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THE prestigious World Indoor Bowls Championships is rolling into a thrilling finale at Potters Resorts!
The open singles finalists have been set for today’s big clash when Robert Paxton takes on Jason Banks.
Scottish star Banks is looking to complete a stunning hat-trick this week, having won both the mixed pairs and the open pairs.
Stewart Anderson had been the firm favourite to win the open singles title once again this year after he picked up the iconic award for a third time in 2024, but he was knocked out in the quarter-finals by David Gourlay.
While Ian Bond defeated Billy Jackson to pick up the invitational Masters title.
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‘I was dumb and desperate when I became Octomum – it gave me PTSD,’ says Nadya Suleman as her eight IVF kids turn 16
A WOMAN who became known worldwide for becoming an ‘Octomum’ in 2009 has shared an update as her children turn 16.
Nadya Suleman had six children at the time, conceived by IVF, but decided to have one more.
Her doctor assumed the 12 embryos she had left were unlikely to survive, so suggested she implant the whole dozen; however, eight of the 12 stuck, and she gave birth to them in 2009 – leading her to be called ‘Octomum’.
Now 49, the mum-of-14’s family has grown even more as her son welcomed a baby girl last August.
Nadya recently took to Instagram to update fans on the family as her IVF octuplets turn 16 this month.
In addition to her octuplets Noah, Maliyah, Isaiah, Nariyah, Makai, Josiah, Jeremiah and Jonah, Nadya is mother to Elijah, 23, Amerah, 22, Joshua, 21, Aidan, 18, and 17-year-old twins Caleb and Calyssa, all of whom were conceived through IVF.
“Healthy, fit family,” she wrote in an Instagram post, alongside photos of her and her kids spending time in the gym, “staying strong and thriving together.”
The single mother left people outraged when she gave birth to the children, with many wondering how she would provide for them.
In 2012, the backlash only grew when she turned to pornography, stripping, and selling nude photos to support herself and her family.
Nadya has since changed her name to Natalie and shares rare updates of her family with fans these days as she opens up about how public attention became difficult to cope with.
“I was pretending to be a fake, a caricature, which is something I’m not, and I was doing it out of desperation and scarcity so I could provide for my family,” she told the New York Times in 2018. “I’ve been hiding from the real world all my life.”
She admitted her quick rise to fame caused her to suffer from PTSD.
“I would take whatever I could back in the days, and I would let them in,” she said of the influx of reporters that reached out to her at the time.
“I was spiraling down a dark hole. There were no healthy opportunities for Octomom.”
“I was doing what I was told to do and saying what I was told to say,” she continued.
“When you’re pretending to be something you’re not, at least for me, you end up falling on your face.”
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In 2013 Nadya decided to stop sex work and has reflected on the difficult period in her life.
Speaking to Sunday Night reporter Angela Cox in 2020, she said: “I think I was young, dumb, irresponsible, reckless.”
In another interview, she spoke about her past and her regrets at some of the choices she made.
She said: “Some of the things that I have done – of course that I’m ashamed of in the past – was just to put food on the table and just to take care of my family.
“My kids get embarrassed because their friends sometimes will say ‘My mum said your mum’s a stripper’.”
On top of the stress of the public attention, Nadya has suffered physical issues from carrying eight children at one time.
She said: “My back is broken because of the last pregnancy.
“Four out of the five discs in my lumbar spine are ruptured, herniated fully. And I have irreparable sacral damage. And I have peripheral neuropathy.
“I haven’t felt my toes on my foot on the right side for many years, and my fingers are numb all the time every day. The pregnancy caused it all.”
The Traitors fans predict ‘reunion’ for Claudia and fan favourite star after dramatic finale
THE Traitors fans have forecast a telly reunion between host Claudia Winkleman and one fan-favourite star.
It came after surprise BBC One show winners Leanne Quigley and Jake Brown, both 28, walked away with the £94K cash prize in very tense scenes.
In the nail-biting finale, their fellow Faithfuls Francesca Rowan-Plowden, 44, and Alexander Dragonetti, 38, were cut adrift by the duo – and fans now reckon the latter is set for another plum telly role.
After one Traitors viewer demanded “someone get our king Alexander on another show,” he has been tipped to join forces with Claudia, 53, on the next series of Strictly Come Dancing.
Claud fronts the long-running series with Tess Daly, 55, and, with the 21st instalment set to kick off later this year, British diplomat Alexander is a shoo-in with odds of 3-1 to star.
