Paul Danan: Coroner delivers ruling in inquest into Hollyoaks actor's death
Hollyoaks actor and reality TV star Paul Danan 's death at his Bristol home after taking a cocktail of drugs including cocaine and heroin was misadventure, a coroner has concluded.
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- The Sun
Love Island fans stunned as they spot Towie legend's forgotten villa cameo- do you remember it?
LOVE Island fans were left stunned as they spotted Towie legend Mark Wright's forgotten cameo on the ITV2 show. In a special episode to celebrate the series' 10th year, iconic couples and ex-Islanders looked back at some unforgettable moments on Love Island: A Decade of Love. 5 5 5 5 And there one one particular scene from series one that left viewers doing a double take. Former contestants Hannah Elizabeth and Jessica Hayes sat down to remember some of the highs and lows from their series back in 2015. During her time in the villa, Jessica grew close Max Morley and TV personality Mark appeared as a guest on Love Island, where he encouraged his pal to ask Jess to be his girlfriend. While watching the throwback clip, Hannah gasped: "Mark! I forgot about him, when he came in. The scene showed Mark approaches Max and asks him whether he sees a future with Jess. "To what level would you say you're falling for Jess?" Mark asks. Max then revealed he'd been planning to ask Jess to be his girlfriend, to which Mark suggests: "Why don't you do it now while I'm here, I'd love to be here when that happens?" Mark calls Jess over and says: "Jess, I'm only in here once and I have to go soon. I spoke to Max and while I'm in here I would like Max to say what he wants to say..." Max then tells Jess: "I know things move forward quickly in here, and it's a little bit weird for me, but would you like to be my official girlfriend?" Love Island casting comes under fire AGAIN after it's revealed star had TikTok account where he 'secretly films women' Jess was over the moon and said:" Yes!" Those watching at home were equally surprised, with some younger fans completed unaware Mark was ever a guest. One said: " Mark Wright was on Love Island???!!" A second wrote: "I had no idea Mark Wright appeared on Love Island, I'm probably too young for the old series." "Wait! Mark Wright had a cameo on Love Island?! I never knew that," a third added. Jess was crowned winner of the show with ex Max. But they went their separate ways, and she ended up dating Zeb, who she later got engaged to. Jess and Zeb started dating in 2021 after they met through mutual friends. Their romance came after Jess split with her baby daddy fiancé Dan Lawry. Jess and Zeb got engaged in 2022. Jess revealed that she was pregnant with her second child in December last year. The reality star shared the happy news after suffering a devastating miscarriage in 2023. But now it appears Jess and Zeb have split after the reality recently posted a poignant video with her beautiful children. She captioned it: 'Life update. POV – starting over with your babies trusting in the universe everything will be ok.' Jess shared a clip inside a new home and unpacking boxes. She twirled around in the kitchen, while also videoing her little ones. Jess also showed off black and white photos she'd put up on the wall in her new home, including one of her baby bump and others of her children. 5
Telegraph
26 minutes ago
- Telegraph
Koran burner told of imminent terror threat to his life
An asylum seeker who burnt the Koran has received a police warning of an imminent terror plot to murder him, The Telegraph understands. Hamit Coskun was woken by officers acting on behalf of the Metropolitan Police at 2am on Saturday, who told him of 'an imminent threat', his lawyers said. The officers, who were from another force at a location where Coskun is in hiding, are understood to have read out what is known as an Osman warning. The 50-year-old was last week convicted of a racially aggravated public order offence, after shouting 'f--- Islam' and 'Islam is religion of terrorism' while setting fire to the religious text above his head during a protest on Feb 13. His supporters have accused the Met Police and Crown Prosecution Service of putting his life in danger by pursuing a prosecution against him. The court heard that Coskun, who was living in Derby and had to move to a safe house after a video of the incident was posted online, had been forced to leave his home country of Turkey two and a half years ago to escape persecution. In a letter to Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, on behalf of Coskun, Lord Young of Acton, General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, stated: 'We consider that the risk to Mr Coskun's life was caused, in part, by the actions of your officers and the CPS. Danger from 'Islamic extremists' 'Your force had repeatedly suggested publicly that Mr Coskun had offended the 'religious institution of Islam'. Doing so has increased the risk to Mr Coskun from Islamic extremists.' Police are obliged to issue an Osman warning when there is intelligence of the threat, but there is not enough evidence to justify the police arresting the potential murderer. A spokesman for the Met Police said: 'There remains an ongoing police investigation in relation to allegations of threats to kill against a 50-year-old male. Given the investigation is ongoing, we won't be able to comment further at this stage.' Coskun was prosecuted under the Public Order Act after burning a copy of the Koran outside the Turkish Consulate in Knightsbridge. Critics of the decision to prosecute him accused British courts of reviving blasphemy laws by the back door in pursuing his prosecution. Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, said: 'This decision is wrong. It revives a blasphemy law that parliament repealed. 'Free speech is under threat. I have no confidence in two-tier Keir to defend the rights of the public to criticise all religions.' 'De facto blasphemy laws' Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch added on social media: 'De facto blasphemy laws will set this country on the road to ruin. This case should go to appeal. Freedom of belief and freedom not to believe are inalienable rights in Britain. 'I'll defend those rights to my dying day.' Blasphemy laws were abolished in the UK 17 years ago. In a statement after the verdict, Coskun said the decision was 'an assault on free speech' that would deter others from exercising their democratic right to protest. He added: 'As an activist, I will continue to campaign against the threat of Islam. 'Christian blasphemy laws were repealed in this country more than 15 years ago, and it cannot be right to prosecute someone for blaspheming against Islam. 'Would I have been prosecuted if I'd set fire to a copy of the Bible outside Westminster Abbey? I doubt it.' He has pledged to continue burning Korans and intends to go on a tour of the UK, visiting Birmingham, Liverpool and Glasgow, where he will set fire to the holy book. It is unclear if he will resist doing so until the case is heard at appeal - should he be able to challenge the verdict against him in a higher court. The CPS said that Coskun was not being prosecuted for burning the book. They argued it was the combination of his derogatory remarks about Islam and the fact that it was done in public that made it an offence. The CPS originally charged Coskun, who is an atheist, with harassing the 'religious institution of Islam'. CPS charge amended However, the charge was later amended after free speech campaigners took up his cause and argued he was essentially being accused of blasphemy. Katy Thorne KC, Coskun's barrister, had argued that his actions were not motivated by hostility towards the followers of Islam, but the religion itself. District Judge John McGarva, however, said he did not accept that argument. Giving his verdict, Judge McGarva said: 'Your actions in burning the Koran where you did were highly provocative, and your actions were accompanied by bad language in some cases directed toward the religion and were motivated at least in part by hatred of followers of the religion.' The judge ordered Coskun, who is currently claiming asylum, to pay a fine of £240. A man has admitted assaulting Coskun during his demonstration outside the Turkish Embassy, but has denied using a knife in the attack. The man, whose identity is subject to reporting restrictions, is due to go on trial in 2027.
