Mackenzie Boyd’s (Lawrence Robb) whole entire world fell apart in Emmerdale when Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins) revealed a number of life-changing secrets.

For almost a year, Charity had been hiding the fact that she was pregnant with Ross Barton’s (Michael Parr) child. She gave birth to the baby, and handed her over to Sarah Sugden (Katie Hill) and Jacob (Joe-Warren Plant), allowing them – and everyone else – to believe that it was their daughter via surrogacy.

After baby Leyla’s birth, Doctor Caitlin Todd (Caroline Harker), who had spent months bullying Jacob, discovered that the child was Charity and Ross’. She proceeded to blackmail Charity over the secret, demanding £100,000 in exchange for her silence.

Charity completely fell apart during this storyline. At the end of her tether, she got drunk and told Caitlin to go right ahead and tell Sarah the truth about baby Leyla.

Doctor Todd then waited for Charity to pass out as a result of the alcohol and raped her. The aftermath of this attack saw Charity go to the police to report Todd, but she was eventually told that Caitlin had been let go due to lack of physical evidence, and the surgeon claiming that the sex they had was consensual.

The conversation that she had with Serena Sugden (Casey Al-Shaqsy) helped Charity see that she needed to be honest with Mackenzie about everything that’s been going on. She told him all of her secrets and now, Mack is struggling to know what exactly to do next.

‘It’s a lot to get his head around’, actor Lawrence Robb told us.

‘Yes, there’s the betrayal with Ross, but also the awful reality of what she’s been through at the hands of Dr. Todd. Ultimately, he’s heartbroken. He’s absolutely beside himself with grief, both from the betrayal about Leyla’s parentage and because his heart hurts for Charity and the fact that she’s gone through all of this trauma and had to keep a secret for so long. He feels so much anger towards Todd.’

Mack has chosen to stay with Charity and support her while she fights for justice following the assault. They’ve both made it clear that they don’t want their relationship to end, but how can things ever be the same again?

While the couple are trying to work through things now, whether the marriage survives in the future remains to be seen. For Lawrence, he cannot help but wonder what might unfold when Sarah and Jacob inevitably learn about baby Leyla.

‘I think there’s maybe an element of them sticking a band-aid over it’, he said, reflecting on the current state of Mack and Charity’s relationship.

‘Mack doesn’t really get much time to deal with it because he immediately enters protection mode.’

‘So, whether that rears its head further on down the line, I don’t know. But he doesn’t have a lot of time to process it. Also, Sarah and Jacob don’t know the truth yet. Inevitably that has to come to fruition somehow, somewhere. I guess that’s up to the writers and producers to decide on how and when that happens and what the consequences will be.’

Another layer of this plot is the fact that Charity slept with Mack’s best mate Ross. When the one-night stand happened, the two men weren’t pals, but the fact the friendship developed on a foundation of secrets and lies has hurt Mack a great deal.

Noting that his character feels ‘deeply betrayed by Ross’, Lawrence said that Mackenzie feels a lot of anger towards his former mate.

‘They were becoming close friends, so learning that Ross knew about Leyla feels like a big betrayal. While he might understand Charity’s motivations better due to his love for her, the betrayal from Ross is harder to reconcile.

‘I think there’s a lot of anger directed towards Ross – not so much because of the infidelity but because of the reality of Leyla’s biological parentage.’

In future episodes of the ITV soap, Mack cannot keep his emotions in check any longer and gets revenge on Ross.

Lawrence revealed what happens: ‘Mack asks Ross to come up to the farm. Mack can’t keep his anger in check while he’s with Ross, Ross realises almost immediately that something is wrong.

‘Tensions flare, they trade heated words, and the confrontation escalates into a scuffle on the barn mezzanine. Mack pushes Ross over the side. In that moment, Mack isn’t trying to kill him – he just wants to hurt him. He achieves that and walks away…’

But how bad are Ross’ injuries?

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An audit of a Honolulu homeless assistance initiative that came under fire for being ineffective has been halted because the program keeps changing direction and can’t produce reliable data about its efforts.

That development leaves the future direction of the Crisis, Outreach, Response and Engagement program in flux.

Known as CORE, the program launched in 2021 to pair social workers with EMTs on 911 calls for help with homeless people in mental health crises. The City Council last September voted to audit the $2.7 million program, citing concerns it had drifted from its original purpose to steer people off the streets and into shelters and services.

Acting City Auditor Troy Shimasaki suspended the audit 10 months later, saying CORE’s focus had shifted too frequently and its data systems were too “fragmented.”

“We found that the program’s mission, service model, and governance had not been clearly defined over time,” Shimasaki wrote in a June 30 report to the City Council.

Taken together the problems that prevented the audit “are absolutely concerning,” Shimasaki told Civil Beat, adding that he couldn’t recall the last time an audit had been similarly suspended.

The auditing team told CORE leadership in the city’s Emergency Services Department that they needed to have “key performance measures so you can hold yourself accountable and demonstrate whatever success or challenges this program may have going forward,” Shimasaki said. “It clearly isn’t available now and it is very difficult for any agency to offer its value to the taxpayers if you don’t do that.”

Emergency Services Director Jim Ireland vigorously defended the program, saying it has made changes to its data systems, partly in response to the auditor’s criticisms, and developed new approaches to better meet its goals.

It is succeeding in its chief litmus test, he said: getting more people off the streets more quickly.

“Part of this journey is we found things that needed to change,” Ireland told Civil Beat. “It’s evolving to meet the needs of the community… we’re doing what we think is right for this community.”

CORE directed 125 people into temporary shelter or behavioral treatment facilities in 2024, the program previously reported. Ireland said last year that number rose nearly fourfold, to 480.

“We have the stars aligned now, and now with Act 219, to really make a difference,” he said, referring to the new law.

Straying From Design, Or A Better Path

CORE was originally designed as a program that paired social workers with EMTs to do outreach to people who are homeless, lifting them out of the cycle of repeated 911 emergency calls and emergency room visits and connecting them with treatment and housing resources.

But as Shimasaki described it in his report to the council, the program then went from running an Iwilei respite center for the very ill, back to an outreach model and more recently to focusing on using Act 219, an approach it has been piloting but intends to fully implement this summer.

The program no longer employs social workers, although its 29-person field staff includes community health workers. Those workers are trained and certified to provide outreach services but do not have advanced clinical training.

Jenny Neal, a social worker and former CORE field supervisor, said Shimasaki’s findings did not surprise her.

“All of that stuff were issues when I was there,” said Neal, who resigned in 2024 and now works as a contract EMT.

For example, she said a CORE team she led contributed to a database used by social services providers around Oʻahu that collects and tracks anonymized daily data about individuals who use homeless housing and support services. But she said other CORE teams she had trained to do the same did not use the database.

And as CORE changed direction and shed social workers, she said it lost its way, becoming a program where EMTs provide triage medical care rather than working with people to get them into services and housing.

“They’re hit it and quit it. They’re life and death, and I get it, I’ve been on the ambulance,” Neal said. “But I’ve also been on calls on the ambulance where I’m like, ‘Man, if I had one hour to sit with this person. I could keep them from being a high-utilizer 911 caller,’ and that’s what CORE is supposed to be doing.”

Supporters of the program, though, said that while it has been finding its way, CORE is now better poised to get people off the streets and into care, largely because Act 219 has given it a new tool.

“CORE is the key to making that happen,” said Scott Miscovich, a physician who runs two Honolulu facilities where people either found ill on the streets or being discharged from medical care are sent to live.

It would be a mistake to return to the original CORE model, Miscovich said.

“It was relationship building, which wasn’t wrong. That’s how you have to start if you don’t have the law behind you,” he said.

Opening A Door

Opponents of using Act 219 on a widespread basis, however, said the auditor’s decision is an opportunity to steer CORE back to its roots.

“While disappointing, the (auditor’s) report does open a door for us to have hopefully some really meaningful conversations with the city and county on how to proceed,” said Josh Frost, policy advocate at the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaiʻi.

“We believe that it needs to be revamped and refocused in a very specific way,” he said of CORE. “It’s not law enforcement. It’s not sending homeless folks to the ER or forced treatment. It’s medical workers and social workers going out into the community and talking to these folks and learning what their needs are and then trying to fulfill those needs.”

For Tupola, the suspension of the audit is also a moment for CORE to evaluate where it can be most useful and target its efforts there. For the Westside lawmaker, that would be her Waiʻanae Coast district, which includes the largest homeless population on Oʻahu, according to the latest official count.

Tupola said her office already coordinates efforts to connect Westside homeless residents with social workers, support services and housing. CORE should join in those efforts, she said.

“I think their best bet is to try to see if they can nestle themselves into something that’s more related to a specific outcome for a small geographic area,” she said. “It’s plug and play.”

Regardless, Tupola added, “Hopefully they stick to a better direction. Then we can actually measure progress or even measure impact based on one direction instead of like four.”

That direction is now established, said Ireland, and it won’t include social work because that type of case management is already being done by other nonprofit social service providers that work with people who are homeless.

CORE still does some outreach, helping connect people to temporary shelter or treatment when they accept the help, Ireland said. But its teams – which include nurses or physicians, police officers, EMTs and a paramedic supervisor — now focus on using Act 219 to get people off the street who would otherwise not agree to accept shelter and services.

“Literally nobody else can do that,” Ireland said.

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This story was originally published by Honolulu Civil Beat and distributed through a partnership with The Associated Press.

Ross Macleod, RNLI water safety manager, said: “The sea or open water may look inviting during hot weather, but it remains cold enough year-round to trigger cold water shock, which can cause uncontrollable gasping, increased heart rate, and can lead to panic and drowning very quickly.

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Published: 18:24 BST, 8 July 2026 | Updated: 21:43 BST, 8 July 2026

Sir Alf Ramsey was so calm, he famously told his staff to calm down after Sir Geoff Hurst’s fourth goal for England in the World Cup final. However, a story of Sir Ramsey having a blazing row with the iconic Billy Wright has been detailed.

It involved Wright, Sir Ramsey and a non-league manager named Charlie Phillips. The latter introduced Ramsey to the mysterious world of freemasonry. Details of this row was revealed by Graham Phillips, the son of Charlie.

Speaking to Mirror Football, he said: “That the true story of what happened behind the scenes, on the pitch and in the dressing room at the Hungary game in 1953 was significantly different to what was reported at the time, and subsequently, and involved a final break between Alf and Wright.”

It’s claimed Wright was given specific instructions during England’s 6-3 loss to Hungari in 1953, bit ignored them, leading to a horrendous row between the two. Graham added: “After the game Wright stood up, went over to manager Walter Winterbottom, put his arm around his shoulder and said: ‘Never mind, if you had picked a different team perhaps things would have been better’.

“Ramsey heard this and was furious on two counts. Firstly that Wright had broken a confidence on the team selection issue and secondly that he was absolving himself of any responsibility for the performance.

“Ramsey in as measured tones as he could manage, blamed Wright at some length for undermining the strategy that they had been asked to play. Not once but twice. Once that had let to the first goal and secondly after the team had played so well within the strategic plan to get the equaliser. This time it was personal and Wright knew it.

“Ramsey was standing with his back to the dressing room door as he was speaking standing two or three feet away from Wright and Winterbottom.

“Shortly after he began to speak he noticed that both men were not making eye contact but were looking behind him. He turned round to see that two men and suits had entered the dressing room while he had been speaking.”

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Betsy Swain (Sydney Martin) is set to face a terrifying ordeal in upcoming Coronation Street scenes when she collapses at home amid a health crisis.

It’s a situation so serious that it warrants an ambulance to take her to hospital.

A new trailer shows the ambulance whisking her away from the cobbles, and an anxious Carla Connor-Swain (Alison King) arriving at the hospital to find Lisa Connor-Swain (Vicky Myers) sitting at her daughter’s bedside.

A nurse later arrives to take Betsy for an MRI scan, before Dylan Wilson (Liam McCheyne) comes to see her.

Things take a turn for the worse when Dylan comes rushing out of the room to tell Carla and Lisa that Betsy is having a fit.

Though Dylan goes out of his way to make Betsy’s hospital stay more comfortable, showing Brody Michaelis (Ryan Mulvey) and Lauren Bolton (Cait Fitton) everything he’s bought for her, it quickly becomes clear that he isn’t welcome back at the hospital.

He is taken aback when he faces hostility from Lisa, who accuses him of being responsible for Betsy’s condition.

Despite Betsy’s insistence that it isn’t Dylan’s fault, Lisa continues to blame him.

When Dylan refuses Sean Tully’s (Antony Cotton) suggestion that they visit Betsy, Sean grows suspicious, and he is shocked when Lisa turns on Dylan in the café.

Eventually, Lisa even goes so far as to tell her desk sergeant that she wishes to report a crime.

This leads to Dylan being arrested, which leaves Betsy stunned when she finds out.

Later, Dylan shares his own suspicions that Brody is actually to blame for Betsy’s health problem. How will Brody and Betsy react to his accusations?

What has happened to Betsy, and how will she come to terms with her life-changing diagnosis?

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The horror series Evil Dead, first brought to the screen in 1981 by director Sam Raimi, is in its healthiest state for decades. The 2023 film Evil Dead Rise was a financial success, and 2026 will prove to be a huge year for the franchise, with the release of new film Evil Dead Burn. The next film, Evil Dead Wrath, is already in post-production and due for release in 2028.

Yet like any successful franchise, Evil Dead has always been bigger than just films. It has appeared in a variety of media forms including video games, comic books, television series and board games.

