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Rugby world stunned by tragic news

Tributes have poured in for Scottish rugby legend Scott Hastings following his death at the age of 61.

The 65-cap centre, who toured twice with the British and Irish Lions, passed away “peacefully and pain free” in hospital in Edinburgh on Sunday. He revealed in 2022 that he had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and died following complications with his cancer treatment, having “deteriorated extremely quickly”.

The tragic news, which comes less than two years after Hastings’ wife Jenny passed away in tragic circumstances, has left the world of rugby in shock, with Scotland head coaches past and present paying tribute to the hugely popular former international.

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“Whatever jersey Scott wore, he just made it better,” said former Scotland and Lions boss Sir Ian McGeechan. “My association with Scott and his brother Gavin was always special for me because we came into the Scotland set-up, myself as coach, and Scott and Gavin as players, at the same time. We came in together and we grew together.

“I remember Scott on the Lions tours taking an absolute lead. He was so single-minded and determined about winning. He was very much your right-hand man, given what he did on the field.”

Scotland boss Gregor Townsend, a former teammate of Hastings, described him as an “iconic figure” in Scottish rugby, adding: “Scott always brought positivity and energy into everything he did from his playing career then into the past couple of decades as a widely travelled and respected commentator.

“His passing is a huge loss for Scottish rugby, and my thoughts and prayers go out to his family and close friends. Rest in peace, Scott.”

Former Scotland international Kenny Logan said: “Scott was one of those guys who you could rely on to always put his hand up. His energy was incredible,” while Jim Hamilton described him as “one of life’s great men”.

Having found huge success as a broadcaster after his playing career, Hastings has also been remembered by ITV Sport, with the corporation “devastated” by the news.

ITV Director of Sport, Niall Sloane, added: “Scott was an exceptional rugby broadcaster and a dear colleague.

“Scott worked on every Rugby World Cup on ITV since 1999 and has been an important part of our team on the Six Nations. Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this sad time.”

Wales internationals call for change

Former Wales Women internationals Philippa Tuttiett and Sioned Harries have called for changes to be made after Sean Lynn’s side finished bottom of the Six Nations table for the third year in a row.

A 43-24 defeat to Italy in Cardiff on Sunday condemned Wales to their second successive whitewash in the tournament, having won just one of their 15 Tests in all competitions under Lynn, who joined as head coach last year.

The under-pressure Wales boss admitted after the full-time whistle that his side had not been good enough against the Italians, with a tough review set to follow another disappointing campaign.

But for Tuttiett and Harries, while there have some been some flashes of progression over the course of recent weeks, changes are not being made fast enough, with Wales’ rivals starting to leave them behind.

“[Lynn] genuinely does believe in this team and he knows they’re on a journey and he knows it is going to take time,” Tuttiett said while on punditry duty for the BBC at the Arms Park. “Equally it is hard after loss, after loss.

“Changes are being made, more progressions are happening, but they are not happening quick enough. Other teams in Six Nations are progressing. Other teams in World Rugby are progressing.

“It is going to be another difficult review of this campaign. Players left it all out there. You can never doubt that. But something has got to change.”

Agreeing, Harries added: “You talked about… they’re on a journey. How long does one team have to be on a journey for? How long are you on that journey? I feel, at this point, we’re running out of excuses possibly.

“We still have the same player group, we don’t have the pool of players available to us as other nations – they are developing at a quicker pace – but we have got experienced players. There was a combined 542 caps in the starting 15 today.

“For me, I imagine for both of us being frustrated former players, how long are we on a journey?”

Leicester seal play-off spot

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Leicester secured a place in the Gallagher PREM play-offs with an emphatic 47-33 bonus-point victory at Sale that left them a point behind second-placed Bath.

Geoff Parling’s Tigers are shaping up as major title contenders and had too much quality for a Sharks side whose top-four hopes have long since ended.

Leicester captain Ollie Chessum opened the scoring but England team-mate Tom Roebuck replied for Sale before Jamie Blamire added a second try for the visitors. Tigers number eight Joaquin Moro and Sale flanker Jacques Vermeulen traded tries and Joe Heyes added a fourth for the visitors who went in at half-time with a 28-12 advantage.

