was going to spend the rest of my life with.”

But she too was suddenly left with just a letter from him, saying he was having some kind of mental breakdown and was leaving her and going to South Africa to escape everything.

“I didn’t understand. Why, if he still loved me, like he said, did he disappear? It’s like a bereavement but you haven’t got a body. This person has just suddenly vanished.”

Her determination to find out where he was and what had happened led her to the General Register Office where she saw his name, John Barker, which matched when and where he was born, but it was a child who had died when he was eight.

Travelling to New Zealand and going through records in the local library made her convinced that he was married to a woman named Debbie. Back in London she established that he was actually John Dines and his marriage certificate stated he was a police officer.

This pattern of behaviour by the spy cops led Helen to discovering more victims, like Lisa who was involved in the climate movement and whose new boyfriend Mark Stone had a van he would give lifts to other members to.

Lisa fell madly in love with him until he “started to become apart at the seams” and then she discovered his passport saying he was Mark Kennedy and emails on his phone from other people of that surname calling him ‘Dad.’

It turned out that Mark was married, had kids and on his marriage certificate it said he was a police officer. When she put all this to him, he confessed that he worked for the National Public Order Intelligence Unit, which collected information on demonstrators. Then he left.

Fight for justice

After the women spread word of what had happened, the story was splashed in the media and more and more women came forward with similar stories.

Helen garnered a group of women, including Alison and Lisa, to take legal action against the police to prevent such things happening to women ever again and met up with Harriet Wistrich, a respected solicitor who had been fighting significant miscarriages of justice for decades.

“The women were very supportive of each other because they recognised that the that they’d suffered in isolation were mirrored by each other,” Harriet tells us in an exclusive Sun interview.

“The investigative work they did was extraordinary. What the police probably hadn’t considered was that, if you just suddenly vanish from somebody’s life when you’ve been involved in a very long term intimate relationship with them, they’re not necessarily going to just accept that.

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“These women were traumatized by disappearances that were not properly explained. There were excuses about having a breakdown or whatever and they were worried about them and felt compelled to find them, because the men had pulled on their hearts.”

As she built the case, Harriet and the women were frustrated by the police saying they would neither confirm nor deny anything on security grounds.

“It felt like we were raped by the state,” says Helen. “There was nothing about these men that was real. They knew, from the start, that we would never have consented if we knew who they really were. But they disregarded our right to make an informed choice.”

It was a police whistleblower, named Peter Francis who changed everything. He revealed he had worked for a special section of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit called the Special Demonstration Squad, spying on left-wing groups. He felt particularly bad about the policy of adopting the identities of dead children.

There was more shocking revelations to come. Stephen Lawrence had died in a racist attack and the family wanted the police to investigate his murder properly. But while they were trying to find out the truth of what had happened to their son, the police employed undercover officers to spy on their campaign.

“I was asked could I find out anything else that could be used to maybe get the public to not have as much sympathy for the Stephen Lawrence campaign,” said Peter Francis.

They were just expecting us to be the oil that greased the wheels that kept the operation turning. But actually, we turned out to be a great big spanner in the works.

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The then Prime Minister, Theresa May, ordered a public inquiry to investigate undercover policing which is still ongoing. Having lost the right to hide behind their “neither confirm nor deny” policy.

The police settled the legal case with the women out of court for an undisclosed sum of money, along with an apology saying that relationships like these should never have happened and that they were wrong and were a gross violation of personal dignity and integrity.

It is known that 139 officers have spied on over 1,000 campaign groups and more than 60 women have been in intimate relationships with undercover officers.

“They underestimated our intelligence,” says Lisa. “They were just expecting us to be the oil that greased the wheels that kept the operation turning. But actually, we turned out to be a great big spanner in the works.”

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BRAZILIAN starlet Pedro Severino has heartbreakingly been declared “brain dead” after being involved in an accident, it’s been claimed.

The 19-year-old was riding in the front passenger seat when the vehicle taking him training collided with a lorry on a Brazilian motorway.

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The Red Bull Bragantino U20 star was immediately taken to the hospital with a critical head injury after the crash, which happened at 5:21am.

Severino – the son of former Brazil star Lucas – underwent successful neurosurgery a few hours late but is still in a critical condition.