This is not uncommon for a franchise, and is often part of what researcher Henry Jenkins termed a transmedia storytelling strategy. The fundamental idea of this strategy is that one singular story is told over multiple different media forms. These integrated narratives can be seen in contemporary franchises such as the Matrix or the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

However, while Evil Dead has certainly appeared across different media forms, it has lacked a sense of singular narrative. As a result, there are several narrative inconsistencies seen throughout the series, with scenes from previous movies reshot, recontextualised or erased from the narrative entirely in later entries.

This lack of a unified story ultimately comes down to the creative and financial realities of the Evil Dead’s series origins. The first film, The Evil Dead (1981), was a low-budget horror, made by a group of friends with no aspirations of building a huge media franchise. It took six years for a sequel to be made. That sequel was produced by a different company entirely, meaning even if the filmmakers had wanted to reference the first film, they legally could not.

For decades, the crucial unifying component of the Evil Dead series has been Bruce Campbell’s portrayal of Ash Williams, the protagonist across the original film trilogy. The cult fandom of around Campbell in this role has powered the series for most of its existence – Campbell became synonymous with the Evil Dead franchise.

Campbell has reprised his role across multiple different media forms. Though these contain the character of Ash, they are entirely incoherent as a singular narrative, often contradicting or erasing different entries to tell their specific story. While Ash seems to act as a signifier for an “authentic” Evil Dead entry, his appearances do not seem to delineate which entries in the series can be seen as part of a coherent transmedia fictional universe.

This decision to foreground an actor and character as the foundation of a franchise could now be problematic, as Campbell announced his retirement from playing Ash in live action after the cancellation of the television series Ash vs The Evil Dead in 2018 This left the franchise in flux. How do you move forward with Evil Dead when the main character is removed?

Unifying a fractured franchise

The promotional material around the release of Evil Dead Rise (2023) suggested a new franchise strategy that looked to the original trilogy for inspiration.

In the third Evil Dead film, Army of Darkness (1993), Ash is sent on a quest to retrieve the Necronomicon, a cursed book that has unleashed evil across the previous films. As Ash approaches the book, he sees that there are three on the podium. The two other books ultimately act as decoys, resulting in a slapstick sequence where Ash is repeatedly attacked by the decoy books.

Although this scene is short and played for laughs, for the promotion of Evil Dead Rise, Campbell (a producer as well as the series’ former star) highlights it as centrally important to the franchise’s future. In an interview with Collider in 2023, Campbell suggested a new key focus – the Necronomicon. Campbell noted that “the only thing that connects everything now is the book. There are three of these books out there … So, this story is really ‘where is the book now?’”

This discourse surrounding the importance of the three books was also echoed by the director of Evil Dead Rise, Lee Cronin, who made it a central part of his pitch to producers, as a way of opening up “multiple avenues for where Evil Dead can go”.

His pitch, that Sam Raimi’s original trilogy featured one book, the 2013 remake featured another and his film would feature the third book, retroactively unified the Evil Dead narrative onscreen, putting it more in line with contemporary franchises that engage with transmedia storytelling.

Specifically, the 2013 Evil Dead – developed and produced as a remake at the time of its release – was folded into continuity and as a result became part of the fictional world of the original films. By merging these supposedly disparate parts of the series into one continuity, Evil Dead Rise (or specifically the promotional discourse around it) brought the franchise closer to Jenkins’ idea of a transmedia storytelling strategy.

While Campbell will continue to be an active part of Evil Dead as a producer (and even has a voice cameo in Evil Dead Rise), this new emphasis on the fictional world of the series presents new avenues of continuity and expansion. It will be fascinating to see how Evil Dead Burn, a new chapter in the 45-year-old franchise, responds to this new strategy.

York & Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has said: “Malton Hospital, including the Urgent Treatment Centre, is currently closed. We ask patients not to attend the hospital at this time.

“The GP out-of-hours service has not been affected by the incident. If you need urgent medical advice when your GP practice is closed, please continue to contact NHS 111 as usual for out-of-hours support.

“Anyone with an appointment at Malton Hospital on the morning of 9 July should not attend. Our teams are reviewing all affected appointments and will contact patients directly as soon as possible to rearrange or advise on the next steps.

“The safety of our patients, visitors and colleagues remains our absolute priority. We would like to thank our staff, the emergency services, and partner organisations for their swift response and support.”

Kenneth Goodman, of Greendale Drive in Radcliffe, was convicted earlier this year following an investigation into reports of historical abuse.

He was found guilty of four counts of indecent assault on a girl under 14 and three counts of gross indecency with a girl under 14.

Goodman denied the offences, but a jury convicted him following a trial in March.

Both victims came forward in adulthood.