The try-fest continued after the break as Leicester ran in further scores from Will Wand, Ollie Hassell-Collins and Archie van der Flier before Sale rallied in the final quarter. They touched down through captain Ernst van Rhyn, Sam Dugdale and Arron Reed to secure a losing bonus point but Leicester departed with their first win at Sale since 2018.

Alex Sanderson’s hosts were boosted by the return of England back-rower Tom Curry and scrum-half Raffi Quirke for their penultimate home game of the season.

Leicester’s starting line-up was unchanged from the team that beat Northampton last weekend. Heyes made his 100th start for the club while Hamish Watson and Olly Cracknell both returned to the bench.

It took Leicester less than two minutes to open the scoring as flanker Hanro Liebenberg broke down the left flank and found Hassell-Collins who in turn sent Chessum racing over the line.

Former Sale fly-half James O’Connor added the conversion but Sale hit back in the ninth minute when Roebuck dived over from close range. George Ford could not convert and Leicester, with their big pack driving them forward, scored twice more as the first half unfolded.

The first of those came in the 14th minute when Blamire was driven over the line from close range and eight minutes later they struck again with another forward-based try, this time Moro touching down from close range. Orlando Bailey, who replaced the injured O’Connor early on, converted both tries to put Leicester 21-5 ahead.

But Sale replied on the half-hour when Quirke’s quick penalty tap created the space for Vermeulen to thunder his way over the line from close range and Ford added the conversion.

Heyes touched down from close range and Bailey converted to make it 28-12 at the break. Wand then dived for their fifth, Hassell-Collins scored in the left corner from Adam Radwan’s long pass and Van der Flier added their seventh from close range.

Yet Sale refused to throw in the towel and scored close-range efforts through Van Rhyn, Dugdale and Reed to grab a bonus point on a day when they were largely outclassed.

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The rise, fall and murder of abusive monster Theo Silverton (James Cartwright) has been a rollercoaster from start to finish. But there’s one Coronation Street star who was glad to see it end.

For months, Theo subjected his terrified partner Todd Grimshaw (Gareth Pierce) to just about every kind of abuse imaginable.

As the signs of the nightmare Todd was enduring became more and more obvious, his loved ones grew to hate Theo more. Like all abusers, the raging narcissist worked hard to isolate his victim from his nearest and dearest such ashis boss and father figure George Shuttleworth (Tony Maudsley), his girlfriend Christina Boyd (Amy Robbins), and the closet thing he’s got to a daughter, Summer Spellman.

Theo’s reign of terror finally came to a close when he broke into the flat and tried to stop Todd leaving to Thailand, resulting in a terrifying game of cat and mouse which ended with the vile bully dead on the Cobbles at the hands of a mystery attacker.

Todd’s abuse story was over. Corrie’s murder whodunnit had begun.

It couldn’t happen soon enough for Harriet Bibby, who play Summer. In a recent chat with Metro, the actress revealed why she was glad to see the Theo story end.

‘There were a lot of potential murder victims at the start so when we learned that it was going to be Theo, I wasn’t necessarily excited, but I was definitely happy it was going to put an end to the horror for Summer, and definitely for it to put an end to the fear of Todd being hurt again. There was also the fear of her being hurt, because Theo did threaten Summer a couple of times as well, so I think it gave a definite full stop to that.’

Most of the characters on the list of subjects hated Theo because of what he did to Todd. So does Summer, but she’s got her own reason for wanting the sinister scaffolder out of the picture. He was so jealous of Summer’s adoptive father and Todd’s ex Billy Mayhew (Daniel Brocklebank), that he left him to die in a mini-bus crash.

Determined to bring her father’s killer to justice, Summer was even prepared to hand his life insurance payout over to  Carl Webster (Jonathan Howard), and it was recently revealed that she kept a journal detailing fantasies about holding a gun to Theo’s head.

This is not the kind of behaviour we’ve come to expect from the Girl Next Door to The Rovers. Harriet Bibby reflects on her character’s dark side.

