Pamela Anderson nailed Hollywood glamour in a mustard yellow gown at the screening of A Place To Be during Venice Film Festival on Wednesday.

The actress, 59, debuted a dramatic new pincurl hairstyle in a sweeping golden dress for yet another glamorous appearance in the city.

Pamela showcased her natural beauty and flawless complexion by going make-up free at the Sala Giardino.

She ditched her usual voluminous waves for a new hairdo as she arrived on the red carpet ahead of a joyous evening.

The mother-of-two looked incredible in the strapless gown with dramatic balloon sleeves.

She was joined by Rita Ora‘s husband, director Taika Waititi, 51, who put on an animated display as he posed for photographs in a black tuxedo.

Place To Be is a road-trip story following an elderly woman, Brooke (Ellen Burstyn), and a divorcée, Nelson (Waititi), traveling from Chicago to New York to return a lost racing pigeon. 

The actress, 59, debuted a dramatic new pincurl hairstyle in a sweeping golden dress for yet another glamorous appearance in the city

Pamela stars as Molly, Brooke’s daughter, who is trying to find her footing after her second marriage and worries about her mother. 

Earlier in the day, Pamela was seen leaving the ultra-luxury Hotel Excelsior Venice Lido Resort, the historic heart of the festival since 1932. 

During the Venice Film Festival, Pamela also received a prestigious award at the amfAR Gala. 

Speaking at the event last weekend, the actress recalled the time she was given ’10 years to live’ when she was diagnosed with hepatitis C.

The Baywatch actress contracted the blood-borne illness around 1999 after she shared a tattoo needle with her ex-husband, Tommy Lee.

Pamela said it felt like ‘a death sentence’ after doctors told her it was a terminal diagnosis and she would not live past another decade. 

However, she announced in 2015 that she was completely cured of hepatitis C after living with the virus for 16 years.

Pamela admitted she is ‘still haunted by shame and guilt’. 

Pamela, who shares sons Brandon, 30, and Dylan, 28, with Tommy, said: ‘It was a death sentence. That’s what my doctor told me – that I probably had around 10 years to live.’

‘I’m sure that coloured and corrupted my decisions. It was not fear of death, but fear of what might happen to my young children. It turned my life inside out,’ Variety reported.

Pamela showcased her natural beauty and flawless complexion by going make-up free

She ditched her usual voluminous waves for a new hairdo as she arrived on the red carpet ahead of a joyous evening

Pamela looked incredible in the strapless gown with dramatic balloon sleeves

Her dress sported a dramatic long train

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Pamela turned heads as she arrived at the Sala Giardino

Earlier in the day, Pamela was seen leaving the ultra-luxury Hotel Excelsior Venice Lido Resort, the historic heart of the festival since 1932

Pamela showcased her age-defying physique as she signed autographs for fans

She was joined by Rita Ora ‘s husband, director Taika Waititi , 51, who put on an animated display as he posed for photographs in a black tuxedo

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She continued: ‘But my experience of shame and guilt was also an unconscious journey. It stays with me; it haunts me.

‘And just like the sexual abuse that I endured as a child, it felt like it was carved into my forehead: Damaged goods. And I presented myself as such.’

A cure for the infection was discovered in 2011 and by 2015, Pamela was ‘hep C free’, though at a financial cost.

She admitted: ‘It took everything I had in my bank [to pay for treatment].’

Pamela still hasn’t ‘fully recovered’ from the news of her diagnosis but has ‘finally come to terms’ with it and used it to fuel her career resurgence.

The Last Showgirl star said: ‘My truth has come through my work, finding ways to express myself through the arts. It gave me the ammunition I needed, a fertile life to use and play in.

‘I’m not a victim, I’m a victor. I am strong and capable, more now than I could ever dream of … I’m not the damsel in distress, no matter how easy that role is to play.’

The units are located at Northminster Business Park in York and were developed as part of a £3.3 million investment that transformed three former agricultural stores into modern, detached industrial buildings.

