Gareth Ainsworth, the club’s manager, will have heart surgery and be out “for a few weeks.”
While Ainsworth, 52, recovers from the “routine” operation, Richard Dobson, a long-term assistant, will take over.
A routine League Managers’ Association (LMA) health check, according to Ainsworth, helped identify the issue after the end of the previous season.
He was in charge of the Gills’ 1-0 home defeat against Harrogate Town on Saturday, which put them on the verge of season one after being overtaken by Swindon Town and Walsall.
Ainsworth, who previously oversaw Wycombe, QPR, and Shrewsbury, stated: “I went for the LMA health check and they discovered something with my heart.
This week, I need heart surgery. Although it sounds dramatic, it is actually a routine action.
“All of this has been planned,” the statement read. Do not let that discourage Dobbo and the entire team; they will be leading. I’ll be away for a few weeks before returning.
We’ve been informed about Gareth’s upcoming surgery for many weeks, according to chairman Brad Galinson.
Children with special needs in Gaza are increasingly at risk as a result of Israeli intense bombardment and forced Palestinian displacement.
Abeer Hassan, who cares for her autistic son Abdallah, claims that he is terrified by the constant Israeli explosions in Deir el-Balah.
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We were also urged to leave as the people began to flee the area, Hassan told Al Jazeera.
Abdallah used to watch displaced families fleeing in cars. She continued, “He would return to the tent using sign language, very tense and nervous.”
Hassan explained that they arrived at a camp for displaced people called Ameera, which was overflowing and had no room for their tent.
“Despite the danger, they later advised us to look for a spot close to Salah al-Din Street. Abdallah was becoming tense and making strange sounds as my daughters and I were crying. We have no idea where to go because the scorching heat is too much.
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The army has issued numerous forced evacuation orders to Palestinians living in the besieged enclave since Israel’s occupation of Gaza in October 2023, frequently instructing them to relocate to the so-called “safe zone.”
However, al-Mawasi and the exodus of Palestinians fleeing Gaza City for an unknown fate further south have also been repeatedly attacked by Israel.
Abdallah has developed a new habit of pulling his hair because of the never-ending orders and sounds of bombardments and spends most of his time in the streets. His family cut his hair short to prevent him from tearing at it.
To prevent him from going outside in the heat, I started prescribing sleeping pills once more. I can’t help him any more than that. Two days before we were displaced, I discovered that my mobile phone had broken, and Hassan said that his only way to stay calm was through mobile games and videos.
“We were all under a lot of pressure, both young and old. I once requested that God arrange for Abdallah to be killed by himself. She pleaded, “Not everything he needs is available here,” noting.
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Carlos Alcaraz defeated Brandon Nakashima 6-2, 6-4 to reach the semi-finals of the Japan Open in Tokyo.
The top seed of Spain dismissed any lingering questions about an ankle injury he sustained in the opening round and fired 39 winners without going through a break point.
As he aims to win his eighth ATP title of a remarkable season, the world number one will face fourth-seeded Casper Ruud from Norway on Monday in the semi-finals.
Alcaraz remarked, “I think I just played unbelievable today, I’m not going to lie.”
“I felt like I could play every shot and do everything on the court.”
Following victories at the US Open earlier this month, Rotterdam, and the Cincinnati Masters, Alcaraz is unbeaten on the way to a fourth hard court title in Japan.
The 22-year-old six-time Grand Slam champion has also won three titles on grass at Queen’s and three at Monte Carlo, Rome, and the French Open in Roland Garros.
However, only third seed Holgar Rune is the only notable player to lose in the quarter-finals, leaving only three of the top four players in the draw for the semi-finals in Tokyo.
Jenson Brooksby, 24, is expected to move up from 86 in the world to at least 57th when the rankings are next updated after his impressive run in Tokyo, to Denmark’s Rune, who lost 6-3, 6-3.
After defeating another American, Sebastian Korda, Brooksby will face compatriot Taylor Fritz, who defeated the second seed 6-3, 6-7, 6-3, 6-3).
Gauff serve issues come back in China Open victories.
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In a third-round match at the China Open, defending champion Gauff defended his decision to face Fernandez, saying, “I did what I needed to do to win.”
