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Six golf balls, a shot clock with music blaring, and a WWE-style belt for a prize.No, it’s not a scene from the new Happy Gilmore film, but the professional sport of Long Drive golf. As the sport’s name would suggest, it is all about hitting the longest drive possible – and Northern Ireland’s Aaron Lennie is one of the best in Europe.No putts, no wedges and no water hazards. Driving distance off the tee is all that matters. Just how far are those drives? Well, at the recent Open Championship at Royal Portrush, Bryson DeChambeau topped the driving distance category…
A 23-year-old HIV-positive man was allegedly killed by his sister and her husband in Dummi village of Chitradurga district over what the couple claimed was an attempt to preserve family honour, given the victim’s medical condition.However, victim Mallikarjun GN’s father Nagaraj GB filed a police complaint, pressing murder charges against his daughter Nisha, 25, and son-in-law Manjunath, 38, citing property dispute as the real motive behind the killing. While Nisha is in police custody, a search is on for Manjunath.”We have registered an FIR based on the victim’s father’s complaint. During questioning, Nisha admitted to killing Mallikarjun. We’re now searching…
CBSA gunman who killed four people when he stormed a skyscraper in the heart of New York on Monday evening left a note that appeared to blame the National Football League (NFL) for a brain injury, the city’s Mayor Eric Adams has said.The attacker, 27-year-old Shane Tamura of Las Vegas, shot himself dead after opening fire in a building where the American football league has its headquarters, but went to a different part of the building after taking the wrong lift.The gunman was carrying a note in which he blamed CTE, a brain disease triggered by head trauma, for his…
Ed Thomas and Ruth GreenBBC NewsBBCWarning: This story contains descriptions of sexual violenceFive women, who as children were exploited by grooming gangs in Rotherham, say police officers in the town also sexually abused them at the time.One says she was raped from the age of 12 by a serving South Yorkshire Police (SYP) officer in a marked police car. He would threaten to hand her back to the gang if she did not comply, she says.”In a world where you were being abused so much, being raped once [each time] was a lot easier than multiple rapes and I think…
Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff Sue Gray has been appointed to the governing body of Queen’s University Belfast.Ms Gray quit as the prime minister’s chief of staff in October 2024 after rows over her pay and donations.She has now been named as one of four new members of the senate at Queen’s University of Belfast (QUB), a role that comes without a salary.The senate is the university’s governing body, responsible for the oversight of strategy, finances and performance.Ms Gray was also the so-called Partygate investigator.Her critical report into lockdown gatherings in Downing Street contributed to the resignation of…
British Palestinians have called on Sir Keir Starmer to take “immediate, concrete” steps on Gaza instead of “focusing on a symbolic gesture” of recognising it as a state ahead of an emergency cabinet meeting.The prime minister has recalled his cabinet ministers from parliamentary recess for a meeting at 2pm, when they will discuss what the UK’s next steps should be, after Sir Keir held meetings with Donald Trump yesterday.Ahead of the cabinet meeting, the British Palestinian Committee (BPC), which represents the experiences of Palestinians in the UK, has sent Sir Keir a letter urging him to take actions they say…
MEERUT: Seven days after 25-year-old Sunny Kumar was allegedly set on fire by his wife’s lover at his in-law’s house in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat, he succumbed to burn injuries at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital on Sunday night.Kumar had left his home for Haridwar to bring Ganga water during the kanwar yatra when his wife, Ankita, and her lover, Dr Ayyub Ahmed, allegedly intercepted him. ‘India’s Heritage Insulted’: Yogi Adityanath Slams Media Trial Of Kanwar Yatris As ‘Hooligans’Ankita took Sunny Kumar to her parental home and allegedly poured petrol on him and set him on fire.A few locals rescued Kumar and took…
Mr. Trump said on Monday that he would give Russia about 10 to 12 days to end the war before implementing a new round of penalties against Moscow. The Kremlin offered little reaction. Source link
The British Transport Police (BTP) is investigating an alleged assault at St Pancras station in London.The force said officers attended the scene on Monday night and found a man with “serious but non-life-threatening injuries”. It added that a 42-year-old male suspect had boarded a flight out of the country in the early hours of Tuesday morning.It come after footage emerged on social media appearing to show far-right activist Tommy Robinson walking back and forth near a motionless man lying on the floor at the station.The clip does not show how the man ended up on the floor. Robinson, 42, whose…
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after two men were killed and another two were injured in a stabbing at a business in south-east London.A 58-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene and a 27-year-old man died in hospital following the stabbing on Long Lane in Bermondsey at about 13:00 BST on Monday. A third man, who in his 30s, is in a life-threatening condition in hospital, the Met Police said.The arrested man, aged 31, is also in hospital although his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. The victims were believed to have been known…