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Daily Mirror
15 minutes ago
- Climate
- Daily Mirror
Heatwave to last five days as weather maps show exact dates for 36C scorcher
Weather maps reveal Brits could soon face another scorching heatwave lasting at least five days with temperatures possibly rising as high as 36C in a number of regions Brits could be hit with a five-day heatwave in just a few days' time as advanced weather modelling maps show the mercury rising as high as 36C in some places. Tuesday brought the hottest day of the year so far in the UK. And although temperatures have cooled off slightly - still remaining in the mid to high 20Cs across large swathes of England today - the GFS weather model suggests another, potentially even hotter heatwave is right around the corner. The weather maps for later this month have turned deep red, revealing exactly where could see sweltering 36C highs. These unusually high temperatures could start in less than a week on July 10. Weather maps have turned red for southeastern England as they predict temperatures could peak at 31C around London on that day. The maps then predict the mercury will rise even further on July 11 with temperatures around London reaching 32C. Areas north of the capital could see temperatures peak at 34C. Most of England and Wales is set for a scorcher on July 12 as temperatures looks set to peak at 36C around Birmingham and the Midlands. Temperatures in London could reach 35C and even go up to 33C in Cardiff. The 36C highs are set to continue on July 13 across the Midlands and some southern regions. Manchester won't be far behind as the city faces 35C heat. Temperatures look set to stay high on July 14, with 36C high possibly coming towards Norfolk and Essex. London could see highs of 35C and temperatures in Birmingham are forecast to drop slightly to 33C. A heatwave is officially declared when an area hits the heatwave threshold for three consecutive days. The threshold varies from 25C to 28C across the UK. A temperature anomaly map for July 13 shows temperatures in some areas, including and between London and Birmingham, could be around 8C higher than the average for this time of year. The Met Office's long-range weather forecast for July 8 to July 17 says: "Likely a fairly cool start to the period with a few showers still to clear from the east, but for most it should become fine and dry, although some chilly mornings are possible. Through the rest of the week any rain will tend to focus on the north or northwest of the country, with the south becoming predominantly dry. Temperatures are likely to remain close to, perhaps a little below average initially. "However through the second half of the week and especially the following weekend there are signs that temperatures will begin to trend up, becoming warm or very warm once again, especially across southern parts of the UK, but perhaps more widely as we head toward the middle of July."
Daily Mirror
15 minutes ago
- Politics
- Daily Mirror
Oil tycoon dies 'falling out of window' in latest mysterious death
Andrey Badalov, 62, the vice-president of Transneft, fell from the 17th floor of a Moscow apartment block and he adds to the long list of mysterious deaths since Russia invaded Ukraine An oil tycoon has died after falling from a Russian tower block and it is the latest in a long list of mysterious deaths since Vladimir Putin launched his Ukraine invasion. Transneft vice-president Andrey Badalov, 62, lived on the 10th floor of an exclusive apartment block on Moscow's Rublevskoye Highway, but he plunged 180 feet from the 17th floor. Investigators were reported to be 'working at the scene'. A source said the 'preliminary cause' of death is 'suicide' and a letter supposedly written by Badalov to his wife was found, but other versions are being examined. The tycoon was married with two daughters. 'Badalov's body was found under the windows of an [apartment building] on Rublevskoye Highway,' a source told TASS. Transneft is Russia 's state oil pipeline monopoly headed by a former KGB spy, Nikolai Tokarev, 74, who served with Vladimir Putin, 72, in Germany in the Cold War. Badalov had studied at the General Staff Academy of the Armed Forces, which trains high-level officers and state managers. He had joined Transneft four four ago 'during a complex and tense period' and helped the company 'effectively overcome the challenges posed by [Western] sanctions'. A spate of mysterious deaths of executives linked to the oil and gas industries have hit Russia since Putin started plotting his invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago. There have now been 11 deaths since the conflict began. While they are often categorised as suicides, doubts have been raised in multiple cases. Today Ukrainian journalist Denis Kazansky posted sarcastically: "Top managers of YUKOS and Lukoil have already fallen out of windows before. "What are you laughing at? They just fall out of windows themselves. Russian oil workers have this professional deformity. As soon as they approach the windows, their legs immediately give way." In 2022, Ravil Maganov, chairman of Lukoil, Russia's second-largest oil company, died when he plunged from a sixth floor window at Moscow's elite Central Clinical Hospital, also known as the Kremlin Clinic. On the same morning, Putin - who had earlier decorated Maganov, 67, with a top honour - swept into the hospital to pay his final respects to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, who had died the same week. In 2023, leading war official Marina Yankina, 58, head of the financial support department of the Russian Defence Ministry's Western Military District, was found dead after falling 160ft from a 16th-floor window in St. Petersburg. The circumstances surrounding her death remain unclear. Former oil company vice president Mikhail Rogachev, 64, died after falling from his tenth-floor apartment in Moscow in October 2024. He had been a senior executive at Yukos, an oil company dismembered by Putin and his cronies.
