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Yahoo
2 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Man arrested after local child sexual assault investigation
A 35-year-old man was arrested as a result of a sexual assault investigation in Logan County, according to Bellefontaine Police Department Chief Christopher Marlow. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Jordan Kyle Walker was arrested and has been criminally charged with unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. The investigation started on May 20 after Shelby County Sheriff's Office deputies contacted Bellefontaine police detectives about a sexual assault case they were investigating, Marlow said. The deputies told detectives that they determined the incidents occurred within the Bellefontaine Police Department's jurisdiction. TRENDING STORIES: 19-year-old identified as body found in Dayton neighborhood Body found in trunk of burning car in Dayton; homicide investigation launched Kettering Health provides update on cyberattack; Internal health records back online Over several days, detectives and officers conducted several interviews and served multiple search warrants related to the case, Marlow said. Authorities arrested Walker on May 30 in the 600 block of South Madriver Street. Additional details were not immediately available. [SIGN UP: WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
More cars picked up from Jacksonville International Airport garage after fire closed it for days
The Jacksonville International Airport opened up its call center for the second day on Wednesday, telling people with cars still in the Hourly Parking Garage when they can come by to pick them up. Some of them have been waiting for five days since the garage first closed because of the car fire Action News Jax has been telling you about since it happened on Friday. 'This is very much a relief,' one woman from Amelia Island, who didn't want to be named, told Action News Jax after seeing her car hadn't been damaged when she picked it up Wednesday morning. She said she'd parked it on the top floor of the south end of the hourly garage, one floor above where the Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department said the fire started. 'I just want to tell everyone to make sure their car is there before coming back to the airport,' she said. Action News Jax told you yesterday when the Jacksonville Aviation Authority released a report saying the fire had started after a BMW was seen smoking on the security cameras inside the garage. [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks] The report said the smoke was seen at around 12:03 p.m., about four hours after it said the car had parked. One minute later, at 12:04 p.m., the report said the car caught on fire. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, along with the state fire marshal, is still investigating exactly how the car fire started. 'I saw the Jacksonville airport was on fire and said 'Oh my God, my car is on that floor!'' said Cheryl Marlow, who picked up her car from the garage after coming back from a vacation to Mexico. She tells Action News Jax she'd seen the news of the fire while she was away. [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter] 'I thought to myself, 'I need a vacation from my vacation,'' Marlow said. Action News Jax has requested the security camera video from inside of the garage showing the car fire starting on Friday. JAA said it can't share the video with us at this time. JIA is keeping its call center open to let drivers know when they can pick up their cars from the garage. We've asked airport leaders if there are any plans to try and open more parking for the Memorial Day weekend, but we're still waiting to hear back. Click here to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here to stream Action News Jax live.
BBC News
18-05-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Women ill after suspected drink spike at Pub in the Park festival
A man has described his wife's "horrendous experience" of suffering convulsions and falling unconscious after a suspected drink spiking at a Hazlem, 45, is one of three people – including a schoolgirl – believed to have been drugged on Friday while at Pub in the Park festival in Marlow, Buckinghamshire."It's no fault of anybody at Pub in the Park: you can't police against people who have these awful intentions," said Lucy's husband Rob in the Park said it took the matter "very seriously" and was working with authorities and its own security teams to "try and identify any perpetrators". Thames Valley Police confirmed it was investigating two incidents. It said there were officers at the festival and asked people "to report any instance of drink spiking or suspicious activity". 