2 days agoLatest NewsComments Off on Glastonbury fans convinced huge rock band will headline Other stage after spotting tour clues
GLASTONBURY fans are desperate to know which stars are taking to the stage this year – with one Scottish rock act notably becoming a favourite.
Biffy Clyro are expected to return this year with a new album, four years since their last effort, The Myth of the Happily Ever After.
GettyThe Glastonbury countdown is on[/caption]
GettyBiffy Clyro has become a favourite to headline the Other Stage[/caption]
Getty Images - GettyThe Scottish group are heading out on tour this year[/caption]
And they’re already lined-up for a number of European festival appearances across the summer.
After it was announced they would be appearing at Glasgow’s TRNSMT Festival on July 12, fans took to Reddit to note that their tour does have space to appear at Glasto.
Taking to the site, one fan wrote: “Biffy have the headliner slot at TRNSMT and are touring some festivals in the summer. Would love to see them back at the farm! Thoughts?”
“Would be a brilliant other stage headliner. Think their catalogue is too big (and great) to not do a headline slot,” one replied.
“Could see a secret set slot or other stage headline this year if a new album is on the way, and then potentially making the jump to Headline the festival in 27/28? They’re surely capable of headlining outright now,” noted a second.
“Do Biffy have new music on the way? They’ve secured some incredible festival slots without releasing anything new for like 4 years,” wrote a third.
“I like them btw, almost their entire catalogue, it’s just quite unusual. An other headline would be great.”
Glastonbury is running from 25 to 29 June this year, with the official line-up still yet to be revealed in full.
They join The 1975, Stevie Wonder and Neil Young who are due to perform on the Pyramid Stage.
But it does fit in with Biffy’s announced availability, with the band kicking off performances in Europe, starting with Rock AM Ring on June 6 in Nuremberg, Germany.
They’ll then continue with performances in Czech Republic, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Austria before heading to Southside Festival which runs 20 to 22 June in Germany.
After that, there is no new announcements except for TRNSMT Festival.
Alison’s new show with son Aidan debuted last nightGetty The series follows the mother and so duo as they make their way around FloridaBBCIt comes after Aidan reportedly turned down Love IslandBBC
The series follows the mother and so duo as they make their way around the very best that Florida has to offer on an affordable budget.
But it wasn’t the first time Aidan was offered the chance to star in a reality show.
According to the MailOnline, he turned down an offer from Love Island last year.
An insider told them: “Alison was flattered, but Aiden has turned down the offer.”
Aidan wouldn’t have been the first celebrity offspring to head into the villa.
Previous series have starred Michael Owen’s daughter Gemma, Ronan Keating’s son Jack and Danny Dyer’s daughter Dani.
After Alison and Aidan’s first episode aired last night, many fans took to social media to slam the concept – asking: “Who’s paying for this?”
One wrote: “I can imagine ITV spaffing a load of cash on sending Alison Hammond away, but perhaps not the BBC and yet another celeb whose parents or offspring have managed to blag their way on to TV for no reason whatsoever…”
Another said: “I see Alison Hammond is bagged herself and her nepo baby a free holiday in the form of her new tv show.”
“This meant I was lucky and got to visit Florida from a young age.
“I was so captivated by America’s culture, food, TV shows, and films and some of my happiest memories are tied to those first formative trips to the U.S.
“We managed to budget our way to a place that totally captured our hearts… and now I can’t wait to share Florida’s best kept secrets with you all.”
2 days agoLatest NewsComments Off on Beautiful actress goes viral after pal persuaded her to ‘upgrade’ looks with filler & BBLs, but left her unrecognisable
A MEXICAN actress has gone viral after shocking before and after pictures showed her dramatic transformation.
Lyn May, real name Lilia Guadalupe Mendiola, began her career as an exotic cabaret dancer, before moving to on-screen roles in Mexican films including Tívoli and Las Ficheras.
x/twitterShocking pictures of Mexican actress Lyn May have gone viral on social media[/caption]
instagram/lyn_may_/They show how dramatically different she looks, after she was left disfigured when she was injected with oil rather than filler[/caption]
instagram/lyn_may_/She’s pictured here in 1973 – Lyn has claimed that a “jealous” friend tricked her into having the unregulated procedure[/caption]
instagram/lyn_may_/While she has undergone numerous procedures since, she has never been able to regain her natural beauty[/caption]
At the height of her fame in the 1990s, she decided to explore the idea of getting plastic surgery to maintain her youthful appearance.
