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Big rival Sosie won the Group 2 warm-up for the big one on Sunday, October 6 – and bookies made him the new 4-1 favourite.
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He won the Westminster 134th Grosser Preis von Berlin when last seen in August.
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ISRAEL was forced to launch its deadly pager attack in Lebanon early over fears the secret operation had been discovered by Hezbollah, US officials have claimed.
The elaborate plot to blow up thousands of the self-destructing devices went into action after reports of Hezbollah operatives raising suspicions about them.
The attack saw hundreds of devices detonating across Lebanon leaving at least eleven people dead – including two young girls- and thousands injured.
Israel was planning to use the booby-trapped pagers in the event of an- all-out war, in a major blow to the terror group, an ex-Israeli official told Axios.
But Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, top ministers and the IDF made the call to detonate the pagers rather than risking becoming detected.
A US official said the Israeli government became increasingly worried after reports that two Hezbollah operatives raised suspicions about the pagers in the past days.
“It was a use it or lose it moment,” they told Axios.
Two sources claimed Mossad was behind the attack and managed to infiltrate the 5,000 gadgets that were ordered months ago.
They said the devices had been modified by Israel’s spy service “at the production level.”
The operation with a trail running from Taiwan to Hungary was described as the group’s “biggest security breach” since Gaza, by a Hezbollah official.
The beepers were made by Taiwan-based Gold Apollo but the firm has dismissed claims of a link to the explosions.
The company said the AR-924 pagers were manufactured by BAC Consulting KFT based in Budapest which is licensed to use the firm’s brand.
Speaking outside the company’s offices in New Taipei, Gold Apollo founder Hsu Ching-Kuang said the pagers used in the explosion were made by a company in Europe.
“The product was not ours. It was only that it had our brand on it.”
A statement from the company reads: “According to the cooperation agreement, we authorize BAC to use our brand trademark for product sales in designated regions, but the design and manufacturing of the products are solely the responsibility of BAC.”
A Hezbollah source said the pagers were “brand new” and had not been used by fighters before.
The plot appears to have been in the making for months, sources said.
The devices had been ordered after the group’s leader ordered members to stop using phones in February over fears they could be tracked by Israeli spies.
A senior Lebanese security source said the group had ordered 5,000 beepers which were brought into the country in the spring.
They said: “The Mossad injected a board inside of the device that has explosive material that receives a code.
“It’s very hard to detect it through any means. Even with any device or scanner.”
They added that 3,000 of the pagers exploded when a coded message was sent to them, simultaneously activating the explosives.
The senior Lebanese security source identified a photograph of the model of the pager, an AP-924, which like other pagers wirelessly receive and display text messages but cannot make telephone calls.
The deadly blast left almost 3,000 injured, including Hezbollah’s terrorists and the Iranian ambassador.
Iran-backed Hezbollah blamed Israel for the attack and vowed to retaliate.
It appeared that many if not most of those hit were members of Hezbollah.
The blasts were mainly Hezbollah strongholds like the south Beirut suburbs and the Beqaa region of eastern Lebanon.
ISRAEL has one of the most impressive assassination arsenals in the world and can wipe out its enemies with the most precise strikes.
Its security forces have robot machine guns, an incredible war chest of high-tech missiles, car bombs and poison syringes at their disposal.
Particularly in recent years, Israeli spies and military forces have taken out some of the country’s fiercest enemies with its formidable weaponry.
High-ranking members of Iranian-backed terror proxy groups like Hamas in Gaza or Hezbollah in Lebanon have long been featured on Israeli kill lists.
Israel’s army is home to a formidable array of rockets and drone technology, including anti-cruise, anti-ship and even nuclear capable missiles.
It is one of the most technologically advanced missile arsenals in the Middle East, according to the Centre for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS).
The “Ninja” bladed missile, or AGM-114 Hellfire, is a highly accurate precision rocket designed to hit a target without causing widespread destruction around the area.
Israel is believed to have armed drones with the missiles before, using them for pinpoint assassination bids in Gaza.
Although short-range, they are incredibly precise.
Israel also has in its arsenal several different types of Jericho ballistic missiles, a powerful nuclear capable weapon.
The first series was a short-range ballistic rocket, the second with medium range and the third a long-range, solid-fuelled missile.
Israeli forces also possess Harpoon subsonic anti-ship cruise missiles, with air, ship and submarine-launched versions.
The country’s Lora, Gabriel and Delilah missiles are also capable of targeting precise targets via sea or ground launches.
A more recent addition to the Israeli war chest is the Popeye, an air-to-surface missile with pinpoint accuracy.
It also has a long-range sister which is thought to be nuclear capable.
Israel has an impressive array of F-35 fighter jets which it can use to unleash missiles on its enemies across the region.
But it also makes use of UAVs, or drones, as with the precise strike on Haniyeh.
