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BBC News
8 hours ago
- BBC News
Man denies murdering his brother at family home in Illogan
A man from Cornwall has denied murdering his brother at their mother's home last year in what was described as a "frenzied attack", a court has heard. Daniel Lynch, 39, of Bosmeor Park, Illogan, appeared at Truro Crown Court, saying there was "no way" he killed Shane Lynch and he knew nothing about the cause of the court heard Mr Lynch was found lying in a pool of blood in the kitchen of their mother's home in Bosmeor Park in November 2024. Mr Lynch had sustained 11 separate wounds to his head as well as a puncture wound his face and wound to his leg. The trial continues. Defence barrister Andrew Langdon KC asked whether Mr Lynch had killed his Lynch said: "I did not kill my brother. I was really close to my brother - no way."The jury heard how Daniel Lynch had been sleeping on a sofa near the kitchen his brother was discovered by his 22-year-old mother, 61, then dialled 999 and Mr Lynch was arrested by police, along with his mother and half-brother. He told police he did not kill his brother - who was 11 months older than him - and he knew nothing about Miss Joanna Martin KC previously told the jury she believed Mr Lynch had killed his brother using a hammer-type weapon and his only intention was to kill said the Crown Prosecution Service's case was based on CCTV footage, phone data and forensic CCTV footage showed a figure leaving the property carrying a rucksack after the attack. Mr Lynch denied the figure was him. Mr Lynch said he was asleep on the sofa, having been drowsy after taking an anti-depressant tablet at the time, and told the court he had not heard any commotion or shouting when the attack he woke up, he said he panicked and told the court he said: "Why has this happened to my brother? Who has done this to my brother?"Miss Martin said it was a "sustained and frenzied attack".Mr Lynch said: "I suppose so, yeah."
RNZ News
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
NZ's furious filmmaking competition kicks off
media arts 35 minutes ago Over 500 teams across the country will sweat, stress and eschew sleep this weekend in pursuit of making a short film in just 48 hours. The Vista Foundation 48Hours film festival is New Zealand's largest guerrilla filmmaking competition, running annually for 22 years. Teams of aspiring filmmakers, including school groups, families as well as professionals, are given a genre and a set of elements they must include in their final product. The rest is up to them. Todd Zaner dials up competitor Daniel Lynch in Wellington who, with his veteran team Cinetrance, is embarking on another weekend of intense filmmaking.
Yahoo
28-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Bristol Myers, Bain Capital form new company to develop immunology drugs
(Reuters) -Drugmaker Bristol Myers Squibb and private equity firm Bain Capital will launch an independent company focused on developing immunology drugs, backed by Bain's $300 million financing round, the companies said on Monday. The new company will work on five experimental drugs licensed from Bristol Myers, including a late-stage lupus treatment and a mid-stage psoriasis drug that has shown promise in trials. Bristol Myers will retain nearly 20% equity in the venture and is set to receive royalties and milestone payments based on the drugs' success. The collaboration allows the drugmaker to concentrate its immunology research on treatments aimed at resetting the immune system while ensuring the continued development of promising assets, the companies said. "These assets have significant potential, and we are confident that this new company will drive their development to ensure greater impact for patients," said Julie Rozenblyum, senior vice president of business development at Bristol Myers. Daniel Lynch, a seasoned pharmaceutical executive, will take on the roles of executive chairman and interim CEO of the new company, while Bristol Myers' chief research officer Robert Plenge is set to join the board alongside Bain Capital partners. Canada Pension Plan Investment Board also participated in the financing round. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
New York Times
12-06-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Raising kids in an MLB family can be tough logistically, summer break provides relief
