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Metro
06-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
X Factor star cancels Pride performance almost one year after boyfriend's death
Union J star Jaymi Hensley, 35, revealed he has cancelled his Pride gig for 'personal reasons' 11 months after his fiancé's sudden death. His partner, Oliver Marmon, died aged 33 in August 2024 after tragically falling from a hotel window in Wellingborough just weeks before their wedding. Marmon's funeral took place in September on what would have been their wedding day, with Hensley writing: 'I will never be ready, I miss you so much! I love you more than I've ever loved any one.' The singer rose to fame as part of the X Factor boy band Union J – also made up of Josh Cuthbert, JJ Hamlet and George Shelley – who appeared on the reality show in 2012. Now a solo artist, Hensley was set to perform at Worthing Pride over the weekend (July 4 and 5) but revealed he was pulling out. He wrote on his story: 'Guys I'm really sorry for those who were coming to see me but for personal reasons I'm unable to perform at Worthing Pride tomorrow. 'I really hope you understand I never cancel unless it is necessary.' The music artist, who goes by the double-barrelled surname Henlsey-Marmon on social media, has been open about his grief journey on social media since his partner's death. In a post at the end of June, he shared his bittersweet feelings at going on holiday to Marseille – and shared a clip of a butterfly that stayed with him for 30 minutes. 'Felt tearful this morning, have arrived in Marseille which was the last point me and Oliver did exactly two weeks before he left, went out to the deck and this little guy hasn't left me alone for 30 mins,' he wrote. Meanwhile, in March, he shared a collection of snaps of him and Marmon over the years to mark 15 years since he asked Marmon to marry him. 'What I wouldn't give to go back to that day just to feel that happiness for one minute again! I miss you so much. 'I'm in love with you more today than I have ever been in my life, but the hardest part is knowing that no matter how hard I wish or want, I will never get to feel the happiness again with you I felt over the last 15 years!' he reflected to his followers. At the time of Marmon's death, a 34-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder before later being released. More Trending In September, an inquest found his cause of death was as a result of 'head injuries pending further testing.' Marmons' mother also paid tribute to her son at the time calling him 'so special' and her 'best friend'. She added: 'We spoke every single day. He called me mummy, he used to call me his guardian angel. View More » 'Oliver was so caring, loving, quiet and always put others before himself. He was a very talented hairdresser, and it was a passion he took seriously.' Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: X Factor legend breaks down in tears after being forced to cancel string of shows
CNBC
30-06-2025
- Business
- CNBC
Trump's big bill threatens to raise taxes on clean energy industry by up to $7 billion, trade group says
Senate Republicans are threatening to hike taxes on clean energy projects and abruptly phase out credits that have supported the industry's expansion in the latest version of President Donald Trump's big spending bill. The measures, if enacted, would jeopardize hundreds of thousands of construction jobs, hurt the electric grid, and potentially raise electricity prices for consumers, trade groups warn. The Senate GOP released a draft of the massive domestic spending bill over the weekend that imposes a new tax on renewable energy projects if they source components from foreign entities of concern, which basically means China. The bill also phases out the two most important tax credits for wind and solar power projects that enter service after 2027. Republicans are racing to pass Trump's domestic spending legislation by a self-imposed Friday deadline. The Senate is voting Monday on amendments to the latest version of the bill. The tax on wind and solar projects surprised the renewable energy industry and feels punitive, said John Hensley, senior vice president for market analysis at the American Clean Power Association. It would increase the industry's burden by an estimated $4 billion to $7 billion, he said. "At the end of the day, it's a new tax in a package that is designed to reduce the tax burden of companies across the American economy," Hensley said. The tax hits any wind and solar project that enters service after 2027 and exceeds certain thresholds for how many components are sourced from China. This combined with the abrupt elimination of the investment tax credit and electricity production tax credit after 2027 threatens to eliminate 300 gigawatts of wind and solar projects over the next 10 years, which is equivalent to about $450 billion worth of infrastructure investment, Hensley said. "It is going to take a huge chunk of the development pipeline and either eliminate it completely or certainly push it down the road," Hensley said. This will increase electricity prices for consumers and potentially strain the electric grid, he said. The construction industry has warned that nearly 2 million jobs in the building trades are at risk if the energy tax credits are terminated and other measures in budget bill are implemented. Those credits have supported a boom in clean power installations and clean technology manufacturing. "If enacted, this stands to be the biggest job-killing bill in the history of this country," said Sean McGarvey, president of North America's Building Trades Unions, in a statement. "Simply put, it is the equivalent of terminating more than 1,000 Keystone XL pipeline projects." The Senate legislation is moving toward a "worst case outcome for solar and wind," Morgan Stanley analyst Andrew Percoco told clients in a Sunday note. Shares of NextEra Energy, the largest renewable developer in the U.S., fell 2%. Solar stocks Array Technologies fell 8%, Enphase lost nearly 2% and Nextracker tumbled 5%. Trump's former advisor Elon Musk slammed the Senate legislation over the weekend. "The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country," The Tesla CEO posted on X. "Utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future."
