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BBC News
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Dani Dyer is the second celebrity contestant confirmed for Strictly Come Dancing 2025
Dani Dyer is the second celebrity taking part in the new series of Strictly Come Dancing. The multi-award-winning entertainment show, produced by BBC Studios, will return to BBC One and BBC iPlayer for its new series this September. Dani Dyer is a TV personality, broadcaster, author and mother of three. Born in Canning Town, Dani has fronted documentaries such as Is This Anxiety?, has teamed up with her father Danny for podcast Live and Let Dyers and travelogue series Absolutely Dyer: Danny and Dani Do Italy, and has made guest appearances in EastEnders and Celebrity Gogglebox. Dani won Love Island in 2018 and has since amassed over three million social media followers. She is also a published author with her debut book What Would Dani Do? reaching the Sunday Times Bestsellers list. Dani married West Ham footballer Jarrod Bowen in May this year. More: Strictly Come Dancing 2025 - find out everything you need to know about the new series Meet the new Professional Dancers joining the Strictly family in 2025 Watch Strictly Come Dancing on BBC iPlayer and add to your Watchlist On joining Strictly Come Dancing, Dani Dyer says: 'Getting the opportunity to be on Strictly is the second most amazing thing I've done this year! I feel very very blessed and cannot wait to get my dancing shoes on 💞' The news was revealed on The One Show on Monday 11 August and the remaining celebrity contestants joining the new series will be announced in due course. Strictly Come Dancing is a BBC Studios Entertainment production for BBC One and BBC iPlayer and was commissioned by Kalpna Patel-Knight, Head of Entertainment at the BBC. The Executive Producer is Sarah James, the Series Editors are Nicola Fitzgerald and Jack Gledhill. The Commissioning Editor for the BBC is Jo Wallace. Strictly Come Dancing will return to BBC One and BBC iPlayer this autumn. Add Strictly to your watchlist on BBC iPlayer now. GK Follow For More
Irish Times
09-08-2025
- Sport
- Irish Times
Ireland targeting best ever Women's EuroHockey finish
It's been seven years since Ireland played in the World Cup final against the Netherlands. Heady days. Nobody saw it coming. But when it did, Ireland's success grabbed the country. The World Cup venue adjacent to the Olympic Stadium on the east side of London was taken over as sunshine melted the roads around Canning Town and Stratford. Irish hockey had never seen anything like it. The current Irish captain Sarah Hawkshaw, a good friend of the 2018 captain Katie Mullan, who remains in the current squad with another World Cup medal winner, Róisín Upton, tells the story Mullan told her of knocking down stereotypes, lancing perceptions. 'In terms of the World Cup we would speak a bit of how as a team they were able to get themselves in a position that they were so motivated to succeed,' says Hawkshaw. READ MORE 'Even the funny stories, where they had to check into the room every day because people would write them off and they'd keep winning and they'd keep having to check in again the next day because they were due to leave.' It's a greatly changed group of players now but looking towards the 2025 European Championships next week in Mönchengladbach, if there is one thing the squad understands it is believing that they are as good as they want to be. They do not create limitations based on other people's perceptions. Hawkshaw has been team captain since December of last year and is a veteran of the 2023 Euros and the Tokyo Olympic Games. Ireland agonisingly fell just short of qualifying for Paris when they were beaten by Great Britain in January 2024 at the qualifiers in Valencia. Ireland's Sarah McCauley and Michelle Carey dejected after losing to Great Britain in 2023. Photograph: Frank Uijlenbroek/Inpho 'Personally it was very, very hard for a while to retain motivation, to get going again,' says Hawkshaw of that defeat. 'Attaching your motivation to a new goal can be hard, when you have almost given everything for the last goal, that you didn't achieve. It took time to process that, but I found I must be happy in my life to be able to perform in my sport. That became a big focus for me.' But Tokyo 2020 was a game changer, too, in that it was the first time an Irish women's hockey team had qualified for an Olympic Games. Sarah Torrans, Hannah McLoughlin and Sarah McAuley, who are travelling to Germany, were also part of the Olympic squad. Aside from the transition in players, the management has changed too. Since 2018, World Cup coach Graham Shaw has left. Sean Dancer joined as head coach in May 2019, having moved from his role as assistant coach in New Zealand, and took the team to the Olympics, a World Cup and to fifth in Europe, equalling the team's best result. The current coach, Gareth Grundie, was appointed last October. 