Located within a self-contained area of the park known as Cropton Court, the buildings feature energy-efficient technologies such as solar panels, translucent roof lights, high-bay LED lighting, and electric vehicle charging points.

George Burgess, managing director at Northminster Properties, which owns the business park, said: “Northminster Business Park has grown significantly in recent years and is now home to more than 50 businesses, employing approximately 1,000 people.

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“Our ability to provide a range of space—from industrial and warehouse units to offices and laboratory facilities—in a secure and highly accessible location is key to our success.

“Completing Cropton Court and welcoming Express Electronics, AES and Dolphin Minerals into their new buildings marks another important milestone for us.

“Each unit combines an excellent working environment with strong sustainability credentials and will give these businesses the platform they need to continue growing in this sought-after part of York.”

The units, which range from 6,250 to 8,250 sq ft, are now occupied by Yorkshire-based firms aiming to expand or consolidate while remaining in the region.

The new tenants include Dolphin Minerals, a wholesaler of crystals, minerals, fossils, gemstones, and related products; Automotive Equipment Solutions (AES) UK, a supplier of garage equipment for commercial vehicles; and Express Electronics, one of the UK’s fastest-growing electronic component distributors.

The buildings were jointly marketed by property consultancies GV&Co and PPH Commercial.

Paul Mack, director at GV&Co, said: “Northminster Business Park is undoubtedly one of North Yorkshire’s most successful business parks and appeals to a wide range of occupiers seeking high-quality premises in York.

“We generated significant interest in these new buildings, and securing deals with three well-established local businesses is a real success.

“Importantly, the park also offers significant room for expansion, with more than 25 acres of developable land available.

“This could accommodate up to 300,000 sq ft of new industrial, warehouse, or office space, presenting an exciting opportunity for other growing businesses.”

The business park is located less than four miles west of York city centre and is within walking distance of Poppleton Park & Ride and Poppleton railway station.

Welcome to our live coverage for sprint qualifying for the 2026 Dutch Grand Prix from Zandvoort. This is the last time the race will be on the F1 calendar for the foreseeable future, having been reintroduced in 2021 after a 35-year absence. It will be a shame to see it leave again, but never rule out it coming back, especially with Max Verstappen signing a lengthy contract extension with Red Bull. 

What of the competitive action this weekend? As it is a sprint weekend, there is not a lot of preparation time, with just one practice session before sprint qualifying. In that it was a fairly close fight at the top, and it was Kimi Antonelli, the championship leader, who was fastest of all. Behind him was the McLaren of Lando Norris who was 0.121sec adrift then George Russell, who will be looking to kickstart his title campaign here, a further 0.004sec behind him. 

Then came the two Ferraris of Lewis Hamilton (0.190sec) and Charles Leclerc (0.289sec) before a fairly significant gap of 0.659sec to Oscar Piastri in sixth. Verstappen was down in 11th, nearly 1.4sec off Antonelli’s ultimate pace but 0.5sec or so ahead of new (and old) team-mate for the weekend, Liam Lawson. 

It was a tricky session for the drivers, though, as it began damp on a showery and blustery day by the Dutch seaside. Several drivers ran wide and off the track, though they all avoided anything more serious than gravel rash. The rest of the day looks to be drier but there are still a few showers around and the wind is all over the place, as it often is here. 

Sprint qualifying starts at 3.30pm BST and we will be here for all of the updates for the nearly hour-long session. 

A police force has said the Nottingham attacks were not “reasonably foreseeable or preventable”, a public inquiry has heard.

Valdo Calocane – who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2020 – stabbed to death Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates, and tried to kill three others in a spate of attacks on 13 June 2023.

Nottinghamshire Police dealt with Calocane on 10 or 11 occasions between 2020 and 2022, but John Beggs KC – representing the force – said police “cannot manage dangerous paranoid schizophrenics”.

At the Nottingham Inquiry, external – which has been examining the attacks – Beggs challenged the idea that any police mistakes before the killings were missed opportunities.

Calocane admitted three counts of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, and three counts of attempted murder.

