The beloved Dave, along with Si King, was one half of the TV cooking duo, and died at the age of 66 in 2024, two years after revealing he had been diagnosed with cancer.

Myers and King were a highly popular duo who travelled the UK and the world on motorbikes, exploring regional and national dishes and recipes.

Yesterday on Instagram, Liliana – a coach and hypnotherapist specialising in grief and loss – posted: “I just had an episode today where I forgot I’d already made a pot of coffee and 5 minutes later I made another one.

“I’ve heard it from numerous people, and only when it struck me too, I understood what it meant.

“Grief brain.

“Grief brain is a real thing.

“It’s forgetting what you walked into a room for.

“Reading the same sentence five times and still not taking it in.

“Losing track of conversations halfway through.

“It’s your mind trying to function while your heart is carrying something heavy.

“I thought of myself as being lazy and losing my focus too easily.

“Truth is…

“Grief rewires your focus.

“It softens your edges and scatters your thoughts.

“It asks your brain to process loss while still showing up for life—and that’s a lot.

“So if your memory feels foggy, if simple things feel harder than they used to…

“Give yourself some room.

“Slow down. Write things down. Take breaks.

“Not because you’re failing…

“Because this is a path you’re now learning how to walk.

“With love”

What is grief brain?

According to PsychCentral: “Grief can rewire our brain in a way that worsens memory, cognition, and concentration. You might feel spacey, forgetful, or unable to make ‘good’ decisions.

“It might also be difficult to speak or express yourself.

“These effects are known as grief brain.

“Acute grief refers to the symptoms a person experiences during the first six months after losing a loved one.

“These are usually the most intense.

“Your days may involve a mixture of yearning and sadness along with constant thoughts, memories, and images of the loved one. Small tasks can feel overwhelming and exhausting.

“In a typical grieving process, these symptoms tend to decrease over time. You’ll notice sharper thoughts and clearer memories coming back.

“Everyone is different, and for some, grief lasts a little longer. If symptoms last longer than 12 months, it may be diagnosed as prolonged grief disorder.

“The longer that intense symptoms last, the greater the chance of developing longer-term changes in your brain and body. ”

Paul Quinn denies rape which Andrew Malkinson spent 17 years in prison for

A new suspect in the case where another man spent 17 years in prison after being said to have been wrongly convicted in connection with the alleged rape of a woman said he was ‘in shock’ when he was arrested two decades later.

Paul Quinn said he was in ‘disbelief’ when he was questioned about the attack of the woman in 2003. “Was it something you expected?,” Mr Quinn’s barrister Lisa Wilding KC asked him. “Completely unexpected,” the defendant replied.

Mr Quinn, 51, is on trial and denies the charges he faces. The alleged attack was said to have happened at a ‘remote location’ at the foot of an embankment off Cleggs Lane in Little Hulton, before 6am on July 19, 2003, near to the M61.

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The defendant, who wore a black jumper, navy jeans and glasses, was giving evidence in his defence from the witness box for the first time in the trial.

Earlier in the trial, prosecutors told the jury that it was their case that another man, Andrew Malkinson, was previously wrongly convicted in relation to the incident. Mr Malkinson suffered ‘a most terrible miscarriage of justice’ after being wrongly identified as the assailant, prosecutors said.

The alleged victim had expressed ‘100 per cent confidence’ Mr Malkinson was her attacker in an ‘honestly and genuinely made’ but ‘mistaken’ identification, Manchester Crown Court has heard. Two others also picked him out in an identification parade.

Mr Malkinson had been the victim of ‘one of the worst’ miscarriages of justice ‘there has been’ and spent 17 years in prison, prosecutors told the jury.

Now, Mr Quinn – the man prosecutors claim is guilty of carrying out the alleged attack – is standing trial. Mr Quinn, of Whipton Barton Road, Exeter, denies two counts of rape and two alternative counts of indecent assault; one count of inflicting grievous bodily harm; and attempting to choke, suffocate or strangle with intent.

Ms Wilding asked Mr Quinn how he felt when he was arrested on December 13, 2022. “Incredibly scared,” he replied. Asked why, he continued: “Because of the nature of the offences they wanted to speak to me about.”

“How was your mind?,” Ms Wilding asked. “Like a rollercoaster,” the defendant said. “It was all over the place.”

He told jurors that in the interview, he told police that he had ‘copped off’ with ‘a lot of women’ around the time of the incident. Mr Quinn said that he viewed the term ‘copped off’ as anything from a ‘snog on the dancefloor’ up to ‘full sex’, and ‘everything else’ in between.

“I should have corrected them and said I copped off with a lot of women,” he said. Under cross-examination by prosecutor John Price KC, Mr Quinn denied ‘dishonestly’ exaggerating the number of women he’d had sexual intercourse with to explain DNA findings. Mr Quinn said it was a ‘misunderstanding’.

