Pink Ladies members expressed support for “woman-hater” Tate – despite their claims to be trying to protect women.

An anti-immigrant group called the Pink Ladies have come under attack for supporting misogynist Andrew Tate, despite claiming to defend women.

They are ­planning a major rally in Glasgow tomorrow amid fears of widespread disorder after a right-wing protest in July sparked chaos.

But the Pink Ladies have been slammed after members expressed support for “woman-hater” Tate – despite their claims to be trying to protect women.

Members of the Pink Ladies group have expressed support for ­“manfluencer” Tate and his brother Tristan – both of whom face a large number of charges for serious crimes against women – including rape.

On August 26, Pink Ladies Glasgow reposted on their official Facebook page material from Andrew and Tristan Tate.

The brothers used a handle created by them called The “Bruv Party”, which they earlier announced as a political party that will make a challenge in British politics.

Their post features a video of Tate talking and states: “This isn’t the Britain our ancestors died for. We must end this failure and take our nation back.”

Campaigners at Stand Up to Racism (SUTR) highlighted the group’s support for the Tate brothers, saying: “We exposed the hypocrisy of the Pink Ladies Glasgow as they shared content from the Tate brothers, the leaders of toxic masculinity and the ‘manosphere’.

“The Pink Ladies pretend to stand up for women’s and girl’s safety, then they approvingly share content from the world’s ultimate misogynists.”

A counter-protest tomorrow will involve trades union members, SUTR and representatives of Women Against The Far Right.

A spokeswoman for the anti-racist women’s group said: “The notion that any far-right group, even those that are supposedly led by women, care about women’s safety is a lie.

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“They make all of us less safe by weaponising violence against women as a way to spread racism and division. It is especially clear when some of the women involved have supported people like Andrew Tate, a misogynist who was arrested under charges for rape, child abuse and trafficking. These groups do not speak for women.”

The Facebook page for the Pink Ladies event at Glasgow Green, which has been publicised with flyers, also published an apology for supporting a racist post that spread lies about a tenement block in Glasgow.

The controversial post included a link to the blatantly Nazi National Socialist ­Movement. Despite the far-right links, organisers insist tomorrow’s Pink Ladies event will go ahead, with UK founder Orla Minihane the main speaker.

A spokesperson for SUTR said the Pink Ladies group was a front for far-right racists, saying: “We can now see the same people who have been spreading racist views and promoting disorder in Glasgow are influencing this Pink Ladies event.

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“It’s the same nucleus of people who recycle their own propaganda, which is based on lies. These people are not interested in truth. They are meant to be defending women but that idea seems very secondary to the racist material they are now dealing in.”

On its own Facebook page, SUTR highlighted the white supremacist post shared by Pink Ladies Glasgow. Posted by a Robert Simpson, of the National Socialist Movement, it featured a photo of a block of flats in Possilpark, Glasgow, ablaze.

A local rumour had stated that the block was being renovated for immigrants. The Nazi’s post stated: “Apartments renovated for 3rd world immigrants on fire in Glasgow. Let’s make Britain white and great again”.

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Despite removing that offensive post, the Pink Ladies failed to delete other far-right material by Simpson.

Among others to spread the rumour was Linda Dempster, wife of Glasgow gangland figure Bobby Dempster.

Glasgow MSP Paul Sweeney hit out at people celebrating the fire, saying: “People spreading malicious ­disinformation are trying to wreck the improvement of our community in Possilpark. Listen to the facts.”

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Calls for a peaceful protest were previously issued before the far-right rally on July 25, which was meant to amplify calls for the protection of women and kids. That event descended into chaos, with masked men marauding through Glasgow.

Women Against the Far Right penned an open letter to MPs that gained the support of 200 prominent women and organisations. The letter stated a need for an “urgent wake-up call” to respond to the growth of the far right, which is fuelling ugly demonstrations in towns and cities across the UK.

On ­Wednesday, Tate, 39, and co-accused brother Tristan, 38, were denied bail after they told a Florida court they should be released to fight extradition to the UK on charges of rape and trafficking. The brothers maintain they did not commit the alleged crimes.

