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The Advertiser
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Advertiser
Bono wooed wife Ali Hewson by playing 'the class clown'
Bono became the "class clown" as a teenager in a bid to woo Ali Hewson. The 65-year-old rock star has been married to Hewson since 1982, but Bono had to fight off potential competition from The Edge - his U2 bandmate - during their school years. "She did seem to be taking an interest in his guitar playing and, as hard as I might practise, I just knew I couldn't touch this guy," Bono told The Project. "So I had to become, you know, the class clown." Hewson and The Edge were in the same year at school and she still has a strong friendship with the rocker. "They're still really close - and they still talk about me behind my back," Bono quipped. "They say it's out of concern." Bono previously admitted that Hewson's life would have been easier if he wasn't a member of U2. Bono - whose real name is Paul Hewson - said in his 2022 memoir Surrender, that fame and success had complicated his love life. "Ali would have been happier with a life that was simpler than the one we've ended up with," he wrote. "Ali had never been 'just' my girlfriend, and now she was never going to be 'just' my wife." Bono observed that his bandmates - The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr - have always been a prominent part of their lives. "There were air pockets from the beginning, like, say, my immaturity. Married at 22 going on 18," he said. "She was also realising that there were three other men in her marriage. Men whom she was more than fond of, but men who were taking her man away, not just in his wild imaginings, but physically, all over the world." Bono also suggested that friendship had been the key to his marriage. "If you ask me seriously, friendship can outpace romantic love, sometimes. And friendship is what myself and Ali have," the rocker said at the New Yorker Festival in 2022. "When you have romantic love and friendship, that's really something special." Bono became the "class clown" as a teenager in a bid to woo Ali Hewson. The 65-year-old rock star has been married to Hewson since 1982, but Bono had to fight off potential competition from The Edge - his U2 bandmate - during their school years. "She did seem to be taking an interest in his guitar playing and, as hard as I might practise, I just knew I couldn't touch this guy," Bono told The Project. "So I had to become, you know, the class clown." Hewson and The Edge were in the same year at school and she still has a strong friendship with the rocker. "They're still really close - and they still talk about me behind my back," Bono quipped. "They say it's out of concern." Bono previously admitted that Hewson's life would have been easier if he wasn't a member of U2. Bono - whose real name is Paul Hewson - said in his 2022 memoir Surrender, that fame and success had complicated his love life. "Ali would have been happier with a life that was simpler than the one we've ended up with," he wrote. "Ali had never been 'just' my girlfriend, and now she was never going to be 'just' my wife." Bono observed that his bandmates - The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr - have always been a prominent part of their lives. "There were air pockets from the beginning, like, say, my immaturity. Married at 22 going on 18," he said. "She was also realising that there were three other men in her marriage. Men whom she was more than fond of, but men who were taking her man away, not just in his wild imaginings, but physically, all over the world." Bono also suggested that friendship had been the key to his marriage. "If you ask me seriously, friendship can outpace romantic love, sometimes. And friendship is what myself and Ali have," the rocker said at the New Yorker Festival in 2022. "When you have romantic love and friendship, that's really something special." Bono became the "class clown" as a teenager in a bid to woo Ali Hewson. The 65-year-old rock star has been married to Hewson since 1982, but Bono had to fight off potential competition from The Edge - his U2 bandmate - during their school years. "She did seem to be taking an interest in his guitar playing and, as hard as I might practise, I just knew I couldn't touch this guy," Bono told The Project. "So I had to become, you know, the class clown." Hewson and The Edge were in the same year at school and she still has a strong friendship with the rocker. "They're still really close - and they still talk about me behind my back," Bono quipped. "They say it's out of concern." Bono previously admitted that Hewson's life would have been easier if he wasn't a member of U2. Bono - whose real name is Paul Hewson - said in his 2022 memoir Surrender, that fame and success had complicated his love life. "Ali would have been happier with a life that was simpler than the one we've ended up with," he wrote. "Ali had never been 'just' my girlfriend, and now she was never going to be 'just' my wife." Bono observed that his bandmates - The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr - have always been a prominent part of their lives. "There were air pockets from the beginning, like, say, my immaturity. Married at 22 going on 18," he said. "She was also realising that there were three other men in her marriage. Men whom she was more than fond of, but men who were taking her man away, not just in his wild imaginings, but physically, all over the world." Bono also suggested that friendship had been the key to his marriage. "If you ask me seriously, friendship can outpace romantic love, sometimes. And friendship is what myself and Ali have," the rocker said at the New Yorker Festival in 2022. "When you have romantic love and friendship, that's really something special." Bono became the "class clown" as a teenager in a bid to woo Ali Hewson. The 65-year-old rock star has been married to Hewson since 1982, but Bono had to fight off potential competition from The Edge - his U2 bandmate - during their school years. "She did seem to be taking an interest in his guitar playing and, as hard as I might practise, I just knew I couldn't touch this guy," Bono told The Project. "So I had to become, you know, the class clown." Hewson and The Edge were in the same year at school and she still has a strong friendship with the rocker. "They're still really close - and they still talk about me behind my back," Bono quipped. "They say it's out of concern." Bono previously admitted that Hewson's life would have been easier if he wasn't a member of U2. Bono - whose real name is Paul Hewson - said in his 2022 memoir Surrender, that fame and success had complicated his love life. "Ali would have been happier with a life that was simpler than the one we've ended up with," he wrote. "Ali had never been 'just' my girlfriend, and now she was never going to be 'just' my wife." Bono observed that his bandmates - The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr - have always been a prominent part of their lives. "There were air pockets from the beginning, like, say, my immaturity. Married at 22 going on 18," he said. "She was also realising that there were three other men in her marriage. Men whom she was more than fond of, but men who were taking her man away, not just in his wild imaginings, but physically, all over the world." Bono also suggested that friendship had been the key to his marriage. "If you ask me seriously, friendship can outpace romantic love, sometimes. And friendship is what myself and Ali have," the rocker said at the New Yorker Festival in 2022. "When you have romantic love and friendship, that's really something special."
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Yahoo
The campaigners demanding life sentences for reckless cyclists
For mother-of-three Savina Hewson, 56 at the time, the day she got knocked over by an Uber Eats courier riding an e-bike on the pavement was a day she feels lucky to have survived. Shuddering as she recalls the incident, she explains how a cyclist ploughed into her as she stood at a crossing, leaving her with severe concussion and bruising to her face. After spending a night in hospital, she then suffered extreme migraines and fatigue which left her unable to work for four weeks, plus terrible lower back pain which required months of physiotherapy. 'People understand that being hit by a pushbike, let alone an e-bike, can do serious harm, and it did,' she tells The Telegraph. 'I was hit by a large man going very fast on an e-bike. It was like being struck by a motorbike driven full speed along the pavement. 'It had thick, chunky wheels and a large frame… The psychological impact on me – months on – is still awful. I often think about it.' Hewson's story is not for the faint-hearted. Indeed, in the incident last November in Hull, East Yorkshire, her perpetrator not only knocked her down, but allegedly punched her as she lay on the ground after she had tried to reach for her phone. He then rode off, leaving passers-by to come to her aid and call an ambulance. Despite this, her attacker – who has since been traced by Humberside Police – has not faced any criminal proceedings, a decision which has left Hewson, a community care worker, 'enraged' and 'disgusted'. 'He lost his job at Uber Eats and police said he had suffered enough,' she adds. 'But I am dumbfounded by the lack of action. It was a completely dangerous and reckless crime. I was seriously injured and he has faced no consequences. Justice has not been served and I never even got an apology. He should be serving a long sentence, or he will just do it again.' A spokesman for Humberside Police said: 'Thankfully the cyclist [in this incident] did not sustain any serious injuries as a result of the collision. Officers spoke to the victim and the man, and a resolution was reached after the driver was given words of advice.' But the lack of recourse has left Hewson welcoming news that the Government is planning to toughen up laws relating to cycling collisions – including those caused by e-bikes. New government proposals to the Crime and Policing Bill – which