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Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
Three-bedroom detached house on sale for £199k has a very unusual feature in the living room
A three-bedroom house has just gone on sale - but potential viewers will face a shock when they take a look at the living room. At first glance, this home in Bridgend seems like a typical detached property, boasting three floors and a garage on the side. And in the current economy snapping up the spacious house for £199,950 is a deal many buyers would think about making. On closer inspection, however, it has a very unusual feature that might not float everybody's boat. Embracing the area's proximity to the sea, this homeowner has hung an eight-foot shark on the wall. Taking to TikTok, @HousingHorrors took a peek at the terrifying interior decoration centrepiece, which boasts a blue and white design to match the walls. The detailed animal bust complements the old-fashioned diving suit which tops a bookcase in the room, but clashes sharply with an equally bizarre red model car. 'This is the b****y eight-foot shark. What the b****y hell are the owners thinking,' the TikToker said. 'Here's another angle of it and I need to zoom in. That is absolutely b****y huge, and not only that but there's also a photo of them, I'm assuming, diving. 'But also there's this weird car on the side here. I've never seen anything quite like this. 'It looks like there's some random figure with a bear on the side of it. Now, it's kind of cool, I don't mind it that much, but it is very very unusual. 'I suppose it's unique you could say.' The social media personality then pointed out that the model shark and accompanying retro car looked out of place alongside the relatively normal features of the rest of the house. But, in conclusion, the TikToker praised the mercurial design technique and at one point even joked, 'take my money'. He added: 'It's safe to say the absolute icing on the cake is definitely the eight-foot shark in the living room. 'I'd be interested to know what it's actually made of. I'm assuming it's fibre glass, I may be wrong, maybe plastic, but let me know what you guys think.' The rest of the living room consisted of a leather sofa and a circular mirror above a wood-burning stove. In another room, two leather chairs were decorated with tartan upholstery and a large portrait over another fireplace. One bedroom has been given a flash of colour by some olive green wall paint, while another features an unusual wooden four-poster frame. The property is described as dating back to the 1800s and being close to the M4 corridor. It lies on Cefn Glas Road in the Newcastle Hill area of the Welsh town and also boasts a garden.
Sky News
5 days ago
- Health
- Sky News
Kyle Enos: Man who made and sold poisonous diet pills is jailed
A man who made and sold poisonous diet pills has been jailed. DNP is poisonous to humans and has been banned for human consumption in the UK. The industrial chemical, which is officially known as 2,4-Dinitrophenol, has been illegally sold as a pill for weight loss, according to police. Kyle Enos, 33, from Maesteg, Bridgend, was jailed for three years on Thursday after a multi-agency investigation. DNP can cause serious physical side effects or death, according to the Food Standards Agency. Enos was found to have purchased the pure form sodium salt of the powder from China via the dark web. He made the pills using cutting agents and a pill press in his bedroom and advertised them on a website he had made. After receiving orders via email, he would ship the products within the UK and beyond, disguising them as vitamins and minerals. Following the investigation, he was charged with multiple drug offences and pleaded guilty at Cardiff Magistrates' Court on 1 May. 'Extremely ill or even dying' He was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court for one count of member of public import/acquire/possess/use of a regulated substance without licence, one count of supply regulated substance to member of public without verifying licence and one count of supply of regulated poison by person other than a pharmacist. He was also found to have failed to comply with a serious crime prevention order (SCPO) after a previous conviction for the supply of the Class A drug Fentanyl. Detective Constable Kieran Morris, of South Wales Police's regional organised crime unit (ROCU) Tarian, said Enos was supplying the pills "with no safety precautions in place", which could have led to buyers "becoming extremely ill or even dying". "Tarian ROCU are committed to safeguarding members of the public not only within our region, but across the United Kingdom and beyond," he added. Alison Abbott, head of the National Crime Agency's prisons and lifetime management unit, said SCPOs were "a powerful tool" to help prevent those convicted of "serious offences" from reoffending after their release from prison. "This case should serve as a warning to others," she added.