'Sharing a carafe' Mr Hazlem, 52, said his wife was sharing a carafe of wine with friends "over a period of hours" at the music and food festival on Friday evening."She left feeling absolutely fine. She was walking back to her friend's house when she started to feel a lot more drunk that she was."She went to the bathroom, then staggered into a unit and went down within seconds."Lucy's friends called him after she was "violently sick" many times."When I arrived she had fallen unconscious, so we put her in a bed. You think 'it must be alcohol', but I thought, 'this is not her – something has happened'." Mr Hazlem said Lucy "took a turn for the worse" and suffered "convulsions". An ambulance crew suggested she might be having a stroke and took her to hospital."She was unresponsive for several hours, then about 05:30 BST the doctor said her stats were fine.""It was absolutely horrible to see my wife in that state". The BBC has seen two further reports of a woman and girl suffering similar effects after attending the festival.A woman, who did not want to be named, posted on social media to say her adult daughter "was spiked" and taken to hospital where she was "unconscious" for five hours."She's careful with her drinks, so must be a skilled person," the woman wrote.A WhatsApp message shared in a group for parents at a school said a Year 11 student had been given a "spiked drink" by an older man, leaving her "severely drugged and tranquilised".Thames Valley Police said: "At the festival man offered a teenage girl a drink which she accepted and then walked away. "A short while later she became unwell and walked to the medical tent. The incident was reported and an investigation is ongoing."It said it was also investigating Lucy's case but had not received any further reports around spiking. A spokesperson for Pub in the Park said: "We are aware of these incidents that occurred on Friday night."We have been working with the police, local authorities and our own security and health and safety teams to try and identify any perpetrators."Mr Hazlem wanted to urge people to be extra vigilant about the risks of spiking."Lucy was fortunate to have friends able to take care of her before I could get there. There was no way my wife could have done anything for herself," he said."Pub in the Park has been a fantastic family fun day and evening out. You don't expect that type of thing to happen at a small town event," he added. Follow Beds, Herts and Bucks news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
BBC News
18-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Monaco's new €2bn neighbourhood rising out of the sea
Built on reclaimed land, Monaco's new Mareterra district blends cutting-edge sustainability with scenic sea views, offering a fresh way to explore the principality. It was just past noon in Mareterra, Monaco's newest neighbourhood, and a crowd swelled on the terrace outside Marlow, the principality's first British fine-dining restaurant. Nearby, office workers stretched out on wide steps by the water for their lunch break. Promenade Prince Jacques, the 800m pedestrian walkway that sweeps around the sea-facing perimeter of Mareterra, was busy with parents pushing strollers and joggers pounding the concrete pavement. I paused to soak up the view across the expanse of blue sea towards the leafy Roquebrune-Cap-Martin headland and Italy beyond. The area blended so seamlessly with the surrounding landscape that I struggled to remember how, six months ago, this was still an unfinished construction site – and that eight years ago, where I stood was the Mediterranean Sea. This reclaimed district, a €2bn project unveiled in December 2024, is Monaco's latest answer to a question it has faced for more than 150 years: how do you expand when you've already run out of land? I walked along the promenade and ducked through a door along the path, entering a dark, concrete antechamber. Another door led through to the hollowed interior of one of 18 caissons, the 10,000 ton, 26m-high chambers that sit side by side like giant Lego bricks on the seafloor to create the maritime infrastructure of the new neighbourhood. In the dark, unlit space, it took a while for my eyes to catch up to what my ears immediately recognised: waves, crashing against a wall then flopping back onto the water's surface. I peered over a thick railing separating me from the drop into the sea below. The Mediterranean surged up as if reaching for my attention, while the reinforced concrete chamber remained silent and immobile as it soaked up the impact of the swell. The top of the upper section of each caisson, which is known as the Jarlan chamber, is above the waterline to allow water to flow in and out through thin, vertical openings on the outward-facing side. The design has been engineered to act as a breakwater to absorb and disperse the energy of the waves. "That means, even during 100-year storms, they won't rise too high nor submerge [Mareterra]," said Guy Thomas Levy-Soussan, the managing director of SAM L'Anse du Portier, the developers of Mareterra, as we stood in La Grotte Bleue, as this space is called, named after the Blue Grotto of Capri. "When the Sun shines through the openings in the Jarlan chamber in the morning, there's a slightly blue hue to the space," he said, explaining the choice of name. La Grotte Bleue doesn't sparkle under the weight of four walls adorned in pastel pink and lavender purple quartz like its Instagram-pretty neighbour a couple of doors down, a meditation room for quiet contemplationdesigned by Vietnamese artist Tia-Thủy Nguyễn. And I probably would feel a little uneasy being in the dark space alone. Yet it has quickly become one of the Mediterranean principality's most unusual, and least glossy, landmarks, attracting a steady flow of people like me, curious for a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the technical ingenuity involved in reclaiming land from the sea. Land reclamation is nothing new in Monaco, the world's second-smallest country after the Vatican City, where 38,000 residents cram into a territory just more than 22sq km in size. While a high