A car once owned and driven by the late Princess of Wales is up for auction.
The 1985 Ford Escort RS Turbo S1 is being sold without a reserve but experts expect it to go for more than $200,000.
The car was driven by Princess Diana between 1985 and 1988 and featured a number of modifications made for her protection.
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Princess Diana driving her 1985 Ford Escort with Prince William seated behind, the exact date unknown. (Tim Graham/Getty Images)
It was ordered as a replacement for Diana’s red Ford Escort which had a canvas roof and was deemed unsafe by police protection officers.
Diana, who had access to the royal family’s fleet of Rolls-Royces and Daimlers, preferred Ford with this being the third and final Ford Escort owned by the royal.
This make, a Ford Escort Turbo RS, included specifications for Diana to ensure she and her children were adequately protected.
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It was painted black – a change from Ford’s all-white range available at the time – and is believed to be the first and only black RS Turbo Series 1.
“[Ford’s] Special Vehicle Engineering department was tasked to paint the car and fitted a regular five-slat front grille to assist in the ‘stealth makeover’ and a secondary rear view mirror for the protection officer with a radio in the glove box, the cable for which is still visible today,” Silverstone Auctions says in its listing online.
A 1985 Ford Escort once owned by Diana, Princess of Wales, is being sold by Silverstone Auctions. (Silverstone Auctions)
“The RS Turbo was never intended to be driven by the future Queen and was inconceivable as transport for the future King William, it remains the most daring choice of class-dividing motorcar by any member of the Royal Family since.”
Photos from the period show Diana in the car parked around Kensington during shopping trips and lunches with friends.
In one, a young Prince William can be seen in the back seat.
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The car was returned to Ford in 1988 with 6,800 miles (11,000 kilometres) on the odometer and sold internally where it was used by the wife of one of the company’s managers.
The car was later used as part of a promotional giveaway by a radio station in 1993 and sold again in 1994 before coming into the hands of a collector in 2008.
It now has a mileage of just over 40,000 kilometers.
“The car’s history file has been meticulously archived and copy internal memos from the Ford Motor Company confirms the ‘re-plating’ of the registration number, as is common with ex-Royal cars,” the auction house says.
Princess Diana driving her 1981 Ford Escort which was sold at auction in 2021. (Tim Graham Photo Library via Get)
“Further documentation from the DVLA show the successful re-registration of the car back to “C462 FHK” in later years.”
The auction is being held on August 27.
In June 2021, a Ford given to Princess Diana as an engagement present was sold at auction for more than $90,000.
The owner of the 1981 Ford Escort Ghia kept its origin a secret for 20 years.
The vehicle was gifted by Prince Charles to his future bride in May 1981 and used by Princess Diana until August 1982.
The car also had a copy of a silver frog mascot given as a gift to the princess by her sister, Lady Sarah Spencer.
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Jasmine Yarbrough’s sister Jade goes Instagram official with Michael Clarke as she shares loved-up photo with the cricketer during romantic holiday following his split from Pip Edwards
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They are currently enjoying a romantic overseas holiday together.
And on Monday, Jasmine Stefanovic’s younger sister Jade Yarbrough went Instagram official with her new boyfriend, cricketer Michael Clarke.
The 30-year-old shared a photo of Michael wrapping his arms around her shoulder as they explored the streets in Europe.
Jasmine Yarbrough’s sister Jade (pictured) went Instagram official with Michael Clarke as she shared a loved-up photo with the cricketer following his split from Pip Edwards
Jade looked stylish in a see-through fishnet dress and an orange Bottega Veneta handbag, while Michael wore shorts and a black T-shirt.
It comes after the couple jetted out of the country together two weeks ago.
They were spotted at Sydney Airport, checking in late at night for a business class flight on Emirates.
The 30-year-old shared a photo of Michael wrapping his arms around her shoulder as they explored the streets of Italy
Rumors that the pair are dating broke earlier this month.
Jade and Michael are said to have met through Karl Stefanovic – Jade’s brother-in-law.
The single father of one is also close friends with Jade’s business partner’s husband.
The Daily Telegraph reports that Michael has become ‘quite fond’ of Jade in recent weeks.
Michael was in a high-profile relationship with PE Nation co-founder Pip Edwards, which ended for the first time in February last year after several months of dating.
