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Metro
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Heartbreaking scenes for Eric confirmed in Emmerdale after devastating falls
Eric Pollard's (Chris Chittel) health is on the decline in Emmerdale. He's been slowly deteriorating for months, but his pride has stopped him from seeking any kind of help – even when Kerry Wyatt (Laura Norton) has offered it on a plate. This time around, Tracy Shankley (Amy Walsh) notices Pollard isn't doing so well with his Parkinson's and offers to assist, but he refuses to accept it. He still wants to believe he can cope alone, which is so far from the truth. His illness is advancing and he's beginning to struggle with day-to-day life. His choice to turn down Tracy's offer of help is met with instant regret when he suffers a nasty fall. With no one around to come to his aid, Pollard is left to languish, with fears he won't be found before it's too late. More Trending Thankfully, at the eleventh hour, someone comes to his aid and he wakes up in hospital with no memory of what happened. It's a defining moment for Pollard as Jacob (Joe-Warren Plant) and Kerry urge him to finally accept help at home. He feels insulted and patronised and rebuffs their suggestion, but as everyday tasks become a mountain, Kerry chooses to ignore him and arranges for home help herself. View More » Eric is still determined to go it alone but suffers another nasty fall. Can Kerry save him before it's too late? MORE: All 25 Emmerdale pictures for next week as a gruesome discovery is made MORE: Jacob is astounded by two life-changing secrets about Sarah in Emmerdale MORE: Emmerdale favourite contemplates killing Joe Tate – and it's not his attacker
BBC News
3 days ago
- General
- BBC News
Tigers finish second after dispatching Newcastle
Gallagher PremiershipLeicester Tigers (14) 42Tries: Liebenberg, Bassett, Kata, Heyes, Rogerson, Hassell-Collins Cons: Pollard 4, Volavola 2 Newcastle Falcons (6) 20Tries: Leatherbarrow, Arnold Cons: Connon 2 Pens: Connon 2 Leicester Tigers secured a second-placed Premiership finish and a home play-off semi-final by beating Newcastle took until the 17th minute for Tigers to grab their first try through Hanro Liebenberg thanks to fellow South African Pollard's fast hands, just a minute after Brett Connon put bottom side Falcons ahead with a Louis Brown's sin-binning halfway through the first period did not help Newcastle but the visitors repelled Tigers' attacks up until the 31st minute when Josh Bassett raced down to score in the failed to stay as competitive in the second half as tries from Solomone Kata, Joe Heyes, Matt Rogerson and Ollie Hassell-Collins meant Leicester ran away with a bonus-point victory and a home semi-final against Sale next to follow.
New York Post
3 days ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Georgia mayor, 2 others jailed on felony charges for trying to halt local election
The mayor of a small city in Georgia and two former election officials have been jailed on felony charges stemming from efforts last November to halt a local election after one of the mayor's allies was disqualified from a city council race. Camilla Mayor Kelvin Owens was being held at the Mitchell County jail Friday, two days after a grand jury indicted him on a felony charge of election interference and a misdemeanor count of conspiring to commit election fraud. Also jailed were the city's former elections superintendent, Rhunette Williford; and her former deputy superintendent, Cheryl Ford, who is currently Camilla's city clerk. Advertisement 5 Camilla, Ga. Mayor Kelvin Owens was arrested on election interference charges. City of Camilla, Ga. They were charged with the same crimes as the mayor, plus misdemeanor counts of failing to perform their duties as public officers. Chaos roiled special elections for a pair of city council seats in Camilla last November amid a long-running legal battle over local politics in the town, a farming community of about 5,000 people in rural southwest Georgia. Advertisement The case revolved around Venterra Pollard, a city council member removed from office last summer after a judge ruled he wasn't a Camilla resident. Pollard ran to regain the position in the fall special election. Another judge ordered Pollard disqualified and ruled that votes for him should be discarded. In addition, the city was ordered to post signs saying votes for Pollard wouldn't be counted. On Nov. 4, the day before Election Day, both Williford and Ford quit as the city's two top elections officials. Advertisement 5 Camilla Mayor Kelvin Owens was being held at the Mitchell County jail Friday, two days after a grand jury indicted him on a felony charge of election interference. Kelvin Owens/Facebook Their joint resignation letter blamed 'mental duress, stress and coercion experienced by recent court decisions regarding our role in elections.' Owens, citing his emergency powers as mayor, moved swiftly to halt the city's elections. Signs posted at City Hall and a notice on Facebook declared the election was canceled. Advertisement Polling places were closed to both poll workers and voters in the morning. The elections were held, albeit several hours behind schedule, after Superior Court Judge Heather Lanier appointed new supervisors to oversee the voting and ordered polls to remain open until nearly 4 a.m. Elections for president, Congress and other offices weren't affected. 