But a doctor has sadly declared him “brain dead”, although a second must agree with the assessment before its legal confirmation.

Fellow footballer Pedro Castro was in the back seat of the car and also taken to the hospital.

He was, thankfully, discharged with minor injuries.

Breathalyser tests were conducted on both drivers, who were found not to be under the influence of alcohol.

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KILLER paedophile Sidney Cooke is battered to the ground in a prison attack by a lag wielding a drinks flask, shocking footage obtained by The Sun shows.

The inmate is seen targeting fiend Cooke – dubbed ‘Hissing Sid’ – in a corridor before bludgeoning him to the ground and knocking him out in a savage assault.

Our exclusive video shows him sneaking up on Cooke – seen in a cardigan, shirt and grey trousers – as he studies a noticeboard.

His attacker raises the metal flask above his head – holding its handle with both hands – before crashing it down on the notorious paedophile, who slumps to the ground unconscious.

After Cooke, 97, falls the con continues to rain down blows, smashing the flask into his face three more times.

Cooke – suspected of involvement in up to 20 child murders – was only saved when another prisoner raced in to tackle his attacker as guards also rushed to the scene.

Yesterday, a source said: “This was really sudden and incredibly violent attack – and Cooke was lucky to survive.

“He had a long-running dispute with the other inmate, who had claimed Cooke had attacked him, egged on by henchmen.

“This was his revenge – and it was pretty chilling. It is no exaggeration to say Cooke narrowly escaped being killed.

“No-one really felt sorry for him afterwards but he was in a pretty bad way and needed treatment in the healthcare unit.

“Everyone in the prison knows what he is in for and what he’s done.

“He appears to be totally unrepentant and hangs around with like-minded people which makes him a target.

“But he had been arguing with this bloke and he – and a lot of people – thought Cooke had got his just desserts with this attack.

“Cooke hit the floor immediately and the bloke kept hitting him in the face with the flask.

“One or two more blows could have been fatal, especially given his age. It was quite a shocking scene – despite who Cooke is.”

As Cooke’s attacker continued the beating, three other lags on the landing looked on.

Then an inmate in a grey tracksuit – and with dreadlocks – raced along the corridor and tackled the attacker off Cooke.

A female prison officer was then seen rushing to help, while a male guard trotted sown stairs to the scene of the attack.

He helped to restrain the other lag – a man in his fifties – while Cooke lay prone on the floor.

Our source added: “Cooke was was saved by the other prisoner who rugby tackled the bloke off him.

“He acted on instinct when he saw an elderly bloke being attacked – but everyone was quite surprised someone rushed to help him.

“He ended up arguing with the bloke who had attacked him. He was asking why the heck someone had saved Cooke.”

After the assault, in November 2023, police were called – and cops are probing an alleged Section 47 assault.

Prison bosses disciplined the attacker, who has since been released from Wakefield.

The West Yorkshire prison has been dubbed ‘Monster Mansion’ and holds killers including Robert Maudsley, Jeremy Bamber and Roy Whiting.

Paedophile rocker Ian Watkins – ex-singer with band Lostprophets – was stabbed in an attack at the Category A jail in August, 2023.

Our exclusive video comes after we revealed the first picture of evil Cooke in 26 years on Monday.

Vile Cooke – bidding for freedom and due to have his twelfth parole hearing this year – has shaved off his beard and had a bruised forehead as he was seen in his prison cell.

The bruise on his head is understood to come from the flask attack.

Cooke was also seen in a separate video apparently threatening a lag on a landing at Wakefield as his associates look on.

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Ex-fairground worker Cooke is Britain’s most notorious paedophile and suspected of involvement in up to 20 child murders.

He was jailed in 1989 for the 1985 manslaughter of Jason Swift, 14, in Hackney alongside other paedophiles Leslie Bailey, Robert Oliver and Stephen Barrell.

But he was freed in 1998, sparking uproar – and Cooke was taken into voluntary custody for his own safety.

Cooke – suspected of other killings with a network of paedophiles – was then jailed for life in 1999 for the historic abuse of two brothers in the 1970s.

He was handed two life sentences, which he is still serving.

Evil Cooke was in a paedophile gang in the 1970s and 1980s and used his fairground job to prey on vulnerable youngsters.