It comes after the couple jetted out of the country together two weeks ago. They were spotted at Sydney Airport, checking in late at night for a business class flight on Emirates
Pip and Michael’s relationship began in June 2020 after his split from wife Kyly Clarke, which they had announced four months earlier.
After parting ways with Pip in February, the couple rekindled their romance in October, but split again in December.
Jade meanwhile, was in a long-term relationship with Andrew Leece, but she last posted about him online in January.
Michael was previously in a high-profile relationship with PE Nation co-founder Pip Edwards, but split in December
Jade meanwhile, was in a long-term relationship with Andrew Leece, but she last posted about him online in January
A rising Aussie cricket star has landed himself in the middle of a fierce debate after he ran out a rival in bizarre circumstances.
Queensland and Australia A representative Bryce Street is spending the Aussie winter in England, playing for East Anglia Premier League side Frinton on Sea.
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On Saturday, Street was bowling his right arm medium pacers as Saffron Walden built to 1/117. After Alex Peirson blocked a ball back to Street he began heading back to his mark, only to realize non-striker Nikhil Gorantla was leaning on his bat out of his crease.
Street tossed the ball onto the stumps, appealed and the umpire gave Gorantla out.
Gorantla had appeared to ground his bat over the line before lifting it again, as the run out occurred.
The batter had no choice but to accept the umpire’s decision, dismissed for 32.
This was just the start of the drama. A video of the incident posted by the East Anglia Premier League was deleted as questions were raised by bewildered fans.
While it is not a good look, the act is legal by the laws of cricket as many of the issues come down to the umpire’s discretion.
One of the issues people had with the incident was that the ball was dead. Law 20.1.1 states: “The ball becomes dead when it is finally settled in the hands of the wicketkeeper or of the bowler.”
But Law 20.1.2 adds: “The ball shall be considered to be dead when it is clear to the bowler’s end umpire that the fielding side and both batters at the wicket have ceased to regard it as in play.”
Law 20.2 continues: “Whether the ball is finally settled or not is a matter for the umpire alone to decide.”
Looked pretty settled in his hand. Photo: YouTubeSource: YouTubeGet your bat back over the line. Photo: YouTubeSource: YouTubeStreet got the wicket. Photo: YouTubeSource: YouTube
Others believe it should have fallen foul under “fake fielding” of Law 41, which deals with unfair play.
Law 41.5 says: “It is unfair for any fielder willfully to attempt, by word or action, to distract, deceive or obstruct either batter after the striker has received the ball.
“It is for either one of the umpires to decide whether any distraction, deception or obstruction is wilful or not.”
Asked about the incident on Twitter, Laws of Cricket adviser to the MCC Jonny Singer said while it was legal, it may not have been right.
“Whether the ball is finally settled is up to the bowler’s end umpire. I decided it wasn’t, so it’s not. I would have come to a different view, but I wasn’t on the field,” Singer said.
Wickets fell regularly from there and Saffron Walden was all out for 218, with Street taking 4/49 from 18 overs.
The wicket was key as earlier this summer, Gorantla had hit a century and double century for Essex’s second XI.
Street also scored 101 not out of 106 balls in a stunning all-round performance, but it was overshadowed by his controversial act.
Street has played 26 first-class matches, tallying 1500 runs at an average of 36.58.
He is contracted for Queensland again in the 2022-23 Australian domestic season.
Community members and staff of an Indigenous social enterprise in inner Sydney that provides health and wellbeing services say they have been left “heartbroken” by a decision to shut down the non-profit organisation.
Key points:
The National Center of Indigenous Excellence will close on Monday
It employs about 50 people, most of them Indigenous
The center offers sport, fitness, conferences and community classes including tutoring and educational support
The National Center of Indigenous Excellence (NCIE) is set to close its doors in Redfern on Monday after failed negotiations between the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation (ILSC) and new owners the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC).
The ILSC, a Commonwealth body that assists in acquiring and managing rights and interests in land and waters, divested the site to the NSWALC on June 30.
But both organizations have been unable to reach an agreement on the social hub’s ongoing support.
The center opened in 2006 and offers sports, fitness, conferences and community classes including tutoring and educational support.