proportion of that figure are millionaires, they're still living in the most densely populated country in the world. Hemmed in by France, Monaco's default solution to its space issue is to extend out into the water. Since 1907, 25% of Monaco's territory has been reclaimed, including the principality's beachfront, Larvotto, the superyacht-lined Port Hercules and the Fontvieille district to the west of the Prince's Palace of Monaco. If Prince Rainier III, who came to power in 1949, carved out a reputation as "the builder prince", his son and current sovereign, Prince Albert II, is continuing the tradition. It was in 2013 when he announced plans to reclaim these six hectares just off the coast near Larvotto at Monaco's eastern extent, later naming it Mareterra to reflect its connection to the sea and the land. The neighbourhood has increased the principality's territory by 3% and comprises two residential apartment blocks (including one designed by celebrated Italian architect Renzo Piano), 10 villas and four townhouses, a small marina, 14 commercial spaces and three hectares of public space. Mareterra fits like the missing piece of a puzzle into this stretch of Monaco's coastline. It is latched alongside the Grimaldi Forum, an event space that often hosts travelling art exhibitions and stage shows, and the Japanese Garden, planted in 1994 with Mediterranean pines, pomegranate and olive trees in accordance with Zen design principles. Both sites have been able to grow in size thanks to the extension. In line with the Prince's commitment to make the principality carbon neutral by 2050, Mareterra has also been imagined as Monaco's greenest corner. Nine thousand square metres of solar panels, 200 EV charging stations and 800 trees are among the eco-friendly initiatives in the district. Just inside the entrance to La Grotte Bleue, a five-minute long video plays on a loop, an introduction to how the project addressed the inevitable marine disruption that comes with such construction. The caissons hold a key role here, as well; reliefs and grooves were moulded into their construction to encourage marine flora and fauna colonisation. Segments were even sanded by hand to add texture. The Jarlan chambers have an additional bonus, recreating shallow areas where fish can dart in and out. The most delicate of challenges, however, involved transplanting 384sq m of Posidonia oceanica, an endemic seagrass that plays a critical role in the Mediterranean ecosystem and is protected by EU legislation. A pioneering technique used a modified tree spade to scoop Posidonia sods into baskets which could then be replanted 200m away in the Larvotto Marine Protected Area. "Usually we transport Posidonia plants one by one," explained Sylvie Gobert, an oceanologist at the University of Liège in Belgium who worked on the project. "What is ultimately innovative is that we took the Posidonia, along with its entire root ecosystem and about a cubic metre of sediment." More like this:• Nordhavn: The Danish 'city' that's been designed for an easy life• 8 ways to travel more sustainably in 2025• Japan's car-free town that autumn hikers love If the Posidonia has ultimately settled into its new home, so has Monaco into Mareterra. As I surveyed the area, I realised how quickly the soft blues and greys of Le Renzo, Piano's striking residential block that stands sentinel over the neighbourhood, has become a familiar part of the local landscape. Nearby, Quatre Lances, a sculpture by American artist Alexander Calder that was purchased by Prince Albert's mother, Grace Kelly, in the 1960s and had been languishing in storage, has become a meeting point where people gravitate. A small nature walk, La Pinède, winds through a rocky garden planted with Aleppo and umbrella pines, the same species you would find if you were hiking through the Provence countryside. A water source gently trickled past birds' nests and insect hotels installed amid the Mediterranean shrub. These aren't the glossy attractions that Monaco is renowned for, like the gilded Casino de Monte-Carlo. It's an area that has been designed for locals, with only a handful of shops and restaurants, although visitors come to enjoy the peaceful gardens, sea views and the ingenuity of how Mareterra came to be. Despite its ecological ambitions, Mareterra raises questions about necessity. Though billed as Monaco's answer to its housing challenges, property prices are speculated to start from €100,000 per square metre, making it some of the most expensive real estate in the world. Plus, none of the new residences have been reserved for Monegasques, who number nearly 10,000 and have a right to subsidised housing. However, those in Monaco are sure that Mareterra isn't the end of its growth story. "For Prince Albert, if there isn't construction, the country is at a standstill," said Nancy Heslin, co-founder of Carob Tree Publishing, Monaco's first all-female publishing house, who has interviewed the Prince on various occasions. "The country will always seek to continue to expand its territory." "As long as it [has] the desire – and budget – to push the boundaries of what is possible on both a technological and ecological scale, the principality will be an example for other coastal cities to follow. As a laboratory for this kind of innovation," said Levy-Soussan, "Monaco is a small country that has done extraordinary things." -- For more Travel stories from the BBC, follow us on Facebook, X and Instagram.