A WOMAN whose bizarre symptoms were blamed on being a “fresher” and “drinking too much” received a devastating diagnosis.
Lucy Younger, 24, started experiencing started symptoms before she started university such as zoning out, smelling bacon and frequent déjà vu.
Her symptoms got worse at university but doctors dismissed her symptoms and told her she was “drinking too much” and needed to “slow down”.
Lucy spent the next year going back and forth to the GP but was dismissed and given antidepressants.
After finally being referred, a CT scan revealed a benign brain tumour, for which Lucy had to undergo a craniotomy to remove.
She hopes to help others to push to get a diagnosis to catch brain tumours early.
Lucy, a trainee journalist, from Crystal Palace, London, said: “Freshers started and my symptoms got quite a lot worse.
“Doctors said ‘you’re a fresher, you need to slow down’.
“They said ‘it’s a mixture of you being anxious and drinking too much’.
“They were making out I had an issue. I was just being a fresher.
“It just got blamed on being a fresher.”
Lucy first started noticing symptoms just before she started her BA in English at Goldsmiths, in September 2018.
She started experiencing déjà vu, as well as visual hallucinations – like pink elephants and rollercoasters.
Initially thinking she was just partying too hard during freshers, Lucy stopped drinking as much, and regularly chose staying in over nights out.
But her symptoms only started getting worse – and she experienced a range of sensory hallucinations, like smelling bacon, pins and needles in her face and tasting metal.
She went to the GP when she started getting sharp headaches – but they blamed it on anxiety and “being a fresher”.
Lucy said: “Straight away, they were like – it’s anxiety.
“I didn’t feel all that anxious, but I’d just done a big move from Newquay to London and was meeting lots of new people – so I thought, I guess my brain’s just working overtime.
“But I was still skeptical – I felt really happy with where my life was at that point.”
Lucy started to struggle with her concentration and would zone out during lectures but doctors put this down to depression and panic attacks and prescribed her with anxiety medication.
She said: “I figured, they’re the GP – they know what they’re talking about, so I guess I’ll just do what they say.”
But Lucy’s symptoms continued to persist – and doctors then told her it was hormonal caused by polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
She said: “I just knew something wasn’t right.”
I started getting migraines so bad the entire right side of my body would go numb. I thought, I’m either going into psychosis or I’ve got a tumour – it definitely wasn’t depression or anxiety
Lucy Younger
When Lucy came home in March 2020, when the pandemic hit during her second year of university, she started experiencing seizures.
She said: “I had a couple of bigger seizures when I went home – I actually passed out with these ones.
“I started getting migraines so bad the entire right side of my body would go numb.
“I thought, I’m either going into psychosis or I’ve got a tumour – it definitely wasn’t depression or anxiety.”
Lucy had started Googling her own symptoms and said everything pointed to epilepsy and a brain tumour – but doctors dismissed this.
She said: “They said ‘you’re too young’. ‘A girl like you wouldn’t have a brain tumour’.”
Feeling helpless, with permanent hallucinations, Lucy rang a local pharmacist and cried down the phone to him.
He sent a letter to her GP, recommending they refer her for a CT scan as soon as possible.
Lucy added: “My pharmacist advocated for me – once he’d spoken to my GP, they arranged for me to have a CT scan.
“I went in the July – and finally got my diagnosis of a benign brain tumour.”
More than 12,000 Brits are diagnosed with a primary brain tumour every year — of which around half are cancerous — with 5,300 losing their lives.
The disease is the most deadly cancer in children and adults aged under 40, according to the Brain Tumour Charity.
Brain tumours reduce life expectancies by an average of 27 years, with just 12 per cent of adults surviving five years after diagnosis.
There are two main types, with non-cancerous benign tumours growing more slowly and being less likely to return after treatment.
Cancerous malignant brain tumours can either start in the brain or spread there from elsewhere in the body and are more likely to return.
Brain tumours can cause headaches, seizures, nausea, vomiting and memory problems, according to the NHS.
They can also lead to changes in personality weakness or paralysis on one side of the problem and problems with speech or vision.
The nine most common symptoms are:
If you are suffering any of these symptoms, particularly a headache that feels different from the ones you normally get, you should visit your GP.
Source: NHS
Lucy had surgery four months later to remove the tumour and was able to return to university in 2021 to complete her studies.
She is now able to live a normal life but has to live with epilepsy and short term memory loss.
She said: “You do know your own body.
“If there is something wrong you need to advocate for yourself.
“I caught my brain tumour early.
“If I hadn’t there could have been a chance it wouldn’t have been removed and the ending would have been a different scenario.
“People think a brain tumour is a death sentence – it’s not always that way.”
Though concerning symptoms are most often caught by medics, sometimes they can go unnoticed or dismissed.
