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Second anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s death marked by health struggles and a slimmer royal family

Throughout the highway from Balmoral Citadel is the little church that meant a lot to Queen Elizabeth.

It’s small in dimension and there are only a dozen or so pews, however Crathie Kirk has had many monarchs sit on the very entrance for household weddings and common Sunday morning prayers.

Right now, King Charles did what his late mom would do each Sunday morning throughout her summer time keep at Balmoral Citadel, he’ll drive over the River Dee and cross the A93 and attend the Sunday service.

However September 8 is, for him, what February 6 was for the late Queen: Accession Day.

Not a day to rejoice in changing into monarch.

However a day to mirror on the passing of a beloved guardian.

King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrive at Crathie Kirk, close to Balmoral, for a Sunday church service. Credit score: PA

Queen Elizabeth all the time spent Accession Day at Sandringham, the Norfolk property the place her father died in 1952.

And for the previous two years, King Charles has adopted that custom and stayed at Balmoral Citadel, the place the place his mom’s exceptional 96-year life, and 70-year reign, led to 2022.

We’re informed the King, with Queen Camilla at his facet, will spend the day in “quiet reflection”, little question considering of Queen Elizabeth’s place within the historical past of this nation, but in addition of his expensive mom to whom he was devoted.

On the primary anniversary of her demise, the King might need appeared again on a yr by which the monarchy was seamlessly handed from mom to son, and an historical ceremony of Coronation proclaimed him King Charles III in entrance of the nation and the world.

He would have additionally remembered the delight he felt when his spouse was topped Queen Camilla, cementing her position as his biggest supporter, or consort, in his new position.

However any reflection on the second yr of King Charles’ reign will generate some very totally different feelings.


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King Charles III reads playing cards and messages despatched by well-wishers following his most cancers prognosis. Credit score: PA

A yr by which he was pressured to step again from public duties to deal with his well being, following his prostate after which his most cancers prognosis.

Royal sources would communicate of the King “chewing the carpet” in frustration and never with the ability to perform his duties in public.

And whereas Charles in now again within the public area, assembly individuals (which is what he loves most of all) he’s not allowed to do it in a means he might need been planning this time final yr.

Every go to is now signed off by medical doctors. His working days are shorter – which, for a workaholic monarch, is not any straightforward job.

International journey, aside from a brief journey to Normandy for D-Day, has been curtailed.

The standard “Spring Tour” by no means occurred.

And his daughter-in-law has additionally been struggling together with her personal most cancers prognosis.

The Princess of Wales has been away from her work since Christmas, capable of make simply a few public appearances whereas she undergoes chemotherapy.

The Princess of Wales revealed her most cancers prognosis in March. Credit score: PA

It is also impacted each her work and that of Prince William.

And whereas the King’s second yr hasn’t been rocked in fairly the identical means by Prince Harry, these strained household points are by no means actually out of the media narrative.

The King did not need to cope with a Netflix or a best-selling memoir from his second son, however there was a high-profile go to to London by the Duke of Sussex, throughout which a gathering between father and son conspicuously did not occur.

Trying forward, there’s a large – if scaled-back – abroad tour to Australia, the King’s first to a Commonwealth Realm the place he stays the top of state.

And King Charles will tackle a giant Commonwealth summit for the primary time as the top of the organisation (on the final Commonwealth Heads of Authorities Assembly, he was nonetheless Prince Charles and was representing his mom).

He’s decided to maintain main the nation as head of the nation, as he did not too long ago in visiting the neighborhood in Southport and assembly the households of these younger women who had misplaced their lives.

Regardless of the well being challenges, Palace officers continually try to indicate it is “business-as-usual”, however, in comparison with this time final yr, the Royal Household can generally appears very slim.

There have been moments this yr when Queen Camilla was singlehandedly conserving the royal present on the highway and no-one would have dared to foretell that within the Nineties.


That is the Royal Rota – our weekly podcast in regards to the royal household, with ITV Information Royal Editor Chris Ship and Producer Lizzie Robinson

Jalen Hurts to secure air conditioning for Philadelphia schools

Jalen Hurts has spent the final 12 months attempting to maintain metropolis faculties cool in the course of the summer season, and he’s taking his efforts to a different degree. On Friday earlier than kickoff in Sao Paulo,  the Jalen Hurts Basis introduced that all through the 2024 NFL season, for each landing the Eagles quarterback scores this 12 months, they may donate $5,000 to enhance air con at ten further Philadelphia faculties.