BBC News
5 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
Premier League Darts final sees darts made by Welsh expert
He is one of the most successful designers in the sports industry with a legion of world champions to his name. But Lee Huxtable is not widely known outside the world of Thursday night, Luke Humphries was crowned the 2025 champion of the Premier League Darts, and he sealed victory at the O2 in London, with darts designed by the Welsh engineer. From his Bridgend base, Mr Huxtable also made darts for semi finalist, Gerwyn Price and dutch player Michael Van Gerwen for the tournament which has run since of all the darts players he has worked with, he is missing one big one - current world champion, Littler, whose arrows are made by rival company. As head of development for Red Dragon Darts, Mr Huxtable tries to name all the world champions he has made darts for."Peter Wright, Gerwyn Price, Michael Van Gerwen, Luke Humphries, Trina Gulliver..." the names keep his work, Mr Huxtable has played a pivotal role in helping many players excel."Peter 'snakebite' Wright's world titles mean a lot to me, me and Peter would go through hundreds of concepts," he said."His darts cover everything from short fat ones to long thin ones. "One diamond-coated dart took 18 months in production and we had chemists involved. But he went on to win a world title with it which was very fulfilling."In 2020, Mr Huxtable designed darts for both the PDC and BDO world champions. Wright and Wayne Warren both credited Mr Huxtable for his help to make them the best in the world. "Sometimes it might take years working with a player, other times you get a eureka moment and that can advance a player's game hugely," the engineer said."It could mean someone going from the top 32 and getting into top 16 and making the big time." Mr Huxtable is also making darts for another Welsh player - Jonny Clayton, from Carmarthenshire, who has won four titles with his darts. "Jonny Clayton's game changed overnight and it skyrocketed to the next level," he said. "He's a great character." Mr Huxtable has also been finessing the darts of former world champion Price, from Caerphilly county, before he battled it out at the O2 on Thursday."I've never seen focus like that from Gerwyn Price," he said. "He was a former rugby player who just played socially and he made it into the top 32. He said that's not good enough and when he made it into top 16 he still wasn't happy with that."He was so focused to be the best and to take Gerwyn from being a rugby player to a world champion was a big moment for us." Mr Huxtable, from Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, has completed the majority of his work from Nodor's Bridgend headquarters for about 25 years, but also travels to Kenya where their darts are mass-produced for the retail market. The family-run Nodor group, which Red Dragon Darts is part of, moved production of its darts and dartboards to Kenya after it acquired the Winmau brand around 20 years sisal plant grows naturally in the east African country and is the best material for bristle boards, lowering operating opened up its own sales and distribution centre in Dallas, Texas in 2023 and now produces 30,000 sets of darts and 20,000 dartboards a week from its factories in Kenya, and employs 1,000 staff. Mr Huxtable said: "It's always about the technology which goes into the dart for performance enhancement which is the most important for me. "In one of my favourite darts we managed to fuse 85% tungsten at the back of the shaft with 95% tungsten at the front to move the centre of gravity forward. "The concept being that a lot of players like a front-weighted dart but the players don't want to make the dart any fatter at the front." With the Luke Littler effect fuelling the junior game, darts is now described as being in its third golden age and attracts the highest viewing figures on Sky television, second only to Premier League than three million people watched 17-year-old Luke Littler win the world championship at Alexandra Palace in January. Mr Huxtable said: "The youngsters have catapulted the game, we are seeing 12 and 13-year-olds throwing another level of darts for that age."By the time they're in their early 20s the standard is going to be even higher and with the viewing figures and the prize money going up, it'll become even more popular with youngsters."