Following Calocane’s sentencing to a hospital order in January 2024, a series of failings by authorities emerged, including the police, which led to calls by the affected families for a statutory public inquiry.

The judge-led inquiry began in February this year, and laid bare the extent of failings in Calocane’s care and his previous interactions with police, including the failure to execute an arrest warrant for Calocane, which was still outstanding at the time of the attacks.

The inquiry, which is being led by retired senior judge Deborah Taylor KC, is in its second day of closing submissions.

Addressing Taylor on Wednesday, Beggs said: “We respectfully invite you to avoid the mindset that a mistake or an omission by an officer represents a missed opportunity to prevent this tragedy.

“The appropriate question might be – missed opportunity to do what precisely?

“The police cannot manage dangerous paranoid schizophrenics.”

Nottinghamshire Police has maintained throughout its evidence that if the warrant had been executed, it was unlikely to have prevented the attacks from happening.

“The criticism of our failure to execute that warrant is entirely justified,” Beggs said.

“What isn’t justified is the assumption that that failure represented a missed opportunity to prevent the attacks.”

That view has been disputed by the bereaved families, including their legal representative, Tim Moloney KC, who previously said any attempt to suggest arresting Calocane would not have made a difference would be “cowardly and insulting”.

Beggs said a “low-level to high-level community order, we suggest is the likely outcome”.

Some members of the bereaved families left the hearing room as Beggs continued.

Engensia Design Ltd of Lincoln House, Thorpe Lane, Fylingthorpe, went into voluntary liquidation on August 11 and CB Business Recovery of Elland, West Yorkshire, were appointed liquidators.

The IT consultancy and artistic creation business, that was incorporated in 2015 had estimated assets of £73,912.12, , according to a report posted on the Companies House website.

The report, known as a statement of affairs, details the debts, and says the business also had no preferential creditors- those who are paid first.

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However, HMRC was a secondary preferential creditor – those who are paid next- and was owed £32,951.56 in VAT.

This meant there was no shortfall to such preferential creditors and a surplus of £41,020.56 was available to unsecured creditors- those who are paid last.

The unsecured creditors consisted of HMRC, which was owed a further £99,076.40, plus a director called David John Wiggins, who was owed £4,000.

This left an estimated deficiency of £62,055.84 with regards to unsecured creditors.

With the business having issued and called up capital of £1, this left an overall deficiency of £62,056.84 outstanding.

A British woman has revealed her and her family’s hellish ordeal after her husband was allegedly abducted and brutally tortured by Saudi Arabian authorities. 

Businessman Rami Naimi was returning from a work trip to Australia with his father when his family claims he was abducted in Dubai in 2017. 

The father of three, who is the son of former Saudi oil minister Ali Al-Naimi, was detained again in 2022, held for two years and was last year sentenced to six years in prison following a secret trial.

His initial detention came during a purge of Saudi political, royal and business figures at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh in November 2017 as part of an apparent anti-corruption campaign. 

Speaking out for the first time, Mr Naimi’s family – who on Tuesday launched a campaign to bring him home – say he has been the victim of horrific forms of torture, including electrocution and waterboarding. 

His wife Mira Lozi, who is battling cancer, said during the launch in London that she has had to keep quiet since 2017 to secure her husband’s release, and described the last nine years as a ‘nightmare’.

Breaking her silence, she revealed how, following his 2017 abduction, her husband was blindfolded and forcibly taken by car to Abu Dhabi and then by private jet to Saudi Arabia, where he was held at the Ritz-Carlton and tortured, electrocuted, waterboarded and psychologically abused for three months. 

Now, in an interview with the Daily Mail, Mrs Lozi has opened up about how she feared for her own life when her husband was first taken in 2017.

Naimi pictured with his wife and children before his detention. His family have launched a campaign for his release

Mrs Lozi, who was living in Dubai at the time of her husband’s first detention, says: ‘I lived my life [feeling] terrified, looking over my shoulder. What’s going to happen next? Who’s behind me? You know, am I going to be taken? And for what? Absolutely nothing. We had no idea what was happening. We were just walking like ghosts.’