Police will be maintaining a massive presence at Glasgow Green tomorrow. Chief Superintendent Stevie Dolan said “Any violence will get a strong response. There is no tolerance for people intent on causing disorder.”

A spokesman for Glasgow City Council said: “We respect the right to protest peacefully.”

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The Record has approached Pink Ladies Glasgow for comment.

In an earlier statement, they denied “weaponising violence against women”, and said Pink Ladies ­Glasgow was independent of groups which shared publicity for the rally.

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Despite being told the boy was underage, Andrew Jackson picked him up and drove him to the woodland.

There, Jackson climbed into the back of his car and engaged in sexual activity with the teenager, who had become “reluctant” but went along with it, Durham Crown Court was told.

Jackson then dropped off the boy, who told his parents what had happened and they reported it to police.

The defendant had given the boy his name and told him he was a bus driver.

He was arrested and later picked out by the victim in an identity parade after making no comment at interview.

When Jackson was arrested at home, the car outside matched the victim’s description.

Police also found a phone containing messages arranging sexual activity with the boy.

Andrew Jackson jailed for six years for engaging in sexual activity with an underage boy and arranging the commission of a child sex offence (Image: Durham Constabulary)

They also found another online conversation in which Jackson claimed he had previously had sex with a 13-year-old boy.

Ben Sayers, prosecuting, said the defendant made no comment in two further police interviews.

But when the now 66-year-old, of Claymond Court, Stockton, went on trial in July, he claimed he believed both boys were 18.

He was found guilty of five counts of sexual activity with a child and one count of arranging a child sex offence.

Mr Sayers told the sentencing hearing that the disparity in ages was “an aggravating feature” of the case.

David Callan, in mitigation, accepted the age gap but said the complainant was only months short of 16 and showed “no hint or suggestion” of being anything other than a willing participant.

Mr Callan said Jackson has been in a 22-year relationship and worked throughout his adult life.

“He’s now paying a heavy price as he has resigned from his job, as he would have had to do.

“He’s been a bus driver and enjoyed that work.”

Mr Callan said Jackson had no drug or alcohol problems but did have health concerns.

Judge Richards Clews referred to a Probation Service report saying Jackson still appeared to deny his guilt, claiming he thought the “boy” was 18 and only pretending to be 15.

But Mr Callan said Jackson now “accepts” the jury’s verdicts, although he does not agree with them.

Judge Clews told Jackson his crimes were so serious that only an immediate prison sentence was justified.

He said, like the jury, that he was satisfied Jackson knew the boy’s age.

During the trial, the judge said the complainant had clearly stated that he had never lied about his age.

The judge said the boy had agreed to the sexual activity but became “reluctant” and felt it had gone too far to stop by the time he was in Jackson’s car.

Judge Clews described it as “predatory behaviour” by the defendant.

“You were looking for and found a boy of this age and willing to engage in sexual activity.”

The judge said the boy returned home in “emotional turmoil” and told his mother what had happened, prompting police to trace Jackson.

Imposing a six-year prison sentence he told Jackson he would serve two-thirds, or four years, before becoming eligible for release on licence.

The judge also put in place a Sexual Harm Prevention Order, for ten years, and made Jackson subject to sex offender registration for life.

Republicans gathered in Dallas for the closing day of the party’s first-ever convention held in the middle of a US presidential term, where US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance spoke to voters.

The aim of the convention was to boost enthusiasm among supporters, even as protesters of Trump gathered outside.

The BBC’s North America editor Sarah Smith breaks down the main takeaways from the two day event.

The Daily Record has taken a deep dive into the evil Daniel crime clan’s most vile acts from kids being locked in animal cages to trashing graves.

This comes after we reported yesterday that foster carer Barbara Daniel was released from prison six months after she was convicted of abusing children at a Glasgow “house of horrors”.

However, this was just the latest in a long line of horrific acts perpetrated by the Daniel gang.

From terrifying alien abductions and the desecration of a young boy’s grave who died of cancer to the brutal Applerow Motors Shooting and a Costa del Sol double execution.

Here are the most despicable acts carried out by the Daniels.