BBC News
5 days ago
- Health
- BBC News
Maesteg man who sold diet pills made from DNP poison jailed
A man who sold diet pills on the internet which were actually poison has been jailed for three Enos, 33, had only been out of prison for a few months for selling fentanyl online when he bought the drug 2, 4 Dinotrophenol, or DNP, on the dark web from suppliers in India and pressed it into pills in his bedroom in Maesteg, Crown Court heard DNP is a regulated substance classed as both a poison and a secondary explosive that has caused at least 34 deaths in the UK. Judge Simon Mills told Enos his website gave the impression that the tablets were produced in "some sort of professional laboratory by people in white coats and qualifications and expertise".Officers raided Enos' property on Station Road in Maesteg on 25 July 2024 and found 2.5kg of orange powder and a machine used to press it into pill admitted a total of eight charges at Cardiff Magistrates Court including possessing 2, 4 DNP, supplying the drug and supplying a regulated had also admitted five charges of failing to comply with a Serious Crime Prevention Order (SCPO) handed to him following his fentanyl 2018 he was sentenced to eight years in prison for supplying "significant amounts" of the opioid, fentanyl to a total of 166 of those contacts, including Jack Barton, 23, a Cardiff University student, and Arran Rees, 34, from Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, charges were brought in relation to their deaths as it could not be said with certainty Enos had supplied the served some of his eight-year sentence, he was released on licence, in 2021, but was recalled to prison in June 2022, before being released again in August 2022. Under the terms of his SCPO he was not allowed to sell products online or in a virtual marketplace; he was not allowed to access the dark web and had to notify a National Crime Agency (NCA) officer about possessing mobile phones and laptops and creating his own internet pleaded guilty to five failures to comply with his SCPO having used a laptop to access the dark web to set up a Proton email account with end-to-end encryption and creating up a website selling court was shown screengrabs of his online marketplace which included suggestions of products customers "may also like" giving the impression of it being a legitimate took payment for the drugs by bank transfer, bitcoin and other cryptocurrency from customers around the world, including as far away as New has refused access to police to some of his is the drug which led to the death of Eloise Parry, 21, at hospital in Wrexham, in Glyndwr University student, died after taking eight capsules. In bodycam footage shown to the court the powder can be seen in a washing up bowl on his bedroom floor next to an empty pizza can also be seen next to his bed by the pill press machine and another washing up bowl filled with Simon Mills said he wanted the footage to be released to the media for members of the public to be made aware of the unsanitary conditions in which the pills were made."You were selling poison to the general public," said Judge Mills."Your pharmacy was in fact your house or flat and you were preparing and pressing the pills you were selling to the general public on a filthy piece of equipment amongst training shoes and discarded underwear."He was sentenced to a total of 36 months in prison."You have a propensity for selling dangerous substances to people," said Judge Mills, adding: "This is a habit that you must stop.""The court doesn't know the full extent of the harm that you did by peddling this horrendous substance."If any of your product is still out there in the community and it can be shown to have killed someone, you should face an investigation for manslaughter, but hopefully that will not happen."A Proceeds of Crime Act hearing will be held later this year.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Climate
- Yahoo
Train disruption as 'all services' at a standstill on major Welsh line
Commuters are facing disruption on Thursday morning as services on two south Wales lines are "at a stand". Traffic monitoring system Inrix reports that Transport for Wales services on the Barry and Bridgend lines are at a stand due to track safety checks. Network Rail have said that disruption is expected until 8.30am at the earliest. Services are affected between Bargoed / Rhymney / Cardiff Central and Barry Island, and also between Cardiff Central and Bridgend. Network Rail added: "There is a points failure between Barry and Bridgend, closing the line running between these stations. As a result, trains may be cancelled, delayed by up to 15 minutes or revised." READ MORE: Horrific 40C plus temperatures forecast by Met Office for Spain and Portugal with 25C at night READ MORE: M4 closure live updates as emergency incident sees third day of traffic misery Buses have been organised to run between Barry and Bridgend to assist customers to complete journeys where possible at no extra cost. These will be provided by Teulu Coaches. People are being advised that road transport will take longer than rail services. Please allow extra time to complete your journey. You may be entitled to compensation if you experience a delay in completing your journey. Network Rail advise passengers to keep your train ticket and make a note of your journey, as both will be required to support any claim. This is a breaking news story and will be updated. Get daily breaking news updates on your phone by joining our WhatsApp community here. We occasionally treat members to special offers, promotions and ads from us and our partners. See our Privacy Notice