'I think a lot of change has happened in the last year that's been good for the squad,' says Hawkshaw. 'Gareth has come in and he has challenged a lot of the ways that we play and the standards we set. But he was with us in the lead-up to Tokyo under Sean Dancer so we have that understanding of the hockey he brings. 'A lot of our players have also played in the European Leagues for the past three years and that changes things a lot. Hockey is quite a small world when you get outside of Ireland and play. That dynamic has brought up the standard and brought up the level of expectations we have of each other and ourselves as a country.' Ireland's Ireland head coach Gareth Grundie. Photograph: Bryan Keane/Inpho But for her school, Mount Sackville in Dublin, Hawkshaw may never have played hockey. As a child she joined local GAA club St Brigid's and began playing football. Good enough to play underage and minors for Dublin, she was in secondary school before a hockey stick was ever put in her hand. She was also a competitive cross-country athlete, who ran for her school and with Clonliffe Harriers. Her brother David, who played rugby with Leinster and is now with Connacht, was also a talented St Brigid's hurler. Hewon a Leinster minor hurling championship with Dublin in 2016 and played in an All-Ireland minor semi-final against Limerick at Croke Park. A sports scholarship took Hawkshaw to the University of Massachusetts, where she played collegiate hockey for four years, making her Ireland debut against Chile in 2019. 'Through the years of football, under-16s, minor, I still remember those days as amazing, what team culture can be and how you can be part of something that is bigger than yourself and you can carry that through life,' she says. 'Something I always had was good fitness. I used to run quite competitively, so I was put on [in GAA] just to run after somebody, so that worked in my favour. I was midfield. I was probably a player who valued feeling connected to the players around me to be able to perform. 'I didn't know what hockey was until I went to Mount Sackville. We were all in Brigid's from the mini-leagues up. I absolutely loved it. Then the natural transition was when you go to Mount Sackville and pick up a hockey stick. That was it. The exciting new thing you do at the time. Sarah Hawkshaw in action for Ireland against the Netherlands in 2021. Photograph: Frank Uijlenbroek/Inpho 'I remember the first time I was trying to play hockey out on the road, ripping up the bottom of our sticks because we'd just bought them. We were playing camogie, didn't know what we were doing.' In Mönchengladbach, Ireland have been handed a tough draw for the pool games. The Netherlands, the number one ranked team in the world, are first up, then France, who are six places below Ireland's ranking of 11th, and finally the sixth-ranked home side Germany. A goal would be a semi-final as the top three teams qualify for the next World Cup, which take place in Belgium and the Netherlands in 2026. 'I don't mind putting goals to these tournaments,' says Hawkshaw. 'I think we have a tough group. I don't know how it is every single time in a major we draw Holland for the first game. But it's an unbelievable fixture to get. 'So we have Holland, Germany and France. France, we'd expect ourselves to be up to beat them. Germany is going to be a challenge, but we are targeting that game as one we can win. We get out if we do that and we can put ourselves in a semi-final spot. 'So, 100 per cent we are looking to push that finish [fifth] one or two steps farther. We know there is World Cup qualification that comes out of this as well. It's looking like it will have to be top three for us to qualify with another tournament next year if we don't get it from the Europeans.' Women's Eurohockey Championship schedule (all times Irish, all games live on RTÉ) Saturday, August 9th: Ireland v The Netherlands, 2.30pm; Monday, August 11th : Ireland v France, 2.45pm; Wednesday, August 13th: Ireland v Germany, 7pm; Friday, August 15th: Crossover match 1; Sunday, August 17th: Crossover match 2. Ireland squad : Elizabeth Murphy, Holly Micklem, Ellen Curran, Katie Larmour, Sarah McAuley, Hannah McLoughlin, Caoimhe Perdue, Róisín Upton, Charlotte Beggs, Michelle Carey, Christina Hamill, Sarah Hawkshaw (capt), Emily Kealy, Katie McKee, Niamh Carey, Katie Mullan, Mikayla Power, Sarah Torrans.