Forbes
12-05-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Tom Kerridge On 20 Years Of The Hand & Flowers
Tom Kerridge at The Hand & Flowers It started with a lie. When Tom Kerridge and his wife Beth wanted to take over a pub in Marlow, they told the bank it was for a house extension. The truth was less mortgage-friendly: they used the money to start The Hand & Flowers—to buy the tenancy, max out their credit cards, source second-hand equipment, and build their pub-restaurant dream from scratch. 'We opened up with nothing and basically borrowed everything,' Kerridge says now. 'It wasn't even the leasehold of the pub.' That was 2005. Back then, British dining was still emerging from its pub grub hangover. A Michelin star was the preserve of white-tablecloth establishments; pubs were for pints, not pig's head terrine or brown butter hollandaise. But Kerridge had other ideas. He wasn't trying to reinvent the wheel—he just wanted to cook brilliant, deeply flavoured food, in a place where people felt at home. It was an audacious setup. A chef-led menu rooted in classical French technique, served with zero pretension and all the warmth of a proper local. No investors. No PR. Just a husband, a wife, and a kitchen so small it was forced to run on a four-ring hob. Twenty years later, The Hand & Flowers remains the only pub in the UK to hold two Michelin stars—a status it's held since 2012—and the cornerstone of a hospitality group that includes multiple restaurants, over 200 staff, and a chef who has become one of the defining voices in modern British food. 'It's weird,' Kerridge reflects. 'I don't miss the early days, but I absolutely love them.' He remembers the graft—the seven-day weeks, the furniture they upholstered by hand, the panic and pride that came with every early service. 'You put everything into it. You risk everything. So your whole heart and soul is in that building. 'We never aimed to be where we're sat now,' he says. 'We just aimed to be better at what we do.' At first, they didn't know if anyone would come. 'People were booking on the night,' Kerridge recalls. But within months, Saturdays were filling up by Tuesdays. Then weeks in advance. Word was spreading—not just about the food, but about the feel of the place: ambitious but affectionate, polished but personal. The kind of pub where sauces might take two days to perfect, yet you could wipe a plate of it clean with bread and not feel self-conscious. The first Michelin star arrived ten months in. It changed everything—not because it validated them, but because it stabilised them. It gave the place legs. 'You knew what the revenue would be week by week,' Kerridge says. 'It allowed us to invest, to buy new plates, to push.' Shortly after came his appearance on Great British Menu, a TV slot that catapulted Kerridge into the national consciousness. For diners, it turned The Hand & Flowers into a destination. For the business, it meant reliability. Growth. Staff. Equipment. Ambition. Eventually, even the top spot on the show's judging panel. But even then, there was no grand strategy—just a sense that something was working. 'It's all just been this case of reinvestment,' he says. 'This almost perfect storm of a whirlwind that has just kept growing and growing.' By 2012, they earned their second star. A pub—a real pub, with beams and banter and pints on tap—had joined the top tier of global fine dining. It was, and still is, an anomaly. But it never felt like a gimmick. The food earned it. And the volume followed. 'We were doing over a thousand people a week,' Kerridge says. 'That's 52,000 people a year. But there's only a certain amount of foodies that come and eat with you.' It was thrilling, but also relentless—and eventually, unsustainable. 'We didn't want to be that place people go to once and say, 'Yeah, I've eaten there.'' In an attempt to mature his business model, Kerridge and his team added more rooms. Today, the pub has 15. Guests arrive, settle in, dine slowly, stay the night. Still white tablecloths, still no dress code. 'I like it when people turn up with shorts and flip flops,' Kerridge says. 'It means they're comfy. And I love that about the space.' That ease, of course, sits atop an extraordinary level of rigour. This year, to mark the 20th anniversary, The Hand & Flowers introduced a new 'Classics' menu—a curated retrospective of some of the most celebrated dishes of the last two decades. It includes the salt cod Scotch egg with red pepper sauce and chorizo (2009), the lemon sole Grenobloise with anchovy fritter (2013), the iconic pork belly, and more recent hits like the Tirami-'Choux' with hot chocolate sauce (2020). Three courses, £95, served Monday to Friday. 'It's not just a nostalgia piece,' Kerridge says. 