The National Center of Indigenous Excellence will close next week.(AAP: Dan Himbrechts)
It employs about 50 people, most of them Indigenous.
Co-founder and CEO of non-for-profit Redfern Youth Connect Margaret Haumono said the decision came as a shock to staff and tenants like herself, after a meeting with NSWALC on Tuesday.
She said she was assured there would be “a three-year waiting process followed by an expression of interest for the fitness and aquatic centre, and that the community would get the first option at tender”.
She said staff were told on Monday they would no longer have their jobs by next week and were reportedly told to sign non-disclosure agreements.
“Staff are heartbroken. We are very angry, we were never consulted and never told this was going to happen,” she said.
Ms Haumono operates programs for about 50 high school children at the center every day.
“The ILSC has never accepted an invite to the table from the community. This [decision] is a complete disrespect and disregard to all our elders, to all the people who work on the ground every day,” she said.
“A lot of kids are going to be affected by this. We keep kids off the street and give them that space to be safe.
“I couldn’t describe what it means that it’s gone.”
Heartbroken staff and community members met at the center today.(ABC News: Nakari Thorpe)
NSWALC said it had been working on the potential transfer of the NCIE and the operation of its fitness and aquatics centre.
But said “following detailed due diligence and negotiations with the ILSC, that has not been possible”.
In a joint statement, both the ILSC and NSWALC said they had worked together “in good faith” to secure the future of the centre.
“Unfortunately, we have not been able to reach agreement on terms for ongoing support of the organisation, and as a result it will close.”
The ILSC had owned the site since 2006.(ABC News: Nakari Thorpe)
NSWALC chair Danny Chapman said a process would be opened to secure “a suitable third-party” to manage the fitness and aquatic center on the site.
He said the improvement of the property itself is a significant undertaking, and NSWALC would be focusing efforts on the future of the site.
The ILSC purchased the site, where Redfern Public School had operated for over 100 years, in 2006.
Shane Phillips runs youth programs with local police at the center. (ABC News: Ursula Malone)
Tribal Warrior Aboriginal Corporation chief executive Shane Phillips runs multiple prison diversionary and youth programs with local police at the center.
He said community input was vital for the future success of the centre.
“We don’t want to be diluted here, we want to create economic empowerment — independence — so that the model is sustainable,” he said.
“That place has been one that everyone uses, young and old, and it’s about healing, it’s about investing. We as a community should not be the ones that suffer.”
A final stretch of primaries for state and federal offices kicks off Tuesday, setting the stage for a six-week battle inside a divided Republican Party pitting candidates loyal to former president Donald Trump and his false election claims against rivals looking to move past those fights in this fall’s midterm elections.
Two gubernatorial candidates in Arizona and Wisconsin backed by Trump will face off this month against those endorsed by former vice president Mike Pence, who split with Trump after refusing pressure to reject the results of the 2020 presidential race. Four members of Congress who voted to impeach Trump after his supporters of him stormed the US Capitol are also trying to beat back challengers who embrace Trump’s false claims that he won. And an Arizona lawmaker who led calls to “decertify” the 2020 results and wants to ban the use of voting machines may win the GOP nomination Tuesday to oversee elections in a key battleground for 2024.
With less than 100 days to go until the November midterms, lasting rifts over the past election will take center stage as some Republicans hope to focus on unifying concerns such as inflation to regain control of Congress. Trying to overcome those economic head winds and low approval ratings for President Biden, Democrats argue the GOP’s candidates — and their campaigns against the democratic process itself — will prove too extreme for general-election voters. Some Republicans also worry about nominating divisive candidates in the coming weeks.
Tuesday’s contests in Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Washington state could elevate more Republicans who, like Trump, have baselessly undermined faith in elections and pitch themselves as populist fighters against not just Democrats but the GOP establishment.
“I think what is going to be clarified here over the next few weeks, have the lunatics really taken over the asylum? … Are you going to see election truthers taking over the voting mechanisms up and down the ballot?” said Jon Reinish, a Democratic consultant. “That’s going to present the American people with a real choice to make that is going to be very stark.”
In many races, the GOP candidates diverge on tone rather than policy.
“Everybody is pro-gun, pro-life, pro-border, pro-low tax, low regulation. The fight is not about what we stand for, but who we are,” said Stan Barnes, a former state senator and GOP strategist in Arizona — which is shaping up to be “a perfect political science experiment about the future of the Republican Party.”
