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Scottish Sun
30-07-2025
- Scottish Sun
England Lioness hero slapped with fine after being caught driving her VW Polo without road tax
The tax had expired four months earlier ACE'S CAR FINE England Lioness hero slapped with fine after being caught driving her VW Polo without road tax Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) TRIUMPHANT Lionesses star Khiara Keating came down to earth with a bump yesterday when she was found guilty of failing to pay her car tax. It came a day after the reserve goalie took part in the Euros winners' open-top bus parade and visited Downing Street. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 1 Lionesses star Khiara Keating has been found guilty of failing to pay her car tax Credit: Getty Khiara failed to appear in court so the case was proven in her absence by Tameside magistrates. She was stopped in her VW Polo in Bury, Gtr Manchester, in December. The tax had expired four months earlier. Man City goalie Khiara, 21, of Westhoughton — who was pictured with the Euros trophy in London on Tuesday — was fined £440 and ordered to pay back duty of £79.17 and £20 costs. In June, police dropped a charge of possessing laughing gas after she denied it. The keeper told the BBC when the charges were dropped: 'I'm relieved the charges have been dropped. "As I've always said, I did nothing wrong. 'It's been a difficult time, but I've always known the truth. "Now I'm just looking forward to focusing fully on the Euros and spending time with my family.' Unlock even more award-winning articles as The Sun launches brand new membership programme - Sun Club.
The National
26-03-2025
- Business
- The National
My Own Home: Indian couple born and raised in Dubai buy dream property in Tilal Al Ghaf
My Own Home takes you inside a reader-owned property to ask how much they paid, why they decided to buy and what they have done with it since moving in Sangeeta Khiara and her husband were born and raised in the UAE. While their families originally come from India, for three generations they have made the Emirates their home. Now, as the pair run their own companies – Ms Khiara is the founder of ArtBeat Productions – they've also bought their first property together in Dubai, where they live with their daughter and her in-laws. They were living in rented accommodation in Jumeirah 1 for 14 years but were ready to go all-in with a family-focused community – and Tilal Al Ghaf ticked all their boxes. The National takes a look around. It is a large, five-bedroom villa in Tilal Al Ghaf. We wanted it to be a reflection of ourselves, a space that we could feel cut off and at home at the same time. I wanted it to be like quiet luxury, nothing too over the top. We did a couple of extensions – we brought the balcony inside and extended the upstairs living area so we could have a home cinema. The permissions, the contracting, the designing – everything was a smooth process with the companies we dealt with. It took four months to finish end-to-end, along with landscaping. You need to be realistic that there needs to be a certain amount of patience, also from our end. If my expectations are not met, it's also because I don't think we were on the same page with someone, so we would tell them. Then you circle back every now and then. We were renting our home in Jumeirah 1 for 14 years, then decided to take up our own home and move to a community. It's the first time I've lived in a proper community. We bought it for Dh8 million ($2.1 million). I can say that it's [now] up by 50 per cent. We didn't buy it with the intention to invest, it was to start making it our home. We bought it off-plan when we were recovering from the pandemic in the second half of 2020. Majid Al Futtaim being such a known name, this was their flagship community in Dubai. We were sure they wouldn't leave any stone unturned when it came to community living. The facilities and the way the whole community was planned out was beautiful. We saw it on the plan and we were very happy with it. We were looking around for a while. We wanted to have a place that was more focused on family living, rather than providing a space with just amenities. I feel like we needed something for ourselves, for our child and for our parents. This was one of the communities that ticked all the boxes. It's great to see our parents get out in the morning, take a walk around the community. The community is filled with so many lovely families. Everyone's really invested in each other and helpful towards each other. You want to thrive in a community where people are like-minded and from so many different parts of the world. It's amazing. I have a park right behind my home. I open my back door and my daughter can just run over, so I can watch her from my balcony. It's a great plus for me. There's the swimming pool and the gym, which are less than a five-minute walk from my home. We have a padel court. The community has a supermarket, they have cafes, they have a salon, they have a laundry. Everything is extremely accessible and close to where we're living. It doesn't feel like I need to go out for much. It is very quiet luxury. It's comfortable. At the same time, we wanted it to be a space where a family could come in and have a great time. When I invite friends, everybody has their own space. We're all able to spend time together and it just doesn't look too cluttered. Since we own this place, we went all out. We put our heart and soul into this project, and reaping the benefits of it is amazing. So you sit in your own house and you feel like, wow, we did a great job. It's a family home for us. It's been only three months since we moved in and I plan to live here for a really long time. In my previous home we were there for 14 years, so I feel like this is definitely going to be a long-term calling. Dubai is home for us. It's becoming home for a lot of people all of a sudden as well. It's great. I really think you can coexist in an environment like this, with so many different cultures, so many different communities and be able to thrive alongside each other. It's a very rare thing.
BBC News
23-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
What the managers said: Man City 1-2 Chelsea
Chelsea came from behind to beat Manchester City 2-1 and move eight points clear at the top of Women's Super League table on Sunday. Here's what both managers had to say post match:Manchester City interim boss Nick Cushing: "There is still football to be played and there are games going on now that will impact the gap we have. But we believe we can win football games and that we can put points on the board."I am really proud of our performance today. You can see we didn't play our fluid football in the second half but we defended resolutely and Khiara [Keating] was excellent. For me that shows me that we have the spirit to go on."On the game: "There is a bit of frustration throughout the game for me. At half time we should come in at 2-0. Then I think with their first goal there is a tight offside."Then you look at the injuries we have and the solutions we have to find, and taking players off. You saw one team that was bringing their key players in and the other that was bringing them off. That is an issue we will have to find solutions for."Chelsea manager Sonia Bompastor: "It was a tough game for us. We were expecting that because we know how good City are and they showed it again tonight with a great performance."We did better in the second half but we knew if we wanted to win today we would have to put our all into it. A really important three points."On their Champions League quarter-final second leg on Thursday: "It will be a big mountain [to climb] but as I said nothing is impossible. We have a real belief, we are playing at home with our fans and We'll fight until the end."I know we are two goals down but we need to believe that it's possible. I know we have the quality to reverse the situation but we will need to be at our best."