Alex Apati of bookies Ladbrokes said: “He’s undoubtedly one of the most iconic characters we’ve ever seen on The Traitors, and it looks like Alexander could soon be about to take on another huge BBC show in the shape of Strictly Come Dancing.”
If so, he would follow in the sequin-studded pathway of comedian Chris McCausland, who scooped the coveted Glitterball Trophy with professional partner Dianne Buswell last year.
The news will come as a delight for fans of the contestant, who proved a revelation since rejoining the action part way through the series.
One took to X to remark: “Please can we have Alexander pop up in absolutely every show from now on. What a sweet guy.”
Another put: “The ironic thing is, Alexander is WAY MORE personable than Leanne, he’s liked much more than her and he’s much better TV, he’ll likely earn A LOT more than the £40K Leanne won, because he’ll land a high profile media job whereas Leanne likely won’t.”
A third then added: “I swear Alexander is the best thing that could’ve happened to this show.”
One posted: “Love Alexander. It’s giving… next James Bond.”
He has now gained more than 60,000 Instagram followers since joining the show.
Meanwhile, other eagle-eyed Traitors fans have tracked down Alexander’s online dating profile – and gushed “how is he single?”
NEXT STEPS
Alexander lost out on the whopper cash prize at the final Traitors stage.
He was booted out by Frankie, Jake and Leanne after they chased their longstanding view he wasn’t a Faithful.
After rumours of another telly stint reared their head, he remained coy on his next steps and said: “I haven’t really thought about any of the future yet.
How does The Traitors work and who hosts it?
The Traitors first launched in the UK in 2022, after the Dutch format was acquired by the BBC.
Claudia Winkleman is the show’s host, and has now hosted all three series to date.
How does it work?
It is a reality game show that involves 22 contestants, and some of them are chosen to be The Traitors.
The Traitors sees a group of contestants taking part in “the ultimate game of truth and deception”.
The group of contestants are competing for the chance to walk away with a huge cash prize.
While navigating through a series of challenges, the team are also tasked with figuring out who the Traitors are in the group (usually three contestants).
Each night, the Traitors gather to “eliminate” one of the Faithful, removing them from the competition
Meanwhile, the traitors can be “banished” if they’re successfully outed as a traitor by a faithful.
The winners of the show are either the Traitor who remains undetected or the Faithfuls if they successfully eliminate all the Traitors.
The prize sees the winner could get £120K.
“I’m just getting to today was sort of all my energy just doing that. I would love to take any I’d love to sort of be open to any opportunities that come out as I love new things, and so let’s see.”
He added to Metro: “But today is probably not the day to think about it too much.
“I haven’t actually done any of that thinking if I’m honest, but you know, I love doing new things, so let’s see.”
In the meantime, kind-hearted Traitors viewers have been busy donating to Mencap – the charity Alexander would have helped should he have won The Traitors’ top prize.
I was minutes away from being executed at Auschwitz – then stroke of luck saved my life
A HOLOCAUST survivor has revealed she was minutes away from being sent to her death at Auschwitz – before her train was diverted in a lucky twist of fate.
Agnes Kaposi, 92, was just 11 years old when she and her family were shoved into a cramped and dark cattle wagon with 86 other petrified Jews – the padlocked door slamming shut behind them.
The little girl didn’t realise that their train was trundling across the Hungarian countryside towards Auschwitz where they were to be executed in gas chambers with half a million others.
And she wouldn’t know until years later that she was on the only train in history to be diverted away from the concentration camp at the last minute in a move that would end up saving her life.
Agnes, speaking from her North London home, told The Sun: “Historians tell me that there was a single train – mine – that was diverted from Auschwitz.”
As the world marks Holocaust Memorial Day on Monday, Agnes said if it wasn’t for that “quirk of history” she wouldn’t be here today and her children and grandchildren wouldn’t exist.
It was on this train – over a gruelling five days and nights – that Agnes witnessed horrors that she’ll never forget.
Agnes recalls the 87 of them cramped tightly together with no room to lay down and only a small A4-sized window with metal bars across it and a small gap in the gateway for light.
They had no food or water with them and were trying to stick their hand out of the window to collect the condensation from the steam engine in a small cup.
Agnes remembers being a terrified little girl, watching two people die in front of her and some of those around her slowly turning mad.
Agnes, who works with the Holocaust Educational Trust, said: “People die of dehydration before they die of starvation.
“There were also some who were raving mad. They were screaming and shouting, they were tearing their hair out.
“A few tried to attack people in the cart and had to be restrained.
“And these would be perfectly ordinary, normal people when we started the journey.”
She still remembers the oil drum in the corner of the wagon, which they were forced to use as a toilet.
Agnes, her voice quiet, said: “There was an oil drum stood on its end with one end cut off and that was the toilet.
“And well, when the drum was getting full, my grandmother found a ladle in her luggage,” Agnes added, her voice growing quiet as she remembered how they would have to scoop the excrement through the tiny gap.
She said as the train moved, they felt a sense of relief because it meant they were going further away from the Hungarian gendarmerie who had made their lives a living hell for years.
Agnes and her family didn’t realise that they were in fact heading for Auschwitz – or that when they were just 12 miles away their train was diverted.
She said: “At one point, we stopped and we stayed for a long time and then I could sense that I was going in the direction of travel.
“If you shut your eyes on the tube you can sense whether you’re travelling one way or the other.
“And that’s when I realised that our train had changed direction.”
Agnes only found out years later that her cattle wagon had been bound for Auschwitz – or that it was the only train to be diverted.
The grandmother said: “A historian told me that it was a quirk of history.
“Well, I am here today because of a quirk of history – my family as well.
“I wouldn’t be here to tell you this story had the train finished that 12-mile journey.”
An estimated 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp – 1.1 million of whom were murdered in the gas chambers.
Over Hitler’s brutal reign, six million Jews were killed.
Her diverted train ended up at Strasshof transit camp near Vienna and from there Jews were taken to work as a slave labourer across Austria’s farms and factories.
Agnes lied about her age – saying that she was 14 years old – so that she’d be able to work.
If they found out that she was 11 years old they wouldn’t have allowed her to – and food was only given to workers.
In the nine months that followed, Agnes was a slave labourer at a farm and then later a factory manufacturing anti-aircraft guns for the Nazis before returning to Strasshof.
When the transit camp was finally liberated, Agnes finally felt a sense of hope when the Soviet Union’s army arrived to liberate their camp.
But they brought fresh horrors, picking off some of the Jewish women at night to rape them.
Agnes said: “At night, they came. They raided our camps and targeted some women and took them away.
“When they came back, some were bruised, some bloodied – all of them in a terrible state when they stumbled back in at dawn.”
Agnes was only 12 years old at the time and only knew that they had been traumatised – not that they’d been raped.
But they knew they had to flee when the Russians arrived.
And so they started their formidable 160-mile trek through war-torn Austria, Slovakia and Hungary to their home in Budapest.
She said: “It took us a month to get there because there was no public transportation, and we were just about staggering because we were so weak.”
Agnes’ grandmother found hiding places for the four women of their family for fear of them being found by the Russian soldiers.
She said: “The Austrians had fled their villages from the Russian soldiers – and so we went through empty streets with beautiful intact houses.
“But we never slept in the houses because that’s where the Russian soldiers came raiding, looking for women.
“We slept in chicken coops, or pigsties, or inside haystacks to hide from them.”
Agnes and her family finally made it to Budapest on 1 May, 1945, hoping to be reunited with their male relatives.
But they were met with yet more heartbreak.
Agnes found that only one of the men in her family had survived the war and 27 had been killed.
They had been sent to join the Hungarian army, without clothes or weapons, and were thought to have been killed by their fellow countrymen.
Her family also found that their home had been taken away from them and confiscated.
And on their return, Hungarian civilians told them: “Couldn’t you have stayed where you were?
“Hitler should have finished the job instead of you spoiling the air here.”
Agnes was one of the very few who survived Hitler‘s barbaric rule and she later left Stalin’s Hungary to set up a home in London.
She said if her train hadn’t been diverted in that “quirk of history” – she wouldn’t be here, nor her five grandchildren.
The horrors of Holocaust
ONE of the greatest atrocities in world history, the Holocaust cost the lives of millions of Jews across Europe.
The genocide was carried out largely during World War 2, with the rise of Nazi Germany as victims were persecuted, tortured and killed on an industrial scale.
But not only Jews were targeted under Hitler’s regime – Romanis, homosexuals and Jehovah’s Witnesses were also on Hitler’s list.
It is estimated around 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust.
They were either killed on the spot, drafted to forced labour camps, or sent to concentration camps.
The camps saw millions of innocent men, women and children murdered in gas chambers.