And it’s said that a jealous friend was the one who pushed her into getting the first procedure.
When she went to get fillers for the first time, a substance not approved for cosmetic use was injected into her face – resulting in swelling, abscesses and permanent disfigurement.
Lyn has claimed that instead of filler, she was injected with a mixture of cooking oil, baby oil and water.
While she has since undergone numerous procedures in a bid to reverse the damage, they have largely all been unsuccessful.
She’s also believed to have had further surgeries, including various BBLs and other body shaping procedures.
One surgeon did manage to remove some of the oil that had been injected, but he was unable to do so without leaving a permanent mark on the screen star’s face.
According to reports, Lyn has recently started working with a “legitimate doctor who is helping her reverse some of the effects of what happened to her”.
Pictures of Lyn before and after the tragedy, and subsequent plastic surgeries, recently went viral, with people taking to the comments section to share their sympathies for the 72-year-old.
“Scariest thing about being pretty is the sickos out there who are jealous,” one person wrote.
“She was so beautiful wtf,” another sighed.
“She was pretty before all that, how sad,” a third commented.
“Omg it’s awful that her ‘friend’ did this to her. What a horrible thing to do to someone,” someone else agreed.
“I hope her ‘friend’ is in jail. Who needs haters when you have friends?” another wrote.
As others went as far as suggesting AI had been used to make Lyn look worse than in real life, with someone else writing: “This has to be a mask, I don’t believe this!”
“OMG, I would be so creeped out if I saw someone who looked like that in real life!” another added.
What are the risks of getting surgery abroad?
IT'S important to do your research if you're thinking about having cosmetic surgery abroad.
It can cost less than in the UK, but you need to weigh up potential savings against the potential risks.
Safety standards in different countries may not be as high.
No surgery is risk-free. Complications can happen after surgery in the UK or abroad.
If you have complications after an operation in the UK, the surgeon is responsible for providing follow-up treatment.
Overseas clinics may not provide follow-up treatment, or they may not provide it to the same standard as in the UK.
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Lyn is now using her tragic story to help warn others about the dangers of unregulated cosmetic procedures.
The actress has also hit headlines in the past for various shocking situations – including digging up her husband Antonio Chi Su’s body after his death in 2008, bringing the remains home and sleeping next to them.
“I lived with him for 25 years; it was a 25-year marriage, and I didn’t want to let him go. I loved him… Yes, I dug him up and slept beside him,” she said.
Lyn also alleged that she once had an affair with a former President of Mexico – although stopped short of revealing his name.
And in August 2021, she claimed she’d fallen pregnant aged 68.
“I am very happy to announce that I am 3 months pregnant and Markos D1 is very happy that he will be dad,” she wrote on Instagram at the time.
Markos D1, her fiance, was just 29 at the time.
Lyn later revealed the ‘pregnancy’ had been a publicity stunt for her farewell tour.
Lyn has hit headlines for some bizarre reasons over the years, including when she alleged she was pregnant aged 68instagram/lyn_may_/
2 days agoLatest NewsComments Off on Tommy Fury called out by former gang leader for next fight who claims he’s ‘known for two years’ it would happen
TOMMY FURY has been called out by a former gang leader for his next fight.
The brother of retired heavyweight icon Tyson has not fought since beating KSI in October 2023.
Instagram @mattythejedifloydTommy Fury has been called out by a former gang leader for his next fight[/caption]
Instagram @mattythejedifloydAussie Matt Floyd claims the pair will fight at Wembley[/caption]
GettyFury has not fought since beating KSI in October 2023[/caption]
But it appears the Love Island star may have already found his next opponent.
Matt Floyd is a former gang-leader-turned-boxer who claims a fight against Fury has been agreed.
He says the pair will clash on March 29 at Wembley as part of a Misfits card.
And Floyd adds he’s “known for two years” that the bout would eventually be going ahead.
SunSport understands that nothing has been agreed yet.
Floyd, who boasts a 15-1 record, hails from Australia and used to be president of the Western Australia chapter of the Lone Wolf Biker Gang.
He moved into boxing four years, with all of his fights have occurred either Down Under or in Thailand.
