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New York Post
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
US fighter jets display horror movie characters, kill counts after returning from Middle East operations: photos
F-15E Strike Eagle jets from the 366th Fighter Wing landed at RAF Mildenhall in the UK this week, returning from operations in the Middle East. The aircraft, emblazoned with horror movie characters such as Hannibal Lector and Pennywise, also displayed rows of bomb and missile markings. Fighter pilots often paint symbols like missiles, bombs, or silhouettes on their jets to represent specific achievements or actions during missions. 1 of 12 An F-15E jet lands at RAF Mildenhall. Stewart Jack / SWNS 2 of 12 An F-15E fighter jet displays 'Jigsaw'. Stewart Jack / SWNS 3 of 12 An F-15E fighter jet displays 'Leatherface'. Stewart Jack / SWNS 4 of 12 An F-15E fighter jet displays 'Hannibal Lecter'. Stewart Jack / SWNS 5 of 12 An F-15E fighter jet displays 'Pennywise'. Stewart Jack / SWNS 6 of 12 An F-15E fighter jet displays 'Freddy'. Stewart Jack / SWNS 7 of 12 An F-15E fighter jet displays 'Ghostface'. Stewart Jack / SWNS 8 of 12 An F-15E fighter jet displays 'Michael Myers'. Stewart Jack / SWNS 9 of 12 An F-15E fighter jet displays 'Candyman'. Stewart Jack / SWNS 10 of 12 An F-15E fighter jet displays 'Reaper'. Stewart Jack / SWNS 11 of 12 An F-15E fighter jet displays 'Nightmare'. Stewart Jack / SWNS 12 of 12 An F-15E fighter jet displays 'Guardian'. Stewart Jack / SWNS
Irish Times
5 days ago
- Health
- Irish Times
Rise in young people's mental health difficulties partly due to housing insecurity, says charity
Rachel White remembers being 10 years old and locking herself in the bathroom so she could cry without other people knowing. 'It was a safe space. I would get so overwhelmed and I would be over-analysing anything. I felt conscious, constantly aware of everything,' she says. The now 25-year-old remembers doing a test when she was 12 to mark the end of primary school. 'I got so stressed out I completely blacked out.' She didn't know it then, but that was the beginning of the Donegal woman's struggle with mental health difficulties. READ MORE She started receiving treatment when she was 16, and felt better by the end of school. In college she was doing well, until she began to experience bouts of very low mood. 'It was tough because things were at a crisis point there. It was exhausting every day to get up. Sometimes I didn't feel like getting out of bed at all.' Rachel isn't the only young person who has felt that way. On Thursday, youth mental health charity Jigsaw published its 2024 annual report, which found the organisation delivered more than 62,000 clinical contacts last year. According to the report, four in 10 young people accessing its services presented with high levels of mental health distress. Jeff Moore, research director at the charity, said pre-Covid this figure would have been three in 10. Mr Moore said young people's mental health has been 'deteriorating for about two decades', but the pandemic 'accelerated it in a lot of ways'. 'This is not a temporary issue. It's an issue that needs a really long-term Government and policy response,' he said. The reasons behind this increase in severity are 'complex', Mr Moore added, though in the Irish context he said housing insecurity is a common issue raised among those accessing Jigsaw's services. 'Issues like uncertainty around the future, whether that's climate change, climate anxiety, that's a real thing that's driving young people's mental health. It's a collection of issues and it's the fact that these issues are never going away, they're very constant.' Edel Connolly (24) started struggling with mental health difficulties when she was 13 as she was transitioning to secondary school. She would feel sick every morning in school and put her head down in class. She didn't tell anyone in the beginning, until suddenly she became worried about her own safety. 'I was self-harming and I was thinking about suicide. So I told my mam,' she said. She went to the GP, started therapy and developed mechanisms to help herself. Though there were 'setbacks', she felt she was on the road to recovery. When she was late diagnosed with ADHD and autism aged 19 and 21 respectively, her teenage feelings made more sense to her. 'I spent my teenage years thinking there was something wrong with me but there were no words to explain why or how,' she added. That transition into secondary school was also a turning point for Kildare man Eoin McEvoy. He sought help for anxiety aged 12 but was told he was not severe enough to be admitted to the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (Camhs). Eventually his condition deteriorated to such an extent he dropped out of school in transition year. He spent a 'short period of time' in and out of a psychiatric hospital, but now he is much more optimistic about his future. 'I attended a school for school-leavers who struggle with mental health, made my way through PLCs, and I slowly managed to get better with my anxiety. Now I'm going into my second year of psychology at UCD. I have a partner who's amazing for me. I'm happy.'
