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Yahoo
17 hours ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
United sign 'transformative' Dutch defender Esselink
Dundee United have signed Bert Esselink after 25-year-old centre-half left Stal Mielec following their relegation from the Polish top flight. United manager Jim Goodwin expects the Dutchman, who has signed a a two-year contract with a club-held option to extend for a further 12 months, to have a "transformative impact" on his defence. Advertisement "His mobility and bravery allows him to engage with the opposition higher up the pitch and the statistical data reinforces his intelligence when selecting a progressive passing option," Goodwin told United's website. "Bert is also comfortable defending in a deeper block, using his awareness to remain compact and defend the box both on the ground and in the air." Esselink came through De Graafschap's academy in his homeland before making his senior debut for Cypriot club PAEEK, helping the Nicosia-based club secure promotion to the top tier for the first time. His release clause was triggered by APOEL Nicosia, but he moved to Olympiakos Nicosia in search of first-team football. Advertisement Esselink moved to Poland in 2023 and Unied say that during his two seasons with Stal he ranked among "the division's most successful duel combatants, possession winners and forward-pass completionists". However, playing 28 times last season, 22 of them starts, he could not prevent his side dropping to the second tier after finishing 16th of 18 teams in the Ekstraklasa. "Bert's arrival will have a transformative impact on our ability to regain possession in key areas and play on the front foot," Goodwin added.
CBC
a day ago
- Climate
- CBC
Brush fire near hospital in Kamloops, B.C., sends smoke billowing through city
The air is thick with smoke in Kamloops, B.C., as a brush fire burns behind the local hospital. Crews are fighting the fire, which is burning on a hill just south of Royal Inland Hospital in the city, about 250 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, near Peterson Creek Park. The city has asked residents to avoid the lower Peterson Creek area while crews are on scene, according to a Facebook post. Royal Inland patient Kaedyn Bert said he saw the fire start from his room on the sixth floor of the hospital. "It was raging for a good few minutes," he said. He said at least one tree became engulfed in flames and "went up like a campfire." "Thankfully, we have really good first responders in Kamloops here," Bert said. The B.C. Wildfire Service says it is dispatching support to Kamloops Fire Rescue.
Irish Post
4 days ago
- Climate
- Irish Post
Public asked to name Irish and British storms of 2025/26
THE British Met Office and Ireland's Met Éireann are inviting the public to help name the storms expected to affect Britain, Ireland and the Netherlands in 2025/26. This marks the 11th year of the joint storm-naming initiative, which was created to make severe weather warnings clearer and more memorable to the public. After Storm Éowyn hit at the start of the year, a Met Office survey revealed that 99% of people in red warning areas were aware of the alerts. Now, the public is being asked to submit names for the upcoming season. On its official website the Met Office asks: 'Is your grandma a force of nature? Does your best friend cause an impact wherever they go? Now you can give them the recognition they deserve, by naming a storm after them.' Submissions to Met Éireann must be made by 1 July, while the British Met Office will accept entries until 3 July. It's been advised that names should be appropriate and inclusive and reflect the cultural diversity of Britain, Ireland and the Netherlands. In line with international storm naming conventions, names starting with the letters Q, U, X, Y or Z will not be accepted. Chief meteorologist Will Lang from the Met Office highlighted how memorable names like Eunice, Franklin, and Bert have helped the public better understand and prepare for severe weather: 'Now we need the public's help to create this year's list,' he said. So far, five storms have been named in the 2024/25 season. The official list of storm names for 2025/26 is set to be unveiled on 1 September. See More: Met Eireann, Storms, UK Met Office, Will Lang
Daily Record
4 days ago
- Climate
- Daily Record
How climate change is 'supercharging summer storms' as Scotland battered with wild weather
Fierce and fast summer rainstorms are on the rise, and a 2C temperature rise could double their frequency, the study warns Scotland has faced intense weather patterns over the last eight months, with a total of five named storms having battered the country since October 2024, including a powerful and record-breaking cyclone which hit the UK in January. Storms Ashley, Bert, Conall and Darragh have all made landfall in recent times, but the most notable was Storm Éowyn - the UK's most powerful windstorm for a decade, bringing red warnings, severe impacts and tragic deaths. But what is behind this string of wild weather? Well, climate change seems the most obvious reason. But the Met Office said in the recent climate that "there is no evidence of positive or negative trends in windstorm number or intensity." Trends in windstorm