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Daily Mail
28-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EastEnders star's wife is rushed to hospital as she's left unable to speak hours before family holiday
EastEnders star Ricky Champ's wife Sammy was rushed to hospital as she was left unable to speak and with swollen eyes just hours before they were due to go on family holiday. Sammy shares two children with the actor, who played Stuart Highway in the iconic soap from 2018 to 2022, and has been suffering from an ongoing health issue. And with just hours before she was supposed to meet her acting husband at Disney, she was left with swollen eyes and was forced to get medical help. In a Story shared to Instagram, Sammy shared a snap of her sore-looking eyes and her swollen lips as her skin broke out into hives. Alongside the post, she penned: 'What is the absolute one thing you don't need to happen the day before you fly to Disney when you need to go shopping/ pack/clean/do that's right, wake up with your lips so swollen you can't speak and eyes swollen shut so you're in A&E at 7am. 'One of the side effects of my gallstones and liver is severe hives all over my body every single morning that go away by bedtime then I wake up and it starts all over again. 'Something due to the toxins etc (still not considered urgent though, still been told need to wait a year + for an op).' After seeking medical advice, Sammy revealed her face had returned to normal and was no longer swollen ahead of their trip to France. Ricky was one of five cast members to be written out of EastEnders in 2022. Stuart was at the centre of a father's post-natal depression storyline, with the character struggling to bond with his baby Roland. He had struggled with his mental health after his diagnosis with breast cancer and he is having trouble adjusting to parenthood after he and wife Rainie (Tanya Franks) tried for a child for a long time. Ricky first set foot in Albert Square back in 2018 and has landed a spell of intense storylines, including confessing to accidentally killing DI Steve Thompson (Philip Wright) - who later turned out be alive. He also admitted to being a vigilante paedophile hunter which stemmed from being sexually abused as a child. The actor's additional ventures include his role as Paul Parker in the BBC Three sitcom Him & Her and a Games Of Thrones appearance as Gatins. Ricky was one of five cast members to be written out of EastEnders in 2022. Stuart was at the centre of a father's post-natal depression storyline, with him struggling to bond with his baby Ricky filmed his final scenes as Stuart late in 2022. 'In EastEnders I went from villain to hero to dad,' he told Digital Spy at the time of his exit. 'It was amazing, doing that for five years with a character's arc. It felt weird leaving him,' he admitted. Ricky hasn't ruled out a return to the soap someday, as he claimed that anything is possible. 'He didn't die. He rode off into the sunset. I think he's somewhere in the North Circular living with Rainie,' he said of his character.
Daily Mail
09-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Beekeepers at war: Rival honeymaker targets grandmother's 23 hives in 'grudge' £5,000 double vandalism attack
A beekeeper fears she has become the victim of honeymaker's grudge after 23 of her precious hives were vandalised twice. Debra Cruttenden, 62, from Dorset was devastated to find her collection of wooden hives hidden away in a remote private woodland had been trashed last month. The grandmother, who has been beekeeping for 23 years, assumed the first attack was the work of bored teenagers after discovering her hives kicked over and stamped on. With the help of the local community Mrs Cruttenden was able to repair six of them after neighbours and friends raised £5,000 through a GoFundMe campaign. But just days later Mrs Cruttenden, who owned 30 hives in total, returned to the isolated Dorset wood in the village of West Moors to find the hives had been kicked over again. She now believes the two attacks are the work of a fellow beekeeper with a grudge after dismissing the possibility that her hives had been attacked by animals or blown down in a gust of wind. The grandmother said the five-acre plot of land is in the middle of nowhere, 400 yards from the nearest track and two miles from the nearest village. The 62-year-old said she has never had issues of vandalism before and nobody living in the rural area she has spoken to has seen any youths hanging around. Mrs Cruttenden said: 'My hunch is that it's a fellow beekeeper. It just smacks of jealousy and somebody with a grudge against me.' 'The first incident we put down to mindless vandalism. 'Everything that was on the stands was on the floor. It was in all directions so I know it wasn't the wind and it wasn't animals because nothing was chewed.' She added she was 'gobsmacked' by the incidents and said: 'But if kids had done it I don't think they would have risked or been bothered to go all the way back to the middle of nowhere to do it again. 'The area has never been an issue before for bored kids and this is the first time we have had such trouble in 23 years of keeping bees. 'I believe whoever has done it had a motive for doing so. I just think it is someone with a grudge'. Mrs Cruttenden explained she believes it's a rival apiarist because of a comment on the GoFundMe campaign launched by a friend. She explained she became aware of a detrimental comment about her on social media from someone she believes is a beekeeper. The grandmother said: 'It just said "you have done well out of this." This was someone who wasn't happy about life.' The GoFundMe campaign, set up my Mrs Cruttenden's friend Amanda Nicot has raised almost £6,000 and Ms Nicot described her friend as dedicated and devoted to her bees. She wrote: 'Totty [Mrs Cruttenden] isn't just a beekeeper. She's a guardian of pollinators, a quiet warrior in a bee suit, and a true friend to the environment. Her days are long, her work is hard, and yet she approaches it with a kind of devotion and care that's rare to witness. She talks to her bees like they're old friends — because to her, they are. 'But tragically, for the second time, someone has vandalised her hives. It's hard to put into words how devastating this is — not just for Totty, but for the precious bees she cares for, and for all of us who rely on them.' Mrs Cruttenden took up beekeeping in her back garden when she was given her first hive as a 25th wedding anniversary gift and learnt how to care for the insects through YouTube videos and trial and error. She then started collecting swarms - when a colony splits with a large group of honeybees leaving their hive to start a new colony. When her passion got too big for her garden, she and her husband bought five acres of woodland near the village of West Moors, where they have kept the bees ever since. Mrs Cruttenden sells the honey the bees make locally and does educational talks for the Women's Institute and schools on the importance of the insects. She said: 'I'm just trying to do my bit to help the planet. Bees are so important, they pollinate three quarters of the food we eat. 'Bumble bees are important too - they don't make honey but they pollinate things like raspberries and strawberries.'
CNN
01-06-2025
- General
- CNN
Millions of bees buzz around Washington state roads after truck overturns
Millions of bees escape after a truck carrying honeybee hives overturned in Whatcom County, Washington, and rolled into a ditch. Local beekeepers were called to the scene.
CNN
01-06-2025
- General
- CNN
Millions of bees buzz around Washington state roads after truck overturns
Millions of bees escape after a truck carrying honeybee hives overturned in Whatcom County, Washington, and rolled into a ditch. Local beekeepers were called to the scene.
Free Malaysia Today
31-05-2025
- General
- Free Malaysia Today
Bee alert: US cops send out warning after 250 million insects escape
Millions of bees have been set loose following an accident in Washington. (EPA Images pic) LOS ANGELES : A truck crash that set 250 million bees free has sparked warnings in the western US, with police telling people to avoid swarms of the stinging insects. The accident happened in Washington state in the far northwest of the country, when a semi-trailer carrying a load of hives overturned. '250 million bees are now loose,' wrote Whatcom County Sheriff on its social media page. 'AVOID THE AREA due to the potential of bee escaping and swarming'. Roads in the region, which nestles the border with Canada and is just 30 miles from Vancouver, have been closed as bee experts help with the clean-up. While some beekeepers aim only to produce honey, many others rent out their hives to farmers who need the insects to pollinate their crops.
