The Mirror’s tributes to the “piranha of the airwaves” have left ABC Radio 2 breakfast star dead.
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Brian Hayes, a star of BBC and LBC, has announced his passing after a long, distinguished career that spanned five decades.
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Former BBC Radio 2 breakfast show host Brian Hayes passed away, according to information released today.
The much-loved presenter, who worked for LBC, Radio 5 Live, Capital and fronted Radio 2’s breakfast show for a year before being replaced by Terry Wogan, had died aged 87.
He was credited with in transforming the genre of call-in radio starting in the 1970s. LBC’s James O’Brien said today: “If he didn’t invent the genre of radio that we all attempt to provide you with every day, then he certainly revolutionised it.”
Clive Bull, a talk radio personality, continued, “I should point out that he wasn’t a shock jock.” It was primarily about analyzing and asking questions about people’s arguments. But that actually changed phone-ins because it was just “Have your say” before that.
TalkTV presenter Mark Dolan said Brian was known as the “piranha of the airwaves” adding that he “reinvented the phone-in format in the UK – with stunning success”.
Iain Dale, a radio personality for LBC, said, “I can honestly say that without Brian Hayes, my career would not have been as successful.” He was a true inspiration.
Born in Australia, in 1937, Hayes moved to the UK in the 1970s and helped to launch Capital Radio, working first as a producer and then a presenter. He became famous on LBC as its phone-in host starting in 1976.
He hosted weekly phone-in show Hayes Over Britain on Radio 2 throughout the 90s and won a Gold Sony Radio Award for Best Phone-In. He also sat in for station legend Jimmy Young and the man who replaced him, Jeremy Vine.
Former Radio 2 presenter Brian Hayes passed away, according to Helen Thomas, head of BBC Radio 2. Our listeners adored him a lot. At this difficult time, we extend our condolences to his family.
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The Mirror’s tributes to the “piranha of the airwaves” have left ABC Radio 2 breakfast star dead.
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Brian Hayes, a star of BBC and LBC, has announced his passing after a long, distinguished career that spanned five decades.
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Radio legend Brian Hayes’ death was announced today(Image: BBC)
Everything you need to know about the passing of radio personality Brian Hayes…
Former BBC Radio 2 breakfast show host Brian Hayes passed away, according to information released today.
The much-loved presenter, who worked for LBC, Radio 5 Live, Capital and fronted Radio 2’s breakfast show for a year before being replaced by Terry Wogan, had died aged 87.
He was credited with in transforming the genre of call-in radio starting in the 1970s. LBC’s James O’Brien said today: “If he didn’t invent the genre of radio that we all attempt to provide you with every day, then he certainly revolutionised it.”
Clive Bull, a talk radio personality, continued, “I should point out that he wasn’t a shock jock.” It was primarily about analyzing and asking questions about people’s arguments. But that actually changed phone-ins because it was just “Have your say” before that.
TalkTV presenter Mark Dolan said Brian was known as the “piranha of the airwaves” adding that he “reinvented the phone-in format in the UK – with stunning success”.
Iain Dale, a radio personality for LBC, said, “I can honestly say that without Brian Hayes, my career would not have been as successful.” He was a true inspiration.
Born in Australia, in 1937, Hayes moved to the UK in the 1970s and helped to launch Capital Radio, working first as a producer and then a presenter. He became famous on LBC as its phone-in host starting in 1976.
He hosted weekly phone-in show Hayes Over Britain on Radio 2 throughout the 90s and won a Gold Sony Radio Award for Best Phone-In. He also sat in for station legend Jimmy Young and the man who replaced him, Jeremy Vine.
Former Radio 2 presenter Brian Hayes passed away, according to Helen Thomas, head of BBC Radio 2. Our listeners adored him a lot. At this difficult time, we extend our condolences to his family.
READ THE FULL STORY: Legendary BBC Radio 2 presenter with reputation for ruffling feathers dies as tributes flood in
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Tottenham Hotspur’s players and supporters “need each other,” according to manager Thomas Frank, and the club is “nothing without the fans.”
Goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario’s error caused Fulham’s second goal in Saturday’s 2-1 defeat, Spurs’ 10th home league defeat of 2025, to receive booed by Tottenham Hotspur Stadium fans.
After the defeat, the Dane claimed that Vicario’s supporters “can’t be true Tottenham fans” and that their actions were “completely unacceptable.”
The opening-weekend game against Burnley was Tottenham’s only Premier League home game since Frank’s arrival from Brentford in the summer.
Tottenham currently sit 12th in the league with just 18 points from 13 games due to their subpar home form.
Frank said he understood the disappointment of fans before his side faced Newcastle United at St James’ Park on Tuesday (20:15 GMT), knowing that they are sitting directly below them.