Telegraph
26 minutes ago
- Telegraph
The Margate woman who argued with locals
Caroline Lane vanished in 2009, not long after a fractious residents' meeting at Saltwater Mansions, her apartment block in Margate. For the next 13 years, her mortgage and other standing orders continued to be paid, but no one came looking for her or sent Christmas cards, and she has not been seen by any of those residents since. Nor is there any trace of her online. 'I've great admiration for anyone who doesn't have the minutiae of their lives splashed all over the internet,' David Whitehouse writes in his superb, intoxicating book, named after Lane's mysterious residence. 'I see them as I might the survivor of a plague.' If no man is an island, then one woman at least seemed to be. This absence, not just of a person but of everything that comes with being even a vaguely social animal, is what so intrigues Whitehouse in this hybrid of reportage and memoir. His quest is sparked by a chance remark from a hairdresser friend, and as he digs for information, Lane comes gradually into focus, less as a defined individual than as a palimpsest, half-glimpsed through layers of others' impressions and Whitehouse's own imagination. Those impressions are varied, plentiful, and largely negative, mostly because Saltwater Mansions was a hive of gossip, with everyone's lives discussed by everyone else. Lane, however, stood apart, in every way: perhaps snobbish and haughty, perhaps aloof through shyness and solitude. 'There were no pleasantries. No small talk. Not even remarks on the weather.' At Lane's final residents' meeting, she alone had opposed every single majority decision – on the election of directors, the auditing of accounts, a new fire escape – angering and exasperating the others. But Beth, who buys Lane's flat after its eventual forced purchase, makes Whitehouse reconsider the common view that Lane was unreasonably stroppy at such meetings: maybe she was merely standing her ground against men who thought they knew better? Without anything close to a consensus on the kind of person she was, Whitehouse allows himself to imagine 'a multiverse of Caroline Lanes' – a fugitive, a dominatrix, a spy. By this stage, however, the book has already outgrown its starting point and diverged into chronicling the lives of others: Beth; Lane's erstwhile neighbour Leonard; and Whitehouse himself. All these narratives sooner or later circle back to the same place: family, in all its forms. A woman protects her sister; a mother fights to stay alive for her daughter; a husband is widowed and remarries; and the writer reflects on his own relationship with his father, a man who was happiest doing things and helping people, and who had little time for self-reflection. One of the best lines in the book, up against some stiff competition, comes when Whitehouse watches his father with his own small son, 'a craggy hand saddling the soft hump of infant belly, their whole world there in the cradle of each other'. The world here is Margate, Whitehouse's adopted hometown, and it is as much a character as a setting. Once blighted by crime, poverty and xenophobia, its more recent gentrification has been a double-edged sword, with organic cafés, yoga studios and second homes combining to hollow out the place's chaotic but authentic spirit. That process has proved 'disproportionately bad for the poor and people of colour', displaced by an 'arts-led regeneration whose proponents talked a good game about investing in their community, but whose schemes and businesses in practice tended mostly to benefit people who looked and sounded like themselves'. Were this a novel, it would have a twist ending, but the non-fiction writer has to stick to what is known. It's hopefully no great spoiler to say that Lane's tale is not resolved neatly, though the way in which it gets there is certainly unexpected. Whitehouse is honest enough to admit his reflexive feelings of entitlement to know her full story, and it's proof of his versatility – he's both an award-winning novelist and an acclaimed non-fiction writer whose last book, About a Son, dealt with a man's quest for justice after the murder of his son – that he so beautifully combines the diligence of fact and the verve of fiction. Saltwater Mansions is by turns compassionate, melancholy, perceptive and uplifting. Whitehouse's turn of phrase is exquisite, conjuring entire scenes with just a few words. Margate High Street is 'pocked by the wounds of empty units'; net curtains are 'stained with rococo curls of yellow by decades of cigarette smoke'; 'Mr Peake was plumping cushions as though they'd wronged him'; 'the cat-hiss of waves breaking'; 'a charmed snake of ripped police tape dancing on the breeze'. The people and town in Saltwater Mansions may be resolutely ordinary, but the book itself is anything but.