In Arizona, Republican candidates for Senate, governor, attorney general and secretary of state have all campaigned heavily on their alignment with Trump while promoting his false narrative of the 2020 election. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R), co-chair of the Republican Governors Association, has thrown his weight behind a more traditional conservative candidate for governor, developer Karrin Taylor Robson, as well as a secretary of state candidate, Beau Lane, who acknowledges that Biden won in 2020.
Pence, a friend and ally of Ducey, also endorsed Taylor Robson over Trump’s favored candidate, former TV anchor Kari Lake. Lake has said she would not have affirmed Biden’s victory — as Ducey did — and has already claimed there is “some stealing going on” in the 2022 election without providing evidence. In split-screen campaign events last month, Trump and Pence stumped for their candidates on the same Friday as both consider a run for the presidency in 2024.
A similar scene played out this spring in Georgia, where Trump recruited former senator David Perdue to challenge onetime ally Gov. Brian Kemp (R) for his decision to certify Trump’s election loss. Kemp won overwhelmingly with Pence’s endorsement. But the Arizona governor’s race appears to be far more competitive.
Trump’s endorsements in the 2022 Republican primaries
In Missouri, Trump promised Monday to issue a last-minute endorsement in the Senate primary — only to cast his lot behind “Eric” without identifying a surname, effectively leaving the door open to either Eric Greitens or state Attorney General Eric Schmitt, both of whom lobbied for his support. Greitens resigned from the governor’s office in scandal and, as a Senate candidate, denied fresh allegations of abuse from his former wife — stoking Republican fears he could an imperil an otherwise safe seat and leading to an establishment-led effort to defeat him.
In Arizona, state lawmaker Mark Finchem is running for secretary of state — part of an official slate of election deniers seeking oversight of voting in 2024. Other members of that coalition include Jim Marchant, who won the Republican nomination for secretary of state in Nevada, and Kristina Karamo, the GOP’s pick for secretary of state in Michigan.
Finchem has sought to upend Arizona’s popular and well-established mail voting system and was photographed near the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when a pro-Trump mob stormed the building to disrupt certification of the 2020 election. He recently embraced the support of Andrew Torba, the founder of a far-right social media site, who has said non-Christians are not real conservatives.
Republicans warned against writing off candidates like Finchem and Lake in the general election, as GOP candidates tap into a favorable political climate nationwide. “My Democratic friends in Arizona are pulling for [Lake and Finchem] and believe that those are the candidates they want to run against,” said Barnes, the GOP strategist. “But I think they may regret that.”
Democrats, meanwhile, have pursued a controversial strategy in some races of seeking to elevate GOP campaigns that they view as more extreme, and thus more beatable, in November. In Michigan, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has spent $435,000 on ads boosting an election-denier challenger to Rep. Peter Meijer, one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump in 2021. He is in a tight race Tuesday with John Gibbs, a former Trump administration official.
In Washington state, Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R) and Dan Newhouse (R) are also hoping Tuesday to fend off critics of their votes to impeach; a top-two, all-party primary system could ease their path.
Some Republicans see incumbents who have broken with Trump as their most electable candidates in the fall, and Tuesday could intensify the criticism that Trump has hurt the party’s chances with his endorsements. Some of his chosen candidates of his are struggling in crucial swing-state races such as Pennsylvania’s Senate contest.
JasonRoe,a strategist and former executive director of the Michigan GOP, said the party’s growing interest in trying to flip a Senate seat in Democratic-leaning Washington state underscores their candidates’ struggles in swing states.
“It doesn’t give you a lot of confidence that we are holding the best hand at this moment,” he said with a laugh.
State legislative primaries in Michigan will also pit some of Trump’s favored candidates against those backed by a former Cabinet member and major GOP donor, Betsy DeVos, as well as one of his most vocal GOP critics: Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), who also voted to impeach.
Jase Bolger, a former GOP speaker for the Michigan House of Representatives, predicted the party will coalesce behind its nominees despite the infighting. He recalled the party’s divisions in 2010, when Republicans flipped the House of Representatives after members of the conservative “tea party” movement had railed against the GOP establishment. “Again, those differences, those struggles paled in comparison to the differences in the general election,” Bolger said.