It was 2022, and Kansas City Royals pitcher Zack Greinke's career was winding down. In his age-38 season, Greinke wanted to soak it in. He wanted his family to experience it all as well, but Greinke faced a problem every baseball family comes across at some point after their kids reach a certain age: What were they going to do about school? Advertisement Greinke got lucky. His teammate, Daniel Lynch, was married to a former elementary school teacher. Millie Lynch, who was also a reading specialist, had helped some other families when Daniel was in the minor leagues. The Greinkes, who had a baby and two older boys at the time, enlisted Millie as their traveling teacher that year. She designed a curriculum and bridged the gap after spring training, when Zack and his wife, Emily, pulled their boys out of a traditional school. 'It was an interesting setup,' Lynch recalled this spring, 'Where they valued having the kids with them but also really wanted them to be in a learning environment still.' In a baseball calendar that can span from mid-February to early November, the month of June often brings a sigh of relief for players and their families. The challenges associated with navigating the school year calendar are over, at least for a few months. 'We survived,' Nationals pitcher Derek Law joked last week. Law's situation in D.C., just four hours away from where his kids go to school in the Pittsburgh area, still enables him to see his family frequently. His wife, Brittany, can load the car up on Friday and drive with their three kids to the nation's capital before heading back Sunday. For players who aren't close to their offseason homes, there are real choices — absent a Millie Lynch. 'Do you pull them and have them be with you homeschooled, or do you keep them in school with their friends and have some normalcy?' Dodgers pitcher Chris Stratton wondered. 'It's a tough decision that a lot of people struggle with.' Many players, like Stratton, employ a combination of the two. A father of three, Stratton's two school-aged children go to a public school from August until March. About a week before spring training ends, his wife, Martha Kate, takes over and homeschools them the rest of the way. She stays in contact with the kids' teachers virtually to make sure they don't fall behind. Advertisement Free agent outfielder Travis Jankowski and his wife, Lindsey, do the same thing with their four children, who are all 6 and under and attend various preschools and part-time programs in the offseason. Lindsey becomes a stay-at-home mom and full-time teacher once the season starts. Their oldest son's school sends a curriculum and sets up bi-weekly video check-ins to make sure he's picking up concepts. 'We never want my job to take away from his childhood, so we asked him, 'Do you want to go to a regular school five days a week and see your friends, knowing that you might not see Dad until the summertime, or do you want to be around Dad more and Mom will be your teacher?'' said Jankowski, who was with the Chicago White Sox and Tampa Bay Rays previously this year. 'It's tough for baseball players who didn't grow up with parents in the majors because you don't know how to navigate it. I think the biggest thing has been letting our child choose, as silly as that sounds, and never letting your job dictate their childhood.' Stratton, whose parents are both teachers, said initially he and Martha Kate tried to stick to in-person school, but the time apart was too much of a strain. With a third child now approaching school age, they might get a nanny to help, particularly as sports and school activities ramp up in elementary school. 'We're in Mississippi, and they've been so kind and understanding about the schedule,' Stratton said. 'I thought we might have to go the private school route (for flexibility), but we were able to stay in the (public) system, which I was happy about.' Flexibility is key. Even for those who don't elect to homeschool, there are a lot of moving parts involved in switching states in the middle of the school year, and the ease of that transition depends on players' location and the ages of their children. 'A lot of contract guys (who know they'll be with one team for a while) will do multiple schools if they allow it,' said veteran Drew Pomeranz, who has played for more than a half-dozen organizations and is currently with the Chicago Cubs. 'But schools are tough now. It's hard to get into them sometimes. It's a stressful thing.' Advertisement 'It's one of our biggest stressors this year,' Royals pitcher Seth Lugo said this spring, as he and his wife, Amanda, tried to find a school in their Louisiana home that accepted credits from the private school in Kansas City that their son, James, attends. Then there is the uncertainty surrounding start dates. If dad makes the playoffs, families who want to stay together could miss most of September, October if they're lucky. Last fall, then-Orioles pitcher John Means and his wife, Caroline, didn't start their son in preschool until November. Luckily, their Kansas City-area school had worked with several other baseball families before. 'Trying to keep us all together as much as we possibly can is at the top of our priorities,' Caroline said. 