In a second police interview in May 2023, Mr Quinn told police in a prepared statement that he was ‘very promiscuous’ and was ‘sleeping with a lot of women in 2003’. “I cannot explain the DNA evidence,” the statement added. He said that he didn’t remember the alleged victim and didn’t remember ‘if I slept with her’.

Mr Price asked the defendant: “So you still say you could have had sexual intercourse with [the alleged victim] in or around 2003?” The defendant replied: “That’s what I stated in my statements, yes.”

Mr Quinn said he did not answer further questions from the police in that interview, and third and fourth interviews in March 2024 and September 2024 respectively, under advice from his legal team.

Mr Quinn said he gave officers his mobile phone PIN number, and denied there was anything he was ‘worried about’ on the device.

Proceeding.

The back doors of Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona home were found propped open and her phone and purse were still at the home when the 84-year-old disappeared, daughter Savannah Guthrie said in an interview that aired Thursday on NBC’s “Today,” her first since her mother’s apparent abduction.

Given the tremendous pain their mother suffered from, Savannah Guthrie said she and her siblings knew it wasn’t a case of a person wandering off. Then there were the propped doors, blood on the front doorstep and a camera yanked off.

“So we were saying, ‘This is not OK’” Guthrie said. “‘Something is very wrong here.”

Her brother immediately realized that their mother had been kidnapped for ransom.

“I said, ‘What?’ And then, I mean, it sounds so, like, how dumb could I be? But I just, I didn’t want to believe. I just said, ’Do you think because of me?’” Guthrie recounted, choking up and wiping away tears. “He said, ‘I’m sorry, sweetie, but, yeah, maybe.’”

Nancy Guthrie was reported missing on Feb. 1. Authorities believe the 84-year-old was kidnapped, abducted or otherwise taken against her will. The FBI released surveillance videos of a masked man who was outside Guthrie’s front door in Tucson on the night she vanished. The Guthrie family has offered a $1 million reward for information leading to the recovery of their mother.

The longtime “Today” show co-anchor said in the interview that they don’t know that their mother was taken because of her, but acknowledged that it would make sense.

“Which is too much to bear, to think that I brought this to her bedside, that it’s because of me. And I just say, ’I’m so sorry, Mommy. I’m so sorry,′” Guthrie said. “If it is me, I’m so sorry.”

Some of the purported ransom notes were fake, Savannah Guthrie said, but she believed the two notes that she and her siblings responded to were real. But the circumstances were surreal.

“How is it possible that we are having to make a video speaking to a kidnapper who took an 84-year-old woman in the dead of night, in her pajamas, with no shoes, without her medicine?” Savannah Guthrie asked.

Seeing the images of a man in a ski mask from the porch camera was terrifying, Guthrie said, but after “cruel speculation” that a family member might be involved began to swirl, she was “glad that people saw what came to our door.” She will never understand that speculation.

“No one took better care of my mom than my sister and brother-in-law. And no one protected my mom more than my brother,” Guthrie said.

Investigators have worked tirelessly, but the family needs answers, Guthrie said.

“We cannot be at peace without knowing and someone can do the right thing,” she said. “It is never too late to do the right thing and our hearts are focused on that.”

In a letter to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, 720 faith leaders warned that restrictions on family reunion will push desperate people towards the smuggling gangs the Government is trying to dismantle

Hundreds of faith leaders have called on Shabana Mahmood to shelve plans they warn risk tearing families apart.

In a letter to the Home Secretary, 720 bishops, rabbis, ministers and rabbis say restrictions on family reunion rules will “push desperate people toward the very smuggling networks we all wish to dismantle”. They called on Ms Mahmood to rethink plans to end the automatic right of reunion for settled refugees.

Doing so, they argue, would be at odds with British values and every major faith tradition. The Home Office has suspended the right for newly recognised refugees to bring their families – a move critics said would result in more women and children making dangerous small boats instead. And Ms Mahmood has said rules will be tightened.

Rev Lord Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, said: “There ought to be no debate about the scandal of leaving unaccompanied children to fend for themselves in situations of great risk. Not for the first time, we are being challenged as to whether we as a society really believe in the right of children to be nurtured and protected, at a time when casualties among children are seemingly taken so much for granted in war across the globe.”

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The letter, coordinated by the Joint Public Issues Team of the Baptist, Methodist and United Reformed Churches, said having family nearby and knowing they are safe is essential for wellbeing and integration. It goes on: “For people of faith, family is foundational to human belonging, resilience, and hope. To further restrict safe routes for family reunion is to push desperate people toward the very smuggling networks we all wish to dismantle.”

The suspension of family reunions was brought in last year by former Home Secretary Yvette Cooper. Her successor, Ms Mahmood, has announced a raft of measures to clamp down on illegal migration, including making refugee status temporary.