House of Horrors

Barbara Daniel, 75, and her husband Douglas, 80, were found guilty in January after subjecting six children, aged between four and 14, to cruel and unnatural treatment at their home in Parkhead between 1986 and 1991.

The trial heard how the pair dished out horrific punishment methods, which included forcing some of the youngsters into an animal pen.

They both received a 30-month sentence on March 9. However, Barbara has been freed from jail after successfully appealing her sentence at the Sheriff Appeal Court in Edinburgh on Tuesday – with it having been reduced with eligibility for release at 81 days.

he trial heard of the couple’s depravity as they were accused of a catalogue of horrific abuse.

One victim was made to stand with geese who pecked her skin, while a girl was ordered to bathe in a bird bath. Some kids went hungry under their roof, but one recalled being fed cow tongue intended for pet ferrets by “evil” Barbara Daniel.

At least one child was made to sit on the floor alongside pet dogs during mealtimes.

The children were also subjected to violent physical assaults and controlling behaviour. They were locked in rooms, monitored with alarmed windows and had their access to the bathroom restricted, including only being allowed one square of toilet paper.

One survivor told the Record about being confined in a makeshift cell inside a bird pen.

She said: “They would put me in there all day and wouldn’t feed me.”

She previously told how she confronted the couple as they left court after their sentencing and hoped they would “rot and die in jail”, adding: “They’re monsters.”

Costa Del Sol double murder

Notorious Lyons hood Eddie Lyons Jnr, 46, and his trusted lieutenant Ross Monaghan, 43, were shot dead at a pub in Fuengirola – then known as Monaghan’s – on May 31 last year while a turf war was escalating back home in Scotland.

The incident occurred just hours after the Champions League final when PSG thrashed Inter. Expats and holidaymakers were gathered around big screens at 11.30pm on the Saturday night when Lyons, who had been on a golfing holiday with pals, was shot outside on the terrace.

Harrowing images from the scene showed Lyons Jr lying lifeless on his back in shorts and a T-shirt by a drinks and meal blackboard.

A masked gunman dressed in black then stormed the pub and shot Monaghan at point black range. CCTV of the shooting was broadcast on Spanish TV.

It showed Monaghan dropping to the floor as the gunman shot at him a number of times. As the stricken gangster crawled across the floor, he appeared to turn around and look into his killer’s eyes before later being seen sitting upright against a wall covered in blood.

Spanish police identified the assassin as an internal member of the rival Daniel crime group before Michael Riley, 45, was arrested following an international manhunt and extradited to Spain.

Alien abductions

Kevin ‘The Gerbil’ Carroll was a feared enforcer for the Daniel gang. He struck up close friendships with crime boss Jamie Daniel’s sons Robert Daniel and Francis “Fraggle” Green as a young man who was bullied by their rivals Steven Lyons and his brother Eddie Jnr.

The father-of-three’s partner was Kelly Bo Green – the daughter of mob boss Jamie Daniel and the sister of Fraggle. It’s believed that Gerbil was behind a series of “alien abductions” across central Scotland in 2009.

It got the name because victims were so traumatised they told police they couldn’t remember anything about their ordeal. During the kidnappings, Carroll used blowtorches, power tools and boiling water to torture victims before stealing drugs, money and weapons from them.

Applerow Motors Shooting

On the afternoon of December 6, a blue Mazda pulled up outside Applerow Motors, a garage and MOT centre owned by David Lyons off the busy Balmore Road in Lambhill, North Glasgow. Two hitmen hired by the Daniel clan, Raymond Anderson and James McDonald, stepped out of the vehicle.

In a chilling, premeditated move, they wore “old man” rubber face masks and long trench coats to disguise their identities. Armed with handguns, they walked calmly into the garage and opened fire on the men inside.

The garage owner’s nephew, Michael Lyons, was fatally shot in the head at the age of 21. His cousin, Steven Lyons, was a primary target and was shot in the leg while attempting to flee.

Robert Pickett was shot three times, leaving him in a coma and resulting in the loss of a kidney. While, David Lyons narrowly escaped unharmed.

Anderson and McDonald denied the charges but were convicted by a majority verdict in 2008. They were handed a sentence of a minimum of 35 years in prison, which was later reduced to 30 years on appeal.

