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Local organization raises money to support ALS patients

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — One organization in the east is raising funds to support ALS patients and their families. The Charlotte Baker Memorial Benefit Organization started in September 2021, after Charlotte passed away in May of that year. The event raised $6,000 in its first run, and in 2023 they raised over $25,000. It’s clear [...]

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NCDOT urges people to avoid traveling to western NC

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — The North Carolina Division of Transportation is urging people to reconsider any travel to western North Carolina. The NCDOT released a statement on Saturday that western North Carolina should be considered closed to unnecessary travel due to the lengthy recovery efforts. Around 390 roads and dozens of highways remain closed because [...]

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Local woman hosts 5K for ovarian cancer awareness

WASHINGTON, N.C. (WNCT) — The first ever Ovarian Cancer 5K took place on Saturday. Amanda Laughlin was diagnosed with Ovarian cancer March of 2023. While Laughlin was fighting her battle she realized that there just isn't enough research and awareness about the disease, which is why she put together the Ovarian Cancer 5K. She wanted to [...]

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Loose Women stars glam up for 25 year anniversary as Ruth Langsford reveals impact of ITV show on viewers

STARS of Loose Women dazzle in a glitzy photoshoot to mark 25 years of the daytime favourite.

Eighteen of the series’ biggest names reveal what it means to be part of one of television’s longest-running panel shows.

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Stars of Loose Women dazzle in a glitzy photoshoot to mark 25 years of the daytime favourite
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Panellist Ruth Langsford says her and fellow celebs have shared their own lives with millions of viewers[/caption]
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Love Island contestant Olivia Attwood Dack cherishes the warm welcome she got from Ruth[/caption]

Among them is Ruth Langsford, who says she and her fellow celebs have shared their own lives with millions of viewers — including divorce and “very difficult, painful things”.

Ruth, who announced her split from Eamonn Holmes in May after 14 years of marriage, adds: “I was on Loose Women from the very start.

“I have noticed a huge difference in how much more open people are talking about difficult subjects.

“I believe that we have helped bring that about, because we bring honesty to the show, we bring our own lives to it.

“We talk about very difficult, painful things in our lives. But we know that reflects what people are going through themselves at home.

“And now we talk about Alzheimer’s, suicide, divorce, all sorts of things that were a little bit taboo, and I think it’s great we do that.”

It may be celebrating its quarter century but, incredibly, the first Loose Women episode almost did not air.

Just before going live in 1999, a problem was discovered with the sound from the studio.

An engineer frantically fiddled under a desk with a screwdriver as the clock ticked down, before emerging triumphant and giving a thumbs- up with only ten minutes to spare.

As social media did not then exist, the first panel of Kaye Adams, Nadia Sawalha, Jane Moore and Karren Brady spoke to viewers by phone.

The show was originally commissioned for a month.

To survive, it had to secure a 30 per cent audience share. But from the start, it captured viewers’ interest by opening political debate, breaking down taboos and sharing raw, emotional moments.

And on the final day of the month, it hit its audience target, securing the bright future it has today.

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Denise Welch will always be grateful for the public’s support while dealing with her dad’s death[/caption]
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Panellist Stacey Solomon introduced baby Rex for the show’s 20th anniversary in 2019
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Christine Lampard says that announcing the births of children Patricia and Freddie are two of her best moments
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Panellist Ruth revealed that viewers often ask her if the presenters genuinely get on well together and she says: “My answer is always, ‘Yes, we do!’.”

And the family spirit behind the scenes was confirmed by former Love Island contestant Olivia Attwood Dack, who cherishes the warm welcome she got from Ruth on her Loose Women debut.

She says: “Ruth was so kind. In the breaks, she would check in with me, make sure I knew what was going on. It’s always stood out as something I’ll remember for ever. I really felt part of the team.”

Olivia believes the show’s power lies in the fact it has helped shape social attitudes.

‘Part of a big family’

She explains: “It’s brought so many taboo conversations into people’s lounges, and talked about so many things, whether it’s incontinence or domestic abuse or sexual health.