is currently going through Parliament – could see dangerous cyclists who kill face life those who commit such a crime can be imprisoned for only a maximum of two years under an archaic 1861 law intended for horse riders. The changes would also see serious injury caused by dangerous cycling – or death by careless or inconsiderate cycling – incur a five-year jail term, fines, or both. (Electric scooters are already classed as motorised vehicles.) According to the Department for Transport (DfT), the amendment would see cycling offences brought into line with driving offences. A DfT spokesman said updating the more than 160-year-old legislation would 'ensure that the tiny minority who recklessly disregard others face the full force of the law'. If the changes do come through, however, they will only be after years of campaigning. Under the previous government, Conservative MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith campaigned to amend the Criminal Justice Bill to hold cyclists accountable for reckless key campaigner has been Matthew Briggs, a company director, whose wife, Kim, died from head injuries after being hit by a cyclist in February that harrowing instance, Mrs Briggs, 44, was crossing a road, having popped out for lunch in Old Street, east London, when a cyclist riding an unroadworthy bike ploughed into her. She fell to the ground, suffered catastrophic head injuries, and died a week later in the Royal London Hospital, leaving behind a husband plus a son and daughter, then aged 12 and 10. 'Nothing can prepare you for a sudden road death,' Briggs tells The Telegraph from his home in south-east London. 'I lost my wife and best friend. But my sole focus has been on shepherding [my children] to a point where they are optimistic and positive about life. They are now 21 and 19 and are doing fantastically, which is my proudest achievement.'I met Kim at university and had 27 years with her, but my kids had less time with her, so I've always been aware it's not about me, it's about them.' Briggs's grief was compounded by the complexity of forming a criminal case against the perpetrator, Charlie Alliston, then 18. Alliston had been riding a fixed-gear bike with no front brake, which is illegal for road use. But with no modern laws which cover such an offence, it took 18 months to secure a conviction against him for 'wanton or furious driving' under the 1861 law. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison. It was this 'torturous legal process' that led Briggs in 2017 to begin campaigning for changes to the law – something he is now cautiously optimistic may be achieved. 'Tariffs have never been important to me, although I know they are to other families who have lost loved ones,' he adds. 'I have always just wanted to close the gap in the law, so cycling offences are treated on a par with motoring offences. In my view, it doesn't matter if a person is killed by a car or a bike, the impact on the family and the victim is the same. Yes, deaths from cyclists are rare, but we still need a law to deal with this eventuality.' Deaths are rare: between 2013 and 2024, roughly 30 pedestrians were killed by cyclists in England and Wales, roughly three a year. But when they happen, often the victims are elderly. They include 91-year-old Army veteran Jim Blackwood, who died of internal injuries in July 2023 after being hit by an e-bike in Rochester, Kent, while putting out his recycling, plus Hilda Griffiths, 81, who was struck as she walked her dog in Regent's Park by a cyclist doing peloton laps. Serious injuries from cyclist collisions are also growing. Official figures show that there were 308 pedestrians injured by cyclists in 2020, compared with 437 in 2021 and 462 in fear the numbers may be increasing as the popularity of battery-powered e-bikes means more people are travelling at speed on heavier machines. Cycling in general is also on the rise, with the City of London seeing a more than 50 per cent increase in the past two years. According to Eman Hassan, a senior associate at London law firm Fieldfisher, which represented Briggs in his civil and criminal cases against Alliston, incidents of pedestrians being hit by cyclists seeking advice from her firm are on the rise. 'We are seeing more and more people hit by bikes, especially, I feel, since the London cycle superhighways were introduced,' she says. 'Often, it's from a normal pedal bike, where the person has been hit directly or knocked over into the road. 'We see clients suffering injuries ranging from severe brain injury to upper and lower limb fractures. These injuries can be life-changing.' Hassan welcomes the changes, but feels that if cyclists are to be treated on a par with motorised vehicles in the law, they should also be expected to get insurance.'If cyclists had insurance and collided with someone, causing serious injury, the victim may well need specialist rehabilitation to support their recovery. But currently, there is nothing that can be done unless the cyclist has some form of home insurance or the accident occurs during the course of their employment and a claim could be made against their company. 