Such was the family’s fear that when Mr Naimi was released three months later and placed under house arrest – after being forced to sign a ‘settlement agreement’ pledging to surrender £200million – that they felt too unsafe to visit him.

‘We were terrified. We were very scared for our own safety. So we had to decide if it was safe enough to visit him’, says Mr Naimi’s son, Ali, who was just 12 years old at the time of his father’s detention. 

‘It was…like my dad was still abducted,’ the now-21-year-old adds. 

Ali also spoke about the emotional toll his father’s detention had on him at such a young age, describing how the ordeal forced him to grow up early. 

‘I’m sure you can imagine how difficult it is for a 12-year-old to know these details about his family,’ he says.

‘I’ve been traumatised for my whole childhood. I basically lived a life without my father. I know more of my life without my father than I do with.’

The family were eventually able to visit Mr Naimi, but they say contact with him was limited after he was placed under electronic surveillance and banned from leaving Saudi Arabia. 

They add that Mr Naimi was left with emotional scars from his experience. 

‘He doesn’t want me to know these horrific details,’ Ali says: ‘And of course, he’s very traumatised.

‘He’s a different man from who he was before he was taken. So at some points, he would share details out of anger… he’s a very damaged person after what happened to him,’ he adds.

The family were forced to relive their nightmare in 2022, when Naimi disappeared once again for nearly two years.  

‘He got a phone call, and they told him that there’s a problem with his ankle bracelet and that they’re going to come and fix it. And he disappeared,’ Mrs Lozi says. 

During this time, he was subjected to further torture and emotional and psychological abuse.

Meanwhile, his family went through the agonising pain of not knowing if he was alive or dead. 

Recalling those two difficult years, Ali says: ‘[It was] much worse, because I wasn’t 12 anymore. I was 17. I knew what was going on. 

‘I knew the possibilities of his ill treatment. And I knew that this was going to be tough, and it was going to be a lot harder than it was when I was younger. And I was right.’

The family learned in 2024 that he was being held in Saudi’s notorious Al Ha’ir prison. He was released in March last year but has remained under house arrest, while his family continued to feel his absence.

‘I was traumatised, and I had to go through a lot without my father. And it wasn’t just me. My sisters had to go through the same,’ Ali says. 

‘My sister graduated from university. I graduated from high school. All my friends were getting career help from their dads.

‘They were asking their dads. They looked up to their fathers, and they wanted to ask them about career advice and what [universities] to go to. So I was deprived of that.

‘And my eldest sister was deprived of her father at her wedding. She’s now having a baby.’

It was after his release in March 2025 that he learned of charges against him claiming he had ‘exploited’ his father’s official influence. 

Mr Naimi also faced allegations that he acted as an agent for a US company in Saudi Arabia and was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment after a secret trial. 

He is now facing a second trial over his internet activity while being held at the Ritz-Carlton in 2017.

Mr Naimi has been accused of following social media accounts that are critical of Saudi Arabia, for which, if convicted, he faces up to 20 years behind bars. 

He and his family deny the allegations and say the claims are unfair. 

They are now calling for action from the UK, US and EU governments to ensure his release. 

‘We want to see political pressure, and we want them to raise the question with Saudi at the highest level and to help secure our father’s release.

‘It’s a completely unfair issue. And it’s against the rule of law and international law. We would like governments and the EU and the US to hear our story and to help us bring Rami home,’ says Ali.

‘It could happen to any British family. And I think it’s, I mean, we are British, and I think it’s, you know, it should, I mean, my Prime Minister Andy Burnham should really put that on his highest priority, just to bring Rami back home and to do the correct thing,’ Mrs Lozi adds.

Naimi has been subjected to emotional and physical torture, his family claim

According to Mr Naimi’s family, he is unaware of their decision to go public about his ordeal, because their contact with him is so monitored. 