He said, “I fully understand the frustration,” as I stated after the game.
There will always be frustration if you don’t win. That is typical.
Particularly because we haven’t won as much at home this year as we would have liked, both historically. So the frustration intensifies a little more.
Without fans, we would be nothing. Without the fans, there is no club. Without our incredible fans, nothing could exist at Tottenham. We require one another.
My point is that I want to build a fortress during matches because that is what we need each other.
Vicario says Vicario is “good at dealing with setbacks.”
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Goalkeeper Vicario came out to deal with a long ball from Tottenham, but Harry Wilson’s weak clearance sent his curling shot into the open goal from the touchline.
Spurs fans booed the Italian when the ball came to him moments after the goal, and half-time and the final whistle also caused the team to be jeered off.
After the game, I spoke with him, and he assured me that he was fine, Frank said.
Vic is a relatively resilient player when faced with setbacks like that. It might have hurt others more.
How well you handle mistakes as a goalkeeper and player is largely determined by how well you develop as both a player and a goalkeeper.
Vicario apologized to the fans after the game for his error and the outcome.
The 29-year-old told Sky Sports, “I take responsibility for that because I made a mistake with my second goal.”
Gaza Strip’s Deir el-Balah – Samar al-Salmi and her family experienced a new disaster as a result of the first heavy rains of the winter season.
As their tired tent in a displacement camp was torn down in the morning, torrents of water slammed into the ground beneath them, bringing them to a murky pool.
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Refugited people crowded all around them, attempting to repair what the rain had destroyed, sanding the flooded areas and bringing soaked mattresses into the cold winter sun.
The timing was incomparably bad for 35-year-old Samar.
She is about to give birth, and everything she has got ready for her daughter was wet.
As you can see, the baby’s clothes were completely covered in mud, she says, lifting tiny garments that had brown stains on them. “Everything I prepared was submerged, including the milk formula box and the diapers,” the statement continued.
In Deir el-Balah, where her mother and her siblings reside, Samar, her husband, and their three children reside. Due to Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza, they have all been driven out of their homes in Tal al-Hawa, southwest of Gaza City.
Samar says, “My voice almost breaks,” and she can’t even describe how she feels right now. My mind is going to freeze up, I feel. How is my baby girl supposed to greet me in this manner?
Samar and her husband, along with their brothers, shove sand into the water sources that have encircled their home spaces while Samar tries to salvage clothes and blankets. Unuseable and strewn all over them are clothes, basic belongings, and soaked clothing.
[Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera] Samar al-Salmi had prepared nappies and other items for her new baby, but the floodwaters destroyed them.
She claims that she thought it would be safe to place the baby’s hospital bag inside my mother’s tent. However, the rain first rushed in and flooded everything, including the bag.
She continues, “I don’t know where to start.” Should I take care of my children because they need to soak in warm water and wash in mud and sand because their clothes are so dirty?
Or do I try to dry the mattresses since it will be so cold? Or should I get ready to give birth at any time? She inquires.
Aid organizations have warned that Gaza’s displaced families would experience catastrophe each time the winter arrived because they are living in thin, tattered tents as a result of Israel’s strict ban on construction materials and caravans entering the Gaza Strip.
According to Samar, “A tent is not a solution.” We flood in the winter and it’s unbearably hot in the summer. There is no life in this. And yet, winter has not yet begun. When the real cold arrives, what will we do?
“At the very least, why weren’t caravans permitted in?” until this is over, any roof to provide shelter for us.
Samar is now attempting to evict all of her family’s belongings to make the partially habitable Gaza tent [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]
A father is enraged
Abdulrahman al-Salmi, Samar’s husband, is quietly working on the tent repairs with her brothers. He claims he doesn’t even feel like talking to Al Jazeera at first because he is so depressed. But he starts opening up more and more slowly.
” As a father, I’m helpless, “the 39-year-old says”. Our relationship crumbles on one side as a result of my attempts to keep it together. Both during and after the war, that is our life. There hasn’t been a solution for us.
He recalls the call Samar made to him as he arrived for his first day of work at a small barbershop earlier that morning.
He recalls that “she was crying and screaming, and everyone around her was screaming.” Come quickly, she said, “We have our tent in every direction because of the rain.” “
He ran under the rain and dropped everything.
He claims, “The place was completely flooded, like a swimming pool,” with tears streaming into his eyes. People were dumping water from their tents with buckets as my wife and mother-in-law screamed, my children were outside shivering from the cold, and the streets were flooded. Everything was a lot of work.
The rain feels like the end, according to Abdulrahman.
Since the start of the war, “we’ve been struggling in every way, and now the rain has completely ruined our efforts.”