The former farm labourer from Gloucestershire was part of a vile gang based in Hackney, east London, referred to as the “dirty dozen”.

Members of the group were jailed for the killing of Jason, who went missing in July 1985, and whose body was found the next year on a farm in Ongar, Essex.

Cooke was named in court as the ringleader in the death of Mark Tildesley, seven who vanished after visiting a fair in Wokingham, Berks in 1984. His remains have never been found.

Cooke was also linked to the killing of Barry Lewis, six of Walworth, south London in 1985. His body was found in 1986.

Cooke – prisoner A9751AA – is due for an oral parole hearing in May, a month after his 98th birthday. It could be delayed due to backlogs.

It will be his 12th hearing after Cooke was refused parole and an open prison move in May 2023.

A written summary of the Parole Board’s decision said Cooke was “assessed as presenting a very high risk of serious harm to the public” and likely to commit a sex abuse offence.

Violence is UK prisons is rife – with latest statistics showing there were almost 27,000 assaults on inmates and staff in 2023.

The figure had jumped from 28 per cent on the previous year.
Experts fear staffing cuts – and a lack of experienced prison officers – have added to problems in jails.

Wakefield holds up to 750 high-risk prisoners – with most serving terms of more than 10 years.

It also has a Close Supervision Centre for the most disruptive cons.

A Prison Service spokesperson declined to comment.

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ASHLEY Robinson blamed his stomach issues on wedding stress – just weeks before discovering he had stage four bowel cancer.

“The wedding was so consuming and I was being told by every health professional that I didn’t have cancer,” the now 35-year-old chef said.

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“They were saying ‘you’re fine, don’t worry, go and get married’ so I took their word for it.”

It was May 2024 when Ashely, from Dacorum, Hertfordshire started to experience symptoms.

“I started passing quite a lot of blood when I was going for a number two,” he explained

In June, as his symptoms worsened, Ashley called his GP, who reassured him it “wasn’t serious” and would likely “pass in a week or so”.

“Personally, I thought it was stress-related because it had come on rapidly while we were getting stuff ready for the wedding,” he said.

“We were planning on a ‘princess wedding’ but we were working very, very hard for it and I was working a minimum of 60 hours per week.”

Ashley now believes if he didn’t have the wedding he probably would have taken it more seriously.

He said: “It got really bad and I passed the most insane amount of blood so I phoned my GP and they told me to go to A&E straight away.

“When I saw the doctor I mentioned to him that my great nan had died of colon cancer but he said there was no chance and that I was too young.

“I went home with medication and took that for two weeks but nothing changed.”

Ashley had his stag do coming up in July, so tried to push his worries to the back of his mind.

Ashley and Jasmin, who met through a mutual friend at the gym in 2019, got married at Pendley Manor, Hertfordshire, on July 20, 2024.

In the weeks after tying the knot, Ashley started experiencing rapid weight loss, shedding a staggering 12kg in just seven days.

He claims he repeatedly tried to get another appointment at his GP but they dismissed his symptoms as piles until Jasmin “stormed in” demanding he be seen.

“They got me in but my GP said they still didn’t think I had cancer, but they put me forward for a colonoscopy,” he explained.

“That’s when they found a tumour the size of an orange in my colon.”

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Ashely was “dreading” getting the biopsy results back.

“I was told I had stage 4 colon [bowel] cancer, which had spread to my liver. It was the worst news possible,” he said.

“It’s so hard to put into words the hammer blow, it absolutely crushed my wife,” he added.

“Aside from it happening to her, it was the worst possible news I ever could have had.”

Earth-shattering news’

Ashley started a course of immunotherapy treatment shortly afterwards and says even his oncologist was stunned to see the results.

However, he says he feels frustrated that the cancer was missed by doctors and is urging anyone who experiences worrying symptoms to visit their GP.

He said: “I couldn’t believe it. I never thought they were going to say that it had shrunk by 90 per cent, it was incredible.

“Even my oncologist was stunned, she was over the moon.

“But if they’d found it in May then they might have been able to give me a treatment before it had spread to my liver.

“At the time it was obviously earth-shattering news, and I couldn’t contemplate what was going on but now that I’m on the mend, it’s very frustrating.

