Lowry beaten to Truist Championship title by Straka

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Truist Championship final leaderboard

-16 S Straka (Aut); -14 S Lowry (Ire); -14 J Thomas (US); -12 J Bridgeman (US), P Cantlay (US), T Fleetwood (Eng)

Selected others: -10 R McIlroy (NI); -9 X Schauffele (US); -6 M Fitzpatrick (Eng), A Rai (Eng); -4 R MacIntyre (Sco)

Shane Lowry missed out on victory at the Truist Championship as his European Ryder Cup team-mate Sepp Straka claimed the title.

The two players went into the final round in the joint lead on 14 under and it was Austrian Straka who emerged with victory after a final round 68 put him on 16 under.

Irishman Lowry went round in level-par 70, two late bogeys leaving him tied for second with Justin Thomas at the Philadelphia Cricket Club’s Wissahickon Course.

A key moment took place on the 16th when both Straka and Lowry were on 16 under. Lowry missed a five-foot putt and bogeyed the hole, while Straka managed a par to lead by one shot with two holes remaining.

Straka kept hold of his lead to claim his fourth PGA Tour victory, while a dejected Lowry three-putted the 18th hole to finish two shots adrift of the winner, along with American Thomas.

“I hit a lot of really good shots and made a lot of mistakes. I hung in there,” said Straka.

“I had a two-shot lead [after the ninth hole] and made two bogeys on the next two holes to lose it, but I kept the same attitude and mentality throughout the round.”

England’s Tommy Fleetwood birdied the last in recording a 65, along with Americans Patrick Cantlay and Jacob Bridgeman, as they all finished on 12 under for a tie of fourth.

Defending champion Rory McIlroy, a four-time winner of the event when held at Quail Hollow, the venue for next week’s US PGA Championship, finished on 10 under after a steady round of 68 featuring 16 pars.

“I thought on the greens was good even though I didn’t hole a lot of putts today,” said McIlroy. “My approach play got a little better as the week went on, I just need to hit a few more fairways.

“I feel with next week and the tee shots I have to hit there, it’ll set up better for me.

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David Beckham attempts contact with son Brooklyn on American holiday amid feud

David Beckham has seemingly turned to social media to hint he has his eldest son on his mind after weeks of reports he is clashing with his firstborn and his daughter-in-law

David Beckham has seemingly ‘reached out’ to his son, Brooklyn, on Instagram(Image: Getty Images)

David Beckham has seemingly attempted to connect with his eldest son via social media amid reports of a feud within the family. Fans of the fame hungry family will be aware the rumours and reports of a rift between Brooklyn, 26, and his billionaire heiress wife Nicola Peltz, 30, have been simmering since their 2022 marriage.

While at first there were tales of tension between Nicola and former Spice Girl mother-in-law Victoria Beckham – which they later appeared to try to silence by supporting each other both online and at events and fashion shows in real life – things took a turn in recent weeks when it was implied Brooklyn had clashed with younger brother Romeo Beckham, 22, and his choice of girlfriend; Kim Turnbull, 24.

Evidence of tension hit new heights last week when Brooklyn a his wife appeared to snub David’s 50th birthday celebrations by skipping parties in the UK and France and by failing to pay tribute to his landmark year on social media. Now there is evidence that David is desperately trying to connect to Brooklyn online.

On Sunday, America celebrated Mother’s Day – almost a month and a half after the annual holiday was marked in the UK. Despite being from the UK, David seized upon the symbolic holiday to share a photo of wife Victoria with all four of their children.

The former footballer shared a vintage snap of Vicky with daughter Harper Seven back when she was a baby laying on her chest – while Brooklyn, Romeo and third son Cruz flanked the singer-turned-designer on either side.

David Beckham includes son Brooklyn in a touching social media post
David tagged Brooklyn in a social media post relating to a symbolic holiday in the USA(Image: Instagram)
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He captioned the image: “Happy Mother’s Day to the best mommy. To all our friends in the U.S. Happy Mother’s Day.” He also noticeably tagged his sons – including Brooklyn. Fans have surmised that the footballer may be trying to send a message to his son via his Mother’s Day post.

The Mirror has contacted representatives of both David and Brooklyn for comment. The latest update comes hours after Brooklyn appeared to confront reports of tension between him and his dad in a weekend newspaper interview.

Speaking to The Sunday Times, the social media influencer explained that watching Formula E racing brings him closer to his dad. He told the outlet: “It’s something that me and my dad bonded over. My dad’s had some pretty cool cars.”