“It’s these conversations people don’t normally talk about. The show has done that beautifully. People shouldn’t be afraid to talk about them.”

Through the years, there have been light-hearted moments, too. Linda Robson’s 60th birthday skydive on the show was not just her most memorable moment, but the scariest thing she had ever done.

The Birds Of A Feather actress also got a massage from singer Michael Buble and taught him to speak Cockney. Linda says: “We’ve had some amazing guests over the years.”

Meanwhile, Denise Welch will always be grateful for the public’s support while dealing with her dad’s death, her marriage break-up and mental health issues.

Telling everyone at home I was pregnant and then having the babies, and announcing all of those things on the telly, was a huge privilege.

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“I have lived with clinical depression for 35 years,” she says.

“For the 23 years I’ve been on the show, I’ve been talking about my battle with clinical depression. This has allowed me to reach millions and millions of people who also deal with that subject.”

Christine Lampard says that announcing the births of children Patricia, now five, and two-year-old Freddie, with husband Frank, are two of her best moments.

She adds: “Telling everyone at home I was pregnant and then having the babies, and announcing all of those things on the telly, was a huge privilege. You feel part of a big family.”

Eternal singer and actress Kelle Bryan summed up why the show stands united with fans, through crusades such as the Facing It Together domestic violence campaign.

She says: “I shared my story of domestic abuse. I think the Facing It Together campaign has given me the tools to help other women get through it, find help and resolve their issues. For me, that has meant the world.”

10 great moments

1. Panellist Stacey Solomon introduced baby Rex for the show’s 20th anniversary in 2019.

2. Actor John Barrowman dramatically fell off his stool while showing off ruby red heels in 2016.

3. Keith Lemon gate-crashed the studio in 2019 and then refused to read out the competition, saying: “No, I’m not getting paid.”

4. Towie’s Joey Essex tried to pie presenter Andrea McLean in 2017, but missed and covered Stacey with cream instead.

5. Nadia Sawalha transformed into Kim Kardashian, with perfectly contoured make-up and fake eyelashes, in 2016.

6. Robbie WIlliams confronted his panellist wife Ayda Field in 2016 after she admitted faking orgasms.

7. Denise Welch’s dad Vin arrived dressed as a bride in 2013.

8. Former MP Ed Balls belted out Little Mix’s Shout Out To My Ex in 2019.

9. Straight-talking Janet Street-Porter turned up in the studio as a hot dog.

10. Linda Robson jumped out of a plane for her 60th birthday in 2018.

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Conor McGregor dishes out HUGE sum in tips at posh London restaurant after flouting dress code by wearing tracksuit

CAGE fighter Conor McGregor dished out £11,000 in tips at a posh restaurant — after flouting the dress code by wearing a stain-covered tracksuit.

The former UFC champion, 36, and fiancée Dee Devlin, 37, were still welcomed into Novikov despite them turning up in matching sportswear.

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Conor McGregor dished out £11,000 in tips at a London restaurant[/caption]
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The former UFC champion, 36, handed out wads of $100 notes to staff at posh Novikov[/caption]
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McGregor flouted the dress code by wearing a stain-covered tracksuit, above with fiancée Dee Devlin[/caption]

Irishman McGregor paid the £580 bill by card at the eaterie in Mayfair, central London — then handed out wads of $100 notes to staff from a Louis Vuitton bag.

An onlooker said: “Novikov prohibits sportswear but they seemed quite happy to bend the rules.

“Conor gave away about £11,000.

“Every waiter in there that night was grappling to serve him.”

‘The Notorious’, who is worth approximately £150 million, got engaged to the mum of his four children Dee, 37, in 2020 after 12 years together.

He hasn’t competed in the octagon since his horror leg break in a fight against Dustin Poirier three years ago.

But he hinted at a comeback on Friday when he challenged welterweight gold Belal Muhammad to a world title fight – urging UFC president Dana White to book it in now.