In light of severe shortages and skyrocketing costs, the father expressed his immense difficulty in providing the newborn with necessities.
He claims, “I bought the diapers for 85 shekels ($26),” which is the same price we paid for 13 ($4). The milk formula is 70 ($21). Even the pacifier is pricey. And now everything that we did to prepare for the delivery tomorrow is gone. I’m at a loss for ideas.
The couple’s warm, airy second-floor apartment in Tal al-Hawa, where they once lived a dignified and peaceful life, is all that they can recall.
According to Samara, “The apartment, the building, and the entire neighborhood are destroyed.” Our family homes are all gone. We are left to live in tents.
The couple’s acceptance of their daughter into these circumstances terrifies them the most. Samar will undergo a C-section and then go home.
She softly responds, “I never imagined this.” Under these circumstances, I never imagined welcoming the daughter we had hoped for.
She acknowledges that she occasionally regrets having a baby while serving in the war.
She continues with grief, “In my previous deliveries, I returned from the hospital to my apartment, to my comfortable bed, and I took care of myself and my baby peacefully.”
Any mother in the world would understand my emotions right now, the delicateness of the delivery process, the first few days after delivery, and how sensitive I feel.
Abdulrahman al-Salmi claims that as life “emerges,” Abdulhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera, it makes him feel helpless and frustrated.
Endless entanglement
Samar’s has repeatedly been displaced, moving between Rafah, Nuseirat, and Khan Younis, like most families in Gaza.
I eluded my husband’s family, my uncle’s, and then my family’s home. Everyone is homeless and every house we fled to has been destroyed, according to Samara.
The most severe injuries have occurred to their children, Mohammad, seven, Kinan, five, and Yaman, three.
She says, “Look at them, look at them.” They are shivering because of it. They lack sufficient clothing. And the laundry, which I just washed, is now covered in mud.
After being bitten by insects inside the camp, the children needed to be taken to the hospital a few days ago. Every night, cold and illness stalk them.
According to Abdulrahman, “the older boy couldn’t sleep from stomach pain.” I covered him, but it was ineffective. Nothing is there, just blankets.
Even the ceasefire hasn’t provided any comfort to Samar. She refutes the claim that things have cooled down in the conflict. The war never came to an end, according to her.
They claim that the conflict has ended. What happened now? “Samar asks”. Every day there are bombings, martyrs, and drownings and sufferings. This is the start of a new conflict, not its conclusion.
Salma al-Salmi unloads the rain-soaked tent her family has. [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]
A call for shelter
The couple only desires dignity above all else.
Even caravans are a temporary solution, Samar claims. We are people. We had homes. Rebuilding our homes is what we demand.
Her final appeal targets humanitarian organizations.
We require blankets, mattresses, and clothes. Everything has been destroyed. Someone must be there for us. We require a place to rest. It’s impossible to continue to live on plastic sheets.
Abdulrahman sums up their reality in one sentence as he spreads yet another layer of sand:
We have lost our souls, to be honest.
In Gaza, tents have been flooded by winter rains, and more rain is forecast for the next few months. [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]
Deontay Wilder is the “first choice” for his upcoming fight, according to unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk.
In July, the Ukrainian defeated Londoner Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium to become the two-time undisputed heavyweight champion.
Usyk, 38, then vacated his WBO title, with Britain’s Fabio Wardley elevated from “interim” to full champion.
“I’ll fight the next year.” Deontay Wilder is my opponent. He told Boxing King Media, “I think it’s interesting.
Since his trilogy with Tyson Fury, Wilder has struggled, both as a former WBC world champion and as the division’s mostfeared puncher.
Following Joseph Parker’s and Zhilei Zhang’s back-to-back stoppage losses in 2023 and 2024, the American stock fell.
Wilder, 40, made a low-key seventh-round stoppage of little-known Tyrrell Anthony Herndon in June after missing out on more than a year.
Despite that decline, Usyk still sees “The Bronze Bomber” as a household name.
He is a “world champion guy.” A very well-known and capable individual,” Usyk remarked.
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Usyk chose to withdraw from the WBO title in favor of Wardley, who is his only opponent. If there are several required challengers with other organizations already tied up, he might still be able to join Wilder for a voluntary defense.
On January 10, the WBC’s interim champion Agit Kabayel and Damian Knyba meet, and Richard Torrez Jr. and Frank Sanchez are both required to compete in the final elimination bout. On December 12, WBA “regular” champion Kubrat Pulev will square off against Murat Gassiev.
Usyk, who has previously defeated Fury, Dubois, and Anthony Joshua, has previously stated that he intends to fight for only two more years before aiming to win the ring again in 2026.
