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Daily Record
12-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Kevin Bridges devastated following death of the 'best wee dog there ever was'
The comic adopted her from the Dogs Trust in 2014 after she was found abandoned on a street in Ireland. Kevin Bridges has paid tribute to his "best wee" rescue dog following her sad passing. In 2014, the Glasgow comic adopted Labrador Annie, who he credited with helping him think of new stand-up material, from the Dogs Trust after she was found abandoned on a street in Ireland. The 38-year-old took to Instagram to share the sad news of the death of his "wee pal" and pay tribute to their bond, reports Glasgow Live. In a post, he wrote: "Annie, the best wee dog there ever was. My wee pal who made so many people happy and made strangers smile every day. "Thank you to the Dogs Trust Glasgow for ever introducing us. What a life." Replying to his post, the Dogs Trust said: "So very sorry to see this Kevin. Thank you for giving Annie such a loving home and for your support." Members of the public also offered their condolences to the legendary Glasgow funny man. One person wrote: "Sorry for loss, dogs are more than pets they are family members." A second added: "They absolutely leave us too soon and take a piece of your heart when they do. So sorry for your loss. I lost my two maremmas within weeks of each other recently but a foster boy saved me as much as I saved him. Keep your heart open and anything can happen." A third said: "I'm so sorry Kevin, sending you loads of love. What a gorgeous, good girl." In the lead-up to Christmas, in a separate incident, we reported that Kevin Bridges made a generous festive donation of £20k to Children's Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS) who run Rachel House in Kinross. CHAS thanked the Clydebank comic and his wife Kerry for making the donation to the charity prior to Christmas. The charity's Christmas Appeal aimed to raise vital funds to help give the gift of time and precious memories to families of dying children. Kevin said: 'As parents ourselves now, the hearts of my wife and I go out more than ever to everyone at Robin House, Rachel House and all the children and families supported by CHAS services across Scotland.' CHAS CEO Rami Okasha said: 'Kevin has visited our children's hospice, Robin House at Balloch several times over the years and his ongoing support is hugely appreciated. 'Each week in Scotland three children die from an incurable condition and CHAS can only be there for families with the support of kind donations like this. "No one should have to face the death of a child alone and we provide unwavering care to children who may die young and their families, at every step on this hardest of journeys. 'Fundraising support makes a huge difference to children and families helping us to reach every family across Scotland who needs our care.' Kevin also made personal donations to six other charities - West Dunbartonshire Community Foodshare, the youth charity Y Sort It, Bags Full of Love West Dunbartonshire, Improving Lives, Launch Foods and DRC Youth Project in Glasgow. Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today. You'll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team. All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile, select 'Join Community' and you're in! If you're on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click 'Join Community'. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose 'exit group'.
BBC News
06-06-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Kinross children's hospice Rachel House set for £17m revamp
Kinross children's hospice Rachel House is set for a £17m revamp, thirty years after it hospice, which was the first of its kind in Scotland, is one of two run by Children's Hospices Across Scotland (Chas). The redesign will include an additional hydrotherapy pool, better-equipped bedrooms and fully accessible adventure work is due to start next year with the full project set for completion in 2027, subject to approval from Perth and Kinross Council. Rachel House was built in 1996 at a cost of £10m and opened by HRH The Princess supported just under 100 children a year in the 1990s, but that number has more than doubled and continues to charity said that the redesign had "put children and families at the heart of the process" with their input key to the changes being Qusai Alhamdan, whose children Mo and Elaine have been supported by Rachel House since 2021, said the hospice was "very close to our hearts."The children both suffer from ataxia with oculomotor apraxia, which causes problems with movement, co-ordination and balance. Dr Alhamdan said: "As their condition is degenerative, making memories together as a family is very important to us and we have spent many wonderful respite visits at Rachel House over the last four years."My wife Esraa and I find our visits to the hospice very relaxing because we don't have to worry about our caring responsibilities as the lovely nurses and staff take over and do everything that is needed so we can just enjoy precious time together." Ken Lowndes' two daughters Jenny and Marion were two of the first children to be cared for in Rachel House when it opened. Born healthy normal babies with a two-year age gap, both Jenny and Marion were diagnosed with leukodystrophy when they were four years old. Before Rachel House opened, the family made regular 900-mile round trips from their home in Achiltibuie, north of Ullapool, to Martin House in West Lowndes said: "We helped to fundraise for Rachel House but we never knew if Jenny and Marion would get to visit, if they'd live to see it. "They did. They loved it, as did we all."Ensuring the next generation of families has the same standard of care that my family experienced is vital and the redesigned Rachel House will go on to make a huge difference to hundreds more Scottish families." Chas chief executive Rami Okasha said the charity wanted to transform end-of-life care for children and their families in said: "No one should face the death of their child alone and to be successful we are once again asking or donors to get on board and help raise the millions of pounds that will make a difference every day for families dealing with the unimaginable reality of loving and caring for a child who will die young."