Trump and Pence have endorsed different candidates in the Wisconsin GOP gubernatorial primary, which will be held Aug. 9. Trump’s pick, Tim Michels, a construction executive, has perpetuated the falsehood that widespread voter fraud cost Trump the election, though Michels has refused to say whether he would support a GOP effort in the state legislature to retroactively decertify Biden’s 2020 victory, saying recently that it wasn’t “a priority.”
Michels will face former lieutenant governor Rebecca Kleefisch, who earned Pence’s endorsement last week, and state Rep. Tim Ramthun in the primary next week. Kleefisch has also questioned the 2020 results, but has called overturning Wisconsin’s results impossible.
The winner will face Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who currently is a buffer to the GOP legislature’s ambitions, setting up one of the most high-stakes gubernatorial races in the country.
Wisconsin Democrats will also decide who will take on GOP Sen. Ron Johnson in November. Last week, several candidates in a crowded Democratic primary stepped aside, effectively clearing the way for Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes to win the party’s nomination.
The following week there are dramatic showdowns in Wyoming and Alaska. Of all the Republicans up for reelection this year, there’s likely no one Trump wants to beat more than Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.). Since the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots, Cheney has spoken out about Trump’s culpability, voted to impeach him over it and has helped lead the House committee investigating the former president’s role in the attack. Cheney is up against Harriet Hageman, who has the full weight of Trump and his allies behind her.
The Aug. 16 election will also test the endurance of Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor, who was John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential election. Palin is running to succeed the late congressman Don Young, who died in March after nearly 50 years in the House. Alaska voters will decide in a special election whether to send her to Washington to fill the last few months of Young’s term and whether she should advance past the primary to Friday for the seat in the November election.
The last major day of primary elections is Aug. 23, in Florida and New York, two states that were ranked by the redistricting that occurs after the eleven-a-decade US Census. In Florida, a stalemate between state lawmakers and Gov. Ron DeSantis ended with the Republican governor getting the map he wanted — one that added opportunities for Republicans to pick up seats and diminished the influence of Black voters in two House districts. Two Democratic House members, Reps. Charlie Crist and Val Demings, are giving up their seats to run for higher office against DeSantis and Sen. Marco Rubio (R), respectively.
New York’s congressional primary was delayed over a protracted legal battle over new congressional maps drawn by the state’s Democratic lawmakers. A judge found the map unconstitutional and appointed an outside mapmaker to redraw it. The result thrust two titans of the New York congressional delegation, Democratic Reps. Jerry Nadler and Carolyn B. Maloney, into an unwanted primary matchup. The two octogenarians have served side-by-side in Congress for 30 years. The district reshuffling complicated other races in and around New York City, forcing incumbents to run outside of their current districts and into competitive primaries.
Voters in Upstate New York will also decide a special election to fill the seat Democratic congressman Antonio Delgado left open when he was picked to become the state’s lieutenant governor. The race is the first competitive Democrat vs. Republican race since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. wade, which could provide an early indication of whether the decision motivated Democrats and swing voters.
“If Democrats perform better than the Biden-Trump margin in that seat, perhaps this Democratic surge is durable,” said David Wasserman, a political prognosticator at Cook Political Report.
This was still lower than the $2.50 at which shares were priced for the company’s initial public offering in December – and the price ADIA will pay for the shares under the agreement that links the sovereign wealth fund’s investment to Qualitas’ growth.
The first $700 million investment will go into a new vehicle, Qualitas Diversified Credit Investments, which will have the flexibility to invest in a variety of commercial real estate debt products, whether first mortgage debt, mezzanine debt, unsecured loans or preferred equity.
This fund will not be open to other investors.
To tap its entitlement, ADIA will have to invest a further $700 million, which will allow it to exercise options up to a 7 per cent stake. For every further $100 million it invests, it unlocks a further 1 per cent stake, up to an invested capital total of $1.7 billion.
There’s no prize in giving the biggest checks at the cheapest price. We’re going back to normal pricing, that 2018-type pricing.
— Qualitas MD Andrew Schwartz
The expiration date of the agreement is August 1, 2024, but it can be extended by a further six months if Qualitas has allocated less than $560 million of ADIA’s capital by the start of February 2024.