Yahoo
30-07-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Person rescued from River Thames in Canning Town as new figures reveal spike in accidental drownings
A person has been rescued from the River Thames after being spotted in the water in Canning Town. Emergency services were called on Wednesday at around 8.15am to reports of an individual beneath the River Lea Service Bridge in Canning Town, Newham. Marine officers from the Metropolitan Police and firefighters from the London Fire Brigade attended the scene. And the person was eventually passed into the care of the London Ambulance Service. A LAS spokesman said: 'We were called at 8.18am today (30 July) to reports of a person in the water at River Lea Service Bridge, Canning Town. 'We sent resources to the scene, including an ambulance crew, an incident response officer, a paramedic in a fast response car and paramedics from our hazardous area response team. 'Our first paramedics arrived on scene in three minutes. Our crews assisted our emergency services partners at the scene but were later stood down.' The incident comes after the LFB urged caution around water over the summer holidays, as new figures revealed that accidental drownings have spiked in the past two years. Between January 1 and July 14, crews attended 15 accidental fatal drownings — nearly quadruple the number recorded in the same period ten years ago, which saw just four. Throughout the entirety of 2024, there were 16 accidental drownings recorded — the highest number in over a decade. The water always seems inviting when summer is here Matt Allchurch In total, the Brigade has responded to more than 380 water-related incidents across the city in 2025 alone, which is an increase of around 29 per cent on last year. Assistant Commissioner for Prevention and Protection, Pam Oparaocha, said: 'While the hot weather may tempt people to cool off in rivers and lakes, many are unaware of the very real and immediate dangers of open water. 'Even in hot weather, most inland water in London remains below 16C, which can cause cold water shock and lead to drowning.' Matt Allchurch, Lifeboat Operations Manager at Teddington RNLI, added: "The water always seems inviting when summer is here, but it hides currents, obstacles and tides that can cause harm and catch people off-guard.'
BBC News
30-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Silvertown Tunnel to close over 17 nights for maintenance
The Silvertown Tunnel will close for 17 nights over a number of dates until 22 June for general maintenance and snagging works, Transport for London has the southbound only closures, buses will be diverted via the Blackwall the northbound or both directions are shut, buses will operate a split-service terminating at Canning Town and North Greenwich, with customers advised to use the Tube or take the route 108 to complete their journey across the river.A TfL spokesperson said: "TfL will look to ensure bus services can continue to run where possible and has been communicating with drivers about the closures and weekly customer emails." Planned overnight closures:Friday 30 May 22:00-06:00 (Southbound only)Saturday 31 May 22:00-06:00 (Southbound only)Sunday 1 June 22:00-05:00 (Southbound only)Monday 2 June 22:00-05:00 (Southbound only)Tuesday 3 June 22:00-05:00 (Southbound only)Wednesday 4 June 22:00-05:00 (Both directions closed)Thursday 5 June 22:00-05:00 (Northbound only)Friday 6 June 22:00-06:00 (Both directions closed)Saturday 7 June 22:00-06:00 (Both directions closed)Sunday 8 June 22:00-05:00 (Both directions closed)Friday 13 June 22:00-06:00 (Both directions closed)Saturday 14 June 22:00-06:00 (Both directions closed)Sunday 15 June 22:00-05:00 (Both directions closed)Wednesday 18 June 22:00-05:00 (Southbound only)Friday 20 June 22:00-06:00 (Both directions closed)Saturday 21 June 22:00-06:00 (Both bores closed)Sunday 22 June 22:00-05:00 (Both directions closed) The £2.2bn Silvertown Tunnel, which opened on 7 April, stretches almost a mile (1.4km) under the River Thames from Greenwich to Newham, next to the Blackwall announced in 2012, Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan reviewed the scheme when he came into office, before saying it would be a vital link across the Thames in east tunnels are subject to tolls - costing £4 in peak times to drive a car through.