numbers are difficult to detect due to how these naturally vary year-to-year and decade-to-decade, the weather agency added. However, a new study focusing on the Alpine regions suggests otherwise. Intense, short-lived summer downpours are expected to become both more frequent and more intense as the climate warms, according to scientists from the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and the University of Padova. Although the study, published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, is specific to Alpine regions, the repercussions could be felt or similar weather events may occur in other parts of Europe, including the UK. Scientists demonstrated that an average temperature rise of 2C could double the frequency of short-lived summer rainstorms in the Alpine region. With such warming, an intense storm currently expected every 50 years could occur every 25 years in the future. "An increase of 1C is not hypothetical - it is likely to occur in the coming decades," Francesco Marra, one of the main authors, pointed out. "We are already witnessing a tendency for summer storms to intensify, and this trend is only expected to worsen in the years ahead." In June 2018, the city of Lausanne in Switzerland experienced an extreme and short-lived rainfall episode, with 41 millimetres of precipitation falling in just 10 minutes. Large parts of the city were flooded, resulting in estimated damage of 32 million Swiss Francs. These short, extreme events, often causing severe damage to property and posing risks to lives, are still very rare in Switzerland today. However, with the rise in temperatures caused by global warming, they are likely to become more frequent in the future, particularly over the Alpine mountains and their surroundings, said the researchers. Warm air retains more moisture (around 7% more per degree) and intensifies thunderstorm activity. As the Alpine region is warming faster than the global average, it is particularly hard hit. It is therefore urgent to assess the impact of global warming in these regions. To obtain these results, the researchers examined data from almost 300 weather stations in the European Alps, spread across Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France, and Italy. They focused on record-breaking rainfall events (lasting from 10 minutes to an hour) between 1991 and 2020, as well as temperatures associated with these storms. "Our results show that an average temperature rise of 1C would already be highly problematic," Nadav Peleg, first author of the study, warned. "The sudden and massive arrival of large volumes of water prevents the soil from absorbing the excess. This can trigger flash floods and debris flows, leading to infrastructure damage and, in some cases, casualties." Peleg said it is "crucial" to understand how these events may evolve with climate change, adding: "This means planning appropriate adaptation strategies like improving urban drainage infrastructure where necessary." It comes as a 358-mile storm is set to sweep over Scotland from the Atlantic in the coming days. Rain is forecasted for Glasgow every day for the next week. And while Edinburgh and Aberdeen won't be as sodden, there's no sign of a return to the balmy highs of 25C experienced last Friday and Saturday. The monster storm is predicted to usher in next month on a wet note, following on from June's dreary start. And it comes off the back of a weekend of extremes, where the hottest days of the year in Scotland were followed with thunderstorms, lightning blasts, and heavy downpours within mere hours. Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today. You'll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team. 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The Advertiser
5 days ago
- The Advertiser
End of an era: beloved advocate Audrey Nash dies aged 99
AUDREY Nash has died, at the age of 99. And while she will be missed by many who loved and knew her well, she will also be missed by countless others, across Australia and around the world, who she did not know, but whose lives she touched in profound and lasting ways. 'Aud', as she was affectionately known, unwittingly became a beacon of hope for hundreds, perhaps thousands of people, and their people, caught up in the crime wave of the Catholic Church, and other religious institutions as well. Audrey died on Saturday (June 21) in the hospice at the Calvary Mater Hospital after facing a series of age-related health issues since the start of the year. She had continued to spend lots of time around people, who visited her on a regular basis in hospital and back at the house where she had lived since 1930 right up until the end. She loved people - she loved being around people, and she loved helping people - and people loved her. Quick-witted, kind-hearted, upfront, and from backyard cricket to belting out a song, she was always up for fun. Audrey was a die-hard Knights fan and a keen dancer with a great singing voice. She loved a good party, threw a great many, and was particularly partial to a glass of chardonnay. Audrey grew up and continued to live her whole life in Hamilton. She was a champion bowler, captaining a team which took out the NSW lawn bowls state titles, as well as being an excellent tennis player and a lover of