“I was 34 at the time so I know when something’s not right, you know your own body.

“When I rang the GP, I thought they would have made more of a thing of it but it just seemed like they didn’t want to know.”

Ashley is still having immunotherapy treatment and hopes to continue seeing positive results at his regular check-ups.

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Seek advice

A spokesperson for Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board said: “People are often the best judge of what’s ‘normal’ for their bodies.

“NHS advice is always to encourage anyone with worrying symptoms to seek advice and to ask again if they are still worried.

“If patients are concerned or unhappy about the care they receive from their GP practice, we encourage them to first of all contact their practice’s patient services team.

“If they feel that the practice hasn’t resolved their concerns, they can then get in touch with the integrated care board’s patient experience team who will discuss the options open to them.

“We have not previously been made aware of this case but can follow it up on the patient’s behalf if they contact us and give their permission for us to do this.”

A spokesperson for Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust said: “We aim to provide outstanding care to all our patients and we are very sorry for what has happened to Mr Robinson.

“We would encourage him to contact the Trust directly to discuss any concerns he has with the treatment he received.

“Our thoughts are with Mr Robinson and his family at this difficult time.”

Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain on July 13, 1955, left behind two children when she was executed at the age of 28.

New ITV series A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, which premiered on Wednesday, March 5th, 2025, dramatises the tragic tale. Here’s everything we know about Ruth’s kids.

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What happened to Ruth Ellis’ children?

Georgina Ellis

Ruth Ellis‘ daughter Georgina was just three years old when her mother’s death penalty via hanging was was carried out.

She was fostered at the age of six after her father George Ellis died by suicide in 1958.

As an adult, Georgina struggled with alcoholism and faced difficulties raising her own six children.

She was married twice and had several high-profile relationships, including affairs with celebrities including George Best and Richard Harris.

However, the death of her mother caused a tragic chain of events within the family.

Georgina’s daughter Laura Enston told the Telegraph: “My grandfather, Ruth’s first husband, George Ellis, a dentist with an alcohol problem, hanged himself three years after Ruth’s execution.

“In 1969, Ruth’s mother, Bertha Neilson, was found unconscious in a gas-filled room; she never fully recovered.

“My mother, Georgina Ellis, Ruth’s daughter, was three years old and living with an adoptive family when her mother was hanged.

“She led a chaotic life thanks to her childhood; she could not be the mother that my siblings and I needed, drank heavily later in life and died of cancer aged 50.“

Georgina published a book titled Ruth Ellis, My Mother (1995), which included her memories of Ruth and how her own life was shaped by her mother’s legacy.

She sadly passed away in 2001.

Andy Ellis

Ruth’s son Clare Andrea Neilson, known as Andy, was born on September 15, 1944.

His father, Clare Andrea McCallum, was a married Canadian soldier.

As a youngster, Andy lived with his grandmother while Ruth worked various jobs to support him.

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He was 10 years old when his mother was executed.

In 1982, at the age of 37, Andy took his own life in a bedsit.

Before his death, he desecrated his mother’s grave, destroying the headstone on her burial plot in St Mary the Virgin Churchyard in Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

Laura said: “Andy, my uncle, who was 10 when Ruth was hanged, died by suicide, aged 37.“

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A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story

ITV‘s new four-part series A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story explores the life of Ruth Ellis.

Starring Lucy Boynton as Ruth and Laurie Davidson as David Blakely.

The series delves into their tumultuous relationship, culminating in Ellis’ conviction for Blakely’s murder.

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story premiered at 9 pm on ITV1 on Wednesday, March 5th, 2025.

LOVE Island star Lucinda Strafford rushed to A&E yesterday – just hours after she landed in LA.

The 25-year-old sparked concern as she shared a picture of herself crying and revealed she need urgent medical care as she battled with health anxiety.

She shared: “The reason I was in a&e is because my fricking health anxiety is coming back.

“I had a really upset stomach and chills and other things lol and went into a spiral, started crying and freaked out again.”

The star shared a picture from inside an emergency room in the States and revealed she didn’t have travel insurance – further adding to her woes.

Lucinda also posted a snap of herself in tears and sarcastically wrote: “Love my life.”

It is unclear while Lucinda is in LA but she revealed she had been given a huge bunch of flowers as she arrived.