Grave desecration

Garry Lyons was the son of Lyons clan boss Eddie Snr and the brother of Steven and Eddie Jnr. In 1991, he passed away from leukaemia at age eight.

Then in November 2006, after surviving an attempt on his life three years earlier, Kevin ‘Gerbil’ Carroll allegedly toppled the gravestone of Garry.

It’s believed he wrapped a tow rope and chain around the headstone and hooked it to the back of a 4×4 vehicle before accelerating and bringing down the heavy gravestone.

In the days following, Carroll shot Eddie Lyons Jnr and a friend in Bellshill, Lanarkshire, before a retaliation hit was carried out a week later in Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire.

Days after shooting and injuring Eddie Lyons Jnr again, Carroll arranged a meeting at Asda car park in Robroyston to poach Lyons-linked drug dealer Stephen Glen on January 13, 2010.

While Gerbil sat in the back of a black Audi A3, two masked men jumped out of a Volkswagen Golf and opened fire. Carroll’s two associates had fled the vehicle leaving him trapped in the back of the three-door car.

He was shot in the head and chest 13 times in a brazen assassination in front of shocked shoppers.

William “Buff” Paterson, was jailed for 22 years over the killing of Carroll. He handed himself in to a police station in Madrid after fleeing the country over four years previous.

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Women now have the Right to Ask police if a new boyfriend has a history of abuse after a young mum was murdered and set on fire.

The numbers of women being warned by police that their partner has a violent past has almost doubled in the last five years.

The Disclosure Scheme for Domestic Abuse Scotland – also known as Clare’s Law – allows people to find out if a new or existing partner has previously been abusive to others, called the Right to Ask.

Figures released by Police Scotland under Freedom of Information show that the number of disclosures made by them about violent partners has risen steadily since 2021.

That year there were 2305 disclosures rising to 4082 in 2025 – an increase of almost 80 percent.

Claire’s Law also enables anyone with concerns about the partner of someone they know, to apply for a disclosure.

Eve Graham, from Nairn, who suffered more than 40 years of abuse at the hands of her husband, said: “Anything that allows women to find out if their partner has previous is to be welcomed.

“In the past women were reluctant to believe that the new man in their life was violent. The last thing you would think then would be to check them out.

“However domestic violence is so prevalent now a lot of younger women are thinking:’ I’ll just check this guy out.’”

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Eve, 68, also welcomes the fact that families and friends can apply to the police for a disclosure about a loved one’s new partner.

She added: “It is great idea. Often love is blind.

“You might get a new boyfriend and think he is the nicest guy on earth but your family think there is something about this guy which is not right and they can now contact the police about their suspicions.

“My husband’s persona to the public was different from the one that I experienced. People said he wouldn’t hurt a fly, may be not, but he would certainly hurt his wife.”

Eve was pushed into the sea from a pier, bitten on the nose and smashed over the head with a bucket in a series of brutal attacks by her husband William McDonald.

McDonald, 77, from Ardersier, Inverness-shire, was jailed for two years last year at the High Court in Glasgow but released in June released after serving just 12 months. He also received a 10-year non-harassment order from the court.

Clare’s Law was named after mum Clare Wood, 36, who was murdered and set on fire in Salford in 2009 by her ex-boyfriend George Appleton who had a history of violence against women.

Clare’s dad Michael Brown, who is originally from Aberdeen, campaigned to allow people to check with police whether their partner had a record of abusive behaviour.

Both women and men can apply for information about a partner. However the vast majority of cases involve women who are at risk.

Dr Marsha Scott, CEO of Scottish Women’s Aid said: “We should be cautious about reading too much into the numbers alone. They don’t tell us whether more men are perpetrating domestic abuse or whether more women are aware of the scheme.

“What they do tell us is that too many women continue to have good reason to question whether they are safe. As we’ve said before, the Disclosure Scheme is a sticking plaster, not a cure.

“It can be an important tool for some women, but it should never be seen as the solution to men’s violence against women.

“We cannot continue to place the burden on women to identify and manage the risk posed by abusive men.”

Earlier this week it was revealed that attacks in Scotland by a spouse or a partner at an 11 year high.

Prosecutors at the Crown Office received 34,586 reports from Police Scotland with domestic abuse charges in 2025-26, up 14 per cent on the previous 12 months.

The figures also include 11 charges of murder or culpable homicide – up from six the previous year.

Detective Superintendent Adam Brown of Police Scotland’s Domestic Abuse Coordination Unit said: “The Domestic Abuse Disclosure Scheme (DSDAS) continues to be an important preventative tool in tackling domestic abuse.

“We actively promote the scheme and are encouraged by the steady increase in applications to the scheme from people who are concerned about their relationship, or that of a friend or loved one.

“Receiving a disclosure can help people make a decision about the future of their relationship and make decisions about how best to keep themselves safe.

“The application form can be accessed on our website and I would urge anyone with concerns, either for themselves or someone they know, to submit a DSDAS application.”

It was closed for a redesign

A McDonald’s branch on a busy Cambridge road has now reopened after a transformation. The popular restaurant in Newmarket Road underwent a redesign which will reportedly deliver a better customer experience.

McDonald’s reimaging programme combines a new restaurant layout with the latest technology to create a more seamless and enjoyable experience for customers. The Newmarket Road restaurant reopened on Wednesday, September 9.

Improvements have been made for restaurant crew with a redesign of the crew room which will create a more relaxing and comfortable space for them to take a break. While the traditional walk-in remains core to how customers order, the McDonald’s kitchen and dining areas have seen changes.

This redesign will aim to better integrate digital sales channels, the McDonald’s App and make smarter use of internal space to enhance the dine-in experience, according to the fast food chain. With dedicated areas for the different ways to order, the revamp will offer a more efficient way to order and will leave customers with more space to enjoy their meal.

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Local McDonald’s Franchisee, Richard Cross, who owns and operates two McDonald’s in the Cambridgeshire area, said he is “proud” to reinvest in the busy Cambridge restaurant. He added: “The dining area is more contemporary, and we now have separate facilities for our dine-in customers leading to a better experience for everyone.

“It’s exciting to see the fresh new look and feel of our Newmarket Road restaurant and I’m confident the changes will not only benefit our customers but also our restaurant team as these will help make their jobs a little easier.”

In a tragic final few days a man saw as a trial from God, he sat chronicalling his dying thoughts, as he ran out of water with hos dog by his side and a glittering lake just a few steps away from him.

An experienced hiker embarking on a solo trek across Wyoming left behind an eerie and tragic diary detailing how a freak accident led to his tragic death.

Presbyterian minister Mike Turner had left to go on a religious journey, and hike, in an effort to reconnect with God, along with his beloved black Labrador, Andy.

It was due to Andy that Mike made a last-minute change to his plans. As podcaster Mr Ballen explains: “He and Andy had been up at an elevation of about 13,000 ft, walking on some icy parts of the mountain and Andy’s paws were getting really raw from walking on the jagged ice.

“On the fourth day Mike had noticed Andy was whimpering and struggling to keep up, when normally he was super-energetic.”

Mike decided to take a different route around the mountain rather than over it. This decision ultimately cost Mike his life. Shortly after leaving his planned route, Mike was giving Andy some water when the dog made a break for some nearby trees.

Following him, Mike walked through the patch of woodland only to discover a vast lake surrounded by a mass of boulders.

Andy climbed over the rocks and was happily lapping water from the lake. Mike began navigating his way across the rocky terrain to reach his dog.

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But then catastrophe struck. One of the boulders began shifting as he stood on it, and as the 48-year-old attempted to steady himself, he tumbled between two of the rocks. Before he could escape his predicament, the unstable boulder toppled over entirely, leaving him trapped.

The way he was trapped meant that Mike wasn’t harmed but could not escape. Mr Ballen said: “After two hours of trying in vain to free himself it dawned on Mike that he was not going to be able to free himself. The only way he was getting out of here is if somebody found him and rescued him.”

Mike had some food and water and he chose to keep a diary until help arrived. However, as the days dragged on, his entries gradually transformed from hopeful to a kind of dark humour.

