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17 hours ago
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Brother, 11, and Sister, 13, Drown off Popular Beach as Father Tries to Save Them: Reports
The siblings were at Llarga Beach in Salou when the tragic incident occurred on Tuesday, July 29NEED TO KNOW A brother and sister, aged 11 and 13, have drowned off a beach in Spain, according to reports The siblings' father tried to save them but also ended up having to be rescued by emergency responders, according to U.K. newspaper The Guardian Responders were called to Llarga Beach in Salou on Tuesday, July 29Two siblings have drowned off a beach in Spain, according to reports. The brother and sister, aged 11 and 13 and from the U.K., were with their father at Llarga Beach in Salou, Tarragona, when they began to get into trouble in the water at around 8:45 p.m. on Tuesday, July 29, U.K. newspapers The Times and The Guardian and the BBC reported. The father reportedly tried to save the pair and ran into the ocean before emergency responders arrived, though officials also had to help save him. While the three were alive when they were brought ashore, responders were then unable to revive the children, according toThe Guardian. The outlet reported that the siblings were swimming in a rocky area over 300-ft. from the beach, but rough waters prevented them from returning to the shore. PEOPLE has contacted the Catalan Police, the Hotel Negresco, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office for comment. Emergency responders included the Catalan police, Salou local police and the fire brigade, according to The Times. "Tragically, the boy and girl could not be saved despite the best efforts of rescuers," head of the local police force, José Luis Gargallo, said, per the BBC. He stated that the father had also 'swallowed a large amount of water and was in a state of exhaustion.' "The sea was rough, and people sometimes underestimate its power - especially in this area, which is usually very calm," Gargallo continued. He added, "Ninety percent of the time, there is no danger on that beach, and it is considered an ideal spot for swimming. But [Tuesday] was different - not just at that beach, but along the entire coast." Lifeguards had also finished their shifts at the time of the incident, according to the BBC. Authorities told the outlet that the children and their father had been vacationing with their mother, as well as another sibling who were at a nearby hotel at the time. 'We are supporting the family of two British children who have died in Spain and are in contact with the local authorities,' a UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office spokesperson said in a statement, per The Guardian. In honor of the children, a minute's silence took place outside Salou town hall on Wednesday, per the BBC. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. The family of the victims is reportedly being supported by psychologists. The tragedy comes after a German man, 54, also drowned on Tuesday at Cap de Sant Pere de Cambrils beach, near Llarga beach, bringing Catalan beaches' fatalities to 16 since June 15, according to the BBC. 'If you notice that someone is unwell or has difficulties in the water, you should urgently notify the lifeguard service or call 112 to facilitate their rapid action,' Catalonia's Civil Protection said in a statement, per The Times. Read the original article on People
Times
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Times
I was told to be ladylike. Thanks to Tom Lehrer I rebelled
Five years ago, at 92, the great Tom Lehrer handed over to the public domain all copyright on his wicked lyrics, cementing even more deeply my long devotion. He was a childhood idol long before any rocker: my elder brother and I would creep towards the family turntable in whichever foreign post Dad had migrated to and sneak out his copy of the 1953 Songs by Tom Lehrer (the one with a devil's tail becoming a keyboard). We revelled in his brutal unsentimentality, his elegantly scanned musical demolition of all romance and decorum. My mother, a Catholic and lover of real Irish ballads, winced at his cheerful family-killer admitting it because 'rickety-tickety-tin, she knew that to lie was a sin'. Not to mention the yearning romantic tunes and dastardly lyrics of the The Old Dope Peddler, about the man who gives the kids free samples 'because he knows full well/ That today's innocent young faces will be tomorrow's clientele'. As for the satirical Scout anthem Be Prepared, never underestimate the glee of under-ten siblings working out the meaning of 'don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice/ Unless you get a good percentage of her price'. • Tom Lehrer obituary: devilish musical satirist Maternal attempts to hide the album failed and we introduced our siblings to it in turn. Maybe the relief was