The Jalen Hurts Basis continues its Preserve It Cool Initiative by launching a season-long TDs for ACs marketing campaign. Within the 2024-25 season, the muse will donate $5,000 per Jalen Hurts landing to enhance air con at ten further Philadelphia faculties. With nearly 100 faculties and 50,000 college students nonetheless missing correct cooling, your assist is important. Followers can contribute to the Preserve It Cool Initiative by making a one-time or month-to-month tax-deductible donation.
Collectively, we will create a greater studying surroundings and assist college students thrive regardless of excessive warmth.

The Eagles star quarterback signed a five-year, $255 million contract extension final spring and put his new cash to work, trying to impression the group. In Could, Hurts donated $200,000 to Philadelphia faculties for brand spanking new air con in 10 faculties.

Now, the Jalen Hurts Basis plans to deal with the wants of the practically 100 remaining faculties with out air conditioners.

Hurts beforehand offered $200,000 price of air conditioners to 10 Philly faculties: Clara Barton, Gloria Casarez, Castor Gardens, D. Newlin Fell, Thomas Finletter, Fliter Tutorial Plus, Benjamin Franklin/Science Management Academy, Edward Gideon, Abram Jens, and T. Roosevelt. The district listed these faculties as earmarked for brand spanking new air con items.

How does Oasis’ private ballot for extra dates work?

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8 Sep 2024, 10:55

Oasis has confirmed there shall be a non-public poll for 2 further tour dates at Wembley Stadium subsequent September. 

On the finish of August, the band introduced they might reunite for the primary time in 15 years with a large run of exhibits within the UK and Eire. 

Tickets went on sale final week, and all exhibits bought out on the primary day. Nonetheless, there was heavy criticism from followers about the way in which Ticketmaster dealt with the sale, with some ready for a number of hours within the digital queue and others being hit with value hikes related to dynamic pricing. 

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Now, Oasis has introduced they are going to be enjoying two further exhibits at Wembley on twenty seventh and twenty eighth of September 2025, however this time, there shall be stricter guidelines in place when shopping for tickets as “a small step in direction of making amends for the scenario”. 

These guidelines come within the type of a “particular invitation-only poll ticket sale technique”.

However what precisely does that imply?

Properly, in keeping with a press launch from the band, those that missed out on tickets final weekend ought to have acquired an e mail asking them to enter a non-public poll. 

The assertion learn: “In case you signed into your Ticketmaster UK account on Saturday, thirty first August, and had been capable of be part of a queue for a selected present however didn’t get a ticket – then you might be eligible to participate and can obtain an e mail on find out how to register for the poll.”

To register, followers shall be requested to fill out a few of their particulars and reply a brand new trivia query about when the band final performed Wembley Stadium (the reply is twelfth July 2009, by the way in which). 

After registering, you can be entered right into a poll for a code. Profitable candidates will obtain that code and acquire entry to the ticket sale for the ultimate two Wembley exhibits. Please notice, that registering does not imply you’ll get a code.

The press launch explains: “The poll is just open to invited followers. You could register with the e-mail to which your invitation was despatched and which is registered along with your Ticketmaster account. All different entries shall be discounted. If you don’t obtain an e mail then sadly you’ll not be eligible for the poll. You can be robotically discounted from the poll, even when you undergo the registration course of.”

Following the way in which issues had been dealt with within the preliminary sale, Ticketmaster is now being regarded into for its Dynamic Pricing coverage that noticed normal tickets doubling from £148 to £355 for no obvious purpose. 

The Competitors and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating whether or not the corporate “could have breached shopper safety regulation”.

Mary Ngugi-Cooper and Abel Kipchumba make it Kenyan double at Great North Run

Ngugi-Cooper was a part of a six-strong lead group that stayed collectively just about to the wire, with the 35-year-old pipping Ethiopia’s Senbere Teferi in a dash end.

Ngugi-Cooper is the eleventh successive Kenyan winner of the ladies’s occasion however has robust hyperlinks to the UK. She relies in Leeds along with her British husband and is coached by Steve Cram.

Eilish McColgan completed fifth (Richard Sellers/PA)

She advised the BBC: “It was superb. It’s all the time been a dream for me to come back and race right here on the Nice North Run. To win it, it’s a dream come true. It was a bit mentally robust as a result of nobody was dropping and also you’re coming to the final mile and everyone seems to be there.”

Britain’s Eilish McColgan was a part of the lead group and crossed the road in fifth, 5 seconds behind Ngugi-Cooper, whose successful time was one hour, seven minutes and 40 seconds.