'It is never right that the careless actions of one person should hugely disadvantage another, often to the extent of ruining their and their family's lives for ever.' Changes to the law are also welcomed by writer Annette Kellow, whose disabled son, Felix, six, was 'bulldozed' by a cyclist riding an e-bike along London's Kensington High Street pavement in October 2024.'It was rush hour so the cyclists were using the pavement to beat the cars,' Kellow tells The Telegraph. 'My son was about a metre from me, and I saw a cyclist just plough into him. Felix smacked his head on the pavement and was bleeding on his arm. I was in complete shock but the cyclist said, 'I couldn't stop,' then pedalled off.' As Felix suffers from a rare bleeding disorder, where a single 'bump' can cause life-threatening bleeds, Kellow immediately took him in a taxi to Chelsea and Westminster A&E. 'Felix was completely dazed and wasn't responding to any communication, which absolutely terrified me as it could be a sign of bleeding on the brain,' she adds. 'Doctors gave him an injection to stop the bleeding on his arm, and gave him an MRI. Luckily, he didn't have a bleed on his brain, but the experience was horrific – essentially a lawless hit and run on my child.''Changes are necessary,' she says. 'But I think the law also needs to tackle cyclists mounting pavements, jumping red lights and riding above the speed limit.'Cycling in general is a good idea, but so many cyclists – especially on the Lime bikes and e-bikes – are reckless. My son was lucky but they really are a danger to life. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
RTÉ News
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Eve Hewson to star in new move with George Clooney and Adam Sandler.
Irish actors Eve Hewson and Thaddea Graham are set to star alongside George Clooney and Adam Sandler in director Noah Baumbach's new movie Jay Kelly. Netflix has released a first look image from the film, which is described as "a heartbreaking comedy", and which will be in select cinemas and streaming on 5 December. Hewson, the daughter of U2 front man Bono, has previously starred in This Must Be the Place, The Luminaries, Behind Her Eyes, comedy series Bad Sisters, and The Perfect Couple. Clooney and Hewson have worked together before on Hedda, which is about Henrik Ibsen's renowned 1891 stage drama, Hedda Gabler, and is due to released this October. Speaking on RTÉ Radio 1 last year, he told Miriam O'Callaghan, "Eve is a good friend of mine." Northern Ireland actress Thaddea Graham has appeared in Sky One series Curfew, Netflix series The Letter for the King, Sex Education, and the BBC series Us. Written by Emily Mortimer and Baumbach, who has previously directed the acclaimed movies Marriage Story, The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg, and Frances Ha, the tagline for the new project reads, "Everybody knows Jay Kelly, but Jay Kelly doesn't know himself." The cast also includes Billy Crudup, Laura Dern, Grace Edwards, Stacy Keach, Riley Keough, Emily Mortimer, Patrick Wilson, Nicôle Lecky, Jim Broadbent, Alba Rohrwacher, Lenny Henry, Josh Hamilton, and Greta Gerwig.
The Herald Scotland
05-05-2025
- Business
- The Herald Scotland
Scottish economy resilience might surprise, given narrative
The annualised rate of decline of 0.3% in the first quarter, unveiled by the US Commerce Department, was not steep. However, it contrasted with an annualised pace of growth of 2.4% in the final three months of last year, before Mr Trump returned as President. There has been little cheer on the UK or global economic front of late, to put it mildly, with Mr Trump's moves to implement tariffs on imports to the US having exacerbated what was already a tough outlook. That said, an analogy from one analyst in the immediate wake of Wednesday's news that the world's largest economy had shrunk in the opening three months of 2025 offered a moment of amusement amid the misery. Danni Hewson, head of financial analysis at stockbroker AJ Bell, said: 'There's that feeling in your gut and then there's seeing it in black and white. For investors, the cold hard data that showed the US economy contracted over the first three months of the year was a bit like realising you've been sat in a bath for too long. You knew things were getting chilly but you kind of hoped someone would turn on the hot tap before it got too cold.' It seemed like an apposite parallel. Addressing the nitty-gritty of the situation, Ms Hewson added: 'No one can quite understand why a President who was concerned with positive market movements in his first term in office could [wreak] such havoc in his first hundred days back in the White House. 