5 Signs posted at City Hall and a notice on Facebook declared the election was canceled. WALB News 10/YouTube 5 Camilla is a farming community of about 5,000 people in rural southwest Georgia. WALB News 10/YouTube Mayor Owens had blamed the local upheaval on racial politics, saying that Pollard, who is Black, was targeted by white residents trying to wrest power from the majority Black population. The city of Camilla is nearly three-fourths Black. The Georgia NAACP said in a statement on Facebook that it was 'deeply alarmed' by the allegations of election interference as well as the arrests of Owens and the two former election officials, all of whom are Black. 'We were shocked that there were indictments,' said Gerald Griggs, president of the Georgia NAACP. 'We are still in a fact-finding mode to see what actually happened.' Advertisement 5 A woman enters a polling station in the city of Camilla, Georgia. WALB News 10/YouTube All three defendants remained in jail awaiting a hearing Monday. It was not immediately known if any of them had attorneys who could speak for them. Messages seeking comment were left at two phone numbers for Owens. Advertisement The Associated Press could not find working phone numbers for Williford or Ford. District Attorney Joe Mulholland, whose circuit includes Camilla, declined to comment on the indictment Friday.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Drones in Ukraine show the way Western militaries are run is 'outdated,' UK warns
The war in Ukraine shows that the way Western militaries are run is outdated, a UK minister warned. Drones evolve so fast that "we have to fundamentally challenge our assumptions," Luke Pollard said. He was speaking at a summit of more than 100 drone companies, military officials, and ministers. The war in Ukraine has shown that the way Western militaries are run is "outdated" because of how fast battlefield tech like drones evolves, a defence minister has warned. Luke Pollard, the UK's armed forces minister, said Ukraine's fight against Russia's invasion showed "the way we have run our militaries, the way we have run our defense, is outdated. And that is the case across the NATO alliance." Pollard said that drones had "shifted the tectonic plates of warfare," and the speed of their innovation showed how much faster procurement and innovation have to happen. Drone tech "iterates every two to three weeks on the front line" with a "fundamentally different" model, Pollard said Wednesday, adding, "That means we have to fundamentally challenge our assumptions about how we procure." He said that NATO militaries "build and procure really expensive high-end bits of kit. And it will take you five, 10 years: five years to run a procurement challenge, another 10 years to build it." "If we allow ourselves to be stuck in old-world thinking, we will not be providing the tech that Ukraine needs, we will not be providing the security that we need," Pollard added. Pollard was speaking at the Drone Summit, which brought together drone companies, military officials, and government ministers in Latvia, a NATO member bordering Russia. Drones have played a bigger role in Russia's invasion of Ukraine than in any other conflict in history, and have upended many traditional fighting rules by taking the place of some artillery and infantry. Cheap drones have also destroyed pieces of weaponry that are worth millions, like tanks and air defenses. Oleksandr Yabchanka, the head of the robotic systems for Ukraine's Da Vinci Wolves Battalion, which operates ground drones, told Business Insider in March: "What was up to date and relevant half a year ago is not up to date and relevant anymore." Pollard was echoing previous warnings that the West needs to change its approach to weaponry to fight an adversary like Russia. Military officials and warfare experts have warned that the West must amass a larger volume of cheaper weaponry and shift its focus away from fewer pieces of more advanced and expensive kit. In January, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte gave a similar warning, saying, "speed is of the essence, not perfection." Officials also questioned the value of some high-value weaponry in the face of drones. US Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll said earlier this month that the US can't keep developing and buying expensive weaponry that can be destroyed by far cheaper drones. Pollard told the summit that, with drones, there must be a change "that is built into all our procurements that says what we can buy and build and scale faster than we have done before." He said this change would be harder for larger companies, but there needs to be a startup-style culture for companies to "not go along with the guide rails and the rules of the game but to innovate based on what is working." Pollard said that, while a coalition of 18 countries had delivered tens of thousands of drones to Ukraine, the war shows how much more needs to be done. "Big numbers need sustainable supply chains that can scale up when wartime demand requires it. Our industrial bases across Europe, across the globe, must become as agile as the systems we seek to produce with our people as skilled as the operators who deploy them on the frontline of Ukraine," he said. The gathering saw repeated warnings that the West's work is not enough. Ruben Brekelmans, the Netherlands' defense minister, told the summit that, in much of Europe, "We are quite fast at developing drones, but we are not producing drones on a massive scale. And I think that's a step that we need to take." He added Ukraine's allies had to work together to achieve "mass production quite quickly, because Ukraine needs it. We need it as well." Many European countries have warned that they could be attacked next, and supply Ukraine not only to keep Russia's war machine occupied, but to test battlefield tech. Russia still has a large military, and it has kept some of its advanced equipment out of Ukraine and unscathed from the war. Many current and former Western military officials also warn that Russia's war machine is far more spun up than Western ones. "Russia has surpassed us technologically. And more dangerously, it has surpassed us in terms of speed and scale," Valerii Churkin, Ukraine's deputy defense minister, said at the summit. "The enemy moves faster than we do," he added. Churkin urged more collaboration, telling his country's European allies, "Ukraine is not just a recipient of aid. We are your test." Read the original article on Business Insider
