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Adam Peaty’s ex shares her thoughts on dramatic family feud

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As the bitter family feud between Adam Peaty and his family rumbles on, a source claims his ex does not want to be embroiled in the drama but is ‘shocked’ at recent events

The furious family feud that has erupted between Adam Peaty and his family amid his impending nuptials to chef Gordon Ramsay’s daughter Holly has shocked everyone. Now, a pal of his former partner, Eirianedd Munro has shared her alleged thoughts on the furore.

Eiri Munro, a former influencer and art student, disappeared from social media after her split with the Olympic swimmer in August 2022. She met Adam on Tinder and after a whirlwind romance, the pair going Insta official on New Year ’s eve in 2020. She announced just two months later that she was expecting a baby boy with him, George – who is now five.

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But now, a source has claimed to the Sun that Eiri, 27 – who lives in Wales with her sister and near other family with George, is still close to Adam’s mum Caroline, who he is in a heartbreaking feud with.

The source claimed that Eiri is ‘shocked’ at the current sad state of affairs – but wants nothing to do with any of it. “She has George living with her and has done an incredible job at raising him. She’s an amazing mum. It’s a far cry from Adam’s life with Holly Ramsay, but she’s really happy.

“Eiri would never speak badly of Adam – he has provided for their son and helped ensure he has a very comfortable life. She is also a big fan of Holly. But she is shocked by everything that’s been going on.”

No longer with a lively online presence – posting just once a year for her son’s birthday, the source claimed, “Eiri is still an artist and lives a very normal life. It is full of love and happiness. It really is family first.

Of her relationship with Adam’s mum, they claimed they are still close: “Caroline is of course still a big part of George’s life and spends lots of time with him. If Eiri is busy and Adam away, she often steps in to look after him, like she did at the weekend for Holly’s hen night in the Cotswolds.”

Gold medallist Adam, 30, who went public with his romance with influencer Holly, 25, in June 2023 – is set to walk her down the aisle this Christmas. But it’s believed that his mum Carolilne has been banned from the wedding – and was noticeably missing from Holly’s glamorous Hen at Soho Farmhouse, Oxfordshire, which included close family friend Victoria Beckham..

At the weekend, Adam was seen being escorted from a plane on his return from his stag do in Bucharest – which his future father-in-law Gordon got an invite to – by armed police.

It came after the swimming star claimed he had received sinister threats during his weekend away that he would be physically attacked upon landing – leading to fiancee Holly calling the police.

While Holly was on her hen do, Adam’s mum was at home in Staffordshire looking after George.

The source claimed: “Eiri doesn’t want to be embroiled in any family row but she would be upset by this. She and Caroline have a close bond and friendship, and she would offer her support.”

Caroline’s sister, Louise, weighed in on the feud on Monday with an emotional post on social media, claiming her sister had been ‘banned’ from Holly’s Hen do and it had left her ‘broken’.

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Unionised Starbucks workers begin ‘open-ended’ US strike

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More than a thousand unionised Starbucks baristas have walked off the job in more than 40 cities across the United States as negotiations have stalled between the company and the union, Starbucks Workers United.

Workers at 65 stores began an open-ended strike on Thursday, coinciding with the Seattle, Washington-based coffee shop chain’s Red Cup Day sales event, when customers who order a holiday-themed beverage can receive a free reusable cup with their purchase.

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The event typically drives higher traffic to Starbucks stores.

The coffeeshop chain, which has more than 18,000 stores across the US and Canada, says that the walkouts have caused limited impact.

More stores could soon join the strike. Starbucks Workers United represents roughly 550 stores around the US. Combined, this strike could be the largest in the history of the coffeeshop chain.

Stores in cities including Seattle, New York, Philadelphia, Dallas, Austin and Portland will join the work stoppage, it said. Some locations had already shut down for the day, a union spokesperson told journalists on a media call.

In an Instagram post on Thursday, the union called on consumers not to shop at any Starbucks location “today and beyond” ahead of a nationwide rally slated to begin at 4pm local time for each location.

The union has filed more than 1,000 charges to the National Labor Relations Board for alleged unfair labour practices such as firing unionising baristas, and last week, it voted to authorise a strike if a contract was not finalised by November 13.

Starbucks has said it pays an average wage of $19 an hour and offers employees who work at least 20 hours a week benefits including healthcare, parental leave and tuition for online classes at Arizona State University.

The union said starting wages are $15.25 per hour in about 33 states and the average barista gets less than 20 hours per week.

Talks between the union and the company stretched for about eight months in 2024, but broke down in December, after which workers went on strike during the key holiday period.

“Unfortunately, it’s not unusual to see stall tactics used in collective bargaining, as we’re seeing with Starbucks. But the situation and the strike vote also demonstrate that long-term grassroots organising empowers workers. There’s strength in numbers,” Jennifer Abruzzo, former General Counsel at the National Labor Relations Board under former US President Joe Biden, said in remarks shared with Al Jazeera.