“I’m actually proud of that,” mentioned Scot McColgan. “It was a very robust discipline that was assembled this yr so to be amongst these ladies and nonetheless be there with 200 metres to go, when you’d advised me that final week I’d have snapped your hand off.”

The boys’s race was a one-man present, Kipchumba breaking away early on and defying the moist situations to cross the road in 59mins 52secs.

Britain’s Marc Scott, winner of the occasion in 2021, reeled in Norway’s Sondre Moen to complete second, one minute and 19 seconds adrift.

Former champion Marc Scott crosses the road (Richard Sellers/PA)

There have been residence winners of each the wheelchair occasions in Jade Corridor and Johnboy Smith.

Corridor was making her comeback after giving beginning to her daughter in March and she or he mentioned: “I wasn’t actually certain the way it was going to go. The climate was difficult right this moment however I actually loved it.

“It’s been actually laborious. I do really feel like I’ve acquired a unique physique now and I’m studying how that works for me.”

Smith mentioned: “It was race, very, very robust. Moist, chilly, depressing, however enjoyable all on the identical time.”

Jalen Hurts Foundation to donate $5k for every touchdown he scores – NBC10 Philadelphia

Each time Philadelphia Eagles star Jalen Hurts scores a landing this season, extra funding will go towards Philadelphia public colleges.

The Jalen Hurts Basis introduced that it’ll donate $5,000 in direction of Hurts’ Preserve It Cool Initiative for each landing he scores within the 2024-25 season.

Earlier this 12 months, the quarterback had donated $200,000 to fund air-con at a number of colleges throughout the Philadelphia public college system.

The donation went in direction of including 300 air-con models in 10 colleges throughout the district.

The inspiration famous that extra must be accomplished after dozens of metropolis colleges have been pressured to ship college students dwelling final week as a consequence of insufficient cooling techniques.

For extra info, go to www.jalenhurtsfoundation.org.

Second place for Northallerton’s Marc Scott at Great North Run

The 30-year-old – who turned the second Brit since 1985 to win the well-known race in 2021 – achieved a powerful time of 1:01:11 within the males’s elite race behind winner Abel Kipchumba. 

Scott – who lately relocated again to the UK from the US and welcomed son Albie 4 months in the past – was the one Brit to fall inside the high 5 of the 2024 race, forward of Sondre Moen in third, Filmo Tesfu in fourth and Evans Chebet in fifth. 

The race at this time (September 8)  marks the primary time the previous Northallerton Faculty and Sixth Type School pupil returned to Tyneside since his memorable victory in 2021. 

He beforehand informed The Northern Echo that he “didn’t care about occasions” for the Nice North Run 2024: “Clearly, I simply need to compete nicely and attempt to win the race. If occasions include that, nice; if not, it does not matter.”

Listed below are the highest 5 males’s elite outcomes:

  1. Abel Kipchumba – 59:52
  2. Marc Scott – 1:01:11
  3. Sondre Moen – 1:01:25
  4. Filmon Tesfu – 1:02:15
  5. Evans Chebet – 1:02:31

Selena Gomez is a billionaire


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Selena Gomez can now add changing into a billionaire to her lengthy record of achievements.

The 32-year-old actress, singer, investor and entrepreneur simply achieved the monetary milestone thus making her one of many youngest self-made billionaires in the US, based on Bloomberg, which values her internet price at $1.3 billion.

A few of the wealth for the “Solely Murders within the Constructing” star comes from singing, model partnerships and performing, however the “huge bulk” of her wealth is tied to Uncommon Magnificence, her 5-year-old make-up line that may be a success with influencers and youths, the publication revealed Friday.

Gomez’s wealth is predicated on Bloomberg’s “estimated worth” of her stake within the magnificence model, plus her curiosity in psychological well being platform Wondermind and varied different earnings from her music, performing, properties and cash she makes from partnerships that she posts about on social media, which incorporates her 424 million followers on Instagram.

Her recognition on Instagram makes her the third most adopted individual, behind soccer icons Cristiano Ronaldo (638 million) and Lionel Messi (504 million), serving to her rake in huge endorsements with Puma, price a reported $30 million, and Coach, a $10 million deal.

However her following has additionally helped her Uncommon Magnificence line, placing her within the celebrity-led class of make-up manufacturers dominated by Rihanna and the Kardashians. Gomez additionally has reportedly reached out to buyers for Uncommon Magnificence, in search of a $2 billion valuation.

In 2020, Gomez revealed that she was identified with bipolar dysfunction and later stated in an interview with Entrepreneur that any deal struck along with her “has to have a component that’s charitable or within the psychological well being area.” She began the Uncommon Influence Fund to assist increase $100 million to assist individuals achieve entry to psychological well being companies.