A feud is said to have sparked between the eldest Beckham offspring and the rest of the clan after Romeo Beckham started dating Kim Turnball – who was previously romantically linked to Brooklyn a few years ago. Since the claims, Brooklyn has snubbed paying tribute to his parents David, 50, and Victoria, 51, on their birthdays and missed out on their celebrations.

A source has claimed: “There has been no call, no contact, nothing. As parents, David and Victoria are concerned for their son and they have tried to get in touch but he isn’t interested.

“David even tried through social media last Monday because he fears that his son won’t know that he and Victoria love him so dearly otherwise,” they added to the Daily Mail.

David is said to have shared how he missed his son during a birthday fishing trip to Scotland, after reaching out to him on social media but, it has been said that Brooklyn “isn’t interested at all” despite his parents’ attempts to let him know “they are all there for him when he’s ready to talk”.

Meanwhile, it has been claimed that there are beliefs that Brooklyn’s wife Nicola Peltz, who wed in April 2022, “must be behind” the family fallout.

Around the time Nicola and Brooklyn wed, rumours of a feud between the American actress and fashion designer Victoria have been swirling. Nicola’s friends recently claimed “emotional abuse and toxic behaviour” are the reasons behind the fallout. However, David and Victoria reject the claims and are outraged by the suggestions.

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A source close to the Beckhams recently told the Mirror: “I don’t think anyone who has ever seen David and Victoria with their children would recognise this deeply unpleasant attack. It doesn’t even warrant a response it’s so ludicrous and patently untrue.”

Bayern stand firm on Sane offer – Monday’s gossip

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Bayern Munich have no plan to raise their offer to Leroy Sane, Napoli slient on move for Manchester City’s Kevin de Bruyne and Arsenal’s Jakub Kiwior on radar of Inter Milan and Juventus.

Bayern Munich do not intend to improve their contract offer to Germany winger Leroy Sane, despite the new agents of the 29-year-old – who is out of contract in the summer – submitting a fresh proposal to the Bundesliga champions. (Florian Plettenberg, Sky Sports Germany)

Napoli sporting director Giovanni Manna is remaining silent about a move to sign Belgium midfielder Kevin de Bruyne, 33, on a free transfer when he leaves Manchester City at the end of his contract this summer. (Calciomercato – in Italian)

Canada striker Jonathan David will be a free agent when his deal with Lille ends in the summer and the 25-year-old is another target for Napoli. (La Gazzetta dello Sport – in Italian)

Bayer Leverkusen chief Fernando Carro believes there is a 50-50 chance of 22-year-old Germany midfielder Florian Wirtz, who has been linked with Bayern Munich, staying with the club. (Sky Sports Germany)

Arsenal centre-back Jakub Kiwior is on the radar of both Juventus and Inter Milan as the 25-year-old Poland defender weighs up his long-term future. (Football Insider)

Real Madrid are looking to agree a deal with Liverpool worth about £1m for 26-year-old England full-back Trent Alexander-Arnold to join them before the Club World Cup. (Football Insider)

Former Everton and Burnley manager Sean Dyche is among the candidates to take over at Leicester City, with the Foxes expected to part ways with current boss Ruud van Nistelrooy. (Talksport)

Brazil midfielder Douglas Luiz says he misses playing for Aston Villa as he struggles for first-team football at Juventus, who signed the 27-year-old from the Midlands club last summer. (Twitch, via Birmingham Mail)

Brighton are among a number of clubs interested in 21-year-old defender Diego Coppola, who plays for Serie A side Hellas Verona. (Fabrizio Romano)

AC Milan are keen on Feyenoord centre-back David Hancko but face competition from Bayer Leverkusen and Juventus for the 27-year-old Slovakia international. (Calciomercato – in Italian)

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Molly-Mae Hague finally goes Instagram official with Tommy Fury in loved up snap

Molly-Mae Hague has proved her rekindled romance with Tommy Fury is the real deal as she goes Instagram official. The Love Island star, 25, proudly showed off her family in the snap on social media.

She kissed Tommy on the lips as he held their daughter Bambi in his arms. The trio tucked into ice creams on their sunny day out together as a reunited family.

Molly-Mae revealed to fans that her romance was back on with her former fiancé in her Amazon Prime series. The fan-favourite couple shocked fans last summer when they announced their split.

They had met on Love Island back in 2019 and went on to build their dream life together, welcoming daughter Bambi in 2023. However, things came crashing down when they released split statements on their social media in August.





