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Adam Peaty’s mum admits ‘I didn’t want to live’ in sad admission amid family feud

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WARNING: CONTAINS REFERENCES TO SUICIDE. Adam Peaty’s mum Caroline said she struggled to carry on after being told she wasn’t allowed to attend Adam and Holly Ramsay’s Christmas wedding

Adam Peaty’s mum admits she struggled to carry on amid her feud with her son. The Olympic swimmer is set to marry his fiancé Holly Ramsay in a stunning winter ceremony next month.

However, it has been reported that Adam’s mum Caroline has been banned from the wedding amid a growing feud between the family. Caroline was not in attendance at Holly’s hen do at Soho Farmhouse.

Victoria Beckham was in attendance as well as Holly’s mum Tana and sisters Megan and Tilly. Adam’s sister Bethany was also at the event.

At the same time, Adam was having his stag do in Budapest, with Caroline at home looking after Adam’s son George, five, who he had with his ex Eirianedd Munro. Adam and Holly started dating following his split from Eirianedd – who is still close with the Peaty family – back in 2022 after Adam and Holly’s sister Tilly competed on the same series of Strictly Come Dancing.

Caroline has now recalled how she broke down on the way home from dropping George off to his mum in Birmingham. She said: “I was crying all the way home,’ she told me. ‘I got home and told Mark that for the first time in my life, I felt I didn’t want to live.

“That’s how low this has made me. I’m a strong woman and I can get through anything, but this has broken me.”

The Mirror has contacted Adam’s representatives for comment.

Caroline also insisted that Adam “won’t back down”, which she said coincides with his incredible sportsmanship. She told the Mail: “Adam will not back down, nor will Holly. Adam rarely says sorry, he has a very black and white view.”

Caroline was allegedly informed whilst she had his son George that she was no longer welcome at Adam and Holly’s Christmas wedding. According to her sister Louise, this is when she got the news.

Louise claimed her sister had to mask her “hurt and betrayal” in front of her grandchild, calling the situation “sticking the knife in and twisting it”. She went on to allege that Adam had called his mother a “c**p mother,” despite the sacrifices Caroline made to support his swimming career, including driving him to training at dawn and pushing the Peaty family into debt to fund his dreams.

In a heartbreaking Instagram post this week, Caroline shared a quote, which read: “Crying is a way your eyes speak when your mouth can’t explain how broken your heart is.” Shortly after, she shut down all comments across her accounts.

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Trump ‘at 10%’ as he sweeps Zhao aside to reach final

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World number one Judd Trump won six frames in a row despite joking that he was only playing at “10%” as he claimed a 6-2 victory over Zhao Xintong to reach the final of the Champion of Champions in Leciester.

China’s Zhao, the world champion, made breaks of 50 and 72 to take the opening two frames, with Trump initially appearing well out of sorts.

However, the Englishman responded with runs of 68, 73, 77 and 66 as he reeled off the next five frames before sealing his victory with a break of 63.

“From 2-0 I felt I controlled the game. I scored heavily and didn’t miss much. I am happy to be in the final because I am still not 100%, I’m probably at about 10%,” said Trump.

“I have changed my tip from brass to titanium this season and I am really struggling.

“I don’t feel comfortable or fluent, I really have to take care over every shot.

“When I play my best I know I will win nine times out of 10, but over the last few years I have learned how to win more often when I am not at my best.”

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Beatles biopic suffers major blow as council bans filming at iconic landmark

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Westminster Council has reportedly banned any filming at an iconic Beatles landmark, meaning that a famous shot of the fab four will not be recreated for the films

Westminster Council has reportedly banned any filming at an iconic Beatles landmark. The legendary rockband, which was made up of John Lennon, Ringo Starrr George Harrison and Paul McCartney, will be the focus of an upcoming biopic and Sam Mendes had hoped to recreate a famous shot in the film.

The cover of the band’s 1969 album, Abbey Road, sees the band strolling across in a line and it has become an integral image within the history of the Penny Lane hitmakers, but the council in that area of North West London are said to have rejected a request to shoot there.

An insider told The Sun: “It’s believed they turned down the request on the basis that they’d have to shut down the road for filming to take place safely. The trouble is that the huge number of tourists who visit the area often cause disruption by having their picture taken recreating the scene.