The Labour frontbencher warned that failure to get a grip on the asylum system would open the door to right wing populists to destroy it. And she said her measures will make the rules fairer.

In an update to MPs this month she said: “Family reunion remains paused while new rules are designed that bring financial and integration requirements in line with those expected of British citizens.”

Rabbi David Mason said: “There is nothing fair or compassionate about keeping families divided. The Jewish community understands this well: the Kindertransport (which saved children from the Nazis) saved thousands of lives, but it also left many children separated from their families.

“We need to learn the lessons of that lasting pain. At a time of deepening division, the Government must bring humanity and responsibility back into refugee policy. Reinstating family reunion rights would be a vital step and make a huge difference to people rebuilding their lives here.”

Jo Cobley, chief executive at charity Safe Passage International, said: “Abandoning children and families, who have already been torn apart by the chaos of war and persecution, to a life of separation is chilling. Every day, we see the devastating impact separation has on children and the people who care for them most, and we also see the precious moments when mums and dads can finally hug their children again after years without each other.”

Rescuers who have been trying to free a whale stranded in shallow water off the north German coast have said “every minute counts” as they battle to release the animal.

Sven Biertumpfel, of the Sea Shepherd marine conservation group, told Sky News if they cannot get it off the shore “it will probably die there, because it’s exhausting for the whale”.

Asked how long the 10m (33ft) humpback whale, thought to be a male, has left to live if it stays stuck, he said it can take “up to one week or even longer” for an animal that size to suffocate.

The whale is marooned off the Timmendorfer Strand beach on the Baltic Sea coastline of the Schleswig-Holstein region, where rescue efforts began on Monday.

As for how the whale came to be in the area, Mr Biertumpfel said the Baltic Sea is not a humpback’s natural habitat, adding “maybe he followed some fish or some food”.

The water has less salt than the North Sea or the Atlantic Ocean, meaning it’s “bad for the skin”, which could lead to a potentially fatal infection, he said.

“So every minute counts,” added Mr Biertumpfel.

The whale, which weighs several tonnes, got entangled in nets, the conservationist said, adding that even though they had removed some of it, a biologist who entered the water to check the whale told them there was still some net in its mouth.

On Thursday, an underwater earth mover was used to try to dig a channel for the beast to escape, while police vessels, inflatable boats and drones have also been deployed, but, by Thursday afternoon, all attempts have been unsuccessful.

At one point, the animal, which is still alive, was turned so its head was pointing towards deeper water, as rescuers hoped it could find its own way back to sea, but it merely returned to its previous position.

Boats from the coastguard and the fire department passed by, creating large waves in the hope of freeing the animal – but also without success.

Rescuers are unwilling to try to pull the animal, which weighs several tons, out to deeper water for fear of injuring it, experts said.

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Fences have been put up to keep a large crowd of onlookers off the beach to make sure the whale “does not become even more stressed”, police spokesperson Ulli Fritz Gerlach said.

Stefan Stauch, who had come with his wife from the nearby village of Scharbeutz after hearing the whale’s sounds during the night, said: “Poor thing. I hope he can still be saved.”

Police recovered a ‘severely deformed’ saucepan with dog hair on it which Wheeler had used to ‘bludgeon her dog to death’

A woman who was handed a suspended prison sentence for beating her dog to death with a saucepan has been jailed for failing to comply with the court order.

Jordanna Wheeler repeatedly broke the curfew which was part of her suspended sentence, failed to turn up for multiple appointments, and didn’t engage with any help being offered by various agencies.

Activating the suspended sentence, a judge at Swansea Crown Court said custody was the “best place” for the defendant at the present time, especially given “the state” she turned up at court in.

The court heard that in December last year Wheeler was sentenced at Swansea Crown Court to 16 months in prison suspended for 18 months and was ordered to do a rehabilitation course, complete a 120-day alcohol abstinence requirement, and abide by a three-month nightly curfew after admitting causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal. The defendant was also disqualified from owning any animal for the next 10 years.

The original sentencing hearing was told that on August 19 last year Wheeler attended Neath Port Talbot Hospital “demanding to be sectioned” due to her mental health issues.

While talking to staff Wheeler disclosed that she had attended a party the previous day and consumed a large amount of alcohol before going home.

She said she then “woke up on the sofa covered in spew” and when she went to look for her dog “I discovered I had battered him to death”.

Hospital staff reported the matter to police and when officers went to the defendant’s flat in the Penlan area of Swansea they found a large brown Mastiff dog lying unresponsive and clearly dead on its bed in the living room.