Molly-Mae kissed Tommy in the loved up snap

After sharing their reunion with fans, Molly-Mae posted a candid response to her documentary. She said: “I’m so overwhelmed by the response to the last three episodes of ‘Molly-Mae: Behind it all’.

“Opening up again wasn’t any easier than the first time… I was so nervous to share more but seeing how much it’s resonated with people has meant everything to me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart… PS. Do you want more?”

Speaking in a new episode of her Prime Video docuseries, Behind It All Part II, Molly-Mae spoke candidly about her relationship with Tommy following their split, saying that “things are looking so much better”.

Speaking in the sixth episode of her docuseries, the influencer shared an update on her relationship which she described was “worth saving”. She also shared her concerns for the future and that she does not want to rush anything with Tommy but to take “things slow”.

Molly-Mae said: “I love Tommy so much and I love our family so much that I’m willing to ride the wave. And that’s not something that everyone wants to do, but it’s something that I’m willing to do because I want my family.”






Tommy Fury and Molly-Mae


Tommy and Molly-Mae split in August
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“He’s just really different these days. Obviously, he knows it’s the drink. He’s not drank now for what, four months? I don’t think the drinks gone away forever. Do I think that drink could still be a problem for us, potentially? Yeah, but I think the break-up showed Tommy that I’m serious. He’s just really different these days.”

She also spoke her recent secret holiday with Tommy and Bambi that she described as “picture perfect”. “Dubai was picture perfect, like it was just the best trip ever,” Molly-Mae gushed.

“It literally just felt like everything I wanted it to be, and more. It was exactly what we needed. All the noise of everyone, just like it just switched off everyone’s opinions. Nothing mattered. It was just like us in our bubble.”

She insisted: “Things are looking so much better for us. I’m gonna start spending more time at Tommy’s house, keeping things slow and not rushing anything.

“But, as always, I always say I don’t know what the future holds. I don’t think it’s gonna be a plain sailing future. I don’t, that’s just me being honest. I think we’re still gonna have bumps.

“The dream is still the same that, you know, we’ll get to a place one day when we will all be happy in that house together and have more children, hopefully, and just have a really nice, happy life together. That’s all I’ve ever wanted for us.”

However, Molly-Mae added: “I don’t want to get too excited, but I’m getting glimmers of what I always wanted, which is, my family. I know that we have got something completely worth saving but you never know what’s around the corner.”

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Sowore Says Obi Not Real Opposition, Obidient Movement Disagrees

 

A former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has criticised the Labour Party and its 2023 flagbearer, Peter Obi, describing them as a “short rental” arrangement that lacks the capacity to challenge Nigeria’s political status quo.

Sowore made the remarks on Sunday while appearing as a guest on Inside Sources on Channels Television.

“But in terms of real opposition. I don’t know why anybody refers to Peter Obi as an opposition. He is not opposed to anything the government is doing. He didn’t organise his supporters to fight for the election victory he claimed.

“He said nothing when fuel prices were increased. He hasn’t done anything that an opposition figure typically does,” he stated.

Sowore dismissed suggestions that Obi remains the most visible face of the opposition ahead of the 2027 general elections, and reiterated his longstanding doubts about the political intent and impact of the former Anambra State governor.

“My position in 2022 and 2023 is what is unfolding now — that contrary to the impression created that Peter Obi was opposed to the system and capable of challenging it, he is, in fact, incapable of doing so.

“I also said at the time that the Labour Party was a short rental — what they call Airbnb in America. You move in; you check out when your time expires.

“When they are done with Peter Obi, they’ll move the rental to someone else. Maybe Obi doesn’t want to move out now, rightly or wrongly, or maybe he’s staying for show,” Sowore stated.

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Sowore further argued that Obi’s prominence in 2023 was largely the result of religious sentiment sparked by the APC’s Muslim-Muslim ticket.

“There was this whole debate around the Muslim-Muslim ticket, so Christians responded by saying, ‘If you want to Islamise Nigeria, we’ll Christianise it too’. And who was the most available Christian candidate? Peter Obi.

The former presidential candidate argued that real opposition required mobilisation, resistance, and street action — all of which he claimed Obi had avoided.

“If you say you’re opposition, you must act like it. You had six million people vote for you — if you can’t put all of them on the streets, at least put 60,000 in Abuja and see how seriously the government will take you.

“You are the ones pouring cold water on protests because you don’t want real change — you just want to replace Tinubu’s group with your own group,” he said.