History of strikes

Starbucks workers have gone on strike several times over the last few years, starting in 2021. Workers at a location in Buffalo, New York became the first unionised store and subsequently launched a nationwide movement, which now represents four percent of the Starbucks cafe workforce, or about 9,500 people.

In 2022, workers at roughly 100 stores went on strike, and in December 2024, workers walked off the job amid stalled negotiations at 300 stores. Negotiations began again earlier this year, but the two parties have yet to come to an agreement.

In April this year, the union voted to reject a Starbucks proposal that guaranteed annual raises of at least two percent, saying it did not offer changes to economic benefits such as healthcare, or an immediate pay hike.

Protesters picket outside a Starbucks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the US [Matt Slocum/AP Photo]

“Despite the fact that thousands of Starbucks baristas voted to engage in collective bargaining some years ago, the company has manipulated the situation to avoid having a contract,” Sharon Block, executive director of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School, said in remarks provided to Al Jazeera.

“Baristas are staying strong. The strength of the strike vote shows that baristas aren’t giving up. They continue to demand fair treatment by the company.”

Executive pressures

The strike comes as Starbucks under CEO Brian Niccol shuts hundreds of underperforming stores this year, including the unionised flagship Seattle location, while trimming corporate roles to control costs.

Niccol, who previously spent six years leading Chipotle, has stressed improving service times and in-store experience in the US to revive demand for beverages as sales have remained flat or negative for the past seven quarters.

Niccol had said in September last year when he took over as CEO that he was committed to dialogue.

However, Lynne Fox, the union’s international president, said on a call with journalists that things changed once Niccol took the helm.

“A year into Niccol’s tenure, negotiations have gone backwards after months of steady progress and good faith negotiations last year,” Fox said.

In 2024, Niccol’s compensation package totaled more than $95m, which is 6,666 times the median employee salary, according to the AFL-CIO’s Executive Paywatch tracker. That represents the largest CEO-to-worker pay gap among the S&P 500, according to the Institute for Policy Studies’ Executive Excess report.

Niccol’s pay, however, is largely driven by the performance of Starbucks’ stock, with $90m coming from the value of stock awards. Since Niccol took over the company in September 2024, the stock price of Starbucks has fallen by about 6 percent.

Medical experts say Africa faces worst cholera outbreak in 25 years

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Africa is experiencing its worst outbreak of cholera in the past 25 years, with Angola and Burundi seeing renewed surges that suggest active transmission of the disease, according to African medical officials.

On Thursday, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a public health agency for the African Union, said it had recorded about 300,000 confirmed and suspected cases of cholera so far in 2025. In addition, it had logged more than 7,000 deaths.

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The figures show an increase of more than 30 percent over the total number of cases recorded last year, which was 254,075.

“Cholera is still a major issue,” Africa CDC Director General Jean Kaseya said in a news briefing on Thursday. “It’s like every year we have more and more cases.”

Kaseya told reporters that two countries in particular have shown increases, suggesting active transmission of the infection: Angola and Burundi.

Angola has seen at least 33,563 total cases of cholera so far in 2025, resulting in 866 deaths, and Burundi has experienced at least 2,380 cases, leading to 10 deaths.

Cholera is a bacterial disease usually spread when people drink contaminated water or have contact with the water through open wounds. In some cases, it is possible to become infected when eating raw shellfish.

It cannot be transmitted from person to person, so casual contact with a person who has the disease is not a risk.

The disease causes severe diarrhoea and dehydration. If the disease is left untreated, cholera can kill within hours — even among people who were previously healthy.

The Africa CDC blamed the rise of the disease on poor access to safe water and conflicts across the continent.

“As we know, without water, we cannot really control the outbreak,” Kaseya said Thursday.

Even in countries that have seen slight declines in cholera cases, Kaseya encouraged health officials to address the root causes, including overcrowding and poor sanitation in refugee camps.

“Insecurity, displacement of our populations — all of that are not helping, in addition to a lack of wash commodities,” he said.

As of August, at least 40 people had died from cholera in Sudan’s Darfur region, with local refugee camps hit particularly hard.

The medical charity Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, described the situation as the country’s worst outbreak in years.

The war in Sudan has damaged and destroyed much of the country’s civilian infrastructure, including sewage and water treatment works, and turned many places, including the capital Khartoum, into battlefields.

“On top of an all-out war, people in Sudan are now experiencing the worst cholera outbreak the country has seen in years,” MSF said in a statement in August, cited by the AFP news agency.

“In the Darfur region alone, MSF teams treated over 2,300 patients and recorded 40 deaths in the past week.”

In total, Sudan has experienced at least 71,728 cases of cholera in 2025, resulting in 2,012 deaths, according to the Africa CDC.