‘I think we’ve seen a lot of level headed Summer in the past, although she can be quite reactive as well. Now that she doesn’t have Billy, and Todd’s been going through what he’s been going through, she’s really had to kind of cement herself and make her own decisions. So I am really excited to see a different side to Summer and for people to question whether or not she could be capable of doing something like this.’

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But is Summer truly capable of murder? Maybe. She was the last person to see Theo alive. On the night of the murder, she was searching the flat for something when Theo interrupted her with that chilling but somehow hilarious line ‘I guess Summer had to end some time.’

Which isn’t even the first time he’s threatened her life. Would Summer kill to protect herself? Harriet seems to think so.

‘I think there’s a scenario where she might have felt like it was either her that was going to be hurt, or maybe even killed, or it was him. I think when people are pushed to that point, it’s interesting to see what they will do to survive. It’s no secret that Theo was very threatening, he even said that he was going to bury Summer if she got in his way, so there could have been a moment where she felt like it was either her or him.’

In upcoming episodes, Summer is set to be suspect number one when she is pulled in to the police station for questioning. Worse still, George Shuttleworth, who’s been like a second dad to Summer, is starting to doubt her innocence after stumbling on her journal.Suddenly, the most unlikely suspect of all is the top of the list.

Harriet seems to be enjoying it though, as she shared some positive reactions from friends and fans alike.

‘It is really cool. I mean in soap a big who done it theme is always a really exciting one to be part of. Even the episode where it was revealed that it was Theo that died had everyone talking.
The amount of people so far who I’ve bumped into who have said, ‘did you do it? Was it you? People really do start to question the characters, and like George who is now second guessing Summer, so is the audience as well.’

‘You see this sweet girl, who you probably would never think is capable of murder, but this changes everything. I literally got a message from my friend saying, her Mum’s text her to say, did Harriet kill Theo? Was it her? So there’s definitely a buzz around the story and it is really exciting to be involved in. It makes people question your character, what they’re capable of doing and that’s a lot of fun.’

Like all of our suspects, Summer will be grilled by DS Kit Green (Jacob Roberts) and DS Lisa Swain (Vicky Myers) as the police close in on Theo’s killer.

Loyal Corrie fans are more used to seeing Summer in the Corner Shop in the Rovers than a police interview. Harriet shares how unexpected and different it feels to have her character in uncharted territory.

‘Yeah, it’s quite different. Being interviewed by the police, in that police cell environment, it’s a very different sort of scene. When we went into the police questioning rooms, I said I’ve never been in here, and everyone was like, what?

‘But Summer’s such a good character, she’s not really mischievous, she’s not evil, we’ve not seen her seek revenge before. So this is such a flip on its head. She’s such an unexpected suspect in this, but it’s also completely understandable why she’s a suspect, and so she should be.’ 

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The BBC crime drama has been impressing audiences and critics alike, and fans of shows like Line of Duty and Broadchurch will love the little-known series – streaming free on iPlayer

The crime drama landscape is saturated, making it challenging to discover a series which truly distinguishes itself from the genre’s crowded field.

It’s thrilling, therefore, when audiences uncover hidden gems that exceed expectations – and this overlooked British-Irish police procedural does precisely that.

Brought to screen by Sarah Phelps, Dublin Murders is a detective drama drawing from two novels – In the Woods (2007) and The Likeness (2008) – by author Tana French, both part of her Dublin Murder Squad literary series.

Fans of British crime offerings such as Line of Duty and Broadchurch will particularly appreciate this show, whose twists and revelations create compulsive viewing.

Led by Killian Scott and Sarah Greene as Detectives Rob Reilly and Cassie Maddox, the actors are supported by Michael D’Arcy, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Eugene O’Hare, Moe Dunford, Ellie O’Halloran, Niall Jordan, and Ian Kenny in an exceptional ensemble, reports the Mirror.

The eight-part crime drama was originally commissioned by the BBC for BBC One and Starz, with Irish public broadcaster RTÉ coming aboard the production later.

The programme’s official synopsis reads: “Detectives Rob Reilly and Cassie Maddox find themselves dispatched to investigate the murder of a young girl on the outskirts of Dublin, Ireland. Based on the books “In the Woods” and “The Likeness” by American-Irish writer Tana French, this psychological thriller features a cast of mostly Irish actors, including Killian Scott and Sarah Greene as the leads.

“The series follows the detectives, who put their friendship to the test, as they are pulled deeper into the intrigue and darkness that surrounds the case.”

Available to stream free on BBC iPlayer and on Netflix with a subscription, the series has garnered praise from both critics and viewers.

One reviewer said of the show: “Some crime series captivate because the mystery itself is so maddeningly mysterious, while the lure of others is largely the frisson between the leading detectives. This Irish drama of tragedy and intrigue has both in spades.”

While another critic said: “Don’t let the dull title fool you; this is an excellent, unique crime story; a treat whether you’re a fan of the source material or not.”

A third reviewer expressed their admiration for the series: “Dublin Murders is gripping, wonderfully atmospheric stuff that throws up mysteries galore.”

While one critic believed the police drama surpassed many comparable offerings: “Murders are bad everywhere. Dublin Murders, though, the new BBC crime drama by Sarah Phelps? Very good. In fact, better than many crime dramas.”

Viewers were equally enthusiastic, with one saying: “I really dug the absolute hell out of this, def a beautifully brutal mini series, and the actors we’re perfect, the young actress who played Adalyn was completely convincing and scary af, you ever see a movie with little demon kids that weird you the F out well if you haven’t watch this,i loved it.”

One IMDB user review of the British-Irish police drama reads: “A MIND TWISTING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER. I just finished binge watching this. It starts off slow as the story unravels its characters. It seems like a pretty simple whodunnit, but its not.

“The characters are flawed and have dark pasts which interweave beautifully with the main plot and just when you think you have it all worked out…. another bread crumb appears and like Hansel and Gretel you cant help yourself… You follow. I wont give anything away, but i hope they do a season 2… Special appearance by one of my favourite Game of Thrones characters and the acting is superb”

While another IMDB user review says: “Dublin Murders is very clever writing indeed, in fact, I haven’t seen anything quite like it.”

One fan of the show said: “Absolutely brilliant. This gets you hooked from the first episode. I just wish it was released as a whole as I hate waiting for each episode.

“One of the best shows on tv in a long time. Brilliant cast. Killian Scott has been in a few shows I’ve seen and he is fantastic in this as well. Hope there’s more than one season.”

While a Rotten Tomatoes audience review of the series reads: “I think this is an excellent show! I’m so tired of American shows! The casting is marvelous; this is not the same old thing. Very true to the novels, and very good! I am reading every Tana French novel I can get my hands on. Love it!”

Dublin Murders is available to stream for free on BBC iPlayer and with a subscription on Netflix.

Gardai have appealed for witnesses to all the collisions to come forward.

Four people were killed and multiple others injured following a weekend of carnage on roads in the Republic.

On Saturday, a woman in her 20s was struck by a car on the N11, Loughlinstown, South Dublin at around 11:50pm. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Earlier in the day, two men were killed in a horrific two-car collision in Birchhill, Co Donegal. The victims, who were aged in their 20s and 30s, were travelling in the same vehicle.

Meanwhile, a woman and a man in their 20s, who were also in the car, were rushed to Letterkenny University for non-life-threatening injuries.

A man and woman, who are in their 40s and travelling in the other vehicle, were also taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

In a separate crash also in Donegal on Saturday, a man in his 20s, was rushed to hospital following a collision on the R238 at Ardmore in Muff, but later passed in hospital. Gardai have appealed for witnesses to all the collisions to come forward.

It comes as the funeral of talented GAA player Laura Kennedy, who died after a two-car collision on the Nenagh to Dromineer Road R495 last Tuesday night, heard of her love for music, travel and camogie.

The young woman’s funeral took place in Ballywilliam Church in Tipperary on Sunday.

The 20-year-old’s coffin was draped in a Burgess-Duharra flag – the club she played for at levels. Her teammates also formed a guard of honour while her twin sister Ashling and dad John delivered heartbreaking eulogies.

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Devastated Ashling began by telling fellow mourners: “Anybody who knew Laura knew that she was kind, smart, funny, talented and amazing at everything she did.

“She was the most stylish person going, always buying more and more clothes on Vinted – the postman never got a break.

“She was also so smart and she knew it … I’d be stressing over an exam and she would try calm me down and just go ‘Ashling, it’s not worth it. It’s just some exam.’

“And she would go back to her room and study for a day and come back with a better result than me.

“She had one more exam left to finish before finishing her second year in college. Laura to me was not just my sister – she was my best friend. Anything one of us did – the other one did.”

Speaking about the unbreakable bond the pair had, Ashling added: “We couldn’t get away from each other.

“Secretly, I loved it because I knew she was always with me and I was never lonely. There was no chance to be lonely.

“If it was going to college, work, training, the cinema or going to town for our weekly trip to Tesco – I’d look at her and realise how lucky I was to have her.

“Her smile did something to me and I think it done something to all of us. You couldn’t help but smile back at her.

“I’m so glad I have the most amazing family and friends to get through this because I don’t think I’d be able to without them. We will stay strong for Laura and get the strength from her because she was the strongest person I knew.”

Her distraught dad John then spoke about the impact both Ashling and Laura had on his and his wife Annette’s lives once they were born.

He said: “On the 10th of the 10th, 2005. Two angels appeared to myself and my good wife Annette and our life changed forever.

“You think you have a life up until that, and you’re happy, and you’ll get on with it, but all anybody wants is for somebody to turn a house into a home.

“We had a beautiful house or bricks and mortar, but two beautiful children came along and made that complete.

“They lit a fire in our hearts. Unfortunately, now one of them has been extinguished

“But there’s so much power and light in the other one that it is more than double the flame. I know that you’ll keep lighting and Laura will shine her light through Ashling, and that joy that they brought us up to last Tuesday night – we will never forget.

“Laura had so many passions in her life. She loved her music as I said. She loved her Camogie. It’s fair to say that she loved to travel – she wouldn’t be home from one trip before she’d be on the internet planning something else.”

Breaking down, he said: “From short trips to long ones and I’m glad in her short 20 years that we fitted in so much.

“You were 20 years old, Laura and I would give anything for 20 more seconds just to hold you in my arms and tell you how much I love you.

“I told you every night going to bed that I loved you, and I only missed it when you were gone away. I’m so glad that I did that, but just in case you ever doubted that, from the bottom of my broken heart and from my wife and from your sister Ash … we love you so much and thank you for 20 beautiful, glorious years.”

Tokens to remember Laura’s life included an accordion, her Burgess-Duharra jersey, her favourite coat, her hurl, a bag to symbolise her love for travel and a lab coat to represent her degree.

She was later buried in Monsea Graveyard.

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Police received a call from ambulance service colleagues after a man suffered stab wounds in an incident in Parliament Road, Middlesbrough, at about 12:30am on Saturday, May 16.

Parliament Road in Middlesbrough (Image: THE NORTHERN ECHO)

The 27-year-old man suffered non-life-threatening stab wounds in the incident, and received medical treatment before being released from hospital.

CID officers arrested a 51-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman on suspicion of GBH with intent. Both have been released on police bail whilst enquiries continue.

Police have issued an appeal for witnesses and anyone with information or footage.

“Any witnesses or anyone who may have dash cam footage of the incident or further information, is asked to contact Cleveland Police on 101, quoting reference number 092546.”

“Crimestoppers can also be contacted anonymously online at www.crimestoppers-uk.org or by calling 0800 555 111.”

NEW YORK (AP) — As his daughter Olivia was born, Marlon White felt his wife’s hand slacken as she fainted. The baby, born at 29 weeks and weighing about 2 pounds, wasn’t making a sound as she was rushed to the neonatal intensive care unit. Terrified, he waited in the hall while the doctors stabilized his newborn and wife.

The next day, White, a welder, was back at work. Two days later, his wife, Farra Lanzer-White, was also back on the job, setting up a work station at the Denver hospital. For two months, first at one hospital then another, she kept up with emails and meetings as alarm bells went off each time Olivia stopped breathing, as she herself prepared for open-heart surgery for a condition discovered during her difficult pregnancy.

The Fort Collins, Colorado couple made a choice familiar to many parents with newborns in intensive care: Keep working while the baby is in the NICU to save any parental leave they might have for when the baby comes home. They are now part of a growing movement advocating for the adoption of NICU leave in the country’s patchwork of family leave policies, which differ between states, cities and companies.

In recent years, a smattering of companies have adopted dedicated paid NICU leave, including Morgan Stanley, Pinterest and the organic baby formula company Bobbie, while others have extended the length of parental leave or added policies like caregiving leave, which could also help NICU parents.

But mostly, the plight of NICU parents has been a blind spot, said Sahra Cahoon, executive director Love for Lily, a Colorado-based organization that supports NICU families and advocated for Colorado’s new law.

Cahoon launched the organization after her daughter Lily, born at 24 weeks and five days, died after three-and-a-half months in the NICU. Cahoon, who owned a jewelry-making business at the time, said she worked, believing her daughter would survive.

“It’s probably one of my biggest regrets,” Cahoon said, though at the time she felt lucky to be able to work remotely from the hospital and didn’t feel she could afford to give up her income. “We did not know that our story was going to end that way.”

Feeling unprepared

When Rebeca Herrera-Moreno learned about Colorado’s NICU leave law last year, it brought her back to her son’s time in the NICU six years earlier and she decided to leap into advocacy for a similar provision in her home state of California.

When her son Nico was born at 32 weeks in 2020, Herrera-Moreno was already on disability leave, having entered preterm labor weeks earlier. Her husband, Martin Moreno, was entitled to six weeks of paid parental leave under California law at the time, but they decided he would save that time for when Nico could come home, which ended up being three weeks later.

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She struggled to enjoy moments with her tiny son while holding him surrounded by machines, monitors and nurses. She would say “I love you” every day before leaving him while guilt swelled inside her that she hadn’t developed that feeling yet. Weeks later at home, she opened to up to her husband, Martin Moreno, who confessed that he had felt the same way.

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Moreno, a health director for a labor union, said he was consumed at the time with his job, which suddenly intensified as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the country. To this day, his most vivid memory of the period isn’t with his son in the NICU, but of a video he helped produce to show workers how to properly wash their hands.

When he came home, he felt unprepared to care for Nico, who had to be fed on his side to prevent choking. He had been oblivious to his wife’s emotional turmoil.

“I wish I would have had more preparation with the medical staff to really feel like I had everything set. And that’s speaking to the medical piece of it — not even addressing being absent for Becky during so much of this,” Moreno said.

Being present

Nearly 800 people have applied for neonatal care leave since Colorado’s policy took effect in January, according to Tracy Marshall, director of Colorado’s Family and Medical Leave Insurance Division.

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Among the first were Chris and Stevie Madden, whose son was born almost eight weeks early on Jan. 11.

Stevie Madden, a mental health professional who had been rushed to the hospital after her blood pressure spiked and she began bleeding, said she panicked about how to handle the crisis and work when she realized she had planned to start her maternity leave much later.

A nurse at the hospital, however, told Chris Madden about the new NICU leave, which they both applied for.

Madden, an oil field mechanic, said he wouldn’t have been able to keep him mind on his risky job while his son was fighting for his life. He said he learned how to handle his baby’s delicate skin — press gently, don’t rub — and gained the confidence he needed when Roczen stopped breathing once after returning home and had to be rushed the hospital.

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He told every parent he met at hospital about NICU leave.

“It was life changing not to have to think about money and stress and just be present with your baby,” Madden said.

___ This story has corrected that the woman in the first paragraph lost consciousness during birth, not after, and has corrected the spelling of Rebeca Herrera-Moreno’s first name. ___

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The 57-year-old shared how it’s been good for her to make this series

Kylie Minoque will open up about her life and career in her brand new tell-all series on Netflix, including her battle with cancer.

Australian popstar Kylie Minogue has a new three-part Netflix series coming out this week, made by the same team who worked on Sir David Beckham’s hit documentary.

It features footage from her childhood and time in Australian soap Neighbours, as well interviews with friends and family including her former co-star Jason Donovan, sister Dannii and musician Nick Cave.

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Speaking at a Q&A in central London ahead of the documentary’s release, Kylie admitted that it had been “good” to make the series. “There’s light and shade for sure,” she said of the film, adding: “We’re all human.”

When asked by host broadcaster Clara Amfo what the singer hoped her fans would understand about her after watching the film, she said: “I can imagine that fans and maybe even broader than that… maybe that’s one of the reasons that I have this relationship with my fans and the broader audience, is they can see, don’t know if I tried to do this, again it’s very weird to say this about myself, but I’m not invincible.

“I can get the job done and I can shine, hopefully. But I think that, I don’t know, that they understand that you could be me, we could co-exist.”

Kylie was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer in May 2005 aged 36. She underwent a lumpectomy and chemotherapy in Paris, and was given the all-clear in 2006. News coverage of her cancer diagnosis caused an unprecedented increase in bookings for mammograms, referred to as the ‘Kylie effect’.

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The singer opens up about her battle in the new documentary alongside sister Dannii. Speaking in the trailer, Kylie says: “I felt removed from my body, I was so scared of what was ahead of me.”

Dannii adds: “We didn’t know if she’s ever gonna be well again. I just wanted to be with my sister.”

On some of the public scrutiny and misogyny she has faced during her career, which is featured in the film, the star added: “There’s always a lot of talk about how much I’ve changed.

“”We all change through life, and grown and developed, and certainly that’s evident, as an artist, like I was famous before I knew what I was doing, so you know, and there came a lot of the criticism and the hardship with that, but what’s illuminating to me is, in so many ways, I haven’t changed.

“Like, the way of dealing with stuff from that time that you’re talking about is kind of how I do it now, like I read the room, do what I have to do, feel the fear and do it anyway.”

Vets are said to be already seeing a rise in avoidable cases linked to toxic plants and grass seeds, hazards that many pet owners don’t realise are right on their doorstep.

Many popular plants can be harmful if pets chew, lick, or dig them up.

Some of the most common include lilies, rhododendron, tulips, hydrangea, and bluebells.

Dogs may nibble leaves or bulbs, while cats can be affected simply by brushing past certain plants and grooming themselves afterwards. Some plants cause mild tummy upsets, but others can lead to serious illness.

Flowers (Image: CVS Vets)

Signs of plant poisoning can include vomiting, diarrhoea, drooling, lethargy, loss of appetite, excessive drinking, or collapse. Symptoms don’t always appear straight away, so pet owners should contact their vet immediately if they spot their pet eating a plant they are unsure of.

Owners should check plants are safe for pets before adding them to the garden or bringing them into the home. Bulbs and seeds should also be stored out of reach of pets before planting.

Grass seeds are another seasonal risk, particularly for dogs, and can lead to pain, infection, and complex veterinary treatment. These small, sharp seeds can become lodged in paws, ears, eyes, noses, or under the skin. Common warning signs that owners should look out for include persistent licking of a paw, head shaking, limping, or a sore, weepy eye.

Owners are advised to check dogs thoroughly after walks, especially between toes, around ears and armpits, as removing grass seeds early can prevent big problems later on.

Ellen Coker, Clinical Director at Regans Bury Road Veterinary Clinic, says “Our pets love exploring the garden as much as we do, but they don’t know what’s safe and what isn’t. Every spring and summer we see cases linked to toxic plants and grass seeds. Supervision and regular checks can make a huge difference to your pet’s health and comfort.

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“At Regans Bury Road Veterinary Clinic, we’re always happy to offer advice and reassurance.”

Pamela Illingworth, Practice Director at Pennine Vets Harwood, says “Supervision and regular checks can make a huge difference to your pet’s health and comfort.

“At Pennine Vets Harwood, we’re always happy to offer advice and reassurance. If you have any concerns about your pet’s health, behaviour, or something they may have encountered outdoors, please get in touch.”