'And it's not the tariff policy that's the biggest issue. Businesses around the world might not like tariffs but they can work with them. What they can't do is constantly re-draw investment plans as Donald Trump changes his mind, over and over again. Company after company has scrapped forward guidance or issued addendums warning that the shifting sands of geo-economics make existing guidance almost meaningless.' Stellantis and Mercedes-Benz on Wednesday became the latest car-makers to scrap their profit guidance, citing market uncertainty in the context of Mr Trump's tariffs. Reuters noted that, even before these latest developments, its analysis showed that about 40 companies worldwide had pulled or lowered their guidance in the first two weeks of the first-quarter earnings season. James Knightley, chief international economist, US, at Dutch bank ING, said of the US gross domestic product data: 'As widely expected it was the net trade component where most of the weakness was seen with businesses seeking to bring in imports ahead of the tariffs. 'It subtracted 4.8 percentage points from headline growth as imports surged 41.3% while exports rose only 1.8%. This surge in imports did result in a sharp rise in inventories, which added 2.25pp (percentage points) to headline growth and likely helped facilitate the strong increase in equipment investment.' Read more He highlighted the fact the first-quarter decline in US GDP was the first contraction of the world's largest economy since the second quarter of 2022. Ms Hewson said of the US situation: 'Consumer spending has remained fairly robust, but sentiment has weakened and if things continue to get more expensive in shops over the next three months then the dreaded recession label could well follow. That is a psychological hurdle that's difficult to scale and expectation that the Fed will step in to cut interest rates at least twice this year has increased.' Closer to home, there was some better economic news in two sets of GDP figures published on Wednesday by the Scottish Government. One dataset revealed the Scottish economy grew marginally in the fourth quarter of last year, rather than stagnating as previously estimated. The revised figures showed quarter-on-quarter growth of 0.1% in Scotland's onshore GDP in the final three months of last year. This led to Scotland's growth in 2024 being revised up from 1.1% to 1.2%. While well adrift of long-term annual trend rates prevailing before the global financial crisis, this 1.2% expansion is slightly ahead of growth in the UK as a whole, which was revised up from 0.9% to 1.1% in late March. The second set of Scottish Government data, also seasonally adjusted, showed onshore GDP north of the Border was in the three months to February up by 0.7% on the September to November period. This was slightly ahead of UK growth of 0.6% recorded by the Office for National Statistics over this timeframe. And this seems like a resilient performance given the headwinds facing the UK, crucially including Brexit as well as the Trump tariffs, as well as one which might surprise many given the downbeat narrative about Scotland from some politically motivated doomsayers. Scottish Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes said: 'Global economic uncertainty has been rising but I am encouraged to see growth of 0.7% in the three months to February.' While highlighting the Scottish Government's efforts to 'face up to the very different economic landscape', draw in new investment and create jobs, she added: 'We need to see bold and decisive action from the UK Government at a scale which reflects the economic uncertainty being felt by business, workers and families – including the reversal of its damaging decision to increase employers' national insurance contributions.' A reversal of the NI rise seems highly unlikely. What seems certain, however, is that the UK and global economic backdrop will remain most challenging.
USA Today
22-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Boston Celtics jersey history No. 17 - Jack Hewson (1947-48)
Boston Celtics jersey history No. 17 - Jack Hewson (1947-48) The Boston Celtics have had players suiting up in a total of 68 different jersey numbers (and have three others not part of any numerical series) since their founding at the dawn of the Basketball Association of America (BAA -- the league that would become today's NBA), worn by well over 500 players in the course of Celtics history. To commemorate the players who wore those numbers, Celtics Wire is covering the entire history of jersey numbers and the players who sported them since the founding of the team. With 25 of those jerseys now retired to honor some of the greatest Celtics to wear those jerseys, there is a lot of history to cover. And for today's article, we will continue with the third of 11 people to wear the No. 17 jersey, Boston big man alum Jack Hewson. After ending his college career at Temple, Hewson was picked up with the 42nd overall selection of the 1947 BAA draft by the Celtics. The Waldick, New Jersey native would play the sole season of his BAA career with Boston, retiring from the league afterward. During his time suiting up for the Celtics, Hewson wore only jersey No. 17 and put up 2.7 points per game. All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference. Listen to the "Celtics Lab" podcast on: Apple Podcasts: Spotify:
