Si King says “not a day goes by” where fellow Hairy Biker Dave Myers is not in his thoughts, marking the anniversary of his death on Saturday (February 28).

The TV chef, who hails from Kibblesworth, rose to fame with Myers after meeting on the set of the drama “The Gambling Man” in 1995 and bonding over their love of cooking.

Hairy Bikers Si King and Dave Myers. (Image: Steve Lake/BBC/PA)

The friends then went on to publish several cookbooks, as well as presenting several shows, such as The Hairy Bikers Ride Again, The Hairy Bikers’ Food Tour Of Britain, The Hairy Bikers: Mums Know Best, The Hairy Bikers’ Cook Off and Hairy Bikers’ Best Of British.

But tragically, Myers passed away from cancer on February 28, 2024, aged just 66.

Marking the anniversary, King recorded and posted a short, emotional video which faded into a black and white photo of the friends.

“Well mate, it’s two years since you passed and I think about you every day,” he said.

King then went on to share a number of pictures of himself and his beloved co-star, inviting fans to do the same.

He wrote: “Sometimes words just don’t come easily. Two years today and not a day goes by when you aren’t in my thoughts.

“Miss you mate… I’m going to be posting some of my favourite pictures throughout the day and I hope they make you smile.

Si King and Dave Myers. (Image: BBC)

“Please take a moment to remember Dave today and what he meant to you.

“I see so many lovely comments on here of all of the special moments that he shared with so many of you and just how much those moments meant for you.

“Thank you so much sharing them with me everyone.”

Speaking to Radio Times in January 2025, Si opened up about the difficult loss of his “brother” Dave, who died after being diagnosed with cancer in 2024.

The 59-year-old told the publisher: “He doesn’t stop being your best mate just because he’s passed away. That’s never going to go. We were like brothers: we drove each other mad, because we were two very different people, but we absolutely adored each other.”

Si, who now runs popular foodie spot Propa in Sunderland, added that “nobody’s ever going to take Dave’s place”.

He explained: “I don’t want to look in the rear-view mirror of my motorcycle and see anyone else there. It’s Dave, you know? And the same when he was leading: I drove hundreds of miles looking at his ugly a**. That’s my memory, that’s what I want to keep. That’s what it was about.”

Si recalled how he travelled around 650,000 miles with Dave on their motorbikes, which is “more than to the moon and back” and that the only way he can begin to move forward is by “cherishing the memories”.

Former Hearts player Ryan Stevenson was on punditry duty as part of BBC Radio Scotland’s Sportsound commentary and echoed Braga and McInnes’ sentiments.

“The atmosphere is unbelievable,” he said. “What you would give to be a player on that pitch just now,” he said.

And, afterwards, he proclaimed: “I think Hearts will win the league. I genuinely do.

“I cannot see Hearts buckling. I cannot see Hearts losing three or four games.

“I just can’t see Hearts losing the title now.”

Rangers are second, two points above Celtic, who have a game in hand. Those two teams meet at Ibrox on Sunday so, one way or another, Hearts’ seven-point advantage will be reduced by weekends’ end.

And Celtic travel to Aberdeen on Wednesday to play their game in hand.

Studio pundit, former Hearts player Michael Stewart, is similarly minded to Stevenson.

“I do think with every game that’s ticked off, there’s an extra level of pressure but equally I think there’s an extra level of belief. They almost counter each other.

“They’re the ones that are sitting there top of the table and deservedly so.”

Drivers are anticipating hiked petrol prices following the eruption of conflict in the Middle East after the US and Israel carried out strikes across lran.

The attacks, along with retaliatory strikes by Iranian forces have seen targets in the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan and Iraq hit, have prompted several oil companies to suspend the shipments of crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz.

Edmund King, president of the AA, has now warned that the bombing across the Middle East will cause significant disruption to the oil trade.

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“The turmoil and bombing across the Middle East will surely be a catalyst to disrupt oil distribution globally, which will inevitably lead to price hikes,” Mr King told The Times.

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“So drivers beware, within the next 10 to 12 days we could be seeing record prices at the pumps.”

Oil prices are expected to surge when the New York Futures market opens at 11pm on Sunday, with crucial shipping lanes affected by the joint US-Israeli assault, which Iranian media reports has killed at least 201 people so far.

Several oil companies and tanker owners have suspended crude oil, fuel and liquefied natural gas shipments via the Strait of Hormuz following the eruption of conflict in the region, trading sources earlier told Reuters news agency.

The strait is the world’s most vital oil export route, which connects the biggest Gulf oil producers, such as Saudia Arabia, Iran, Iraq, and the United Arab Emirates, with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea.

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“Our ships will stay put for several days,” one top executive at a major trading desk said. Satellite images from tanker trackers showed vessels piling up next to big ports, such as Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, and not moving through Hormuz.

Multiple vessels in the area have received VHF transmission from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards that “no ship is allowed to pass the Strait of Hormuz”, an official with the EU naval mission Aspides told Reuters.

The UK Navy said Iran’s orders were not legally binding and advised vessels to transit with caution.

An official from the European Union’s naval mission Aspides had earlier said that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were warning that “no ship is allowed to pass the Strait of Hormuz”.

Iran has not formally confirmed any such order. About 20 per cent of global oil and gas flows through this narrow shipping lane in the Gulf, and blocking it could have serious consequences for the global economy.

LAREDO, Texas (AP) — A month after ICE agents sent the young Ecuadorian mother and her 7-year-old daughter to a sprawling detention center 1,300 miles from their Minnesota home, they were finally free.

But when the bus pulled up to a migrant shelter in the border city of Laredo, dropping off a half-dozen families lugging bags stuffed with belongings, the stress of recent weeks tracked mother and daughter like the long shadows on that mid-February afternoon.

Night after night inside south Texas’ Dilley Immigration Processing Center with hundreds of other families, the grade-schooler wept and pleaded to know why they were being held.

“She would tell me, ‘Mom, what crime did I commit to be a prisoner?’ I didn’t know what to tell her,” said the 29-year-old, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear being identified could negatively affect their immigration case. Her husband was deported to Ecuador soon after they were taken into custody.

Many Americans were alarmed last month when photos circulated showing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis detaining a 5-year-old boy wearing a bunny hat and carrying a Spiderman backpack. The concern followed Liam Conejo Ramos and his father when they were sent to Dilley, surrounded by chain-link fences on a dusty plain about 75 miles south of San Antonio.

But Liam was hardly an outlier. ICE has been holding hundreds of children at Dilley — many for months.

“We are all Liam,” Christian Hinojosa, an immigrant from Mexico, said by phone from Dilley, where she and her 13-year-old son were held for more than four months. They were released this month and allowed to return home to San Antonio where she works as a health aide.

She noted that Liam and his father were released from Dilley after 10 days, when members of Congress and a judge intervened.

“My son says, ‘That’s unfair, Mama. What’s the difference between him and us?’”

Ramping up family detentions

When the Obama administration opened Dilley in 2014, nearly all families detained there had recently crossed the border from Mexico. Detentions at the facility were scaled back by the Biden administration in 2021, before it was closed three years later.

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Since being reopened by President Donald Trump’s administration last spring, life inside Dilley — a compound of trailers and other prefabricated buildings — has been shaped by three decisive changes.

The number of detained families has risen sharply since last fall. The government is holding many children well beyond the 20-day limit set by longstanding court order. And many detainees have lived in the U.S. for several years, with roots in neighborhoods, workplaces and schools, according to lawyers and other observers.

“Just imagine that you’re a child and you’re taken out of your surroundings,” said Philip Schrag, a Georgetown University law professor and author of “Baby Jails: The Fight to End the Incarceration of Refugee Children in America.”

Suddenly you’re in “a completely strange environment with the doors locked and guards in uniform roaming around,” said Schrag, who counseled Dilley detainees as a volunteer lawyer during the Obama administration.

ICE booked more than 3,800 children into detention during the first nine months of the new Trump administration, according to an Associated Press analysis of data from the University of California, Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project. On an average day more than 220 children were held, with most of those detained longer than 24 hours sent to Dilley. More than half of Dilley detainees during that period were children.

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Kids cry often and don’t get enough sleep, in part because lights are on around the clock, she said. The water tastes terrible and causes stomachaches and rashes, so some families stick to what they can buy in the commissary.

Their children don’t eat enough and have lost weight, Welch said. There are classrooms, but instruction is limited to an hour daily, mostly filling out worksheets.

A 14-year-old girl, identified in court papers by the initials NVSM, reported there were tensions with up to 12 people sharing their room. At night when she and her mother tried to sleep, others insisted on turning up the TV.

“I feel very sad and stressed to be here,” the teen said in an account filed with the court that oversees a binding settlement governing detention and release of children. “My nerves are so high. I don’t know what is happening. My muscles will twitch because I’m so nervous and on edge.”

Concerns about oversight

As the government’s detention of parents and their children came under scrutiny in 2014, an ICE official insisted that family detention centers, equipped with basketball courts and medical clinics, were “more like a summer camp.”

The characterization irritated McPherson, the child psychiatrist who, along with another physician, was retained in 2014 by DHS to inspect family detention centers. Their contracts were not renewed by the Trump administration last year after DHS announced sweeping staff reductions.

“Having a clean place to sleep, having food, that’s not the same thing as having family and community,” McPherson said.

The doctors’ investigations of family detention centers exposed consistently inadequate staffing and disregard by administrators for the trauma caused by detention, concerns they reported in 2018 to a Senate caucus set up to hear from whistleblowers.

At Dilley, the doctors noted a persistent shortage of pediatricians and the inability to hire a child psychiatrist from the time they began their inspections until they alerted senators.

Employees unsure how to deal with 2-year-olds biting and hitting each other placed the children and their parents in medical isolation for days, McPherson and her colleague told senators. Without supervision, a nurse at Dilley gave adult-strength hepatitis A shots to about 250 children in 2015, the American Immigration Lawyers Association reported.

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Vicky Pattison has told followers that she is not able to leave Dubai after a series of Iranian missiles were shot down over the country, closing the airspace.

The city in the UAE has been heavily affected by the ongoing airstrikes from Iran targeting sites across Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Iraq and Israel in response to the USA starting ‘major combat operations’ to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities.

Earlier today, the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority announced that the country’s airspace had been temporarily closed as the situation escalated, including debris falling on Dubai’s iconic Palm Jumeirah.

Bangs have been heard across the city from missiles being intercepted by the air defence systems.

The UK Foreign Office has also advised against travel to the Middle East.

Pattison, who was holidaying with her husband Ercan Ramadan, shared an update with followers explaining that her flight to Sydney was no longer going ahead.

She explained that her ‘flight was cancelled and now we’re effectively stuck in Dubai’ and confirmed that they were ‘ok’.

She continued: ‘We are currently in our hotel and have been assured were safe.

‘We are aware that the situation unfolding is scary and I’m also aware that there’s a lot of videos circulating on social media which are understandably concerning.

‘I’m not sure what else to say, other than we’re doing our best to stay calm, not feed any unconfirmed narratives and we’re thinking of everyone who is feeling unsettled and unsafe right now.’

Earlier today, Katie Price’s husband Lee Andrews, who stayed behind in Dubai when the reality star returned to the UK, also shared a government update confirming that ‘the security situation in the UAE remains stable’.

Meanwhile, Love Island star Laura Anderson also issued an update.

‘Horrendous situation, Bonnie and I are fine,’ she said of her and her daughter.

The five-star £245 million ($330 million) Palm Jumeirah Fairmont was engulfed in flames with emergency serives seena round the 14-storey building.

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Welsh actor Michael Sheen has shared his thoughts on the upcoming election

Welsh actor Michael Sheen has spoken about the upcoming elections to the Senedd during an interview on Times Radio. The star shared his thoughts on Welsh politics and discussed the importance of the election occurring this year.

The Senedd election will take place on May 7, 2026, where voters across Wales will choose new Members of the Senedd. It will be the first election held since the expansion the parliament from 60 to 96 members and the introduction to the new voting system using larger constituencies. The vote will determine which party forms the next Welsh Government and who becomes Wales’ First Minister.

Alongside acting, Michael Sheen is known for his social activism in Wales. In 2025, he launched a project shown on the Channel 4 documentary Michael Sheen’s Secret Million Pound Giveaway, using £100,000 of his own money to buy and write off £1 million in consumer debt for around 900 people in south Wales.

Ahead of the upcoming Welsh elections, actor Michael Sheen has told Times Radio, “everyone acknowledges that we’re in a moment of huge transformation, where, whether it’s conscious or not, people are sort of feeling that the old order is dying, or has died. And there’s a lot of anxiety around what the new is going to be”.

Speaking to Adam Boulton he said: “Labour has been the dominant political force in Wales for as long as anyone can remember. That seems to be about to change. And the leadership of Wales and the vision for Wales seems to be a battle between, it looks like, Plaid Cymru and Reform. And that’s a very interesting and sort of febrile argument.”