music, especially musicals and Broadway. She met her late husband Bert, a sailor, at a seaman's dance, and together they had five children. But it was left to Audrey to raise them after Bert's death at the start of 1974. Tragically, and in the most unforgivable and unforgettable of circumstances, she lost her youngest child, 13-year-old Andrew Nash, who took his own life later that same year. Audrey has described that night as the "night that never ends". That night, the crimes committed in the lead up to it, the events that occurred in the hours, days, months and years after, became a trigger and a focus of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse announced in November 2012. Audrey became the face of the royal commission, and continued to receive feedback from people around the world all the way through to her later years and up to her death about the impact that her evidence at the commission, and her willingness to speak out, had on other survivors, their family members and friends. It was her courage and unwavering dedication to truth-seeking and justice that inspired them to tell their stories, sometimes for the first time ever, to the commission and to the police. While other mums, God-fearing Catholics, and families abandoned their adult children for taking their fight to court, Audrey Nash not only stood up for her own son, and her own family, but also for others. She could often be found standing with them, and travelling along beside them as they faced their own battles, in and out of court, quietly going through the process along with them, offering support and solidarity. She would take them lunch, celebrate their wins, and comisserate their losses. And her influence will continue to be felt for years to come, including at an upcoming book launch where the author will credit Audrey's contribution to the documentary series Revelation for inspiring her to write it. The series, by ABC television's Nial Fulton and Sarah Ferguson, followed the criminal trials of Catholic priests accused of child sexual abuse. While that part of the story is well known, the personal price that Audrey has paid for speaking out is not so well-known - the people at church who turned their backs on her, and asked her to be quiet. To be silent. But she was not. In the last of her many generous interviews with the Newcastle Herald earlier this year, Audrey continued to champion the cause, calling on the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic Diocese to deliver the memorial promised to victims, survivors, and their families after years of delays. "It should be at the Sacred Heart Church, our biggest church," she said. "That's where a lot of the priests especially were during that time. And now." And that is where the life of Audrey Nash will be celebrated. Because for all of the trials and tribulations that came her way, due in large part to the crimes and betrayals of the men who run the institution that is the Roman Catholic Church, she kept her faith. She was read the last rites before her death, and made sure her family knew which prayers she wanted at her funeral to be held at the Hamilton church where she worshipped, worked, and prayed. Audrey Nash is survived by her children Patricia, Geoffrey, Carmen and Bernadette, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The details of her funeral will be confirmed in the coming days. AUDREY Nash has died, at the age of 99. And while she will be missed by many who loved and knew her well, she will also be missed by countless others, across Australia and around the world, who she did not know, but whose lives she touched in profound and lasting ways. 'Aud', as she was affectionately known, unwittingly became a beacon of hope for hundreds, perhaps thousands of people, and their people, caught up in the crime wave of the Catholic Church, and other religious institutions as well. Audrey died on Saturday (June 21) in the hospice at the Calvary Mater Hospital after facing a series of age-related health issues since the start of the year. She had continued to spend lots of time around people, who visited her on a regular basis in hospital and back at the house where she had lived since 1930 right up until the end. She loved people - she loved being around people, and she loved helping people - and people loved her. Quick-witted, kind-hearted, upfront, and from backyard cricket to belting out a song, she was always up for fun. Audrey was a die-hard Knights fan and a keen dancer with a great singing voice. She loved a good party, threw a great many, and was particularly partial to a glass of chardonnay. Audrey grew up and continued to live her whole life in Hamilton. She was a champion bowler, captaining a team which took out the NSW lawn bowls state titles, as well as being an excellent tennis player and a lover of music, especially musicals and Broadway. She met her late husband Bert, a sailor, at a seaman's dance, and together they had five children. But it was left to Audrey to raise them after Bert's death at the start of 1974. Tragically, and in the most unforgivable and unforgettable of circumstances, she lost her youngest child, 13-year-old Andrew Nash, who took his own life later that same year. Audrey has described that night as the "night that never ends". That night, the crimes committed in the lead up to it, the events that occurred in the hours, days, months and years after, became a trigger and a focus of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse announced in November 2012. Audrey became the face of the royal commission, and continued to receive feedback from people around the world all the way through to her later years and up to her death about the impact that her evidence at the commission, and her willingness to speak out, had on other survivors, their family members and friends. It was her courage and unwavering dedication to truth-seeking and justice that inspired them to tell their stories, sometimes for the first time ever, to the commission and to the police. While other mums, God-fearing Catholics, and families abandoned their adult children for taking their fight to court, Audrey Nash not only stood up for her own son, and her own family, but also for others. She could often be found standing with them, and travelling along beside them as they faced their own battles, in and out of court, quietly going through the process along with them, offering support and solidarity. She would take them lunch, celebrate their wins, and comisserate their losses. And her influence will continue to be felt for years to come, including at an upcoming book launch where the author will credit Audrey's contribution to the documentary series Revelation for inspiring her to write it. The series, by ABC television's Nial Fulton and Sarah Ferguson, followed the criminal trials of Catholic priests accused of child sexual abuse. While that part of the story is well known, the personal price that Audrey has paid for speaking out is not so well-known - the people at church who turned their backs on her, and asked her to be quiet. To be silent. But she was not. In the last of her many generous interviews with the Newcastle Herald earlier this year, Audrey continued to champion the cause, calling on the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic Diocese to deliver the memorial promised to victims, survivors, and their families after years of delays. "It should be at the Sacred Heart Church, our biggest church," she said. "That's where a lot of the priests especially were during that time. And now." And that is where the life of Audrey Nash will be celebrated. Because for all of the trials and tribulations that came her way, due in large part to the crimes and betrayals of the men who run the institution that is the Roman Catholic Church, she kept her faith. She was read the last rites before her death, and made sure her family knew which prayers she wanted at her funeral to be held at the Hamilton church where she worshipped, worked, and prayed. Audrey Nash is survived by her children Patricia, Geoffrey, Carmen and Bernadette, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The details of her funeral will be confirmed in the coming days. AUDREY Nash has died, at the age of 99. And while she will be missed by many who loved and knew her well, she will also be missed by countless others, across Australia and around the world, who she did not know, but whose lives she touched in profound and lasting ways. 'Aud', as she was affectionately known, unwittingly became a beacon of hope for hundreds, perhaps thousands of people, and their people, caught up in the crime wave of the Catholic Church, and other religious institutions as well. Audrey died on Saturday (June 21) in the hospice at the Calvary Mater Hospital after facing a series of age-related health issues since the start of the year. She had continued to spend lots of time around people, who visited her on a regular basis in hospital and back at the house where she had lived since 1930 right up until the end. She loved people - she loved being around people, and she loved helping people - and people loved her. Quick-witted, kind-hearted, upfront, and from backyard cricket to belting out a song, she was always up for fun. Audrey was a die-hard Knights fan and a keen dancer with a great singing voice. She loved a good party, threw a great many, and was particularly partial to a glass of chardonnay. Audrey grew up and continued to live her whole life in Hamilton. She was a champion bowler, captaining a team which took out the NSW lawn bowls state titles, as well as being an excellent tennis player and a lover of music, especially musicals and Broadway. She met her late husband Bert, a sailor, at a seaman's dance, and together they had five children. But it was left to Audrey to raise them after Bert's death at the start of 1974. Tragically, and in the most unforgivable and unforgettable of circumstances, she lost her youngest child, 13-year-old Andrew Nash, who took his own life later that same year. Audrey has described that night as the "night that never ends". That night, the crimes committed in the lead up to it, the events that occurred in the hours, days, months and years after, became a trigger and a focus of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse announced in November 2012. Audrey became the face of the royal commission, and continued to receive feedback from people around the world all the way through to her later years and up to her death about the impact that her evidence at the commission, and her willingness to speak