particularly intense because of the setting we lived in as 1950s diplo-brats abroad, drilled in gentlemanly and ladylike behaviour. When you're handing out vol-au-vents at dull cocktail parties it helps to be humming a song to yourself about a skirt coming off in a Viennese waltz. Lehrer's leering tone here is brilliant as he sings of the wardrobe malfunction 'revealing for all of the people to see — just what it was that endeared you to me'. The second album landed when we were in Johannesburg, to greater relief. We knew about the Bomb and radiation sickness the way kids now learn climate change. In March 1960 I had been personally patted on the head by Nikita Khrushchev on a walkabout in Lille when Dad sent us out to taste the crowds' attitude: a huge man in dungarees made me wave a paper tricolour with a hammer and sickle. Two years later, while at boarding school in Krugersdorp, the Cuban missile crisis made the nuns keep us in chapel because of a weird rumour that South Africa would be attacked first. What could be more cheering than Lehrer's jolly rhyming of 'Te Deum' with 'ICBM' and 'misery' with 'rotisserie' in We Will All Go Together When We Go? We child Lehrerites were, I suppose, innocently prefiguring the merry defeatism of punk. Then, a few more nuns later, came his 1965 shocker, The Vatican Rag. Another kind of relief, even to a quite devout teenager. So thank you, Tom Lehrer, for everything. For the sheer ingenuity (and science), as if rap had suddenly turned swotty and turned up in chem class. For sheer disgracefulness and awful truth. The pleasure also lies, as often in Lehrer's work, in the parody of sentimental downhome ballads. In the age of own-your-fetish it's hard to explain today how shocking this was. And how jolly it felt to sing it under your breath. A reminder that people used to think and write post-nuclear dystopian books about mutually assured destruction. The world will always need songs about plagiarism. And intellectual property theft. Need I say why? His world was cleaner than ours is …
Washington Post
4 days ago
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- Washington Post
Asking Eric: Niece excludes one branch of large family tree at wedding
Dear Eric: My husband is one of eight siblings. A few live on opposite sides of the country, but they do remain in contact, and we all get together occasionally. One of my brothers-in-law is married and has a stepdaughter. The stepdaughter became engaged, and we were told that since she was paying for her own wedding, they had no say in the invite list and we all may receive an invite or not. Mind you this daughter was invited to any event we had, including my kids' weddings. At my daughter's wedding she responded that she was coming but was a no show.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Man Skips Twin Brother's Wedding After Being Snubbed at Engagement Party
A 28-year-old is asking if he made the right decision after missing the wedding A 28-year-old man is asking the internet if he made the right choice by deciding not to go to his brother's wedding after being slighted at their engagement party. On Reddit, the man shares that he and his twin brother used to be inseparable, and until recently, he thought they "were still very close." "I was always more of a shy nerd and he was an extrovert that played sports throughout our childhood and high school, but we spent almost all of our time together, by choice," he writes, noting that they went their "separate ways" around college as they went to schools in different states. While his brother remained close to home in Arizona, the poster moved to Portland after graduating. Still, he "always flew back home for holidays, events, birthdays, etc." "My brother announced on instagram that he and his girlfriend of 3 years got engaged. I was incredibly happy for him and texted him congrats," the poster writes. "He mentioned they were planning to have an engagement party in 6-8 weeks and I told him to let me know so I can book a flight to come celebrate." However, he was "never told a date" and if he brought it up with his brother or other family members, "they'd change the subject or say it's still being planned and confirmed." "After a few weeks I texted my brother to ask about the date because it must be getting close and I don't want to pay for a last minute flight. No response," he writes. 'I asked my mom for details and she said, 'It's not really an engagement party, just a small dinner with family. There's no need to come down for it.' " However, the man later found out that it was, in fact, 'a big party." "They rented out an entire restaurant for 4 hours and there were about 80 guests: family, friends, cousins, everyone. Everyone was told I couldn't make it," he writes. 