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“That would be magnified by having dozens of cast and crew present to do the same thing for the movie. Now the producers are facing the prospect of omitting the scene as they really don’t want to rely on CGI because that would not look authentic.

“The hope is that they kind a road that looks similar enough that they can still make it happen in some form.”

The Mirror has contacted Westminster Council for comment.

Paul Mescal will play Sir Paul McCartney while fellow Irish actor Barry Keoghan takes on the role of Sir Ringo Starr in the multi-part films, which will be released in 2028. Sony Pictures announced there will be four films, with an April 2028 release date, directed by British filmmaker Sir Sam Mendes.

Also revealed in the cast are Babygirl star and British actor Harris Dickinson, who will play John Lennon, while Mescal’s Gladiator II co-star Joseph Quinn portrays George Harrison. Speaking at the CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas on Monday, which the cast also attended, Sir Sam called the films the “first binge-able theatrical experience”. “I’ve been trying to make a story about The Beatles for years,” he added. It was already announced that Sir Sam will produce the films under his Neal Street Productions banner alongside its co-founder Dame Pippa Harris, the former chairwoman of Bafta, and Julie Pastor.

The project marks the first time Apple Corps Ltd and The Beatles – Sir Paul, Sir Ringo, and the families of Lennon and Harrison – have granted full life story and music rights for a scripted film. Sir Ringo previously appeared to let slip that Saltburn star Keoghan had taken on the role. He told Entertainment Tonight: “I believe he’s somewhere taking drum lessons, and I hope not too many.” When Sir Ridley Scott was promoting his second Roman epic Gladiator II last year, he revealed Mescal was joining the Beatles project, telling an industry event that the actor was “actually stacked up, doing the Beatles next” so he may not be able to join him on his next film.

There have been previous films about the Beatles, including Nowhere Boy, about Lennon growing up in Liverpool, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson. BBC drama Lennon Naked starred Doctor Who actor Christopher Eccleston as Lennon, and Chapter 27 depicted the musician’s death in New York in 1980 with Dallas Buyers Club actor Jared Leto playing his killer, Mark David Chapman.

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Formed in 1960, The Beatles are the best-selling musical act of all time and one of the most influential groups in the world, having achieved 18 UK number one singles and 16 UK number one albums.

Normal People star Mescal and Keoghan are both Oscar nominees, having been nominated for drama Aftersun and black comedy The Banshees Of Inisherin, respectively. Dickinson has also acted in the comedy Triangle Of Sadness and thriller Where The Crawdads Sing, while Quinn rose to fame in Stranger Things before taking on roles including in A Quiet Place: Day One.

Humphries eases into Grand Slam semi-finals

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Luke Humphries saw off a spirited fightback from Michael Smith as he booked his place in the semi-finals of the Grand Slam of Darts with a 16-8 victory.

World number one Humphries raced into a 4-0 lead in the best of 31-leg match but Smith battled back to level the match at 7-7 all.

However, Humphries won nine of the next 10 legs as the 30-year-old ruthlessly closed out the contest against his fellow Englishman.

Humphries, the 2023 Grand Slam champion, averaged an impressive 104.98 with a checkout percentage of 44.4%

He will face Gerwyn Price in the last four after the Welshman chalked up a 16-9 win over England’s Ricky Evans.

The remaining two quarter-finals at the WV Active Aldersley centre in Wolverhampton take place on Saturday.

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Displaced Palestinian families suffer as heavy rains flood Gaza tent camps

Displaced Palestinians are reeling after heavy rains flooded their tents in makeshift displacement camps in Gaza City, as the United Nations warns that Israeli restrictions on aid have left hundreds of thousands of families without adequate shelter.

Abdulrahman Asaliyah, a displaced Palestinian man, told Al Jazeera on Friday that residents’ mattresses, clothes and other belongings were soaked in the flooding.

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“We are calling for help, for new tents that can at least protect people from the winter cold,” he said, explaining that nearly two dozen people had been working for hours to get the water to drain from the area.

“This winter rain is a blessing from God, but there are families who no longer wish for it to fall, fearing for the lives of their children and their own survival,” Asaliyah said.