The issues with her serve, which eventually brought the American second seed to tears at the US Open, resurfaced in Beijing after she won a close encounter in three sets, winning 6-4, 4-6, and 7-5.
The 21-year-old, two-time Grand Slam champion, broke seven double faults during the contest.
Both players struggled with their serve, taking 15 total breaks throughout, including eight on the final set, three on Gauff’s serve and five on Fernandez’s.
Gauff split her second match point at 5-2 ahead of the Canadian world number 25 on both occasions, but she rallied at 5-5 to finish the match, sealing victory on her second match point.
In her on-court interview, Gauff said, “We were going back and forth. It was very physical.
“Obviously, I was playing pretty well through the third set.” I could have done better, but I still managed to prevail today.
Bishop Wale Oke has urged Nigerians to unite as she observes her 65th birthday on Wednesday.
The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN)’s national leader called for a special church service on Sunday to honor the country’s independence.
The National President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Speaking on the theme “The Power of Unity in Building a Great Nation” taken from Psalm 133, said that if the people of Nigeria were united, it could be better and better.
If the leaders, the led, the governors, and the governed come together and work together to advance the country, he said, the country would be blessed with everything it needed to become a global force.
Bishop Wale Oke, the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), addresses a special church service on September 28, 2025 to celebrate the country’s independence in Abuja.
He said, “We can have a nation where peace and unity rule,” and that the United States of Nigeria could become a powerful force on the world stage.
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He warned that the country’s division along tribal, religious, and regional lines still prevents development in Nigeria.
“We will advance quickly because we are brethren, not because of tribe, not because of section, or region.”
Bishop Wale Oke, the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), addresses a special church service on September 28, 2025 to celebrate the country’s independence in Abuja.
Using Genesis 11: 1-9, which states that a people who work together can accomplish the impossible.
“We must look beyond tribal, religious, and partisan politics,” he says. What divides us is much more powerful than what unites us.
We must fall in love with one another. Love is the only true force. And when we truly love one another, we will treat everyone equally and justly, regardless of race, religion, or background, “Oke said.
Many of the cast members from the Wizard of Oz’s first film, which was released in 1939, were permanently harmed, both physically and mentally, and led to the drug-dependent lead actress Judy Garland’s death at the age of 47.
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Due to the horrors that the cast experienced, the Wizard of Oz movie was said to be cursed.
Elaine Merk Binder, who was amongst the final surviving munchkins from the beloved film The Wizard of Oz, has died aged 94.
The heartbreaking news was confirmed by her daughter Annette Phillips to TMZ, though no cause of death was revealed. Binder successfully auditioned for the movie in 1938 and was chosen as one of eight children who would perform dance and vocal numbers as part of the Munchkin cast.
The 1939 fantasy classic left numerous cast members with lasting damage – both physical and psychological – and sent its leading lady, Judy Garland, spiralling into substance abuse that would eventually claim her life at just 47.
One of the first films to enter the Technicolor, The Wizard of Oz, based on L. Frank Baum’s 1900 children’s book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, was successful commercially and financially unsuccessful.
The movie’s 1949 re-release only led to a profit for Hollywood’s colossus MetroGoldwyn-Mayer.
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Despite numerous mishaps, horrifying injuries, and four different directors’ attempts to refute the notion of a Wizard of Oz curse, it is still remarkable that the entire cast survived the filming process.
“Health and safety regulations weren’t the same as they are now, and studios were allowed to get away with treating their stars appallingly”, explains Dr Ellen Wright, senior lecturer in cinema and TV history at De Montford University.
“Our stars were treated like workhorses because that’s how they operated.” They were given terrible demands and seven years of contracts that they couldn’t get out of. If they refused they were penalised”.
Judy started playing on stage alongside her sisters as a vaudeville girl when she was just 16 when the movie was being shot.
She was completely in charge of her life after being locked into her MGM deal.
She was placed on a rigid regime of chicken soup, black coffee and cigarettes, whilst being given tablets to suppress her hunger.
The teenager’s weight and appearance would be constantly monitored by Studio Chief Louis B. Mayer.
“He would apparently refer to her lovingly as ‘ my little hunchback’, says Ellen”. She ended up with chronic body dysmorphia because he had been a constant enemy of her. Judy was already 4 feet 11 inches tall, but her handlers monitored every bite of her food.