Turkish FA bans 102 players in betting probe

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Turkey’s Football Federation has given bans to 102 players from its top two divisions for “betting-related activities”.

The punishments were of varying lengths, ranging from three months to 12 months, and involve 25 players from the Super Lig.

They include two players of champions Galatasaray – Eren Elmali and Metehan Baltaci – who were handed bans of 45 days and nine months respectively.

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The disciplinary action comes after the TFF suspended 1,024 players from its professional leagues on Tuesday as part of an investigation into betting.

Following the move, matches in the third and fourth divisions of Turkish football were postponed for two weeks.

“I want to make it clear that the reason my name appears in this file is because, about five years ago, a bet was placed on a match involving my former team, without my knowledge or involvement,” Elmali wrote in an Instagram story post.

“Since that day, I have had no connection whatsoever to betting or this issue.”

Galatasaray said the club would “meticulously” follow the “sensitive process”.

The scandal initially hit the headlines on 27 October, when TFF president Ibrahim Haciosmanoglu said hundreds of referees were linked to betting accounts.

Haciosmanoglu claimed that out of 571 referees working in Turkey’s professional leagues, 371 had betting accounts and 152 were actively placing wagers.

He said the group included seven referees and 15 assistant referees from Turkey’s top two divisions, as well as 36 “classified” referees and 94 assistants from the level below.

The TFF president added that 10 referees each placed more than 10,000 bets. One referee placed 18,227, while 142 referees placed bets on more than 1,000 matches. Some referees only placed a single bet.

Like players and coaches, match officials are forbidden from participating in betting activities by TFF regulations, as well as those of Fifa and European governing body Uefa.

Turkish prosecutors recently issued detention orders for 21 people – including 17 referees and two football club presidents – as part of a major investigation into betting and match fixing.

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The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood’s sister Emily lifts the lid on painful family split

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The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood and her sister Emily have taken the heartbreaking step of stepping back from working together, with Emily opening up about their seperation behind the scenes

Actress Aimee Lou Wood and her sister Emily have revealed the heartbreaking reason they no longer work together. The White Lotus and Sex Education star, 31, and her younger sister Emily, 28, who is a make-up artist, have long been open about their struggles with mental health. But now Emily has explained that the close-knit pair had to step back step back from collaborating with each other.

The sisters, who grew up in Bramhall, Greater Manchester, once lived together in London. Emily regularly created Aimee’s signature looks for events including the 2021 BAFTA Film Awards, the BAFTA TV Awards, and the Sex Education premiere. But as Aimee’s fame shifted, from Netflix breakthrough star to Emmy-nominated actress in The White Lotus, so did the pair’s relationship.

Speaking on the Breaking Beauty podcast this week, Emily was asked whether she still does her sister’s make-up. She replied: “No… It’s just something that’s a sensitive space because we decided years ago that we both struggle with our mental health.”

She continued: “We are very sensitive, hyper-vigilant people, and in a work environment, it’s just way more exacerbated because you’re perceived in a different way. I have complex PTSD… Aimee does too, so we need extra safety to feel even a normal level of safety.”

The make-up artist admitted that working so closely together had become overwhelming. “And I think then working together and me being very overprotective of her, needing to check in, and her being like, I just need to get through the day… it was just too much for us.”

The sisters ultimately decided to set boundaries to protect their relationship, with Emily sharing, “We were like, we need to – not that it would ever be ruined – but preserve the sisterhood. It’s boundaries. We needed to grow up and mature and it was actually the best thing we ever did.”

However, Emily went on to reveal that she made an exception to the rule: “I did her Burberry campaign earlier this year. She was like, obviously you have to do Burberry. It was a really fun day.”

Aimee has been open about her own mental health battles, revealing she has faced bulimia, body dysmorphia and social anxiety since her teens. “I still have moments when I’m really overwhelmed and stressed and I feel it coming back up, like, I could just take back control by not eating… Then I go, ‘No, I have to [eat]’ and I catch that and try not to get burnt out,” she told Radio Times in September.

Earlier this year, Emily also shared that the sisters had decided to live apart. “The space is essential. I now live with a best friend,” she said.

Their father Mike, 66, recently gave a candid interview about his own troubled past, revealing that his addiction to drink and cocaine wreaked “mayhem” on the family home. He said both daughters were “neurodiverse” and had inherited his “artistic streak, sensitivity and anxiety.”

Now sober for 22 years, Mike admitted that his chaotic past — including “brawls, binges and a breakdown that landed me in a psychiatric hospital.” He admitted: “During their first few years I was a pretty s*** role model. I caused a lot of mayhem.

“I probably influenced my children badly. If I can be a good influence now that I’m clean, maybe I can make up for some of that.” Their mum Alison, a charity worker, divorced Mike years ago.

*If you are struggling with mental health, you can speak to a trained advisor from Mind mental health charity on 0300 123 3393 or email info@mind.org.uk

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