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Tories should be tackling Starmer and his sleazy shower of freebie-loving socialists not arguing over who will be leader

IF ever there was a Government that needed a robust opposition to hold its floundering feet to the fire, it is surely Sir Keir Starmer’s sleazy shower of freebie- loving socialists.

But where are the Tories when you need them?

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The Tories are too focused on who should replace Rishi Sunak as leader
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Instead they need to go after Sir Keir Starmer’s sleazy shower of freebie- loving socialists[/caption]
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Alexis Quinn is a former GB youth swimmer and single mum to an autistic daughter who struggled to fit into a state primary school[/caption]

In Birmingham — for their party conference, beginning today, where the blues will spend more time talking about their new leader than what this Labour Government is now inflicting upon the country.

The Conservative Party is hardly worthy of being called His Majesty’s Most Loyal Opposition.

As self-obsessed as ever, the Tories are taking so long to decide upon their new leader that the winner will not even be announced until November 2 — three days after Chancellor Rachel Reeves unleashes her Government-defining Budget.

But the Tories are not talking about Labour taxing the British people dry. The Tories are talking about themselves.

Yet there is real opposition to this unloved, unlovely Labour Government, and the resistance is coming from some unlikely quarters.

It is not the Tories who are shouting loudest about Labour robbing ten million pensioners of their fuel allowance — it is the Labour Party members who, at the party conference in Liverpool, voted against this mugging.

And it is not the Tories who are protesting about Labour’s Cloud Cuckoo Land drive to net zero. It is the unions — and especially Gary Smith of the GMB — who have called Labour’s job-shredding, lemming-like charge to net zero by 2030 “bonkers” and “fundamentally dishonest” and “not rooted in the real world”.

And it is not the Tories asking Labour the difficult questions, it is the media, print and broadcasters, with a special mention to Susanna Reid of Good Morning Britain, who gave squirming Starmer a grilling about his love of free stuff worthy of Jeremy Paxman in his Newsnight pomp.

And it is not the Tories who are fighting Labour’s unthought-out policies every inch of the way.

It is the people.

People like Alexis Quinn, a former GB youth swimmer and single mum to an autistic daughter who struggled to fit into a state primary school.

With the help of a scholarship and some financial support from her family, Alexis managed to get her daughter into an independent school, where she is much happier.

But this Government’s plans to impose VAT on private school fees has changed everything.

Alexis simply cannot afford the soaring fees.

But she is fighting back ­— with many others, including other parents of children with disabilities, military families and representatives of religious faiths.

They plan to challenge Labour’s plans to hammer the private schools, under the European Convention on Human Rights.

They will argue that, since the time of Elizabeth I, education has had a charitable status in this country — exactly the status that Labour is now removing.

They will argue that parents know best for their children, and that parents should have a choice.

The Tories should be making these arguments with them, and for them, and holding Labour to account on every front, from the winter fuel allowance and Keir’s Arsenal tickets to the impossible dream about making our energy carbon neutral by 2030.

The Tories should not still be yakking about leadership. They should be fighting to get back into power.

The Tory conference in Birmingham should be the coronation of the woman or man who is going to clean up the horrors that Labour will inflict on us over the next five years.

Instead, Labour is getting away with what our freebie-junkie Prime Minister piously calls his Government of “service”.

LITTLE LATE, CHRIS

PROFESSOR Sir Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer, told the Covid-19 inquiry this week that health chiefs risked overstating the dangers of the disease.

“I worried at the beginning, and I still worry – did we get the level of concern right?” he said.

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Sir Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer, told the Covid-19 inquiry this week that health chiefs risked overstating the dangers of the disease[/caption]

“Were we overpitching it so that the people were incredibly afraid of something where, in fact, their actual risk was low?

“Some would say, if anything, we overdid it at the beginning.”

Now he tells us!

Yes, people did die of Covid. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was almost one of them.

But a generation of youngsters had their development disrupted.

Old folk died alone, their mourners separated at funerals. Businesses were destroyed.

The lockdowns were well-intentioned. But we will be paying for them for the rest of our lives.