Times
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Times
I can't wait to get my arms out this summer
Have you ever shapeshifted, wardrobe-wise? Transformed from one type of dresser into another? Perhaps without even realising it? It's suddenly become clear to me that I have and I honestly had no idea. I have been packing for the kind of villa holiday I haven't gone on in years, a relaxed, doing-nothing affair. In doing so — creating neat(ish) piles of options on my spare bed — I have come face to face with the fact that something has changed in the way I dress come summer. Suddenly it's all about my arms — arms that, thanks to the cumulative impact of years of pretty full-throttle yoga and very full-throttle handstand training, look different to how they used to. First I got biceps. Then I got triceps. Now, as of a few months ago, I have deltoids, by which I mean the sort that stick out in front like the fender flares on a car. I didn't plan for this but I can't pretend I am not happy about it. So behold a line-up of frocks and tops that have straps rather than sleeves, including a silk slip Serena Bute dress from a couple of summers back, which was about the time when I (for which read: my arms) really went up a notch. (The latest gathered neck iteration, in bright blue, pink or red is £295, And there's also a dress with just the one strap, Mondo Corsini's raspberry linen midi (£365, • Read more fashion advice and style inspiration from our experts I also love Jigsaw's chocolate cotton with distinctive flower appliqué (£165, while Mint Velvet's burgundy floral slip dress is another stunner (£130, and Mango's black or camel with a white-edged zigzag hem is very stealth wealth (£59.99, New Look's black gingham bodice number scores pretty points (£34.99, Sézane's button-through cream Fabiola siren points (£115, Although what I probably need to add to my arsenal now is one with no straps, such as Nobody's Child's brown Gayle (£79, This is quite the move-on for a woman who used to dress for summer as if she were in The Flame Trees of Thika, who didn't knowingly flash any flesh at all away from a pool or beach for, er, the first 45 years of her life. But I am not going to hide these deltoids under a bushel. There may still be a couple of Tilly Grant-appropriate numbers in pile No 3 on my bed but I am not sure any more whether that pile is going to make it into my suitcase. Did I mention my deltoids already? So my sartorial shapeshifting has come about as a result of an actual shift in body shape. How very humdrum of me. Turns out if you work hard enough and long enough you can get yourself good arms whatever your age, as evidenced by my yoga friends in their fifties and sixties (I am 53), not to mention a particularly impressive seventysomething I met recently who had flown in from Vienna for a weekend of yoga to techno music, as you do. She was nonchalantly knocking out handstands despite having had a hip replacement. Who needs a mere It bag when you can get yourself It arms? So much more impressive to, ahem, engender something yourself than merely to buy it, surely? That designer tote might be fake but good arms are, perforce, the real and usually hard-won deal. Even weight-loss jabs won't help you with this one. Indeed, maybe muscle definition will become yet more coveted now that skinniness is available on subscription. Great arms have become, for a woman of a certain age, the ultimate status symbol. They powered the rise of the sleeveless office-targeted sheath dress in the Nineties and have now moved out of the boardroom into, well, everywhere. Among the celebrity upper arms recently out on manoeuvres have been those of Heidi Klum (52), Jennifer Aniston (56) and — naturellement — Gwyneth Paltrow (also 52). Somehow, getting your arms out — if you have the right arms — rarely looks muttony in the way that getting your legs out can at a certain point. It looks cool, not try-hard. It semaphores youthfulness and also power, very much including the literal variety. Is this another example of a subconscious desire on the part of the modern woman to ape the physicality of her male counterpart, the better to compete in what is still, for the moment, a man's world? Another sartorial phenomenon to put in the same category as trouser suits and shoulder pads? These arms — or, to be more precise, my arms — are the kind that only men used to have. Is it also, to proffer some more analysis, one more example of our collective resistance to ageing? To this I would answer, yes, definitely, and also that — like so much else related to the topic of ageing — there is a healthy level of resistance and one that equates not just to denial but to delusion. I have yoga friends who are ageing brilliantly, arms and all, and others who are definitely overcooking things and looking a bit like Ryvita. Back to my togs. Added into my suitcase are an array of vests, the newest and the quirkiest by some margin an iteration with eyes from the Uniqlo x Anya Hindmarch collaboration (£7.90, reduced from £14.90, Though such is the potency of designer arms that designer vests — very expensive designer vests — have become a phenomenon too, as per the Prada number I am wearing in this photo. (That will be £720, thank you very much.) • How to do summer like a French woman What I won't be emulating is a second vest-related flex that definitely isn't in my, er, wheelhouse, which is to wear said vest without a bra. I am leaving that to the twentysomething daughter of a friend, with whose nipple profile I feel myself to have become far too well acquainted in the past couple of months. Nope, no amount of handstands is going to help me with the — how best to put this? — suspension requirements of braless vest-wearing. So thank goodness, as always, for Selfridges's bra whisperer, Clare Basche, and her recommendation of Chantelle's strapless smooth Norah in golden beige for its comfort and minimal visibility under cotton jersey (£59, For an option with a lower centre bridge that would work under a V-neck dress or top, she rates Simone Pérèle's Essentiel strapless (£75, I love a feminine top too, such as Boden's linen Sophie, in a range of brights and prints (£65, Mabe's blue and white boho Viti (£87.50, reduced from £125, and Mint Velvet's more minimalist ivory satin style (£99, A waistcoat — such as Nobody's Child's in black, or in black or brown gingham — is one final way to go (£79, That's quite enough of that. I may have earned the right to bare arms but not to bore on about them. @annagmurphy
Scottish Sun
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Disgraced star's £4million riverside mansion fails to attract buyer due to ‘stigma' of former owner
Some of his heinous crimes took place inside the property MONSTER'S LAIR Disgraced star's £4million riverside mansion fails to attract buyer due to 'stigma' of former owner Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) DISGRACED paedophile Rolf Harris' riverside mansion has failed to attract a buyer despite being on the market for months. Buyers are allegedly being put off the £4million property, located on the banks of the River Thames in Bray, Berkshire, because of the "stigma" of its notorious former owner. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 3 The disgraced star was jailed for five years and nine months in July 2014 Credit: Rex The Australian TV personality, musician and artist was jailed for five years and nine months in July 2014. Bindi, 61, Harris' only child, inherited the property in Bray, Berkshire along with the majority of his £16 million estate. Mayfair-based estate agents Benson International has had it up for sale since April this year. The move marked almost two years since the disgraced star died of neck cancer in the house aged 93. Read more News LOVE OR MONEY Secret lovechild WINS bid to keep half of millionaire toymaker dad's fortune Harris was found guilty of a dozen indecent assaults against four young girls. Some of his heinous crimes even took place inside his house, between 1968 and 1986. He has also been accused of sexually assaulting one of his daughters friends, who was between 13 and 19 at the time. The disgraced star performed sex acts on her while his daughter slept in another room, it is believed. Speaking to the Mirror, Brian Warren, who previously valued the mansion, explained that the cost was also putting off potential buyers. He said: "We actually looked at it and others on the same row. I originally said it was worth £2million. "No one buying at that price would want to live in it because of the stigma. "And it is a mess with all add-on extensions that Rolf Harris put on over the years. Rolf Harris' wife Alwen Hughes dies aged 93 one year after paedo husband's death from neck cancer "So they're looking at paying another £1.5million on top of that to rebuild it because it's on the river, which is more expensive. "Given the cost of renovation, it's just not cost effective if