He wrote: “I am concerned about first losing my legs, second running out of snow to melt for water, and fuel, third hypothermia. My biggest concern is water. I have only 2 quarts left. The irony is that the lake is only 30 feet away…I am drinking 1 quart today, saving a quart for tomorrow. I am also saving my urine. I wonder how it will taste with Crystal Light?”.

Temperatures soared to 37ºC during daylight hours, but dropped to nearly freezing overnight. Mike said initially believed God was putting him through this trial as a lesson.

Later, he wrote that God must be punishing him, before ultimately accepting that he was going to die.

Andy never left his master’s side, spending days on end lying on a ledge above him. On 5 August, after four days trapped between the stones, Mike wrote: “I feel so foolish taking this longer pass. So lonely, more than I imagined. Who would have guessed that four days would have gone by and no one has come this way?”.

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Meanwhile, Mike’s wife was growing worried as he hadn’t met her at the end of the trail as planned. She alerted the authorities and a search was launched – but since no-one knew about Mike’s change in route, the searchers were looking in entirely the wrong part of the vast wilderness.

It wasn’t until 28 August, nearly a full month after Mike had embarked on his trek and a week after the search had been called off, that two hikers found a dishevelled-looking black Labrador wandering miles away from the search area. After Andy had been examined by a vet, a new search was launched – this time in the correct area.

But by then Mike had been found. Another solo hiker, Jeff Stewart, was walking near the unnamed lake in the Wyoming wilderness when he spotted a man, seemingly sitting on a rock.

He said: “I had seen the posters at the trailhead and knew they were looking for someone,” he told Backpacker magazine. “So I called out, ‘Hey, are you all right?’ There was no answer. I knew there wouldn’t be.”

A final message, intended for Mike’s wife, states: “Thank you for letting me live this adventure. Know wherever I am and whatever I’m doing, I am thinking of you.”

Mike had died of exposure, hypothermia, and dehydration approximately nine days following his accident. His journal was found near his body, thoughtfully placed in a plastic bag to shield it from the weather.

On a nearby stone, Mike had positioned his wedding ring: “He knew once he died and decomposed the ring would fall off his bones and be lost in the rocks below,” Mr Ballen explains.

“He clearly wanted his family to have that wedding ring, so he placed it on the Rock and then he prepared to die.”

Edna Cintrón’s life was almost predictable – and she couldn’t have asked for more.

Neither she nor her husband, William, was interested in the martinis and Broadway shows synonymous with life in New York City.

Instead, the pair enjoyed casino buffets at Atlantic City, collected porcelain figurines of angels and ate ice cream on the sofa.

William, who was 44 at the time, said: ‘She was also my backbone. She made me strong. She made me who I am today.’

But one day Edna, 46, went to work as an administrative assistant for insurance firm Marsh & McLennan – and never came home.

On September 11, 2001, a United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, tearing through the 93rd and 99th floors.

The impact destroyed all escape routes, and worried loved ones and emergency workers alike assumed the worst.

But as people watched in disbelief as office supplies, twisted metal and concrete fell from the skies, they realised that some people had survived.

New Yorkers 400 miles below photographed and filmed a woman, believed to be Edna, standing at the edge of the flaming hole left by the jet and waving through it.

The Marsh & McLennan’s offices were on the 93rd floor, and Edna gestured for help for about 20 minutes, near another man doing the same.

She quickly became known as the ‘waving woman’

At 10.28am, the impact site collapsed, and Edna became one of the nearly 3,000 people who died that day.

In the wake of the disaster, William wandered around Manhattan carrying a photograph of his wife, asking panicked office workers and emergency responders if they’d seen her.

He tried St Vincent’s, a nearby hospital, but staff had no record of her. At the disaster site, he was turned away.

William told The Independent at the time: ‘They said we’d interfere. We can’t just be in the way.’

By September 12, he was at the 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue asking how to file a missing person’s report.

Edna’s body was never recovered, although William ‘tentatively identified’ her as the woman waving in video footage, according to a memorial page.

Her gold engagement ring, however, was found in the rubble and donated to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum.

Who was Edna Cintrón?