Mr Schwartz founded Qualitas in 2008, during the global financial crisis, which he said was the “best time” to focus on private, or non-bank, commercial real estate debt because banks held back from lending. Conditions were similar now, he said.
“There’s always activity going on in the market,” he said. “Qualitas is really experiencing a strong deal pipeline. At these periods of time you’ve got very high standards of lending, but we’re experiencing a surge of pipeline.”
Pricing of commercial real estate debt had risen on average 200 basis points from lows of the past couple of years, which was “normal pricing”, he said.
“There’s no prize in giving the biggest checks at the cheapest price,” he said. “We’re going back to normal pricing, that 2018-type pricing. Things that might have been [priced at] 6 per cent can be 8 per cent and anything that was 8 per cent can be 10 per cent.”
Mr Schwartz said that selling a large equity stake to a new investor at that level would not dilute the stake of existing stakeholders.
One other major investor, Ethical Partners chief executive Matt Nacard, said ADIA was taking a long-term view of Qualitas’ prospects and welcomed the investor.
“It’s a really strong endorsement, not only of the business but the business model and the market,” he said.
Mr Schwartz declined to comment on whether the share price would have recovered to its pre-IPO level by that time, but said the shares initially priced at $2.50 when the company had $4.2 billion of funds under management and ADIA would need to have invested at least $1.4 billion before it could take advantage of the options.
“If you do the maths, we would be roughly 50 per cent bigger in assets under management than we were at the time of the IPO,” he said.
stray has been out for a couple of weeks now, so there has been plenty of time for mods to pop up.
Players have been making all sorts of stray mods since the game came out. Some we’ve already touched on include turning the cat into CJ and turning the cat into a dog.
Outside of these mods, there are still so many that I think are just fantastic, so I’ve compiled a list of my favorite cat mods for Stray. Please take a look.
Meow mods for Stray
JASON by gibrietas
This mod replaces the cat’s meows with Ethan’s ‘Jason’ lines from Heavy Rain. Pretty self-explanatory and very silly.
Farting Mod by norskpl
This mod replaces the cat’s meows with fart sounds. Once again, incredibly self-explanatory and very, very silly.
Cat accessory mods for Stray
Eyepatch Mod by Sirgalahad172
Image: Sirgalahad172 / Annapurna Interactive
This mod adds an eyepatch to your cat, making him look like Solid Snake from metal gear solid. If there were a way for Solid Snake to hold this cat, I would be at peace.
Glasses Mod by Sirgalahad172
Image: Sirgalahad172 / Annapurna Interactive
This mod adds little glasses to your cat, making him look like a big nerd. I’m allowed to say this as I also wear glasses, and they make me look like a nerd.
Cat mods in Stray
Garfield Mod by Chris Rubino
Image: Chris Rubino / Annapurna Interactive
This mod, made by the same creator that made the dog mod, turns the cat into the lasagna-loving beast Garfield. How about those Mondays, huh?
Spyro the Dragon Mod by MrMarco1003
Image: MrMarco1003 / Annapurna Interactive
This mod turns the cat into Spyro from the Reignited Trilogy era. As you can see, all the cats become different dragons. One of them is Toothless from How To Train Your Dragon.
Minecraft Pig Mod by RSH Kai Jones
Image: RSH Kai Jones / Annapurna Interactive
This mod turns the cat into a pig from Minecraft. There is something indescribably evil and hilarious about this mod and this image especially.
An honorable mention would have to be all of the mods people have made of their own cats. There are too many to include, but it’s very wholesome that so many people have wanted to put their cat in the game.
Pop star Lee Ryan was arrested after allegedly going berserk on a plane.
The singer from British boy band Blue is said to have been abusive to cabin crew and refused to sit when they would not serve him a drink.
Blue enjoyed a string of hit singles and three UK number one albums in the early noughties, and two platinum-selling songs in Australia with the hits All Rise and Too Close.
Passengers claim Ryan, 39, became disruptive during the flight from Glasgow to London City, delaying it by 20 minutes as he was arrested after it landed.
One passenger said: “Never mind singing with Blue, he turned the air blue with his language.
“He became aggressive with the air hostesses once it became clear he wouldn’t get given alcohol. At one point he left his seat and started walking up and down the aisle despite being told to sit down – he even ran behind the cabin crew curtains.
“It was crazy behaviour.”
Another said: “The way he acted was really intimidating.”
Cabin staff radioed ahead and cops boarded the BA flight in London on Sunday.
They arrested Ryan on suspicion of public order offenses.
He was handcuffed and bundled off the jet into a waiting police van on the runway.
He spent the night in a cell and was finally released yesterday pending further investigations after spending well over 12 hours in custody.
The Met Police said: “At around 16.40hrs on Sunday, 31 July, officers met a flight that had arrived at London City Airport from Glasgow.
“A 39-year-old man was arrested for a public order offence. He was taken into custody at an East London police station and was released under investigation the following day.”
Ryan formed the boy band in 2000 with Antony Costa, Duncan James and Simon Webbe. They have sold 14 million records.
This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission
Australian Test captain Pat Cummins has married his long-time partner Rebecca Boston in a star-studded ceremony on Friday.
After nearly nine years together and various COVID-19 disruptions, the couple tied the knot at the luxury accommodation Chateau Du Soleil on the coast of Byron Bay.
Cummins posted a photo of the newlyweds celebrating the occasion on Instagram on Monday evening, alongside the caption “just married”. The bride donned a white, sparkling gown and the groom sported a classic black suit and bow-tie.
Cummins and his partner – who goes by “Becky” – initially expected to be wed in 2020, but they, like many other couples living through the pandemic, were forced to reschedule the event for safer, less restriction-ridden times.
They were finally able to make it official on Friday in front of family and friends, including several teammates and coaches.
Cummins’ teammates Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc, Travis Head and Nathan Lyon were among the guests as their captain exchanged vows. Others in attendance were former skipper Tim Paine and head coach Andrew McDonald.
The pair met in Sydney’s nightlife district in 2013. He and Becky, who hails from Britain, have since had a son named Albie, who is now nine months old.
Cummins is Australia’s 47th men’s Test captain. At only 29, the local Westmead was the first fast bowler in more than half a century to be named captain.
With the wedding behind him, Cummins faces a busy period ahead with the Twenty20 World Cup and two summer Test series against South Africa and the West Indies.
The former boss of the Canberra Rebels bikie club has been jailed over a series of phone conversations, riddled with expletives, during which he threatened to hurt several people.
Key points:
Ali Bilal pleaded guilty to three charges of using a carriage service to threaten serious harm and two charges of using a carriage service to menage, harass or offend
Chief Magistrate Lorraine Walker said the conversations displayed “manipulative aggression”
Bilal was sentenced to 13 months in prison, but that will be suspended after four months
Ali Bilal, 50, pleaded guilty tofive charges relating to using a carriage service to harass or threaten serious harmafter the conversations were captured in telephone intercepts.
In one conversation played to the ACT Magistrates Court, he told a woman he was trying to contact someone and wanted her to arrange the meeting, ignoring the woman’s pleas to listen to her.
“Get him to meet me. That’s it,” Bilal screamed into the phone.
“I’m gonna f*** him, his mother, his father. I’m not gonna leave anybody tonight,” Bilal told her.
In another conversation, Bilal asked a man who had angered him where he was.
“We’ll just come to you now,” he said.
“Forget the bulls***.
“We’ll come to the site where you are now and we’ll deal with you in public in front of everybody to finally make a statement in this town.
“I’m happy to go to jail for it. Let’s not f*** around anymore.”
Chief Magistrate Lorraine Walker said the conversations revealed a grandiose and alarming attitude and displayed “manipulative aggression”.
But she noted Bilal had said he never intended to carry out the threats.
Chief Magistrate Walker said Bilal had also expressed some remorse in his pre-sentence report, although she said that he should be qualified.
“He has not demonstrated contrition in any practical sense,” she said.
The court heard that Bilal had left the Rebels, although Chief Magistrate Walker said that news was also “received with some skepticism” given Bilal’s long association with gangs.
Chief Magistrate Walker said some of the conversations may have been driven by some kind of perverted form of moral authority.
But she said there was no other option but to send him to jail.
Bilal has been sentenced to 13 months in prison, but that will be suspended after four months.
He will also have to sign an 18-month supervision order.