” Her chest was strapped down and her frame compressed into restrictive corsets to create the illusion of the innocent young Dorothy. “
The studio hosted a birthday party for her, but it was a few weeks too early to fit in her schedule. She couldn’t even choose the day to celebrate her birthday! “says Ellen”. She was denied access to a slice of her own cake because it would make her fat, despite the fact that they had photographed the gathering for the fan magazines.
Her mother, who had a nine-year history of drug abuse, had given her daughter, Judy, a substance abuser, from when she was a young girl.
She would begin each day with her ‘ pep pills ‘ – speed – to elevate her energy levels, but would become so stimulated by evening that she required barbiturates to achieve sleep”.
Judy later told her biographer Paul Donnelley, “They had us working days and nights on end.” They would prescribe pills to keep us awake for a long time after we were exhausted.
” Then they’d take us to the studio hospital and knock us out with sleeping pills… Then after four hours they’d wake us up and give us the pep pills again so we could work 72 hours in a row. We were hanging from the ceiling for the majority of our lives, but that was our way of life.
Judy had completely dependent upon herself when production came to a close, and she suffered from substance abuse for the rest of her years.
” She suffered from this chronic sense of not being enough, “says Ellen”. Although Mayer bullied her to the core, she was undoubtedly a talented young woman.
The leading woman of the movie also had to deal with challenges during the production process. The initial Tin Man actor, Buddy Ebson, was rushed to hospital and nearly perished from toxic aluminium poisoning merely 10 days into shooting.
His makeup was pure powdered aluminum, which the studio was unaware had this potential fatality, Ellen explains.
Buddy had already laid down all the vocals for the Tin Man, so the studio decided to reshoot his scenes with a stand-in, Jack Haley.
In order to achieve the Tin Man’s signature silver appearance, the makeup team discreetly used an aluminum paste rather than powder. However, Haley developed an eye infection from the metallic irritant.
After wearing his 100-pound fur costume for hours on end under the sweltering Kleig lights, Bert Lahr, who portrayed the Lion, succumbed to heat exhaustion. He was forced to consume his lunch through a straw and had to lie down on planks to eat.
The prosthetic mask he wore permanently damaged Ray Bolger’s facial features when he played the Scarecrow.
And Terry, the adorable Toto character, did not manage to escape unharmed: one of the cast accidentally stepped on her paw, which caused a two-week recovery period at Judy’s home.
One of the most severe injuries on set was sustained by Margaret Hamilton, a teacher and part-time actor hired to play the green-faced Wicked Witch of the West.
Her copper-based makeup caught fire as a result of a pyrotechnic error, leaving her with third-degree burns on her arms and face, which is agonizing.
” She point blank refused to do any more stunts after that, so the studio had to hire a body-double to film the stunts instead, “says Ellen.
Tragically, Betty Danko’s replacement, who was being filmed the Witch’s dramatic arrival in Munchkinland, was burned to death by the sluggish broomstick she was perched on. She spent 11 days in the hospital, where her legs were left permanently scarred.
” They were just another cog in the machine, “says Ellen”. The big stars had the wealthy cars, the wealthy homes, and were fairly well-paid.
“But the argument was, “We pay you well so we can treat you like s***,” and most of the time the homes weren’t theirs, the cars were on tick, and the clothes they wore were loaned out by the wardrobe department. They were in a gilded cage.
They simply had to do some of the things that were required of them because it was unbearably dangerous.
In a scene in which Dorothy and the Scarecrow are sucked into a meadow of poppies, which turns into a snowy tempest, Judy and Ray were even forced to stomp around in asbestos.
“That’s what they used as snow, they had no idea it was carcinogenic so she was just inhaling all of that asbestos,” says Ellen.
Because you faced off against a formidable machine that had you in its grasp, there were very few stars who could command any say-so. You did what they told you – whether that was rolling around in asbestos, being bullied or being fed loads of drugs. “
Unfortunately, Judy passed away at the age of 47 from a barbiturates overdose, leaving behind her three children, Lorna and Joey Luft.
Her estate was only worth $40, 000, or £200, 000 in today’s money, despite earning millions throughout her glittering career.
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Ellen reveals that Judy never saw that in herself, but she did so much to bring joy to so many people. She never truly loved herself despite all that money and success.
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