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Friday’s flooding primarily affected Palestinians in the north of the Strip, where hundreds of thousands of people have returned following last month’s ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.

Flooding was also reported in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, said the rescue agency, which urged the international community to do more to “address the suffering” of Palestinians whose homes were destroyed in Israel’s two-year war on the enclave.

“We urge the swift delivery of homes, caravans, and tents to these displaced families to help alleviate their suffering, especially as we are at the beginning of winter,” it said in a statement.

While the October 10 ceasefire has allowed more aid to get into the Gaza Strip, the UN and other humanitarian groups say Palestinians still lack adequate food, medicine and other critical supplies, including shelter.

Aid groups working to provide shelter assistance in the occupied Palestinian territory said in early November that about 260,000 Palestinian families, totalling almost 1.5 million people, were vulnerable as the cold winter months approached.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said this week that it has enough shelter supplies to help as many as 1.3 million Palestinians.

But UNRWA said Israel continues to block its efforts to bring aid into Gaza despite the ceasefire deal, which stipulated that humanitarian assistance must be delivered to Palestinians in need.

“We have a very short chance to protect families from the winter rains and cold,” Angelita Caredda, Middle East and North Africa director at the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), said in a statement on November 5.

Reporting from Deir el-Balah on Friday, Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary said Palestinians across Gaza have been voicing fears that this winter would be particularly difficult due to the lack of safe shelter.

“It only rained for a couple of minutes – 30 minutes or so … [and] they were completely flooded,” she said. “Their tents are very fragile and worn-out; they have been using them for the past two years.”

She added that most Palestinians do not have any other options but to remain in tent camps or overcrowded shelters, despite the difficulties.

“We’re already seeing Palestinian children walking barefoot. They do not have winter clothes. They do not have blankets. And at the same time, the aid that is coming in … is being restricted,” Khoudary said.

Back in Gaza City, another displaced Palestinian man affected by the heavy rains, Abu Ghassan, said he and his family “no longer have a normal life”.

Trump misses cut despite improvement on LPGA debut

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Annika second round leaderboard

-9 L Grant (Swe), G Kim (Aus); -8 H Ryu (Kor), J Kupcho (US); -7 G Lopez (Mex)

Selected others: -6 N Korda (US), C Ciganda (Spa); -5 C Hull (Eng), E Henseleit (Ger); -1 L Maguire (Ire); +5 L Thompson (US); +18 K Trump (US)

Kai Trump missed the cut on her LPGA debut after a five-over 75 left her on 18 over par overall at the Annika tournament in Florida.

The 18-year-old amateur, who is the granddaughter of US President Donald Trump, was last in the 108-player field at the end of the second round.

Trump, who was competing as a sponsor exemption at Pelican Golf Club, did make a significant improvement on the 83 she signed for on Thursday, when she drew large galleries and struggled with nerves.

She made birdies on the third, seventh, 11th and 12th after almost sinking an eight iron from 140 yards for what would have been her maiden hole-in-one.

“For the first day I was definitely really nervous. I think the nerves just got to me,” Trump said.

“When I went out there today I felt very calm and peaceful to be honest with you. That’s why I played better.”

While she also made par on the daunting 18th hole for the second consecutive day there were several challenging moments including a triple-bogey seven on the par-four fifth.

“Things are going to happen. Once it happens you can’t go back in time and fix it,” added Trump, whose mother Vanessa dates 15-time men’s major champion Tiger Woods.

“The best thing I could do is move on. Like I told my caddie, Allan [Kournikova], kind of just started laughing. It is what it is. We got that out of the way, so let’s just move on. It was pretty easy to move on after that.”

Trump, who has committed to playing for the University of Miami next year, has played only three events this term.

She is also ranked number 461 in the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) rankings yet was still able to make a big impression, averaging 241 yards off the tee and finding 11 of 14 fairways.

“That’s really good, considering this is not just an easy LPGA event, this is probably one of the harder courses that we play on,” said England’s Charley Hull, who played three groups ahead of Trump.

Hull, who has had visa and sickness issues in the build-up to the tournament, is at five under overall and sits four strokes adrift of joint leaders Linn Grant and Grace Kim.

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