Mrs Lozi says she spent years terrified to speak up over fears that it would compromise her husband’s release. 

But now, she says she feels like she has no other choice.

‘The proceedings are just not going the way they should, and nobody is really paying attention or reading. 

She adds that her ongoing battle with cancer also played a part in her decision to share her family’s story.

‘I don’t know how much I have left, you know. So I guess that was the cherry on top for my kids to get their father back.’

Roadworks that may have frustrated residents have yielded an archaeological prize: a cache of 10th-century pottery among the oldest medieval works ever found in the Georgian capital.

The works on Rustaveli Avenue, Tbilisi‘s stately central boulevard, began this summer to add pedestrian crossings, improve signage and make other upgrades.

The project has brought traffic chaos and drawn complaints from residents, who must now navigate gaping holes and crushed brick on their daily walks, but it has also given archaeologists a rare glimpse into Tbilisi’s past.

The discovery of the ceramic workshop six metres beneath the city’s main thoroughfare came as little surprise to David Lordkipanidze, director of the National Museum, located just a stone’s throw from the dig site.

“Tbilisi is very rich with archaeological material…so it’s very logical to find workshops of different periods,” he said.

Medieval Georgian chronicles date Tbilisi’s founding to the 4th century, when Vakhtang I ruled over the kingdom of Kartli in what is now eastern Georgia.

Preliminary studies of the pottery’s ornamentation suggest the fragments date from sometime between the 10th and 11th centuries, when Tbilisi was under Arab rule and an important stop along the Silk Road. The archaeological findings will be brought to the National Museum for 3D scanning and proper review, Lordkipanidze said.

Tbilisi blossomed in the medieval period, during which time the city changed hands between the Umayyad caliphate of Damascus, Baghdad’s Abbasid caliphate and the formidable Seljuk Empire, among others.

“Tbilisi was always multicultural,” Lordkipanidze said, and “a real centre for the region, particularly an economic centre.”

Successive waves of conquest by the Mongols, Persians and Russians have influenced the look of the city, where crumbling, 19th-century houses cling to hillsides above the Kura river, which flows from the Caucasus mountains to the Caspian Sea.

Tbilisi’s name – which means “a warm place” in Georgian – refers to the hot, sulphurous waters that pour forth from the mountains ringing the city and form creeks that trickle below its streets. Some are now on full display due to the renovation works along Rustaveli Avenue.

Tbilisi’s mayor has pledged a “well-organised and modern” result and workers are labouring through the night to meet a November deadline. The city hall is under pressure to investigate claims that asbestos was dug up from the bowels of the avenue.

As the hearse carrying PC Matt Blades, bearing the word ‘Dad’, made its way down Hutton Avenue in his hometown of Hartlepool today, the dignified silence was almost unnerving.

For minutes at a time, the only sounds audible above respectful whispers were the buzz of a drone filming this ceremonial funeral and the clip-clop of hooves from the four horses that led the procession.

Given the chaos which has gripped this part of north-east England in the weeks since PC Blades, 37, and his colleague at Cleveland Police, PC Tom Clough, 38, were killed in a head-on smash on the A66 in Middlesbrough, the respect shown by the hundreds of members of the public who gathered to pay their respects restored a little of one’s faith in humanity.

How different this scene was to those over recent days celebrating the lives of the five young men driving a car on cloned number plates who also died in the crash that killed the two officers.

During a ‘memorial’ service to Michael Cahill, 23, last month, five vehicles were set alight in Haswell, County Durham, and fireworks and flares were set off.

Other funerals to the five have seen young men hiding their faces behind balaclavas or hanging out of car windows.

It was little different today.

Just as more than 1,000 police officers quietly lined the streets to watch PC Blades’ coffin, draped in the Union Jack, carried into St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, a service for Cole Worthy, who died in the same crash, was being held nearby in Middlesbrough.