'It's about celebrating the journey—reminding ourselves and our guests what got us here.' Tom Kerridge in the kitchen at The Hand & Flowers Still, Tom Kerridge's restaurant group has become much more than the sum of The Hand & Flowers' parts. First came The Coach, a more casual restaurant opened a decade later that has since earned its own Michelin star. 'The menu is separated slightly into meat and no meat, and it's smaller plates,' Kerridge explains. 'The chefs will serve you across the counter, and it's much more relaxed.' Then came The Butcher's Tap & Grill, designed for a different kind of crowd entirely. 'It's very much foodie-based steaks and burgers, and football on the telly,' he says. 'It'll have the sport, and it's much more kind of like beer and burgers space.' Between the three, there's no attempt to force a single brand identity. 'They're very, very different,' he says simply. What links them is ownership—not just creatively, but structurally. 'We have no business partners,' Kerridge says. 'Everything that we've done has just been about us and the business.' When previous pub company leases made growth harder than it needed to be, Kerridge also decided to steer clear for future projects. 'They were quite difficult to work with,' he says. Now, they own the buildings. They answer only to themselves—and, occasionally, to the bank. 'Banks make really good investors,' he laughs. 'They're relatively faceless... they're not going to tell you to paint the bar a different color or to turn up at 10 o'clock at night and demand a dish because they're your investor.' Starters at The Hand & Flowers It's not all been easy, of course. When COVID hit the UK, like everyone else in hospitality, Kerridge was given no time to prepare. 'We were told to shut on one evening, and that was it,' he says. For three days, there was silence from the government. No plan. No promise of support. Just panic. 'That bit there, that sense of responsibility—that was a huge thing that weighed heavy on shoulders for quite a long time. And it still does.' The weight came from knowing who was behind those pay slips. 'We've got people that have been in our company for, like, 15 years, 18 years,' he says. 'Young kids that then got married and then got kids of their own.' Some of them started as commis chefs or apprentices. Now they're head chefs. Some have left and gone on to win Michelin stars themselves. But it's the ones who stayed—and grew—that Kerridge talks about most. 'I love it when people stay with us, they grow professionally... and personally. It gives me such a sense of pride.' As Kerridge enters his third decade at the helm, the word that comes up more often is legacy. 'I've become rapidly aware that I am getting to that older age group,' he says. 'We used to... win things like 'Newcomer of the Year' and now I can feel myself getting, like, 'Special Award' or 'Lifetime Achievement.'' He laughs, but the shift is real. He talks about The Hand & Flowers not just as a restaurant, but as something he wants to last—not in trend pieces, but in memory. 'I'd love The Hand & Flowers to keep going for another 20 and be a part of it all,' he says. 'You can't keep being the most dynamic and the new opening, but, you can still stay exciting and relevant.' He is inspired by places like Le Manoir and Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, in particular. 'What Raymond Blanc does, and what he's done, and his legacy... is just truly outstanding. I'd love The Hand & Flowers to be talked about in the same kind of vein in 10, 20 years' time.' Tom Kerridge at The Hand & Flowers Part of that future, for him, is also about where he came from. 'I'd love to do a lot more in terms of—not politically, but—representation,' he says. 'The backgrounds and areas of poverty that I grew up in; I came from a single-parent family and qualified for free school meals. All of those sorts of things I try to drive on a secondary basis.' He knows the contrast can be jarring: the man behind one of Britain's most expensive restaurants, wanting to talk about ways you can use frozen vegetables to keep costs down at home. 'It's easy for someone to find fault in the juxtaposition of the two spaces, but I would like to do a lot more of that now I'm a little older and the businesses are a lot more settled. Now that pride gives me a voice.' What he's built with The Hand & Flowers is rare, and that may be the clearest legacy of all: not that a pub earned two stars, but that it stayed the course. That his culinary empire was built with heart, run without compromise, and makes people feel looked after, whether they're popping in for quick comfort food at Kerridge's Fish & Chips or treating themselves to a blast from the past at his two-decade-old original. 'What can I say?' Kerridge smiles. 'I've done 33 years, and loved every minute of it.'