Different income streams for the previous baby star embrace earnings from her Hulu present “Solely Murders within the Constructing,” which was simply renewed for a fifth season the place she makes $6 million a season, based on Bloomberg, and a smaller slice from her music royalties.

Gomez’s consultant didn’t instantly reply to CNN’s request for remark.

Bar worker reveals ‘reason’ Shia LaBeouf squared up to group of drinkers in Edinburgh

A bar employee has revealed the actual purpose why Shia LaBeouf squared as much as a group of males exterior a pub in Edinburgh. 

A person, believed to be the Hollywood actor, was heard shouting ‘let’s go, I am proper right here, m**********r,’ close to the OX184 bar final weekend. 

Footage exhibits the bearded man, throwing off his cap earlier than elevating his fists, with two different males leaping in to carry him again. 

Wearing a black padded jacket and denims he walks up and down the road whereas shouting at an unknown male. 

Now, nevertheless, a bar employee at Stramash, the place the incident came about, has claimed the A-lister was not within the flawed.

A stunning video has emerged of Shia LaBeouf as he prepares to struggle a gaggle of males exterior a pub in Edinburgh

The Hollywood actor, 38, was heard shouting ‘lets go, I am proper right here, m**********r,’ exterior the the OX184 bar final weekend

Shia has been arrested six occasions, with the most recent happening in 2017 the place he was detained for obstruction, disorderly conduct, and public drunkenness

The supply instructed The Solar: ‘The man who was concerned in it has been in contact. I instructed him to contact the police – one of many guys who acquired concerned with him exterior.

‘He messaged on Fb asking if he might get CCTV. We might solely share it with the police.

‘I watched the CCTV, he seemed like he was having a good time. He was dancing about.

‘To be sincere the opposite 4 guys have been antagonising him. They knew who he was they usually have been poking at him.

‘The opposite guys have been positively antagonising him, making an attempt to goad him into some form of response.’

Shia is at the moment in Scotland whereas his spouse Mia Goth movies for the upcoming Frankenstein movie, the couple have been noticed in each Edinburgh and Glasgow over the previous week. 

Final week’s incident in Edinburgh follows a string of controversies which have continued to forged a shadow over the troubled actor for the previous couple of years. 

In 2011 he was additionally filmed being punched to the bottom by a shirtless man exterior the Cinema Public Home in Vancouver, earlier than getting up and staggering away.

Shia LaBeouf is seen forward of his look on Jimmy Kimmel Dwell in November 2019

Shia LaBeouf and his present accomplice Mia Goth are seen in Hollywood on August 30, 2014 in Los Angeles. The pair separated in 2018 earlier than getting again collectively in 2020

Shia LaBeouf and Mia Goth out and about in Los Angeles, California, in 2014

Shia LaBeouf and Mia Goth attend the Fury movie premier  on the 58th BFI London Movie Pageant in 2014

In 2014, he was arrested after disturbing a efficiency of the musical Cabaret on Broadway in New York. 

He pleaded responsible to a disorderly conduct violation and obtained outpatient take care of alcohol habit.

Shia was additionally arrested for a drunken scuffle in New York Metropolis in 2017. He was arrested once more in the identical 12 months for disorderly conduct in Savannah, Georgia when he turned aggressive in direction of a police officer he had requested for a cigarette.

In one other incident in 2020, Shia was reportedly charged with battery and theft after getting right into a verbal argument with a person in Los Angeles.

In that very same 12 months, the Transformers star was accused of sexual battery, assault, and emotional misery by his former girlfriend FKA Twigs, actual title Tahliah Debrett Barnett, who filed a lawsuit towards him. 

Among the many allegations, she accused him of violently attacking and strangling her, knowingly infecting her with an STD, and bodily and verbal violence. 

Shia LaBeouf filmed ‘squaring up’ to pub-goers in Edinburgh

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Followers have been left shocked by a video that has emerged of Shia LaBeouf making ready to battle a gaggle of males exterior a pub in Edinburgh.

The Transformers star, 38, who was confirmed into the Catholic Church initially of this yr, may very well be heard shouting “let’s go, I’m proper right here, m**********r,” within the footage, which was filmed final Saturday (31 August).

Within the clip, LaBeouf seems to throw his cap on to the bottom earlier than elevating his fists whereas two different males step in to carry The Peanut Butter Falcon actor again.

The Impartial has contacted LaBeouf’s consultant’s for remark.