NEW poll of iconic fashion items is a nostalgia-inducing ­compendium that includes such old favourites as Dr Martens boots, bomber jackets, Ray-Bans and Nike trainers.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, No1 is Levi’s 501 jeans.

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Levi’s 501 jeans topped a list of iconic fashion items

These have been going far longer than anything else on the list.

They were patented by Levi Strauss & Co in 1873 – hard-wearing work ­clobber that was made to last until you got rich or died trying.

But 501s enjoyed their modern revival in the Eighties, when Nick Kamen sent sales and blood pressures soaring as he visited a launderette while Marvin Gaye crooned I Heard It Through The Grapevine.

That’s when the world as we know it really took to the “original shrink-to-fit jeans – now available in stonewash”.

Ironically, we only learned to love Levi’s 501s when Nick took them off.


JET LOO SEX SO DATED

A COUPLE of randy morons were hauled off a crowded easyJet flight by cops after they performed a one-handed sex act in their economy seats.

“Who do you think you are?” Judge Lynne Matthews asked Bradley Smith, 22, and Antonia Sullivan, 20, when sentencing them to community work.

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Bradley Smith and Antonia Sullivan performed a sex act on an EasyJet flight[/caption]

“There was a child sitting behind you who was able to see what was happening.

“What entitled you to behave in that way in full view of the people on the flight?”

Great question.

The answer – a sense of self-entitlement persuaded Smith and Sullivan to believe they could do whatever they felt like.

And when we get beyond the jokes about adopting the brace position, it is astonishing that a couple think they can get away with some mile-high masturbation with kids inches away.

Sex on an aircraft is nothing new.

But the mile-high club was traditionally convened behind the locked doors of a toilet.

How innocent that seems today!


THE small boats will keep coming even as the private planes will keep leaving.

The slogan of “soak the rich” will always get a standing ovation with the Labour crowd.

But now Chancellor Rachel Reeves is being warned that driving millionaires and billionaires out of the country will leave a funding gap of £1billion for schools and hospitals.

Because the rich will be paying their taxes and spending their loot in some other country.

Labour always say that those with the broadest shoulders should carry the heaviest load. But it is a hard economic fact that they already do.

According to the London School of Economics, the top one per cent of taxpayers contribute 30 per cent of tax revenues.

When a government drives them out, the country suffers.

There is a reason we should all want the likes of Charlie Mullins – founder of Pimlico Plumbers, payer of over £120million in income tax – to stay in the UK.

And not because we need him to fix our leaky stopcock.


JUST SAY CHEESE, PHILIPPINE

YVES Saint Laurent may have gone to the great fashion house in the sky – but the YSL show in Paris was practically a who’s who of the catwalk, big screen and glossy magazines.

Kate Moss wore a black tuxedo jacket.

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Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu stunned at the YSL show in Paris[/caption]
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Zoe Kravitz wore a see-through lace minidress[/caption]
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Kate Moss buttoned up in a black tuxedo jacket[/caption]

Next to her was Zoe Kravitz, all legs and Lenny-like Are You Gonna Go My Way pout.

Gwyneth Paltrow hovered nearby, a black coat casually thrown over a grey suit.

And Rosie Huntington-Whiteley shimmered in a satin shirt dress that inexplicably came with its own suspenders.

Meanwhile, model Bella Hadid wore a suit, shirt and tie, like a civil servant from the days when they did not all work from home.

And yet among the intense competition for attention, all eyes were drawn towards the more mature Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, 61.

She beamed as she posed for pics in a transparent blue dress.

The Emily In Paris star was living proof that age doesn’t matter.

Unless you are a cheese . . . 

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8 Best Shows Like White Collar To Watch While Waiting For The Reboot

With its focus on an energetic crime-fighting duo, incorporating dramatic and comedic elements, White Collar simultaneously stood out as a unique series with a grounding in familiar tropes. The show found a particular niche by focusing on crimes like art thefts and heists that are not as common in standard police procedurals. While this gave …

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