Business Insider
4 days ago
- Politics
- Business Insider
Drones in Ukraine show the way Western militaries are run is 'outdated,' UK warns
The war in Ukraine has shown that the way Western militaries are run is "outdated" because of how fast battlefield tech like drones evolves, a defence minister has warned. Luke Pollard, the UK's armed forces minister, said Ukraine's fight against Russia's invasion showed "the way we have run our militaries, the way we have run our defense, is outdated. And that is the case across the NATO alliance." Pollard said that drones had "shifted the tectonic plates of warfare," and the speed of their innovation showed how much faster procurement and innovation have to happen. Drone tech "iterates every two to three weeks on the front line" with a "fundamentally different" model, Pollard said Wednesday, adding, "That means we have to fundamentally challenge our assumptions about how we procure." He said that NATO militaries "build and procure really expensive high-end bits of kit. And it will take you five, 10 years: five years to run a procurement challenge, another 10 years to build it." "If we allow ourselves to be stuck in old-world thinking, we will not be providing the tech that Ukraine needs, we will not be providing the security that we need," Pollard added. Pollard was speaking at the Drone Summit, which brought together drone companies, military officials, and government ministers in Latvia, a NATO member bordering Russia. Drones have played a bigger role in Russia's invasion of Ukraine than in any other conflict in history, and have upended many traditional fighting rules by taking the place of some artillery and infantry. Cheap drones have also , like tanks and air defenses. Oleksandr Yabchanka, the head of the robotic systems for Ukraine's Da Vinci Wolves Battalion, which operates ground drones, told Business Insider in March: "What was up to date and relevant half a year ago is not up to date and relevant anymore." Pollard was echoing previous warnings that the West needs to change its approach to weaponry to fight an adversary like Russia. Military officials and warfare experts have warned that the West must amass a larger volume of cheaper weaponry and shift its focus away from fewer pieces of more advanced and expensive kit. In January, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte gave a similar warning, saying, "speed is of the essence, not perfection." Officials also questioned the value of some high-value weaponry in the face of drones. US Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll said earlier this month that the US can't keep developing and buying expensive weaponry that can be destroyed by far cheaper drones. New rules Pollard told the summit that, with drones, there must be a change "that is built into all our procurements that says what we can buy and build and scale faster than we have done before." He said this change would be harder for larger companies, but there needs to be a startup-style culture for companies to "not go along with the guide rails and the rules of the game but to innovate based on what is working." Pollard said that, while a coalition of 18 countries had delivered tens of thousands of drones to Ukraine, the war shows how much more needs to be done. "Big numbers need sustainable supply chains that can scale up when wartime demand requires it. Our industrial bases across Europe, across the globe, must become as agile as the systems we seek to produce with our people as skilled as the operators who deploy them on the frontline of Ukraine," he said. Stark warnings The gathering saw repeated warnings that the West's work is not enough. Ruben Brekelmans, the Netherlands' defense minister, told the summit that, in much of Europe, "We are quite fast at developing drones, but we are not producing drones on a massive scale. And I think that's a step that we need to take." He added Ukraine's allies had to work together to achieve "mass production quite quickly, because Ukraine needs it. We need it as well." Many European countries have warned that they could be attacked next, and supply Ukraine not only to keep Russia's war machine occupied, but to test battlefield tech. Russia still has a large military, and it has kept some of its advanced equipment out of Ukraine and unscathed from the war. Many current and former Western military officials also warn that Russia's war machine is far more spun up than Western ones. "Russia has surpassed us technologically. And more dangerously, it has surpassed us in terms of speed and scale," Valerii Churkin, Ukraine's deputy defense minister, said at the summit. "The enemy moves faster than we do," he added. Churkin urged more collaboration, telling his country's European allies, "Ukraine is not just a recipient of aid. We are your test."