'My aunt, who was like a second mother to me, texted me that she was very disappointed I couldn't make time to join and I replied that I would have happily come, but I was not invited," he explains. "Word spread quickly about my snub and my parents and brother tried to say it was just a misunderstanding." It's been nearly a year since then, and the poster has yet "to get to the bottom of why [he] wasn't invited." "Over the course of months it went from, 'It was just meant to be a small gathering,' to 'I don't know what happened, there must have been a miscommunication,' to 'It's just a party. It's no big deal,'" he says of his family's excuses. "I asked my brother if he was mad at me, I thought maybe his fiance didn't like me. Even if she or he didn't want me there, why were my parents ok with this? This really wasn't like them." The poster says holidays were "awkward as hell" as there was a clear elephant in the room. During one gathering, his sister said it was like he was "not really family anymore" since he moved far away. While the man was invited to his brother's wedding, he wasn't asked to be in the wedding party, despite his sister and younger brother being included. He also didn't get a plus one for his girlfriend of over a year, but his sister got one for a man she isn't even officially dating. "So I decided I wasn't welcome and I was probably only invited for optics and to play happy family. I didn't RSVP no since I knew that would cause a s---show, I just didn't go," he writes. "The wedding was this past weekend. No one contacted me about missing the rehearsal dinner, so I guess even if I did go, I wasn't invited to that either or expected to be there." However, one hour before the wedding ceremony, he started getting calls and texts asking him where he was. He ignored them until after the ceremony. 'I finally picked up my mom's call and she screamed, 'Where the hell are you?' I replied, 'In Portland, where you all prefer me to be,'" he reflects. "She said, 'This is your brother's wedding, how could you embarrass us?' I answered, 'It's just a party. It's no big deal, right?' It was probably the first time in my life my mother was speechless," he adds. "After a few seconds of silence, I said, 'Tell everyone I said hi,' and I hung up.' In the days that followed, his family members called and texted him to say that he was 'being petty' and "ruined the day.' Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. However, people in the comments section agreed with the man's decision, agreeing that he was "just matching their energy." 'Message your family that since they decided that you don't count as family anymore, then you're acting accordingly. They decided to essentially cut you out because you moved so they can face the consequences,' one person wrote. Another person responded, 'I'd stop going to holidays going forward too,' to which the man who made the post replied, 'Agreed. Not gonna happen anytime soon.' Read the original article on People Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
5 days ago
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- Yahoo
Woman Is Confused Why She Wasn't Invited to Her Sister's 50th Birthday Party — but Her Parents and Other Siblings Were
"This came as a complete surprise," the woman said of not being invited to the family gathering A woman is feeling left out after she wasn't included in celebrations to mark her sister's milestone 50th birthday. In a post on the U.K.-based forum Mumsnet, the woman wrote that her sibling "had a birthday meal out with her friends, my siblings and our parents," but she wasn't looped in on the plans. "This came as a complete surprise," the woman said in her post, adding, "No one mentioned it to me at all." Now, the woman said she is looking for "advice about what I do next," because she feels her family's actions were deliberate. "The photos aren't attempting to hide the meal out. Of course I would see them," she wrote. The woman added that she plans to see her mother soon, and she is currently wondering: "Do I say something? What do I say to my siblings in our [group chat]? Anything? Nothing?" Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. In the comments section of the post, other Mumsnet users sided with the upset woman, writing that they understood her hurt. "This is a horrible way to have treated you," wrote one commenter, as another said, "That is so sneaky and hurtful of them to do this." The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now! Others, meanwhile, told the woman that they think she should cancel her plans with her mother for the time being, in order to figure out why she was excluded from the family gathering. "I would [cancel] seeing her Monday and [tell] her that you'll be processing being excluded by all of them for a bit," was a suggestion from one user. "I would cancel the meeting with your mother and not bother with any of them for the time being. They are all to blame. It's nasty," another said. Read the original article on People Solve the daily Crossword