The court heard that officers also found a “severely deformed” saucepan with dog hair on it which Wheeler had used to “bludgeon her dog to death”. For the latest court stories sign up to our crime newsletter

Wheeler, 28, now of Beili Glas, Loughor, Swansea, had previously pleaded guilty to breaching the terms of her suspended sentence when she appeared in the dock via videolink. She had been due to be dealt with on Monday but turned up late to court and was remanded into custody.

The court heard the defendant broke her curfew on six occasions during January and February, failed to attend any of her rehabilitation sessions, missed numerous probation appointments without an acceptable reason, and failed to engage with outside agencies offering help.

Alexandra Wilson, on behalf of the Probation Service, said the defendant had shown a “complete disregard” for the order and that the recommendation to the court was that the original custodial sentence be activated. She added that Wheeler had been candid with probation staff that she had left her flat on multiple occasions to go to the pub or the park and take cocaine.

Sarah John, for Wheeler, said it had to be conceded that activation of the original sentence was the likely outcome, and said the defendant’s reasons for breaching the curfew – namely that she needed to go outside for a walk – was “not one which would hold much weight with the court”.

She said Wheeler had started to engage with probation after breach proceedings were started and she invited the court to reduce the sentence in light of her client’s compliance with the alcohol abstinence requirement.

Judge Geraint Walters said where a defendant breached a suspended sentence the court was expected to activate the sentence unless it would be unjust to do so. He said not only would it be not unjust to activate it in the circumstances but it could be said it would be unjust not to activate it.

He added: “Quite frankly, I think you are better off at the moment where you are, not least given the state you arrived in at court on Monday.”

Judge Walters activated 12 months of the suspended sentence. The defendant will serve up to half the sentence in custody before being released on licence to serve the remainder in the community.

Police in the UK have reopened an investigation into sex abuse allegations made against influencer Andrew Tate.

Hertfordshire Constabulary confirmed the move on Thursday.

The force first launched its investigation in 2015 after three women alleged that the controversial influencer had abused them.

However, it closed the case in 2019.

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Shanice Roderick, 21, also used a woman’s bank card in various shops A court heard she was a ‘young and vulnerable’ woman who was addicted to class A drugs

A young woman burgled the same house twice in one day and stole £2,500 worth of items in order to fund her addiction to class A drugs. She was also stopped from stealing a handbag and boxer shorts from John Lewis.

Shanice Roderick, 21, went to John Lewis in Cardiff on October 31 last year and was seen by security staff attempting to leave the store in possession of a handbag and boxer shorts worth £233 in total. She was detained by a member of staff and taken to a hold room, but released due to a delay in the police arriving.

A sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court on Thursday heard Roderick committed two burglaries at the same property in Fitzhamon Embankment, Riverside, on November 11. Don’t miss a court report by signing up to our crime newsletter here.

She first entered the house at 12.35pm before returning with an unknown man at 4.15pm.

The victim of the burglary returned to find a number of items had been taken, including keys, a MacBook, PlayStation 4, a watch, a pocket knife, clothes, food and wine.

Prosecutor Charles Archer said the stolen items were valued at £2,500 in total.

The defendant was identified after her DNA was found on a drinks carton and a headband left at the scene, and she was caught on CCTV footage.

On November 15, Roderick used bank cards belonging to a woman whose car had been broken into at the NCP car park in Westgate Street, Cardiff.

The defendant had used the victim’s cards to purchase items worth £273, with transactions made at a bakery, a convenience store, a nail salon, charity shop and a petrol station.

She was later identified after she was caught on CCTV at the petrol station, purchasing cigarettes.

When interviewed, the defendant admitted the thefts which she said she carried out to fund her cocaine and heroin addiction.

Roderick, of Grand Avenue, Ely, later pleaded guilty to two counts of burglary, theft from a shop and fraud by false representation.

The court heard she had five previous convictions, including three offences of theft.

In mitigation, Erin Morgan said her client was a “young and vulnerable” woman who was addicted to class A drugs.

The barrister said the defendant was “sofa surfing” and had little to no stability in her life, but during her time on remand she has been abstinent from drugs.

Sentencing, Judge Paul Hobson said he had little confidence the defendant would be able to abide by a court order made in conjunction with a suspended sentence, due to her previous refusal to abide by such orders.

Roderick was sentenced to a total of 14 months imprisonment.

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Whitby Swing Bridge is set to be open to pedestrians and buses only for the next three weekends.

The closures will coincide with the first school Easter holiday (Saturday, March 28 and Sunday, March 29) the Easter weekend (Friday, April 3 to Monday, April 6) and final weekend of the school holidays (Saturday, April 11 to Sunday, April 12).

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A spokesperson for the council said the move aims to improve pedestrian safety and to support the town’s economy.

After these closures, there will be multiple others taking part throughout the year to coincide with major events including bank holidays, school holidays, the Whitby Regatta, and both Whitby Goth Weekends in May and October/November.

The closure will take place between 10.30am and 4pm on the respective days.