Time Out
15 minutes ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Bartender Spotlight: Bannie Kang from Side Door wants you to ST*U and drink her cocktails
Tucked behind a nondescript door along Neil Road, Side Door is the kind of place that doesn't shout for attention – but once you're in, it doesn't let go. Founded by a talented bartender-and-chef duo, this cosy cocktail den (No. 53 on Asia's 50 Best Bars' 51-100 list) is where personal storytelling and technical finesse collide. It's not your typical bar. And Bannie Kang isn't your typical bartender. Our first sip of anything Bannie made was in 2018 during her Anti:Dote days – a time when cocktail-making was more about spectacle. Back then, she was slinging everything from drinks served in fabric-sack lookalike cups hiding baby carrots, to whimsical sharing cocktails spinning on miniature ferris wheels. Bannie's cocktails aren't anything like that now. These days, the 36-year-old has settled into a signature style that's unmistakably her own – clarified, minimalistic, yet layered and complex. She's also racked up an impressive list of accolades, including World Class Bartender of the Year in 2019 and the Bartender's Bartender Award in 2021. And most recently, she's also gained a worthy disciple (and contender) – her husband, Tryson Quek, who was just named World Class Singapore 2025 champion. Seven years later, we had the chance to chat with Bannie to find out about her favourite creations at Side Door, the bar's unofficial anthem (it's a cheeky one) and her thoughts on the latest cocktail trends. Scroll on to see what she's got to say – and don't forget to check out more of Singapore's best bars in the Time Out Singapore 2025 Bar Guide, out now and available for free here. If Side Door had a theme song, what would it be? ST*U by Sophie Powers, from the latest season of American Idol. We chose this song because sometimes we really just don't care. We don't want to bother about others' opinions, we just want to focus on what we do. What is a must-try cocktail at Side Door? Seaside. It's inspired by a classic cocktail – the paloma – but flavour-wise, it's very different. We add fresh watermelon, Amaro, some citrus, and then fat-wash it with curry leaves, coconut oil, and tequila. It's a little savoury, very refreshing, and one of our top sellers. If it's someone's first time at Side Door, we always recommend they try Seaside. What is an underrated cocktail on your menu? There are two. One of them is Shallow Mellow, inspired by a drink I used to love when I was living in Taiwan, called 烏梅汁 (wu mei zhi). It's great for digestion. Our version still has hibiscus and Taiwanese smoked plum, but we also use tequila, peach syrup, and we carbonate the drink. It's very refreshing, but not everybody loves the smokiness of ume. The other is Same Same Salad, a martini-style cocktail with cucumber, basil and olive oil. It's a bright, refreshing style of the martini, but people are scared to order it because they think it's going to be strong. Which cocktail trend do you want to see more of? I want to see more simple, classic, back-to-basics cocktails. Nowadays, lots of people are using fancy equipment and complicated techniques. Back then, when I just started bartending, we didn't have all of that. Just as the fashion industry goes in rounds, and something popular 10 years ago can come back into trend, the bar scene is like that too. That's the reason Bar Leone in Hong Kong is doing very well, because they do really simple cocktails. What's another bar in the neighbourhood you'd recommend? I've always recommended Night Hawk because of the team, the vibes, and the drinks – there's a really great harmony among everything. I love the energy of the bar. Discover more of Singapore's best bars in the Time Out Singapore 2025 Bar Guide, out now and available for free here. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Time Out Singapore (@timeoutsg)
Time Out
15 minutes ago
- Time Out
Thailand approves commercial breeding of water monitors