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His only loss so far came against Sirimongkhon Iamthuam in October, but Floyd won the rematch in December and is now eyeing Fury.
He said on social media: “The date for the fight has now been moved to March 29.
“This fight is a culmination of everything I’ve worked, and no matter what obstacles or delays come my way the goal will remain the same.
“I was in prison for leading a gang but it was all part of my effort to do something positive for society.
“No one knows where I’ve come from or what I’ve been through but I’ve always kept pushing forward.
“My last three fights I fought with a broken hand but said nothing.
“Time and time again, I’ve proven I won’t stop. I’ve built my career from nothing and it’s been a relentless grind to where I am today.
“I’ve known for two years that I would fight @tommyfury. If he pulls out like he usually does, I will fight and beat (others). But I will fight Tommy eventually.”
2 days agoLatest NewsComments Off on Driver, 48, arrested after two girls, 8, killed & more than a dozen hurt when Land Rover ploughed into primary school
Officers arrested the driver after two eight -year -old girls were killed and 15 students were injured when Land Rover ...
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2 days agoLatest NewsComments Off on My son, 18, was knifed in the heart… now kids young as EIGHT carry blades at school and stab each other over video games
WHEN two 10-year-olds got into a fight about a computer game during lunch, it looked at first like just another childish squabble in the canteen.
But as one of the lads picked up a blade and plunged it into the stomach of the other, shocked onlookers were given a vivid reminder of the knife crime epidemic that is now infiltrating our schools.
Anti-violence campaigner Alison Cope’s son Joshua Ribera was stabbed and killed in a knife attack, tragically losing his life aged just 18Paul TongeCampaigner Alison now raises awareness of knife crime after losing her teenage son in a knife attack in 2013Paul Tonge
Anti-violence campaigner Alison Cope – who lost her own son to knife crime – was told about the incident as she gave a talk to pupils at a school she has asked us not to name in Stoke-on-Trent last year.
Shockingly, experts are now warning that one in 20 children has carried a blade and the scourge is spreading to kids of all ages.
The figures come amid a crackdown on online deliveries following the horrific murders of three young girls in Southport by Axel Rudakubana, who was able to buy his deadly weapon on Amazon in seconds.
In an exclusive interview, Alison, 50, tells The Sun that Britain’s schools are becoming breeding grounds for knife violence, fuelled not just by crime gangs but also social media feuds that are now being settled with bloodshed in the playgrounds.
She explains: “The youngest we’ve seen was in year four, so about eight or nine years old. That kid was scared of being stabbed or attacked themselves.
“They brought the knife into school and showed it to their friend. That friend told someone else and then the teacher found out.
“It wasn’t brought in to be used, it was brought in out of fear. They’d had an argument online with someone and that is very common now.
“Kids are talking through TikTok and the games they play online and everyone is a keyboard warrior.”
“Children fall out over the internet and that carries over into the classroom.
“The most shocking incident was when I went to a primary school last year and there was an argument between two year six kids, which is the last primary year.
“It was an argument over a game they had been playing outside school, but it all kicked off in the canteen.
“One kid got that angry that he grabbed a knife and went to stab the other kid in the stomach.
“Luckily, it was a primary school knife, plastic with no sharp edges, but the staff were shocked because of what it could have been.
“It made contact with the stomach but didn’t go in because it was plastic. If it was on the skin it might have been sharp enough to cause an injury.”
PAAxel Rudakubana was given a life sentence with a minimum 52-year term for killing three girls[/caption]
Merseyside PoliceBlades bought online that were found at Rudakubana’s house[/caption]
PAAspiring rapper Kelyan Bokassa, who was fatally injured on the 472 bus in Woolwich, south east London[/caption]
‘War zone’ streets
Alison’s shocking report comes after 14-year-old schoolboy Kelyan Bokassa was stabbed to death on a 472 bus in an area of south-east London described as a “war zone.”
He was the first teenager to be killed in the capital this year, but joins a long line of previous child victims.
Two-thirds of teens in England and Wales now have a fear of violence, according to a survey by the Youth Endowment Fund.
Last year, the charity found that 20 per cent of teenagers have been victims of violence in the previous 12 months.