LaBeouf is spending time in Scotland whereas his spouse Mia Goth movies for Guillermo del Toro’s forthcoming Dr.Frankenstein movie, which is scheduled to be launched in 2025. The couple have been sighted in each Edinburgh and Glasgow over the previous week.

An evening earlier than the footage of LaBeouf was recorded, a bar employee advised The Solar they noticed the actor in Whistlebinkies pub the place he was “pretty” to fellow prospects.

“He was in there on the Friday. He was nothing however good to individuals in there,” they advised the publication. “Apparently the stuff that occurred within the video was the day after. I knew one thing had kicked off, however one thing kicks off…day-after-day.”

Shia LaBeouf on the France Cannes 2024 ‘Megalopolis’ premiere (2024 Invision)

Again in 2014, LaBeouf was arrested exterior New York Metropolis’s Studio 54 Broadway theatre for drunkenly disrupting a efficiency of Cabaret. He admitted disorderly conduct and was ordered to finish a therapy programme.

The Even Stevens star was arrested once more three years later for disorderly conduct, this time in Georgia. He later issued a public apology, writing on X/Twitter: “I’m deeply ashamed of my behaviour and make no excuses for it.”

The footage of LaBeouf in Edinburgh comes amid present controversies, through which he’s dealing with allegations of abuse and sexual battery introduced towards him by 35-year-old British singer FKA Twigs (actual identify Tahliah Debrett Barnett), whom he dated from 2018 to 2019.

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Shia LaBeouf in custody for on the Austin Police Division for public intoxication in 2015 (Getty Photos)

In 2020, the “Cellophane” singer filed a lawsuit towards LaBeouf, accusing him of crimes together with sexual assault, battery and infliction of emotional misery. The trial has confronted a number of delays on account of each LaBeouf and FKA Twigs’s schedules.

It’s now anticipated to happen by “1 November 2023 or 6 December 2023, or to a date as quickly as handy thereafter on the Court docket’s calendar”, authorized paperwork said.

LaBeouf has denied “every allegation” of abuse by FKA Twigs.

He did, nonetheless, apologise for being “abusive to myself and everybody round me for years. I’ve a historical past of wounding the individuals closest to me. I’m ashamed of that historical past and am sorry to these I damage.”

Anybody who requires assist or assist can contact the Nationwide Home Abuse Helpline which is open 24/7 twelve months per yr on 0808 2000 247 or by way of their web site https://www.nationaldahelpline.org.uk/

Selena Gomez’s Net Worth Revealed As Icon Reaches Huge Financial Milestone

Selena Gomez’s rising web price has landed her on an thrilling new checklist as her ever-evolving magnificence model and intensive profession in leisure proceed to thrive.

In accordance with US Weekly, the “Solely Murders within the Constructing” actress not too long ago ranked on Bloomberg’s 2024 Billionaires Index alongside bestie Taylor Swift for the very first time. The icon, formally “one of many nation’s youngest girls with a 10-figure fortune,” has amassed a whopping $1.3 billion throughout her time in Hollywood and doesn’t plan to decelerate anytime quickly.

In actual fact, Gomez is within the course of of manufacturing a reboot of beloved 2012 Disney Channel collection “Wizards of Waverly Place”, out this fall!

So, what precisely landed the “Come & Get It” songstress on Bloomberg’s annual billionaires checklist? The reality is, Gomez’s success cannot actually be traced again to 1 enterprise because the silver display queen is continually pursuing new passions that contribute to her wealth.

The star entered the scene as a part of “Barney & Pals” when she was simply 10 years outdated and went on to entrance “Wizards of Waverly Place”, a handful of movies together with Ramona and Beezus, Monte Carlo, and Spring Breakers, and her very first actuality present, Meals Community‘s “Selena + Chef” in 2020, which aired for 4 seasons. The standout’s appearing profession continues to thrive as “Solely Murders within the Constructing” (by which she stars alongside legends Steve Martin, Martin Quick) was simply renewed for a fifth season, per Selection.

Other than appearing, Gomez has launched three albums that includes hits like, “Love You Like A Love Track,” “Lose You To Love Me,” “Similar Previous Love,” and launched into a worldwide tour in 2016. Along with music, Gomez grew to become a magnificence mogul in 2019 with the creation of make-up model, Uncommon Magnificence, which continues to herald an abundance of income for the star amid sustained world success.

And that is not all!

US Weekly talked about {that a} hefty portion of her earnings additionally come from model offers with corporations like Puma, Louis Vuitton, and Coach.

Congrats, Selena!