Islanders and pals, Lauren Morton, 39, of Bowcombe, and Kate England, 40, of Whippingham, are working their pure juice enterprise, Elixir, at this 12 months’s competition. 

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Their juices excellent for the recent competition climate, Elixir supply the recent juice of uncooked fruit and greens, squeezed out by a hydraulic press, then put by a ‘blast freeze’ course of.

With no preservatives of their drinks, the ladies have developed a brand new flavour — watermelon berry tonic — with which they’re providing, in collaboration with Mermaid Gin.

Inexperienced Day has requested uncooked cold-pressed juice for his or her dressing room, whereas the Pet store boys ordered ginger pictures.

Each acts headline on the Fundamental Stage this weekend.

Final 12 months, Elixir received a enterprise award, which gave them a essential area pitch in 2023.

Operating the enterprise for 3 years now, the pair knew one another from their faculty days.

There are ranges to the MMA recreation, and Robert Whittaker despatched that message to everybody within the UFC’s middleweight division on Saturday afternoon in Saudi Arabia.

You can’t merely drop a man in on quick discover and count on him to offer me a struggle.

Whittaker wasted no time destroying short-notice substitute Ikram Aliskerov on the major occasion of the UFC Saudi Arabia. Whittaker initially damage Aliskerov with a straight proper hand, however he in the end completed the cope with an uppercut and two follow-up punches earlier than referee Marc Goddard stepped in to name a halt to the struggle.

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Whittaker had all the pieces to lose on this struggle.

He was initially set to face Khamzat Chimaev, however the latter pulled out of the struggle final week after getting meals poisoning. Aliskerov, whose solely earlier defeat got here in opposition to Chimaev earlier than each males arrived within the UFC, was faraway from a co-main occasion spot in final week’s UFC Vegas 93 card and upgraded to the spot in opposition to Whittaker.

It didn’t take lengthy to see that the 31-year-old Russian was out of his league. Aliskerov, a promising and proficient contender, might get a struggle with one other middleweight sitting simply exterior the highest 15 in his subsequent bout.

Whereas he was not prepared for the obligation he was pressed into on Saturday, he nonetheless holds nice potential for future success within the division. Whittaker, who earned one of many Efficiency of the Evening Bonuses for his work, ought to maintain securely because the No. 3 middleweight on the planet.

He’d doubtless like to get a title shot in his subsequent struggle, and he’d additionally doubtless say sure to a struggle with Sean Strickland, with the winner getting a battle in opposition to the winner of Israel Adesanya vs. Dricus Du Plessis.

A number of MMA shops appear to agree {that a} Whittaker-Strickland struggle is essentially the most logical and thrilling subsequent step for the division.

The Adesanya-Du Plessis struggle is scheduled for August 17 at UFC 305 in Perth, Australia.

The Australia-born Whittaker volunteered to be a possible substitute fighter for both man ought to the principle occasion want somebody to step in. Whittaker has misplaced to Adesanya twice and Du Plessis as soon as, so it is sensible to be behind Strickland in line.

Strickland beat Adesanya and misplaced his title to Du Plessis in a controversial break up choice earlier this yr. It doesn’t matter what occurs subsequent for Whittaker, he has positioned himself for a considerable alternative in his subsequent struggle.

Alexander Volkov Makes Simple Work of a Salty Sergei Pavlovich

In a battle between two Russian former coaching companions, the veteran Alexander Volkov showcased his superior expertise.

His use of his attain, exact jabs, and well-timed aspect kicks not solely earned him factors but additionally inflicted vital cumulative injury to his opponent’s face, resulting in a decisive unanimous choice win.

After the struggle, Volkov went to Pavlovich to indicate respect, and the latter shoved him away in frustration.

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Volkov has now received three fights in a row, and Pavlovich, as soon as the most well liked heavyweight contender within the UFC, has misplaced two in a row.

UFC Saudi Arabia Bonus Winners

POTN: Robert Whittaker, Shara Magomedov, Alexander Volkov and Felipe Lima

Whittaker deserved his bonus. Shara Magomedov earned a bonus with a third-round TKO win over a late substitute in Antonio Trocoli.

Volkov’s demolition of Pavlovich earned one of many bonuses, and he may at the least get a shot on the interim title. Lastly, Felipe Lima received impressively with a third-round submission victory over Muhammad Naimov within the prelims.

Listed here are the outcomes from the UFC’s first-ever occasion in Saudi Arabia, with scorecards and end highlights.

UFC Saudi Arabia Outcomes, Scorecards and Highlights

• Robert Whittaker def. Ikram Aliskerov by way of first-round KO
• Alexander Volkov def. Sergei Pavlovich by way of unanimous choice (30-27×2, 29-28)

• Kelvin Gastelum def. Daniel Rodriguez by way of unanimous choice (30-27×2, 29-28)

• Shara Magomedov def. Antonio Trocoli by way of third-round KO

• Volkan Oezdemir def. Johnny Walker by way of first-round KO

• Nasrat Haqparast defeats Jared Gordon by way of break up choice (28-29, 29-28 x2)

• Felipe Lima def. Muhammad Naimov – submission (rear-naked choke) – Spherical 3, 1:15

• Rinat Fakhretdinov (29-28, 29-28) def. Nicolas Dalby by Cut up Determination

• Muin Gafurov def. Kyun Ho Kang by way of unanimous choice (30-27×3)

• Magomed Gadzhiyasulov def. Brendson Ribeiro by way of majority choice (29-28×2, 28-28)

• Chang Ho Lee def. Lengthy Xiao by way of break up choice to win Street to UFC: Asia (29-28×2, 28-29)

Scotland could possibly be getting ready to historical past at Euro 2024 as they wait to face Hungary within the ultimate spherical of group video games in Group A.

Steve Clarke’s aspect know a win would take them to 4 factors, and with the 4 best-performing third-placed groups qualifying for the final 16, victory towards Hungary could be sufficient to safe a spot within the spherical of 16.

Hungary, who sit backside of Group A on zero factors, know themselves {that a} win would give them a slim probability of creating the subsequent spherical, regardless of bruising defeats to Switzerland and hosts Germany.

So, with each groups realizing that nothing however a win will do, anticipate fireworks in Stuttgart as each side look to stake their declare to a spot within the final 16 at Euro 2024.

Observe the rating and all the most recent updates from Scotland v Hungary under – plus the important thing occasions and response to Germany v Switzerland within the different recreation in Group A:

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida rapper Julio Foolio was killed early Sunday morning in a taking pictures at a Tampa Vacation Inn, in accordance with quite a few sources.

Tampa police mentioned the taking pictures befell at about 4:40 a.m. within the car parking zone of the Vacation Inn on the intersection of Fowler Avenue and McKinley Drive.

“What now we have realized, and that is early within the investigation, two vehicles had been shot at,” mentioned Joneé Lewis, public info officer for the Tampa Police Division.

Lewis mentioned one particular person was killed on the scene whereas three different gunshot victims had been taken to native hospitals. The deceased particular person was believed to be a person named Charles Jones, 26, however the health worker has but to launch a optimistic identification, police say.

Investigators mentioned they consider the victims had been on the lodge attempting to get a room on the time of the taking pictures.

“It looks like they may survive their accidents,” she mentioned.

Lewis mentioned officers are trying by means of surveillance video to be taught extra in regards to the incident. They’re additionally serving to information lodge company across the scene.

“I solely heard one (gunshot),” lodge visitor Jeremiah Claypool mentioned. “It woke me up, however apparently there have been greater than that.”

Presently, no arrests have been made. Officers are searching for extra video to establish any potential suspects.

Charles Jones is the authorized identify of Julio Foolio. Whereas police haven’t explicitly confirmed the connection, the 26-year-old rapper’s girlfriend, Blanco Mani, posted the information of his dying on Instagram, which is now non-public. She mentioned he died after celebrating his birthday in Tampa, posting a photograph of him from that evening.

The rapper’s Instagram story confirmed that he was celebrating his birthday with a pool get together at a Tampa AirBnB earlier than police made him relocate.

News4Jax additionally confirmed Jones’ dying with info from his legal professional, Lewis Fusco. 8 On Your Aspect has additionally referred to as the Fusco Legislation Group however didn’t get a response as of this report.

Earlier information studies say Jones was injured in shootings in 2020 and 2023.

When you’ve got info associated to the taking pictures, name Tampa police at 813-231-6130.

Australia have suffered a shock 21-run loss to Afghanistan that throws their semi-final hopes into jeopardy on the 2024 T20 World Cup.

Mitch Marsh’s aspect had been left to rue dropping 5 catches within the subject on Sunday after which falling to 32-3 within the powerplay on a troublesome St Vincent wicket. Chasing 149, Australia had been all out for 127 with 4 balls remaining within the final over.

The 2021 champions’ first-ever loss to Afghanistan got here after openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz (60 off 49 balls) and Ibrahim Zadran (51 off 48) defied a fiendish pitch for a 118-run stand – the biggest opening partnership ever recorded in opposition to Australia in T20s.

Along with his second hat-trick in as many video games, Pat Cummins (3-28) helped Australia claw again momentum. Karim Janat (13), Rashid Khan (2) and Gulbadin Naib (0) had been all eliminated by the in-form fast bowler, as Afghanistan had been restricted to 148-6.

Glenn Maxwell (59 off 41) performed himself again into kind with the bat and threatened to reprise his position as Afghanistan’s bogeyman, following a double-century on the 50-over World Cup final yr. However Afghanistan might scent victory when the all-rounder clipped player-of-the-match Naib (4-20) to backward level, the place Noor Ahmad took a troublesome likelihood within the fifteenth over.

The loss means Australia might must depend on web run-rate to make the ultimate 4 even when they’re able to beat India of their final Tremendous Eight sport, beginning at 12.30am AEST on Tuesday.

“It turns into actually clear now, we simply must win,” Marsh stated forward of the crunch conflict with India, who’ve received their first two video games within the group. “There’s no higher group to do it in opposition to, one of many greatest challenges in world cricket.

“We’ll stay constructive, we had an off-night tonight, absolute full credit score to Afghanistan, I assumed they had been good. We transfer on fairly rapidly.”

Afghanistan’s historic victory retains their very own hopes of a fairytale semi-final berth alive earlier than their third Tremendous Eight match in opposition to Bangladesh.

“It’s a large win for us as a group and as a nation, within the World Cup, beating champions, it’s an ideal feeling,” Afghanistan captain Rashid Khan stated. “I’m tremendous pleased with the blokes.”

“Tonight, due to the happiness I received’t have the ability to sleep,” Khan added. “That’s how completely happy the entire group is and the entire nation is. It’s a large win for us, as a group, as a nation.

“Cricket is the one supply of happiness again dwelling, everyone knows that. And I really feel like we’re so fortunate to be right here giving happiness to the individuals again dwelling.”

After profitable the toss, Australia dropped 5 probabilities within the subject, the primary two coming in the course of the blistering opening stand. As Gurbaz and Zadran wreaked havoc, Matthew Wade missed a simple alternative for a stumping and Australia twice leaked fours following misfields from Ashton Agar after he was known as into the XI for Mitchell Starc.

After dropping an earlier likelihood, Marcus Stoinis (1-19) had a long-overdue breakthrough when Gurbaz picked out David Warner at deep backward sq. leg. When that scalp finally got here – within the sixteenth over – it was the longest Australia had gone in a T20 worldwide with out taking a wicket.

Australia’s finest two frontline bowlers this event, Adam Zampa (2-28) and Cummins, ensured Afghanistan’s batting order by no means clicked again into gear as soon as the opening partnership was damaged.

Cummins turned the primary participant to take hat-tricks in consecutive T20 video games when Gulbadin (0) pulled him to Maxwell at deep midwicket within the last over. The Australia fast then might have had one other scalp off the subsequent ball had the normally dependable Warner held onto Nangeyalia Kharote at deep level.

Naveen-ul-Haq (3-20) vindicated the choice to start out Afghanistan’s innings with tempo, swinging the ball into Travis Head’s center stump with the third supply of the innings. The losses of Head (0) and Mitch Marsh (12) inside three overs raised the alarm, and Australia had been formally in panic mode when their opponents injected spin for the primary time.

David Warner (three) skied Mohammad Nabi (1-1) to brief positive leg on the off-spinner’s first supply and set the stage for Maxwell to hang-out Afghanistan once more. However when the all-rounder’s gutsy knock got here to an finish, Australia had been all the way down to their bowlers and limping to the end at 106-6.

With Australia requiring 24 runs from the ultimate over, Azmatullah Omarzai sealed victory when Zampa hit him to Nabi at lengthy on with 4 balls remaining.

Maxwell incited some déjà vu within the seventh over with two sturdy boundaries, earlier than the Aussies reached 50 on the eight-over mark – per the pace of Afghanistan’s first 10 overs batting.

Maxwell and Marcus Stoinis lifted Australia to 70/3 on the mid-point of the innings, earlier than Stoinis fell (11 off 17) simply after drinks.

Tim David (2 off 4) was additionally out cheaply, however a Maxwell most to finish the thirteenth over took the hazard man to a half-century off 35 balls.

Simply as Afghanistan misplaced marginal hope, Gulbadin Naib stepped as much as the plate and tempted Maxwell into one outdoors the off stump, which was fantastically snatched by Noor Ahmad behind level.

It was all on the hat-trick hero Cummins when Wade (5 off 7) top-edged an tried sweep, leaving the Aussies at 108/7, needing 41 runs off 29 balls. However he could not translate his kind with the ball, swinging and lacking to depart the Aussies in a fair greater gap with three overs to go and needing 36.

Afghanistan produced a masterclass within the discipline, changing each half likelihood right into a scalp, which in the end proved the distinction. The wicket of Zampa making an attempt to hit lengthy down the bottom had Australia all out for 127, 22 runs wanting victory.

Gulbadin Naib picked up 4 wickets and took his personal slice of historical past, changing into the primary to try this in World Cup historical past – in each T20I and ODI cricket

The Afghans sealed one of many staff’s most well-known ever victories – their first over Australia. They’ve Bangladesh with their last Tremendous Eight conflict, whereas the Aussies have India.

TAMPA, Fla. – Jacksonville rapper Julio Foolio was shot and killed in Tampa early Sunday, his legal professional Lewis Fusco confirmed with News4JAX.

Charles Jones, who glided by the rap identify of “Julio Foolio,” was celebrating his twenty sixth birthday, which was Friday, and staying at an Airbnb, in accordance with Fusco.

Fusco mentioned that too many individuals had been within the Airbnb the place they had been celebrating and that they needed to depart. In an Instagram story, the rapper mentioned police shut the pool social gathering down and “kicked” them out of the Airbnb. Quite a few posts on his social media marketed the situation of the occasion.

RELATED: Controversial Jacksonville rapper Julio Foolio suffers minor harm in Riverside shootout

Fusco mentioned the rapper acquired a lodge room at a Vacation Inn lodge, the place he was “principally ambushed” within the parking zone.

“The sufferer on this morning’s capturing is believed to be Charles Jones,” Tampa Police Public Data Officer Jonee’ Lewis wrote in a press launch. “Optimistic identification is pending affirmation from the Medical Examiner’s Workplace.”

Based on Tampa Police, three different folks had been injured and had been being handled on the hospital. Their situation was listed as secure.

Dozens of individuals have turned to social media to speak concerning the rapper’s loss of life, together with a girl who claimed to be his girlfriend.

Jones was identified for his in style drill rap movies with controversial lyrics about murders involving rival gangs in Jacksonville.

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Within the final three years, Jones has been shot twice in Jacksonville.

Fusco despatched an official assertion relating to Jones’ loss of life, which reads partially:

“Whereas these occasions involving our shopper, Mr. Charles Jones, have been disclosed by legislation enforcement, we’re unable to offer additional feedback presently till extra particulars develop into public report. We kindly request that the privateness of Mr. Jones and his household be revered throughout this troublesome time.”

Lawyer Lewis Fusco

Anybody with data associated to this capturing incident is requested to contact Tampa PD by calling 813-231-6130 or share a tip through Tip411, which is accessible by way of the TampaPD app.

All flights out of terminals one and two at Manchester airport have been cancelled after a “important energy reduce” within the early hours of Sunday morning, leaving lots of of holidaymakers stranded.

The airport informed all passengers on account of journey from its two largest terminals on Sunday to not come to the airport, and warned passengers on the few flights that had been capable of go away that they might not have their baggage with them.

Greater than 60 departures, a couple of quarter of all flights taking off from the airport on Sunday, had been cancelled, together with 50 inbound flights.

“Manchester airport was affected by a big energy reduce within the early hours of this morning,” it stated in an announcement. “Energy has been restored however the outage affected vital methods, together with the processing of boarding playing cards and baggage screening, which has brought about important delays.”

On the airport on Sunday afternoon, lots of of suitcases could possibly be seen piled in entrance of check-in desks as the luggage system remained inoperable, whereas many passengers queued for hours within the hope of getting on flights nonetheless scheduled on departure boards.

Tensions had been operating excessive within the terminal buildings, punctuated by the sounds of bulletins asking individuals on cancelled flights to depart the airport and to name their airline from dwelling. Virgin Atlantic, Jet2 and easyJet flights had been amongst these affected.

Rick and Sue Newby, from Macclesfield, ought to have been on an easyJet flight to Lanzarote at 7am, however after arriving on the airport at 5am, checking of their baggage and heading to the gate, they discovered it had been cancelled.

They managed to safe a reserving on a Jet2 flight to the identical vacation spot within the afternoon, departing from terminal two, and had been patiently ready outdoors the constructing to examine in once more – just for an e-mail to come back by way of simply earlier than 1pm saying that had additionally been cancelled.

“We paid almost £500 additional for brand spanking new flights to get on the market right this moment,” stated Sue. “They usually let me ebook that at 11.30am this morning.

“Oh my God, I can’t imagine it. We’ve got been right here since 5am.”

Movies posted on social media confirmed the airport plunged into darkness and baggage carousels dropped at a standstill when the ability reduce hit within the early hours. Many holidaymakers expressed frustration at how the outage was inflicting a lot disruption, hours after energy had been restored.

“All of the airport is open, all of the outlets are open, all of the lights are on, sizzling meals is being made and served – it’s like, what energy reduce? What is that this energy outage?” stated Rick. “We simply don’t perceive what’s going on.”

Many passengers stated they made their strategy to the airport, the third busiest within the UK, on Sunday morning after being reassured their flight was operating, solely to seek out out simply after noon that each one flights from terminals one and two had been cancelled.

Paula and Meredydd Williams had been scouring the web for extra flights to Good in France after their 12.55pm departure was cancelled. They solely heard the information concerning the energy outage after travelling from their dwelling in Eryri (Snowdonia) to the airport.

“If we’d identified sooner, we may have stayed at dwelling,” stated Paula. “My daughter texted me to say she had heard it on the information. We’ve had hardly any info. We had been simply informed we may nonetheless board if we solely had hand baggage, so we went throughout safety, just for it to be cancelled.”

The couple run their very own vacation cottage enterprise and needed to organize cowl to get break day for his or her five-night journey – they had been struggling to seek out any flights that will get them on vacation earlier than Tuesday.

Emma Jones, from Wrexham, stated she had been on maintain to Jet2 for an hour and quarter-hour attempting to rebook her vacation after her 4pm flight to Greece was cancelled.

“It’s no one’s fault, is it? However I rang Jet2 earlier than we left the home this morning, they usually stated to come back as regular,” she stated. “We had been simply informed to depart additional time to get by way of safety. It has been very anxious.”

Passengers additionally reported being informed they might not have the ability to take maintain baggage on their flight if it went forward. Sharon Hudson, ready for a flight to Egypt, stated: “How are we presupposed to go on vacation for 2 weeks with simply hand baggage?

“In the event that they put us on a later flight with our baggage I might be nice with that. However in the event you go with out it, it could possibly be every week earlier than it turns up, if ever.”

Chris Woodroofe, Manchester airport’s managing director, stated he anticipated the issues to be solved and regular operations to renew on Monday, as he supplied his “honest private apologies” to everybody affected.

“There was an influence spike in our electrical system on account of a failure early on this morning and that has broken some actually key gear for departure safety and our departure baggage methods,” he stated.

“That has meant that terminal one and terminal two haven’t been capable of depart plane right this moment, and as end result we haven’t had plane capable of land as arrivals as there isn’t a area to park these plane on the airfield.”

Some flights had been nonetheless arriving on the airport, however many had been diverted elsewhere. The airport stated terminal three, which covers home flights, was not severely affected however may be topic to delays.

The journey skilled Simon Calder stated the methods at Manchester airport had been in “excessive disarray” because of the ability reduce, telling LBC: “All of that is taking place at a time when aviation is simply entering into the height season, very heavy bookings on flights, and in the event you knock out an entire load of these, then it’s going to get very messy, and you could possibly discover individuals ready a number of days to get the place they have to be.”

The disruption at Manchester Airport had seen cancellations “within the 10s”, the airport stated this morning.

However because the day has progressed, there have now been greater than 60 flights cancelled from the airport, in line with flight monitoring web site FlightRadar, exterior, whereas almost 80 have been delayed.

An airport spokesperson informed the BBC earlier on Sunday that there are additionally inbound diversions as a result of “planes can’t take off”, as there’s restricted house on the airport. This makes it tougher to simply accept plane, which means they are going to be despatched elsewhere.

The facility outage has brought about main issues, particularly for luggage processing inside the airport which has been badly impacted.

Jet2, one of many airways impacted by the disruption, is advising passengers that it has been unable to load luggage on to plane as the bags system on the airport stays inoperable and it’ll do its finest to reunite passengers with their baggage.

Airports are very finely tuned operations, with intricate circulate fashions that work at near most effectivity – so when an issue occurs, there’s little bandwidth and techniques again up in a short time.