Police officers hug each other before the funeral of PC Matthew Blades 

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Pall bearers carry the coffin of PC Matthew Blades into his funeral in Hartlepool

Police attend the funeral of PC Matthew Blades at St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church

A huge police presence as mourners attend the funeral of PC Matthew Blades in Hartlepool

PC Blades was one of two officers killed in a head-on smash on the A66 in Middlesbrough

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Remarkably, midway through his funeral at Teesside Crematorium, police received reports of a ‘disturbance’ and officers were called to the scene.

A 39-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of assault before the service resumed.

There were no such issues at the funeral for married father-of-two PC Blades, an armed response officer and former teacher who had served with Cleveland Police since 2015.

Many officers hugged before the procession arrived and even touchingly fixed one another’s lapels and straightened ties.

Some wore identity patches bearing the words ‘PC 2443 BLADES’ and ‘PC 3234 CLOUGH’.

Standard bearers waved flags representing every force from across the country before four pipers and a drummer processed in front of the funeral car and played Amazing Grace as the coffin was led inside the church. 

Emergency services representatives from the North East Ambulance Service and Great North Air Ambulance were also in attendance.

Among those paying their respects were Cleveland Police Chief Constable Victoria Fuller, policing minister Sarah Jones, Home Office minister Anna Turley, Conservative MP for Stockton West Matt Vickers and Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen.

Cleveland Police Federation paid tribute to PC Blades, who was known as Matty, and to the courage of his family.

A huge police presence as mourners attend the funeral of PC Matthew Blades in Hartlepool

The hearse carrying PC Matt Blades through Hartlepool today bears the word ‘Dad’

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Pall bearers carry the coffin of PC Matthew Blades into his funeral at the church

Police officers hug each other before the funeral of PC Matthew Blades in Hartlepool

Mourners attend the funeral of PC Matthew Blades at St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church

Hundreds of police officers line the street at the funeral of their colleague 

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Some of the officers wore identity patches saying ‘PC 2443 BLADES’ and ‘PC 3234 CLOUGH’

Standard bearers represent every UK force at the service for PC Matthew Blades

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Lauren Somerville, chairman of Cleveland Police Federation, said: ‘The police family came together shoulder to shoulder today, arm in arm to remember our brave colleague PC Matthew Blades.

‘It was an honour and a privilege to attend today’s funeral on behalf of our colleagues across Cleveland.

‘His family have shown incredible dignity and bravery since those awful events in August and it was our privilege to play our small part in honouring Matt’s memory.

‘Matt was a devoted husband and father. An adored son and brother, son-in-law, and is remembered as the most fun uncle. 

‘He has been taken from his loving family far too soon and they remain squarely in our thoughts.

‘The support and love we offer them does not end today. We will always be there to take care of them.’

Well-wishers in attendance spoke of how they felt a duty to pay their respects to a man who died ‘doing his job.’

Helen Byers, 65, a nurse from Hartlepool, said: ‘This was a young lad who lost his life looking after us all. It’s just tragic. I’m just glad there hasn’t been any trouble.

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‘I was really upset when I heard what happened to him – somebody going out to do their job and then not coming home to a young family is absolutely tragic.’

Anne Roe, 60, a retired care worker, said: ‘They [the police] are heroes. I don’t come out of the house often these days but I had to come out for this.

‘I wanted to pay my respects and show they are respected.’

PC Blades, a football coach for youth teams, was a Manchester United fan and a regular at Old Trafford. His two young sons were mascots for the club’s first home game of the season.

His wife, Sarah, paid tribute to her husband the day after the tragedy which claimed his life.

She said: ‘No words will ever feel like the right words to honour our Matt – my beloved husband, my best friend, and the most devoted father to our two young boys.

‘He was an adored son and brother, a perfect son-in-law, and the most fun uncle. He was loved beyond words by all his family and friends, and his loss has left a space that can never be filled.

‘He gave his life in the line of duty, protecting and serving others with courage, dedication and selflessness.

‘The pain of losing him is beyond words, and our lives will never be the same. Neither will the love he gave us ever fade.

‘Our children will grow up knowing what an incredible father he was and will always be, and I will carry his love, his memory and everything we shared with me always.’