Buzz Feed
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Celebrities Share Favorite Foods
To celebrate APAHM, we sat down with nine Pacific Islander celebs to chat about their careers and cultures for BuzzFeed's Voices of the Pacific series. Naturally, we had to ask about their favorite food from their culture! Here's what they had to say: Luciane Buchanan (Tongan) "Oh my god, I'm really missing Tongan food right now. My family are constantly like, 'Oh, we're at this function,' and sending me photos. Ota ika [raw fish in coconut cream] is amazing. I love it. I'm in Mexico City right now, so I'm just eating ceviche, like, 'It's almost the same.' I love tapioca. I love lu sipi [lamb, onion, and coconut cream wrapped in taro leaves]. It's funny, I was vegan for two years [laughs] my family would make me a vegan version. But now I'm back to eating meat, I'm fully back into that. My auntie makes this amazing Fijian curry. It's bomb. It's my favorite." Rachel House (Māori) "Green pāua [abalone] and kina [sea urchin]. Equal. I didn't like kina that much when I was growing up, and then in the last 20 years, it's become an obsession." Drew Afualo (Samoan) "Fa'i [green bananas]. I would say I'm a fa'i lover. Now, do I need all of the fixings with it? No, I like my fa'i plain, and I know that's so controversial; I don't care. Also palusami [coconut cream wrapped in taro leaves]. My two faves." Sasha Colby (Native Hawaiian) "My go-to traditional Hawaiian plate would be lau lau, kalua pig, some rice, lomi salmon, and I'm good. Ooh and some poi." Oscar Kightley (Samoan) "Well, this isn't actually Samoan [laughs] but growing up — do you get corned beef in the States? Pisupo? It's like a currency. My favorite growing up was pisupo and rice, pretty much anything with rice. I love it all. We have our own soul food. I love that concept of soul food because food is actually so important to us as well. But if I had to pick one, it would be oka, raw fish and coconut cream." Simone Kessell (Māori) "Well [laughs] when I go home, my whanau or my family say that I'm hopeless because I don't eat meat. So, a boil up, which is probably incredibly good for you because it is all the bones and the meat and the watercress, but it's not a food I eat. I do like fry bread, though. With lots of butter, fantastic." Alex Tarrant (Māori, Samoan, and Niuean) "Oh, man. For food, I love palusami. And if it's dessert — I don't even know if I can call it dessert — but panipopo [coconut buns]." Dinah Jane (Tongan) "It's hard to choose one thing. I was in Utah not too long ago, and I went to Pacific Seas, off of Redwood. That's the first thing I wanted when I landed, Tongan food. So I get there, and the first thing I say I want on my plate is lu sipi. It's like the Samoan palusami. Tongans, we like adding more, we're a little extra. Taro leaves, you have meat in there, you can have corned beef in there, or sipi, lamb, coconut milk and onions and all that." And finally, Uli Latukefu (Tongan) "Lu sipi, manioke, octopus/feke, I like all of it. If I could have it every Sunday, I would." You can read the full Voices of the Pacific interviews here.