'We do our best to give him experiences that he may not have in school every single day. We take him to museums, aquariums, different parks, and I think he's had the privilege of gaining insight and exposure to different cultures as well. … We like to think of it all as just life education. And certainly, we will make sure that he can read and write.' The Means, who welcomed a daughter this spring, have no plans to homeschool, though Caroline pointed out John, who signed with the Cleveland Guardians this offseason, has teaching experience. The 32-year-old nearly quit baseball and made a LinkedIn page that listed substitute teaching as his job for the winter of 2016. After considering a major in secondary education, Nationals pitcher Trevor Williams got his degree in history with the hope that he could teach after his baseball career. He's already putting it to use. Williams and his wife, Jackie, who have five children, started exclusively homeschooling them about three years ago. Their oldest son just finished third grade. When the Nationals are home, Williams wakes up and spends two-and-a-half hours teaching him before heading to the ballpark. Then his wife takes over while managing their four younger kids. In the offseason, the pair, who split time between Virginia and California, join a co-op with other homeschool families to socialize. 'My wife's family is all public school teachers,' Williams said. 'We don't have anything against teachers. I have a desire to teach, my wife has a desire to teach, and because of the job I have we are able to do it. Not everyone has the time or the want-to.' Advertisement 'Some families thrive when the kids are out of the house and they get some time together,' he said. 'Our family thrives in chaos, with five kids screaming and yelling.' Williams, who draws from four different curricula to make his own, said the plan is to homeschool as long as possible. For many players, full-time homeschooling is a way to keep families together while living a crazy baseball schedule. Reds outfielder Austin Hays, who has two young kids, said he and his wife plan to homeschool as long as he's playing, then transition into a traditional in-person experience. For now, it's about managing the chaos and making the most of the opportunities that come with being a professional athlete — or with being married to one. 'Everyone has the idea that being a baseball wife would be this glorious, fabulous lifestyle, and a lot of times that couldn't be further from the truth,' Jankowski said. 'I'm like, 'Phew it's not easy what they do.' Hats off to my wife and all the wives out there who get through the season.' (Illustration: Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic)
Wales Online
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Wales Online
Katie Piper had a sandwich thrown at her by builders who saw her acid attack injuries
Katie Piper had a sandwich thrown at her by builders who saw her acid attack injuries The 41-year-old presenter suffered severe injuries after her former boyfriend Daniel Lynch arranged an acid attack on her in 2008 Katie Piper (Image: ITV ) Katie Piper had a sandwich thrown at her by men when they saw her facial burns. The 41-year-old presenter suffered severe injuries after her former boyfriend Daniel Lynch arranged an acid attack on her in 2008 and has reflected on a harrowing incident in which she had a sandwich pelted at her by men who were initially wolf-whistling her. Speaking to TV star Rob Rinder at the Hay Festival, Katie said: "I'm a very petite person; I had long blonde hair at the time and I was walking down the street with mum going to an outpatients appointment and a white van, I assume builders, were whistling at me complimentarily. "As they came around and saw my face, which is after the injury obviously, and I was wearing a plastic mask, someone threw a sandwich at me out of the window." The 'Loose Women' panellist continued: "But it was that thing that from behind I was one thing to them and what that represents, and when they came out around the front, I was unexpectedly something else. "So it's not natural for that to happen to you. It's not a transition. It's very violent and out of your control." Article continues below Katie discussed a "defining moment" four years on from the acid attack where she finally stopped seeing herself before her injuries when she was dreaming. The activist said: "For the first four years, when I saw myself in my dreams, she was always there: the girl that wasn't burnt. "In any dream – joyful dreams, chaotic dreams, boring dreams – she was there, pre that injury. Something happened four years later, I had a fairly mundane dream and she'd gone and it was in my new reflection in that dream and I woke up and was like, 'Oh.'" Article continues below Piper likened the process of coming to terms with her injuries to the grief of losing a loved one. She said: "It's painful for so long but you just live with it and you don't realise it, and you never get over it but one day, you're able to live with it. "And it must've just been my subconscious letting go."