The Asian water monitors, omnipresent fixtures sunning themselves at Lumpini Park, just crawled out of legal limbo and into economic opportunity. The Department of National Parks has lifted these prehistoric reptiles from decades of commercial prohibition via a Royal Gazette announcement. While still under the watchful eye of wildlife conservation, water monitors can now be legally farmed for commercial purposes – their skin supple as fine leather, with a finesse worthy of haute couture, driving an entirely new economic sector. The rule is you can breed them but only at licensed hatcheries. No wild capture. No bare-handed snatching from the wild. Each one gets a microchip, a barcode beneath the skin. They're not trophies, not to be hunted as prey, but to be handled as important national economic assets. But this eco-entrepreneurship of water monitors settles into an ethical grey zone, rooted in wildlife-to-wardrobe capitalism. The fashion world knows intimately how to romanticise skin, call it exotic leather, ship it to Milan, shoot it in monochrome. Yet many see that beneath those arm candies was a living creature, once breathing air. This thrums with the weight of extinction, survival and the strange tension between power and preservation. Water monitors were originally only 'tolerated' as urban scavengers. Acting like low-key park janitors, they helped clean the city and control pests naturally. But when their numbers exploded to an estimated 400 giants, some reaching three metres, they began disrupting Lumphini's ecosystem (devouring fish and eggs, crushing flowerbeds underfoot, snatching joggers and cyclists in a blur). They immediately went from helpful squatters to pests. The Asian water monitor became Thailand's 63rd approved farming species, no less glam than the swiftlets' cave-to-cup operations – those architects of elusive bird's nest soup. This is all probably to meet Asia's insatiable appetite through farming instead of raiding the rare and coveted. Thailand seems to be reading the room in this regard: rather than criminalizing the obsession, they regulate it.
Daily Mirror
15 minutes ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Queen Camilla's son admits 'I'd probably be dead' in candid admission
Queen Camilla's son Tom Parker-Bowles has revealed that having to make his own way financially and not lean on his parents for support probably "saved his life" Queen Camilla's son, Tom Parker-Bowles, has made a candid admission about his finances, revealing that growing up without a trust fund probably "saved his life". The eldest child of the Queen spoke frankly on the White Wine Question Time podcast about his dedication to his work ethic, which he has been fostering since he was a teenager. Tom admitted to podcast host Kate Thornton that if he had grown up with a trust fund and had not been driven to work, his life today would look very different, as he was forced to learn the value of hard work and financial literacy, and work "just like everyone else". "Sadly, no trust fund. You know, actually, it's a good thing not having a trust fund. I'd probably be dead if I'd had one," Tom said. "Obviously, I had to work like everyone. You know, you have to work. It's important. So, I stumbled somewhat into food writing, 25 years ago when the landscape was rather different." Before finding his passion for food writing, Tom worked numerous jobs while he found his career footing. He had a brief stint in the PR world, as he recalled: "I worked for a wonderful film PR company called DDA and they used to run Cannes and you'd be looking after talent. "So you'd be taking Alicia Silverstone round London in the '90s or Anna Friel or whatever. So it wasn't exactly the most arduous task for a straight man. It wasn't the most arduous of jobs, but I was always late. "I'm still friends with my bosses, Stacey and Dennis, and they're lovely people. But eventually, enough was enough. I got sacked… So anyway, I was sitting around thinking, you know, what the hell am I going to do?" Tom then found his passion for food writing and published nine cookbooks, and is still a regular contributor to Mail on Sunday and Country Life. Elsewhere in the podcast, Tom made a candid admission about his mother and how it was "never her aim" to be Queen, while also praising the relationship between Charles and Camilla. He said: "As I've said before, you know, with my mother - it was never her aim. It was just a story of two people who loved each other. And as you get older, you're happy that your father's happy, that your mother's happy, that your stepfather is happy. You know, that's what matters." Tom also said that "not in a million years' did he expect his mother to become Queen, but is 'proud' of her and all she has done for the monarchy.