Or they died of starvation or illnesses.
The notorious Auschwitz camp would become the grave of at least 1.1 million people.
The horrors started when Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1933 and passed antisemitic laws in a bid to force German Jews to emigrate.
And things became even more hellish after the occupation of Poland in 1939.
The nightmare came to an end after the UK, US and the rest of the Allies won the war and liberated the survivors from the remaining death camps in 1945.
Senior Nazi members were prosecuted during the Nuremberg trials with the first tribunal trying 23 political and military leaders.
Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Goebbels, were excluded as they had committed suicide several months before.
January 27 marks Holocaust Memorial Day – which is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
CIA now says Covid DID leak from dodgy Wuhan lab in bombshell U-turn on virus origin after years of denial under Biden
THE CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a Wuhan lab after years of denial under Biden’s administration.
An assessment released Saturday now points the finger at China even while acknowledging that the spy agency has low confidence in its own conclusion.
The finding is not the result of any new intelligence, and the report was completed at the behest of the Biden administration and former CIA Director William Burns.
It was declassified and released Saturday on the orders of President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the agency, John Ratcliffe, who was sworn in Thursday as director.
The nuanced finding suggests the agency believes the totality of evidence makes a lab origin more likely than a natural origin.
But the agency’s assessment assigns a low degree of confidence to this conclusion, suggesting the evidence is deficient, inconclusive or contradictory.
Earlier reports on the origins of COVID-19 have split over whether the coronavirus emerged from a Chinese lab, potentially by mistake, or whether it arose naturally.
The new assessment is not likely to settle the debate. In fact, intelligence officials say it may never be resolved, due to a lack of cooperation from Chinese authorities.
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My sick dad abused me every time I walked past his room, my pets were my only comfort then they were mysteriously killed
HOLDING her breath Trish Hinde creeps quietly past her father’s bedroom.
Pressing herself against the wall, the then six-year-old pretended to be a butterfly, or a ladybird, melting into the pattern on the wallpaper.
For if her father heard her footsteps, or even sensed her breathing, she would be ordered into his room for an almost daily ritual of sickening sexual abuse.
Gerard King was jailed three years ago for raping and sexually abusing Trish, now 37, throughout her childhood.
And now the brave mum of four has written a book; ‘Not My Fault’ which tells the story of her journey through horrific trauma, to the happiness and stability she enjoys today.
Trish, from Manchester, says: “My father would always tell me the abuse wasn’t his fault, that he was simply made that way.
“So I thought it must be my fault, instead. I grew up believing that I was responsible.
“Now at last I understand none of this was my fault and the shame all belongs to him.
“I am so proud that I’ve broken the cycle, and my children will grow up in a safe and loving home.”
The abuse began when Trish was just six years old, with King calling her into his bedroom as she made her way downstairs.
She says: “I had no idea what the abuse was, but I just knew I hated it.
“Afterwards, he would fall asleep with his arm clamped over me and I had to wriggle out, without waking him.
“Even to this day, I can’t bear to have an arm over me, even from my own husband. I feel trapped.”
When Trish was seven, her father kept her off school and raped her in the living room.
She says: “I felt so afraid and confused.
“I lived in a noisy, busy house, I had five older siblings and we had lots of pets. But I was completely isolated. I had nowhere to turn.”
Alone and scared, Trish internalised her trauma and later that year, she began suffering from violent seizures.
Her father took responsibility for her epilepsy care, even abusing her on hospital visits.
Medical records also suggest Trish’s father exaggerated her symptoms.
Trish says: “Dad made out I was ill, when much of the time I wasn’t. Perhaps he did it for financial gain, for benefits.
“Or maybe he did it to discredit me, so if I spoke out about the abuse, he could say I was unwell or unreliable.
“I certainly had seizures but I now feel they were probably stress-related, and caused by the abuse.
“I was stuck in the situation where the person responsible for my seizures was the one in charge of my care.
“On the way home from an appointment, he stopped the car and abused me in public. I was powerless to even speak out against him.
“Each time he’d remind me it wasn’t his fault, and he’d tell me he was scared of going to prison, which made me worry for him.”
With nobody to confide in, Trish turned to her pets for comfort. She confided in her dog, Tyson, her two Guinea pigs, three rabbits and two hamsters.
She says: “Tyson was my best friend. I told him everything. My other pets lived in the garden shed and I spent hours feeding them clover and giving them cuddles.