Miami Herald
26-06-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
‘Something' told man to buy VA lottery ticket. It was a life-changing decision
A routine trip to 7-Eleven took a surreal turn when a man felt oddly compelled to buy a Virginia Lottery ticket — and he hit the jackpot. Gary Hensley reports he was in search of coffee and gas, and playing the lottery wasn't on his to-do list, according to a June 26 news release. But then 'his eyes fell on a Virginia Lottery scratcher ticket,' officials said. It was a $30 Bonus Star Millions ticket and the odds of winning a top prize are 1 in 489,600. 'Something just told me to buy it!' he told lottery officials. Hensley says he waited until he got home to start scratching off the ticket and discovered it was worth $1 million. 'I about had a heart attack!' he told lottery officials. 'I didn't get much sleep that night!' Hensley went to get his prize June 12, and it came with a choice: Take a lesser lump sum check for $500,000, or get the $1 million divided up into annual payments over 30 years. Hensley took the check. He stands as the first person to win a top prize in the Bonus Star Millions game, beating odds of 1 in 489,600, lottery officials said. The ticket was purchased at the 7-Eleven on Seminole Trail in Charlottesville, which is also Hensley's hometown, officials said.
1News
25-06-2025
- 1News
Khandallah trial: Court hears of 'unusual' actions by murder-accused
A detective who was among first responders to 79-year-old Helen Gregory's death has told the court he thought it was strange that her daughter, Julia DeLuney, chose to drive back to Kāpiti and get her husband instead of calling an ambulance. The trial before a judge and jury at the High Court in Wellington is set down for four to five weeks, and today entered its third day. The Crown's case is that DeLuney violently attacked her mother on the evening of January 24 last year, possibly using a vase that was missing off one of the bedside tables, and staged it as a fall from the attic. DeLuney dealt in cryptocurrency and appeared to be in some financial trouble. However, the defence has asked the jury not to discount the possibility that there was a third person involved, with a neighbour reporting a mysterious knock on their door that same evening. ADVERTISEMENT The detective, Luke Hensley, under cross examination by defence lawyer Quentin Duff, said when he was called in the death wasn't being treated as suspicious. But he said the blood around the house struck him as strange – as did the claim from DeLuney that, when she had left her mother on the floor of a bedroom to drive back to Kāpiti to pick up her husband to help, there had been no significant blood. Hensley had eight years' experience at the time, but called a more senior officer to get advice, and they walked through the house on Facetime. In his statement on the night, he wrote they agreed it was "likely some sort of accident, but where the blood was located around the house was strange". They locked the scene down for an examination the next day. Hensley also noted at the time he thought it was "unusual" that DeLuney had driven to Kāpiti to fetch her husband, instead of calling an ambulance. The defence's case is that, while she was gone, a third person caused those fatal injuries to her mother. ADVERTISEMENT Duff asked Hensley on the witness stand: "Did it ever occur to you that perhaps someone else might have broken into the house and caused those injuries and spread that blood?" Hensley replied: "At the time I believed that getting the statement from Ms DeLuney would cover off a lot of that" and "fill in those blanks". On the night of the death, DeLuney was not yet being treated as a suspect. She and her husband followed police officers in their own car to the Johnsonville police station in the early hours of the morning to give statements. The court heard DeLuney's account for the first time today, in the form of her statement given in the early hours of that night in January 2024. The statement Police at the scene on Baroda St, Khandallah. (Source: 1News) ADVERTISEMENT Detective Elizabeth Lee, who worked in the Wellington Crime Squad based in Johnsonville, read out the written statement to the court. She was one of the officers on the scene, but then took witness statements from the DeLuneys at the police station just after 2am. The statement begins by detailing some recent falls her mother had had in the past two years, both times ending up in hospital. One fall resulted in a concussion and a skull fracture. She said her mother often lost her balance, or felt that she might lose her balance around home. That evening, Julia DeLuney's husband, Antonio DeLuney, had brought the car home from work, and she had driven it to her mother's house on Baroda St around 6pm. It was her mother's birthday in May, and she and her daughters had thought tickets to the ballet would be a nice present. They sat down at computer and picked out seats. ADVERTISEMENT "She was in a good mood," she said in her statement. But her mother was "kind of obsessed" with a shirt she had misplaced and asked for help finding it, going into cupboards and wardrobes. At one point, DeLuney went up into the attic to store some watches. The rungs of the ladder to the attic were built into the wall. "Even I struggle to get up there," DeLuney said. About 8.30pm, Gregory went into a cupboard to search for the shirt again, and knocked over some toilet paper, which she said she wanted to put into the attic. DeLuney said at this point, she was in the kitchen. ADVERTISEMENT "All of a sudden, I heard a big crash, and I went over to find that she had fallen." Her mother was "sore everywhere" and holding the top of her head, "crumpled and tangled" against some objects at the base of the attic entrance. She moved her to one of the bedrooms, with her mum saying things like, "I'll be alright". She had a little bit of blood on her hand from holding her head. DeLuney said she couldn't see any open wounds, but it looked like the blood – "not a lot" – was coming from the top of her head. She told her mother she was going to get her husband Antonio to help. "At this stage, I didn't think there was anything major going on, and I knew she hated hospitals," she said. She left Gregory lying on the floor, with her feet facing the window. She was "agitated" and trying to get up, but she told her to stay put. ADVERTISEMENT Then, she drove 40 minutes home, and found Antonio in bed. She told him her mother had fallen and she needed him to come with her to check on her. It took another 40 minutes to get back to the house, and when they entered, they ran into the bedroom and "freaked out" because "it looked like a warzone" with blood in lots of different places. She said none of that blood was there when she left, "so I got a hell of a shock". The trial continues, and is set down for four to five weeks.