you have to pay £4million for the property." Harris lived in the Riverside mansion for over six decades after rising to fame in his early 20s when he began performing a regular ten-minute cartoon drawing section in children's show Jigsaw. Alwen, his wife, had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease and died in August last year. She constantly supported her husband during his court case, along with Bindi, with the pair regularly spotted holding his hand on the way into court. The house was designed in line with his childhood house on the banks of the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia. It was in his childhood home he learned to swim before becoming a national junior backstroke champion aged 15. It was renovated ahead of his release from jail in 2017, with workmen seen replacing a large patio at a cost of more than £10,000. The front drive, which is overlooked by a horse head, was also dug up and the back garden revamped. Sellers Benson International describe themselves as a 'premium property specialist operating in the heart of London". Their website adds: 'We are a private office who have worked alongside clients with discretion for many years.' 3 Harris' wife Alwen was often seen supporting him as he went to court Credit: Getty
The Irish Sun
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Disgraced star's £4million riverside mansion fails to attract buyer due to ‘stigma' of former owner
DISGRACED paedophile Rolf Harris' riverside mansion has failed to attract a buyer despite being on the market for months. Buyers are allegedly being put off the £4million property, located on the banks of the River Thames in Bray, Berkshire, because of the "stigma" of its notorious former owner. 3 The disgraced star was jailed for five years and nine months in July 2014 Credit: Rex The Australian TV personality , musician and artist was and nine months in July 2014. Mayfair-based estate agents Benson International has had it up for sale since April this year. The move marked almost two years since the disgraced star died of neck cancer in the house aged 93. Read more News Harris was found Some of his heinous crimes even took place inside his house, between 1968 and 1986. He has also been accused of sexually assaulting one of his daughters friends, who was between 13 and 19 at the time. The Most read in The Sun Speaking to the Mirror, Brian Warren, who previously valued the mansion, explained that the cost was also putting off potential buyers. He said: "We actually looked at it and others on the same row. I originally said it was worth £2million. "No one buying at that price would want to live in it because of the stigma. "And it is a mess with all add-on extensions that Rolf Harris put on over the years. Rolf Harris' wife Alwen Hughes dies aged 93 one year after paedo husband's death from neck cancer "So they're looking at paying another £1.5million on top of that to rebuild it because it's on the river, which is more expensive. "Given the cost of renovation, it's just not cost effective if you have to pay £4million for the property." Harris lived in the Riverside mansion for over six decades after rising to fame in his early 20s when he began performing a regular ten-minute cartoon drawing section in children's show Jigsaw. , his wife, had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease and died in August last year. She constantly supported her husband during his court case, along with Bindi, with the pair regularly spotted holding his hand on the way into court. The house was designed in line with his childhood house on the banks of the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia. It was in his childhood home he learned to swim before becoming a national junior backstroke champion aged 15. It was renovated ahead of his release from jail in 2017, with workmen seen replacing a large patio at a cost of more than £10,000. The front drive, which is overlooked by a horse head, was also dug up and the back garden revamped. Sellers Benson International describe themselves as a 'premium property specialist operating in the heart of London ". Their website adds: 'We are a private office who have worked alongside clients with discretion for many years.' 3 Harris' wife Alwen was often seen supporting him as he went to court Credit: Getty 3 Bindi, right, Harris' only child, inherited the property in Bray, Berkshire along with the majority of his £16 million estate Credit: PA:Press Association