From the young girl who was misdiagnosed 30 times before the cause of her “tummy bug” was discovered, to a woman told her pelvic pain was “part of being a woman”, here are some instances of misdiagnosis:
CELEBS Go Dating star Ella Morgan has slammed one of her co-stars as a ‘game player’ and shared the red flag moment that ‘confirmed it.’
The 29-year-old reality star, who found fame on Married At First Sight, has been looking for a boyfriend on Celebs Go Dating.
And one love interest of Ella’s on the show is Reece – who she recently butted heads with at the dinner table on the E4 programme.
Ella and Reece hit it off at the start of the series – and she told him that she wouldn’t kiss any other guys while on her dates, but she’s now claimed he was “on the show for the wrong reasons,” as she shared her thoughts on him.
In one of the most recent episodes, she met someone called Alex and she realised that she had a better connection with him.
Ella tells Reece: “I said that I met someone called Alex. I’m not going to be accused of being a liar! One thing I am not is a liar.”
Reece replies: “Ok. So you met someone called Alex and you weren’t really interested in him.”
Ella hits back: “No I never said I weren’t interested,” and she fumed: “I didn’t go into detail!”
Reece claps back: “It is what it is.”
“Your ego has been bruised because I rejected you,” Ella tells Reece.
Now, speaking about everything that happened between them on the dating show, Ella opened up to The Sun about the “red flag” she noticed with Reece from the start.
Ella said: “I always would explain in the agency and on the show that I had my reservations about Sam, Reece, everyone.
“I didn’t say any of that about Alex, but obviously with Reece, I did keep saying, you know, I need someone funny. I need personality. And that was the one thing I did keep mentioning.
“And, you know, he was a lovely boy at the time, but I found it weird that he said he wanted me to be exclusive with him after the second date. And, well, I thought this is going to be really difficult. That for me, was a big red flag.”
Ella threatened to quit the show in floods of tears after being confronted about ‘sex on the first date’ with Reece – which is something she told us didn’t happen.
Ella explained: “I didn’t sleep with Reece, and they cut that out from the episode.
“And it just annoys me because people now in the comments are like, ‘oh she’s f***** and chucked him, and that’s just not what happened.”
The reality star then hinted that Reece was on the show “for the wrong reasons,” as she went on: “There was obviously stuff that I also can’t talk about that did happen after the show and I just felt like saying ‘ok you’re not the right person for me. You’ll make someone else happy, but you’re just not for me.’
“Let’s just say some people aren’t genuine. They don’t come on the show for the right reasons.”
Asked whether Reece had been on Celebs Go Dating for the wrong reasons, Ella replied: “Well I know for a fact he was.
“He’s just not the right one for me, he’s not. But people are saying I’m a liar so this is one thing I want to clear up.
“I haven’t seen Reece since the date, so there was no crossover with Reece and Alex.
“I met Alex and I didn’t speak to Reece once other than a phone call to say, like, ‘I’ve left hospital.’
“I’ve found somebody else. There was no crossover.”
EVERY year Stacey Solomon never fails to amaze with her Halloween-themed front door, and this year is no different.
Despite it being September, the Loose Women star, 34, has already put up this year’s creation – and thankfully a lot wasn’t expensive and can be copied at home.
The incredible display features numerous gold skeletons, red roses and an autumnal tree draped over the front door at Stacey’s £1.2million Pickle Cottage.
The TV star shared a video of her DIY decorations and wrote: “The Halloween Door.
“One of my favourite traditions. Seeing the kids come home from school and gets so excited is my favourite.”
Stacey shared how she is “literally so proud” of this year’s door, particularly as she had got some bits for free.
She explained: “Made from branches I scavenged off the side of the road, a cauldron I made from a bucket, skeletons I’ve collected over the years (other than Shazza on the door she’s new) and some pumpkins from our neighbour farmer Scott!
“And the best front door friend ever @emlouflowers who is as crazy as me & she’s my partner in crime in helping me make what’s in my head come to life.”
In her Instagram Stories, Stacey showed her 6million followers how she had sprayed the branches to look a purple colour.
Her skeletons appeared to have been spray painted gold, and she also reused faux red roses from Rose’s birthday earlier this year.
She added: “All the flowers, the skeleton hands and Phil the skeleton half in the ground are poke into holes in the grout so they stay there.”
Stacey – who is married to TV host Joe Swash and is mum to Zachary, 16, Leighton, 12, Rex, five, Rose, two and one-year-old Belle – admitted she knew the door was up way in advance of Halloween.
She wrote: “I know it’s very early this year but I actually needed to finish it before our Halloween event here on Thursday.
“I need no excuses to start early though, I’m so glad it gets to stay up a little longer & I have an actual excuse!”
Previously, Stacey showed off an epic Halloween door, with the plastic skeletons of people and animals giving a nod to Joe’s former EastEnders career, in which he played cheeky-chap Mickey Miller.