Thirty years ago you would run for a fight outside school and it would all be a big laugh. But that’s changed now and getting into a fight is very dangerous
The same survey of 10,000 children aged 13-17 found that 22 per cent of kids reported difficulties sleeping, reduced appetite and concentrating in school, as they were so scared of being attacked.
One third of teenagers – 33 per cent – reported avoiding areas, whilst around 27 per cent said they alter their travel routes or avoid public transport altogether to stay safe.
And five per cent of all 13-17 year olds – or one in 20 – reported carrying a weapon in the past year.
That figure jumps to 21 per cent for those suspended from school and 36 per cent for children who had been excluded from school.
Stabbed in the heart
Alison started campaigning against knife crime after her rapper son Joshua Ribera, 18, was stabbed in the heart near a nightclub in Birmingham, where she still lives, in 2013.
The teenager who killed Joshua – Armani Deniro Mitchell – was jailed for a minimum of 18 years in 2014.
Alison now tours the country speaking at schools and prisons to try to convince young people not to pick up a blade.
She added: “Kids are sick to death of hearing, ‘Don’t carry a knife, you could go to prison,’ because they are so desensitised.
West Midlands PoliceArmani Mitchell, 18, from Northfield in Birmingham, was found guilty of murder of Alison’s son, Joshua Ribera[/caption]
Paul TongeAlison is an anti-knife crime campaigner, counselling hundreds of youngsters in schools about knife crime[/caption]
“So, I do it in a different way.
“I don’t introduce myself. I talk about the powers of the police, how they can access social media accounts and use that data to convict.
“That usually makes their ears stick up and listen.
“That leads me on to asking them a really important question, which is, ‘How has your experience of social media influenced your perception of the world?’
“They look at me confused and I say, ‘Let me put it another way, what percentage of others do you think carry a knife?’
“There hasn’t been a single school I have spoken in where the kids aren’t terrified.
“They will say anything from 40 per cent to 100 per cent.
“If it’s primary school, it’s always 90 per cent to 100 per cent.
I go into schools and kids are not feeling safe. The UK is absolutely terrified and that’s not turning a corner
Alison Cope
“They believe other teenagers are carrying murder weapons.
“I play a short video showing a news headline, but what they don’t know is that the headline is showing my son’s death.
“Then I say, ‘OK, this is the kind of thing you are exposed to that has led to you being so scared. But if you carry a knife out of fear, who in your family will destroy having made that choice?’
“They say, ‘My mum, my dad, my sister.’ I say, ‘Who do you think is the one person destroyed by that young man dying?’
“They say, ‘His mum, obviously.’
“And I say, ‘Well who do you think I am?’ Then bang and you’ve got them.”
SWNSPupil Chloe Fisher after she was stabbed in the head with scissors[/caption]
PABardia Shojaeifard, 15, posing with a knife before murdering Alfie Lewis[/caption]
PATeacher Jamie Sansom who was stabbed in a corridor at Tewkesbury Academy[/caption]
Bleeding out over petty fights
Alison has been concerned by recent knife crime campaigns that, she says, have promoted the idea that the stabbing epidemic is being brought under control.
She said: “I don’t want to criticize certain celebrities, but some say we are turning a corner and we are absolutely not.
“I go into schools and kids are not feeling safe. The UK is absolutely terrified and that’s not turning a corner.
“Most 10 and 11-year-olds have mobile phones and what message are they seeing every day?
“Stabbings on buses and outside schools for such petty reasons.
“Then the subliminal messages are police cuts and no youth services, police not getting to a scene on time before a victim bleeds out.
“Thirty years ago you would run for a fight outside school and it would all be a big laugh. But that’s changed now and getting into a fight is very dangerous.
“So when a child starts secondary school, they genuinely think this is scary environment, which leads them to put a knife in their bag.
“They think, ‘I’m just going to take it in, obviously I’m never going to use it.’
“And then it gets found and they get a reputation and they get excluded and might have to move schools.”
NSPCC – Advice and help for parents or anyone worried or concerned about a child. www.nspcc.org.uk or 0808 800 5000
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Peter Jordan14-year-old stabbing victim Kelyan Bokassa’s devastated mum Mary Bokassa, 50, recently spoke out[/caption]
Forced to carry knives as ‘protection’
Patrick Green of knife crime prevention charity the Ben Kinsella Trust agrees that it is often the perceived danger of being stabbed that leads kids to pick up a blade.