Sowore also criticised the current crop of Labour Party lawmakers, noting that their growing alignment with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

“Look at all the Labour Party people in the National Assembly — they’re not decamping back to where they came from. They’re decamping to the APC. That’s the point; these guys are not real. They weren’t real in 2023, and they won’t be in 2027,” he asserted.

 Obidient Movement Responds

 But reacting via a phone conversation with Channels Television on Sunday, the National Coordinator of the Obidient Movement, Yunusa Tanko, dismissed Sowore’s remarks, stating that Obi’s relevance in national discourse remained “unmatched.”

Tanko said, “So, the question we want to ask is this: when someone is not a worthy opposition, why do you keep talking about him? As we stand today in Nigerian politics, if they don’t talk about Peter Obi, none of them gets traction. None.

“Whether he goes to the toilet, speaks, or makes a statement, it becomes news. That’s the level of Peter Obi’s relevance in today’s political dispensation.”

Tanko also criticised the recent comment on Obi by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, during a valedictory session for the late Chief Edwin Clark.

“To a point that Peter Obi was discussed at a valedictory service by no less a person than the Senate President — not even on national policy, but on character assassination. That says a lot,” he said.

He urged political opponents to focus on their future campaigns, while reaffirming the Obidient Movement’s continued support for Obi’s quest for a better Nigeria.

Katie Price defiant as she shares snap of her pets hours after sparking anger from PETA

Katie Price snuggled up close with five of her favourite pets over the weekend and shared a cute snap of her cats and dogs – hours after leaving fans concerned by a pet video

Katie Price shared a photograph of some of her favourite pets over the weekend(Image: Dave Benett, Dave Benett/Getty Images for WFTV Awards)

Katie Price has proudly shown off five of her pets after sparking alarm over the way she cares for some of her wildlife. The 46-year-old mum-of-five has attracted unwanted attention over the years over the fact animals have died in her care.

But over the weekend, the glamour model was celebrating some of her favourite furry friends as she took to social media to show off the pets that she loves and cares for. Taking to Instagram Stories, she shared a photo of her three hairless Sphynx cats and two dogs all snuggled together.

She added a simple caption to the image, writing: “My babies.” The new image came just hours after she sparked outrage by sharing a video clip of a dog hanging out the window of a car.

She captioned the video clip, shared via Snapchat, to write: “Anyone else have a pet like this?” The simple post attracted a wall of anger from followers who expressed concern for the pooch, however.

Katie Price showed off her favourite pets online
The glamour model described her three cats and two dogs as her ‘babies’(Image: katieprice/Instagram)

Among complainers is the animal charity People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) – who slammed the star for sharing her video on social media. A spokesperson told The Sun: “While it’s wonderful for dogs to enjoy the great outdoors and lovely when guardians include them on suitable outings, it can be damned dangerous to have the car window lowered enough for them to jump or fall out.”

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Highlighting the risks to the dog, the spokesperson said: “A sudden stop, sharp turn, or tempting distraction can quickly turn a fun trip into a tragedy.”

The latest intervention from Peta comes after they previously offered to pay her thousands of pounds to stop buying pets. Offering the glamour model £5,000, they said in a past statement: “things have gone horribly wrong with many of the animals under her supervision.”

In June 2023, Katie’s German Shepherd Blade was struck on the busy A24, close to her home in East Sussex. Sharing her grief at the time, she wrote in an online post: “Words can’t express the lost of my best friend my protector my absolutely everything who had sadly passed away today. I have no words to say how I’m feeling but numb and shocked rip Blade.”

Six months earlier, her pet Pomeranian Sharon was killed, reportedly in a horror crash on the same road. And the year before that, Katie’s Alsatian Queenie, a present from her ex Kieran Hayler, was allegedly hit by a pizza delivery driver.

She wrote on social media at the time: “I’m absolutely devastated… she was killed by a heartless delivery driver who ran into our dog seeing her struggle and drove off without telling and left her to die.”

Another Alsatian belonging to the star was killed on the A24 in 2020 – but it’s not just dogs that have died in tragic circumstances. A horse was also killed on the busy road in 2017 when it escaped from a field.

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In July 2020, French bulldog Rolo died after getting stuck under an electric armchair. The pet had been a present for Katie’s daughter, Princess Andrei’s 13th birthday and the mum called what happened a ‘freak accident’.

The glamour model attempted to revive the pet before rushing him to the vet, where she learned it was sadly too late. “There was nothing they could do, but they did say he wouldn’t have died in pain, it was quick,” she explained on YouTube at the time.