Edna was born in Puerto Rico on October 14, 1954, and her family moved to Delancey Street in Lower Manhattan when she was five.

They weren’t the richest – Edna’s mum gave her a few cents a week as pocket money. She didn’t graduate high school.

‘She experienced a lot of stuff,’ William said. 

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Edna met her future husband in 1987. She was chatting with her friend at her home in Upper Manhattan when William walked into the kitchen.

He recalled: ‘I was charming at that time; I wore cashmere.’

The couple managed a flower shop in Harlem that they jointly owned, Sweet William’s Florist, while living in East Elmhurst, Queens.

For a spell, they were briefly homeless, and Edna supported William as he recovered from alcoholism, her obituary states. He stayed sober thanks to her support.

William said: ‘Fourteen years with her, that was my life, my world. I knew when I went home I was in the best of hands, loved, cared for.’

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9/11: 25 years later

It has been 25 years since the horrific 9/11 attacks that brought down the Twin Towers in New York City, claiming the lives of thousands.

Follow Metro’s coverage of the 25th anniversary of 9/11 as we look back on the tragic attack, those who died, survived, and those who helped:

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Willian remembered his wife not as the ‘waving woman’, but as a ‘strong’ person who always had dinner on the table when he came home.

He died on September 24, 2021, after moving to Kissimmee, Osceola County, Florida. He was 64.

Marsh & McLennan told Metro that it hosted a public, digital memorial that honours the 358 workers and friends who died in 9/11.

One friend wrote on a tribute page to Edna: ‘I will never forget when I first saw Edna. An amazing woman who should never be forgotten or ignored.’

Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.

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The Food Standards Agency has issued a ‘do not eat’ alert

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Waitrose has recalled packs of black olives after it found they contained traces of listeria. The food chain found listeria monocytogenes in 120g packs of Waitrose Essential Pitted Black Olives with a use by date of September 13 2026, September 18 2026 and September 27 2026.

Customers who bought these packs are urged not to eat them and return them to a Waitrose store where they will be fully refunded.

The Food Standards Agency said symptoms caused by listeria can be similar to flu and include high temperature, muscle ache or pain, chills, feeling or being sick and diarrhoea. In rare cases the infection can be more severe, causing serious complications, such as meningitis.

Sainsbury’s previously issued a product recall for packets of pitted black olives over fears they may be contaminated with Listeria.

The recall covered 120g packs of ‘Inspired to Cook by Sainsbury’s Pitted Black Olives’ The recall was for packs with ‘use by’ dates of September 6, 7 and 10 2026.

Sainsbury’s said: “Sainsbury’s are recalling the product due to a possible presence of Listeria Monocytogenes. We are asking customers that have purchased the above product not to consume it and to return the product to their nearest Sainsbury’s store, where they will receive a full refund.”

Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that causes a serious foodborne infection known as listeriosis. Unlike many other food-related bacteria, Listeria is exceptionally resilient. It can survive, and even multiply, in cold environments like refrigerators, and it easily resists salt and acidic conditions.

People typically contract it by consuming contaminated food, such as unpasteurised dairy products, soft cheeses, deli meats, hot dogs, and improperly washed raw produce. In healthy individuals, the immune system usually confines the infection to the gut, resulting in mild, temporary digestive upset.

However, Listeria has a dangerous ability to breach internal cellular barriers. If it penetrates the intestinal wall, it enters the bloodstream and can cross the blood-brain barrier. This is the protective shield meant to keep toxins and pathogens out of the central nervous system.

When Listeria crosses this barrier, it targets the meninges, which are the protective membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord. The resulting infection and intense inflammation of these membranes is called bacterial meningitis.

This progression into listerial meningitis is highly dangerous and primarily affects individuals with weakened immune systems. This vulnerable group includes newborns, elderly adults, and people taking immunosuppressive medications.

Pregnant women are also at an incredibly high risk because Listeria can easily cross the placental barrier, leading to severe complications or neonatal meningitis immediately after birth. Listerial meningitis is treated with high-dose intravenous antibiotics, typically ampicillin, and carries a much higher mortality rate than most other common forms of bacterial meningitis.