He said: “Young people are still being lured into criminality by gangs and being forced to carry knives to protect drugs – and those are the traditional routes into knife crime.
“But there is also now a really concerning route in that young people are genuinely fearful because of what they are seeing – and social media is normalising and glamourising knife crime.
“Children are seeing this on their social media feeds and then you hear about it on the news.
“You start to get concerned and then you think about how you can protect yourself.
Daniel Jones - The SunFormer EastEnders actress Brooke Kinsella knows only too well the pain knife crime can cause, having lost her brother Ben[/caption]
“Schools are generally safe places and it’s unusual for a serious knife offence to take place there.
“However, a lot of knife attacks happen around the periphery of the school territory.
“And clearly the fact that 31 per cent of young people (according to a BBC survey) are worried about knife crime in school is concerning because they are going to be thinking about how to keep themselves safe.
“There is a real issue here that young people’s fear is real and we need to identify that and help them understand the realities of knife crime and how you do keep yourself safe.
“Despite the Zombie knife ban, we know that it’s still easy to get hold of them with no age verification.
“There has to be greater legislation to stop online sales of knives.
“I think the police do as good a job as they can with the resources they have.
“The challenge with knife crime is it’s not just a policing issue.
“It’s a criminal justice matter when someone carries and uses a knife to commit a violent act, but the propensity to carry a knife and tackling that is where the gap has been.
“Police have been taking knives off the street for sometime and the problem hasn’t been getting any better.”
PA:Press AssociationFlowers left at the scene in Islington, London, where teenager Ben Kinsella – the younger brother of actress Brooke Kinsella – was murdered, aged just 16[/caption]
PAThe Ben Kinsella Trust was set up in memory of Ben, pictured here in a childhood photo with his actress sister Brooke[/caption]
School attacks
Schoolboy stabbed to death
A 15-year-old boy was jailed for life last year after being found guilty of stabbing another schoolboy to death as he walked home from lessons.
Bardia Shojaeifard was ordered to serve a minimum of 13 years behind bars for the murder of Alfie Lewis, also 15.
Alfie was stabbed to death in front of pupils leaving a primary school in the Horsforth area of Leeds in November 2023.
Shojaeifard admitted stabbing Alfie with a 13cm-long knife he had brought from home, but denied murder and claimed he was acting in self-defence when he pulled out the blade.
But he was found guilty of murder at Leeds Crown Court in April last year. Judge Mr Justice Cotter removed reporting restrictions that prevented him from being identified after his sentencing in June.
He said lifting the defendant’s anonymity would help in the “vitally important debate about the scourge of knife crime, among young people in particular”.
Broken glass rampage
A 17-year-old was locked up for five years after a sustained attack on staff and pupils with pieces of broken glass.
Former pupil Louis Melotte struck a 12-year-old girl multiple times at The Birley Academy in Sheffield, before turning on a receptionist and youth worker when they intervened.
The teenager was found guilty of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent last year and had previously pleaded guilty to taking a bladed article into a school.
He was ordered to serve five years in youth detention with an extended five year licence period at Sheffield Crown Court.
Scissor mauling
A 15-year-old girl was stabbed in the head with a pair of scissors during an English lesson at a West Midlands school last February.
Chloe Fisher was left with a gaping wound, blood during down her face and cuts to her arms, hands and face after the incident at Wordsley School in Stourbridge, West Midlands.
A CT scan showed the blade had narrowly missed Chloe’s skull.
The alleged attack followed an altercation on a school trip, and a 16-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of assault with intent to cause serious harm.
The school said the incident was being dealt with through the schools ‘behaviour policy’ and that a full investigation was to take place.
Corridor attack
A 15-year-old boy was sentenced to 14 months detention after stabbing a teacher in a school corridor in 2023.
Maths teacher Jamie Samson was taken to hospital with a single wound after the attack at Tewkesbury Academy in Gloucestershire on 10 July.
The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted one count of unlawful and malicious wounding with intent to cause serious injury.
He was sentenced at Bristol Youth Court in September 2023 to youth detention for 14 months.
He had previously pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing a bladed article following the attack.
Speaking about the attack and the four-hour lockdown at the academy that followed, District Judge Lynne Matthews said: “Isn’t this what you seen on TV in America? Not Tewkesbury.”