Otago Daily Times
25-06-2025
- Otago Daily Times
Detective recounts 'unusual' actions of murder-accused
By Kate Green of RNZ A detective who was among first responders to 79-year-old Helen Gregory's death has told the court he thought it was strange that her daughter, Julia DeLuney, chose to drive back to Kāpiti and get her husband instead of calling an ambulance. The trial before a judge and jury at the High Court in Wellington is set down for four to five weeks, and on Wednesday entered its third day. The Crown's case is that DeLuney violently attacked her mother on the evening of January 24 last year, possibly using a vase that was missing off one of the bedside tables, and staged it as a fall from the attic. DeLuney dealt in crypto currency and appeared to be in some financial trouble. However, the defence has asked the jury not to discount the possibility that there was a third person involved, with a neighbour reporting a mysterious knock on their door that same evening. The detective, Luke Hensley, under cross examination by defence lawyer Quentin Duff, said when he was called in the death wasn't being treated as suspicious. But he said the blood around the house struck him as strange - as did the claim from DeLuney that, when she had left her mother on the floor of a bedroom to drive back to Kāpiti to pick up her husband to help, there had been no significant blood. Hensley had eight years' experience at the time, but called a more senior officer to get advice, and they walked through the house on Facetime. In his statement on the night, he wrote they agreed it was "likely some sort of accident, but where the blood was located around the house was strange". They locked the scene down for an examination the next day. Hensley also noted at the time he thought it was "unusual" that DeLuney had driven to Kāpiti to fetch her husband, instead of calling an ambulance. The defence's case is that while she was gone, a third person caused those fatal injuries to her mother. Duff asked Hensley on the witness stand: "Did it ever occur to you that perhaps someone else might have broken into the house and caused those injuries and spread that blood?" Hensley replied: "At the time I believed that getting the statement from Ms DeLuney would cover off a lot of that" and "fill in those blanks". On the night of the death, DeLuney was not yet being treated as a suspect. She and her husband followed police officers in their own car to the Johnsonville police station in the early hours of the morning to give statements. The court heard DeLuney's account for the first time on Wednesday, in the form of her statement given in the early hours of that night in January 2024. The statement Detective Elizabeth Lee, who worked in the Wellington Crime Squad based in Johnsonville, read out the written statement to the court. She was one of the officers who was on the scene, but then took witness statements from the DeLuneys at the police station just after 2am. The statement begins by detailing some recent falls her mother had had in the past two years, both times ending up in hospital. One fall resulted in a concussion and a skull fracture. She said her mother often lost her balance, or felt that she might lose her balance around home. That evening, Julia DeLuney's husband, Antonio DeLuney, had brought the car home from work, and she had driven it to her mother's house on Baroda Street around 6pm. It was her mother's birthday in May, and she and her daughters had thought tickets to the ballet would be a nice present. They sat down at computer and picked out seats. "She was in a good mood," she said in her statement. But her mother was "kind of obsessed" with a shirt she had misplaced and asked for help finding it, going into cupboards and wardrobes. At one point, DeLuney went up into the attic to store some watches. The rungs of the ladder to the attic were built into the wall. "Even I struggle to get up there," DeLuney said. About 8.30pm, Gregory went into a cupboard to search for the shirt again, and knocked over some toilet paper, which she said she wanted to put into the attic. DeLuney said at this point, she was in the kitchen. "All of a sudden, I heard a big crash, and I went over to find that she had fallen." Her mother was "sore everywhere" and holding the top of her head, "crumpled and tangled" against some objects at the base of the attic entrance. She moved her to one of the bedrooms, with her mum saying things like, "I'll be alright". She had a little bit of blood on her hand from holding her head. DeLuney said she couldn't see any open wounds, but it looked like the blood - "not a lot" - was coming from the top of her head. She told her mother she was going to get her husband Antonio to help. "At this stage I didn't think there was anything major going on, and I knew she hated hospitals," she said. She left Gregory lying on the floor, with her feet facing the window. She was "agitated" and trying to get up, but she told her to stay put. Then, she drove 40 minutes home, and found Antonio in bed. She told him her mother had fallen and she needed him to come with her to check on her. It took another 40 minutes to get back to the house, and when they entered, they ran into the bedroom and "freaked out" because "it looked like a warzone" with blood in lots of different places. She said none of that blood was there when she left, "so I got a hell of a shock". The trial continues, and is set down for four to five weeks.