WHILE some might be waiting for Mariah Carey to slowly defrost, I couldn’t care less that Christmas is less than 100 days away.
Has everyone forgotten that there are less than 50 sleeps until the best holiday of the year?
I’ve long preferred Halloween to Christmas and spend most of the year mourning the loss of spooky season.
Not that I don’t find ways to include it into my year.
In April I marked the halfway point to the best day of the year with a ‘half-o-ween’ picnic in a cemetery (where else?). Come July I needed to get my fix again and hosted a ‘Summerween’ barbecue complete with watermelon carving and Piña Ghoul-adas.
Christmas fanatics are often horrified by my snowy-season snub, but for me December is just a slew of stress and overspending.
I don’t know about you but wracking my brains for bigger and better present ideas and spending four times the amount of time and money at the supermarket is not my idea of a good time.
With Halloween there is no expectation to spend. Homemade costumes are often head and tails above the ones sold in the shops and when it comes to decorations what is better than a carved pumpkin that can cost just pennies to achieve?
In January kids return to school bragging about what Santa brought them this year, all with the hope of outdoing each other but November 1st is a different story.
Trick or treating is fair through and through. Unless you’re bribing the neighbours, children all receive the same, and whatsmore for free, eliminating any playground bragging rights.
Above all I love the chaos over curation when it comes to Halloween. There’s no obligation to strive for perfection, in fact the rule is the sillier the better. It’s all the childhood nostalgia of Christmas but without the pressure.
So spare me the Christmas spirit, I’ll opt for a fully fledged ghost any day.
This comes as shoppers are going wild and are running to get to their nearest Asda store, eager to get their hands on Stacey’s new Halloween range.
Bargain hunters are raving about the new Halloween homeware in Asda – with prices starting at just £3.50.
Stacey, the mum-of-five, Sort Your Life Out presenter and queen of cosy, homely vibes, has created another exclusive homeware range with the much-loved supermarket, and there’s all things from bedding and pillows to cosy throws and decor pieces.
One shopper was left open-mouthed when browsing her local Asda when she spotted the new Stacey Solomon buys.
STACEY Solomon splashed out a massive £1.2million on Pickle Cottage - and Joe Swash didn't put in a penny.
She solely stumped up the cash for their Tudor-style Essex property, which is set in 2.5 acres and boasts an outdoor swimming pool.
The former X Factor star and Joe live there with Zachary, Leighton, Rex, Rose, and Belle.
It’s not known why Stacey went alone, as ex-EastEnders actor Joe is reportedly worth over £1million, but has also been made bankrupt twice in 2009 and 2013.
Shrewd Stacey has shown she’s a dab hand at running a wide range of successful businesses including TV, books, clothing and homeware ranges.
Her main firm Key Map Entertainments is worth just shy of £3million – and she’s also branched out into cosmetics.
The former X Factor contestant registered the company Belle & Rose Ltd, named after her youngest two daughters.
COLEEN Nolan, 58, has praised her Loose Women co-star Ruth Langsford, 64, for handling her public split from Eamonn Holmes, ‘with dignity.’
The couple’s shock separation after 14 years of marriage hit the headlines in May, as a spokesperson confirmed that divorce proceedings were underway.
Now TV presenter Eamonn has made no secret of his relationship with therapist Katie Alexander, 42, while Ruth has continued with her career as a TV star and mid-life influencer, maintaining a dignified silence.
After a four-month absence, Ruth resumed her role on ITV’s Loose Women last week and Coleen has now spoken of her poise throughout.
In an interview with Woman Magazine she said: “I don’t want to say too much because it’s not my business to say Ruth’s life, but what I will say from a friend’s point of view is, I’ve never met anyone that has handled something with so much dignity and pride.”
She added with admiration: “She’s just such a lady, more of a lady then I’ll ever be, I would’ve spilled my guts right now – as I do, that’s my problem, I say too much. She’s been absolutely amazing, she really has.”
After many years of working together at ITV, Ruth and Coleen are firm friends and this week they filmed a video of themselves dancing together backstage the Loose Women studios which was posted onto social media.
In the caption Ruth wrote: “When you get to work with your bestie.” A slew of fans rushed to comment, describing Ruth as ‘glowing’ and another said pointedly, “I feel that Ruth has got 15 years younger after ditching whiney Eamonn.”
Ruth and Eamonn, got married in 2010 and have a 22 year old son Jack together as well as three older children from his previous marriage.
Despite their separation, Ruth continues to wear her wedding and diamond engagement rings. Recently she was questioned as to why she still wears her rings on social media to which she replied: “Because I am still married.”
It is believed that Ruth still resides at their £3.2 million home in Weybridge Surrey, while Eamonn is currently renting a flat in the City of London near the GB News studios where he works as a presenter.