The first, referred to as Woman A, reported the abuse to police in 2018.

This led officers to a second survivor, Woman B, who disclosed that she too had suffered abuse at Goodman’s hands.

In court, both women shared powerful statements about the long-term impact of his actions.

Woman A said: “I have waited a very long time for this day.

“The sexual abuse you exposed me to will stay with me for the rest of my life.

“This is both the recollections of the acts and the subsequent impact they have taken on me.

“You took away so much.

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“I have lived with this every day, whilst presuming, rightly or wrongly, that you were enjoying your life.

“Free from the consequences of the sexual acts you committed on a child.

“The sentence determined by the court today will hopefully, finally, give me some kind of justice and closure.”

Woman B also spoke of the lasting effect the abuse has had on her life.

She said: “When you took my innocence, you took my spark.

“The spark that’s in all children which, when properly nurtured, becomes a light that leads them through life, enabling them to find love and to be loved.

“Enabling them to experience pure, unadulterated happiness.

“I have never experienced any of those things.

“But I’m here now taking back my spark, hoping it’s not too late for me to discover how to be truly happy.”

Police said Goodman had abused the trust placed in him by the young girls, both of whom knew him in a professional capacity.

Woman A was repeatedly abused and coerced into sexual activity when alone with Goodman.

Woman B was groomed over a period of around three years, beginning at the age of 12.

Goodman manipulated her into a sexual relationship, telling her that because she had turned 13, they could become more intimate.

The abuse continued until she was about 15 years old.

Detective Sergeant Jonathan McGregor from the Serious Crime Division praised the bravery of both women.

He said: “This has been an ongoing investigation and the victims have shown incredible strength and patience throughout the process.

“I would firstly like to express my gratitude to them, as their support during this investigation has led to the conviction and sentencing of Goodman.

“This was an awful case about abuse of power.

“Goodman took advantage of these women from such a young age, and they have carried this with them since.

“I hope this sentence can now provide them with a sense of comfort and reassurance that no matter how long it has been, we will always take reports of this nature seriously, and we will do everything we can to ensure perpetrators see justice.”

Goodman will be placed on the sex offenders register for life.

UK temperatures are forecast to reach as high as 36C over the coming days

As the UK remains in the grips of its third 2026 heatwave, temperatures in Greater Manchester are forecast to soar higher than the popular holiday hotspot of Tenerife.

The Met Office has said that the highest temperatures are expected to hit the country on Thursday and Friday (July 9 and 10), when temperatures will widely exceed 30C across England and Wales, with highs of 35C on Thursday and potentially 36C in some locations on Friday.

Saturday (July 11) could see highs of 34C in southwest England and 33C on Sunday, before a gradual trend down, the Met Office says. But despite the heat, the UK weather agency has said that it will not feel as hot as the previous heatwave in late June.

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Humidity levels are expected to be lower, which will allow some areas to cool more readily overnight. But the Met Office warned that some towns and cities may still experience very warm nights, which can make sleeping uncomfortable.

Met Office Deputy Chief Forecaster Tom Crabtree said: “Many people will understandably want to know how long the current heatwave is likely to last. While temperatures are expected to ease across southeast England through the weekend and into next week, it won’t be a straightforward end to the warm weather.

“High pressure is expected to remain in charge through much of next week, but it will gradually migrate northwards. This means that an easterly wind will become established in the south, and the focus for the hottest conditions will migrate towards the southwest.

“As a result, some places that have seen the highest temperatures during recent weeks will begin to cool. It will however, remain very warm – especially in the southwest – and heatwave thresholds may continue to be met in places.

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“The overall signal is for continued fine, dry and very warm weather at times for many parts of the UK into next week. There is however a chance of thunderstorms spreading into parts of the south and southwest.”

Greater Manchester was forecast to reach highs of 29C on Thursday, rising to 32C on Friday, down to 29C for two days on Saturday and Sunday, before hitting 26C on Monday and 27C on Tuesday.

This is hotter than the Spanish holiday hotspot of Tenerife, located in the Canary Islands. Temperatures are set to peak at 27C on Thursday, 24C on Friday, 23C on Saturday, 22C on Sunday, and 23C on Monday and Tuesday.

Manchester’s extreme temperatures this week mean that this northern UK city will be 8C hotter than Tenerife on Friday.

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Due to the heat on the forecast, amber and yellow heat health alerts have been issued by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), meaning significant impacts are likely across health and social care services due to the high temperatures.

The alerts will remain in place from 9am on Wednesday, July 8, until 9pm on Sunday, July 12. An amber alert has been issued for the East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East and South West, while yellow alerts have been issued for the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber and the North West.