I wanted to shout it at the top of my voice, but I was too afraid, and despite myself, I felt sorry for him
Trish Hinde
“My guinea pigs had three babies, and I adored them. They were so cute.”
But when Trish was nine years old, she went out to the shed one morning to find her one of her guinea pigs was dead.
She says: “I ran back into the house, screaming. The guinea pig was cold and looked as though it had been sliced into pieces.
“There was a lock on the shed, and no sign of a break-in. At first, I thought one of the other animals had attacked him, but he was in a cage on his own.”
A couple of days later, Trish found another guinea pig dead, and then a rabbit. The deaths became a sinister pattern, one or two bodies every week, until all of her pets had gone.
She says: “Each morning, I went outside hardly daring to look in the cages, to see which one was dead. One by one, they were all killed, sliced up in the same way.
“I hated going into the shed, I was terrified of what I might find, but I couldn’t leave the others without food. It was like there was a serial killer, stalking my pets. I even worried they might kill me too.
“They met a very cruel and brutal end, and it has lived with me right through my life.”
Soon after her last pet was killed when Trish was nine, her father was jailed for the sexual abuse of another child.
She says: “By now, I was starting to work out that it had happened to me too.
“I wanted to shout it at the top of my voice, but I was too afraid, and despite myself, I felt sorry for him.
“He was still my father.”
With her father in prison, and her mother working long hours, Trish watched helplessly as bailiffs carried away family possessions.
Trish says: “I got used to hiding under the table with my dog, Tyson, when the bailiffs came. They took away the microwave and the telly, we had so little left. “
With her father gone, the sexual abuse stopped, and Trish’s seizures also miraculously vanished.
In her early teens, she began skipping school and became recklessly promiscuous, often finding herself in danger.
Without realising, she became a victim of Child Sexual Exploitation.
She says: “I’d skip school and meet men, often much older than I was, and go back to their houses to drink vodka and hang out. I went out clubbing in my early teens.
“I suppose I was looking for affection and attention, and that was the only way I knew.
“I had no idea I was being groomed or exploited. Aged 14, I had a boyfriend in his mid 30’s. I was really out of my depth.”
She says she reported her childhood abuse many times, in a letter to social workers, in an essay she wrote at school and to a therapist.
But, despite her father being jailed for abusing another child, she says her complaint never went any further.
How to report a sexual assault
- Contact a doctor or practice nurse at your GP surgery.
- Contact a voluntary organisation, such as Rape Crisis, Women’s Aid, Victim Support, The Survivors Trust or Male Survivors Partnership.
- Call the 24-hour freephone National Domestic Abuse Helpline, run by Refuge, on 0808 2000 247.
- Speak to the rape and sexual abuse support line run by Rape Crisis England and Wales – you can call the helpline on 0808 500 2222 or use the online chat (both are free and are open 24 hours a day, every day of the year).
Trish says: “Each time, nothing was done, and I began to suspect it was my fault, after all. I lost faith in the system.”
Trish became suicidal and despairing. Her relationships seemed doomed because she had damaging flashbacks and her seizures returned whenever she became intimate.
The memory of her father’s arm, pinning her to the bed, was so powerful that it triggered her epilepsy.
The one man who should have loved and protected me, instead tried to destroy me
Trish Hinde
But in 2014, she met her husband, Craig Hinde, now 39, who works in banking.
They now have four children, Jacob, now eight, Oscar, seven, Jessica, five, and one year old Ohana, and Trish credits her husband and children for turning her life around.
Trish was at first overly protective of her children and did not like her husband looking after their daughter.
She says: “Craig is a wonderful father, I knew the problem was with me, not him.
“But I could not trust anyone with my daughter. I saw all men as a threat.”
Realising her past history was damaging her marriage, she decided to go to the police.
In April 2022, Gerard King, 59, was convicted of rape, indecent assault and indecency with a child at Chester Crown Court. He was jailed for 16 years.
Trish maintains the court case and conviction were not important to her.
She says: “What mattered was that someone listened to me. Someone believed me, after 25 years. That means everything.”
Trish has written a book about her experiences, called: ‘Not My Fault’ published by Mirrorbooks.
She says: “I never want to see my father ever again.
“The one man who should have loved and protected me, instead tried to destroy me.
“I no longer feel guilty that he is in jail because I’ve finally realised it is precisely where he belongs.
“And if being in prison scares him, he has only himself to blame.
“I have learned, after 30 years of holding myself responsible, that none of this is my fault.”
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