out, had on other survivors, their family members and friends. It was her courage and unwavering dedication to truth-seeking and justice that inspired them to tell their stories, sometimes for the first time ever, to the commission and to the police. While other mums, God-fearing Catholics, and families abandoned their adult children for taking their fight to court, Audrey Nash not only stood up for her own son, and her own family, but also for others. She could often be found standing with them, and travelling along beside them as they faced their own battles, in and out of court, quietly going through the process along with them, offering support and solidarity. She would take them lunch, celebrate their wins, and comisserate their losses. And her influence will continue to be felt for years to come, including at an upcoming book launch where the author will credit Audrey's contribution to the documentary series Revelation for inspiring her to write it. The series, by ABC television's Nial Fulton and Sarah Ferguson, followed the criminal trials of Catholic priests accused of child sexual abuse. While that part of the story is well known, the personal price that Audrey has paid for speaking out is not so well-known - the people at church who turned their backs on her, and asked her to be quiet. To be silent. But she was not. In the last of her many generous interviews with the Newcastle Herald earlier this year, Audrey continued to champion the cause, calling on the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic Diocese to deliver the memorial promised to victims, survivors, and their families after years of delays. "It should be at the Sacred Heart Church, our biggest church," she said. "That's where a lot of the priests especially were during that time. And now." And that is where the life of Audrey Nash will be celebrated. Because for all of the trials and tribulations that came her way, due in large part to the crimes and betrayals of the men who run the institution that is the Roman Catholic Church, she kept her faith. She was read the last rites before her death, and made sure her family knew which prayers she wanted at her funeral to be held at the Hamilton church where she worshipped, worked, and prayed. Audrey Nash is survived by her children Patricia, Geoffrey, Carmen and Bernadette, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The details of her funeral will be confirmed in the coming days. AUDREY Nash has died, at the age of 99. And while she will be missed by many who loved and knew her well, she will also be missed by countless others, across Australia and around the world, who she did not know, but whose lives she touched in profound and lasting ways. 'Aud', as she was affectionately known, unwittingly became a beacon of hope for hundreds, perhaps thousands of people, and their people, caught up in the crime wave of the Catholic Church, and other religious institutions as well. Audrey died on Saturday (June 21) in the hospice at the Calvary Mater Hospital after facing a series of age-related health issues since the start of the year. She had continued to spend lots of time around people, who visited her on a regular basis in hospital and back at the house where she had lived since 1930 right up until the end. She loved people - she loved being around people, and she loved helping people - and people loved her. Quick-witted, kind-hearted, upfront, and from backyard cricket to belting out a song, she was always up for fun. Audrey was a die-hard Knights fan and a keen dancer with a great singing voice. She loved a good party, threw a great many, and was particularly partial to a glass of chardonnay. Audrey grew up and continued to live her whole life in Hamilton. She was a champion bowler, captaining a team which took out the NSW lawn bowls state titles, as well as being an excellent tennis player and a lover of music, especially musicals and Broadway. She met her late husband Bert, a sailor, at a seaman's dance, and together they had five children. But it was left to Audrey to raise them after Bert's death at the start of 1974. Tragically, and in the most unforgivable and unforgettable of circumstances, she lost her youngest child, 13-year-old Andrew Nash, who took his own life later that same year. Audrey has described that night as the "night that never ends". That night, the crimes committed in the lead up to it, the events that occurred in the hours, days, months and years after, became a trigger and a focus of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse announced in November 2012. Audrey became the face of the royal commission, and continued to receive feedback from people around the world all the way through to her later years and up to her death about the impact that her evidence at the commission, and her willingness to speak out, had on other survivors, their family members and friends. It was her courage and unwavering dedication to truth-seeking and justice that inspired them to tell their stories, sometimes for the first time ever, to the commission and to the police. While other mums, God-fearing Catholics, and families abandoned their adult children for taking their fight to court, Audrey Nash not only stood up for her own son, and her own family, but also for others. She could often be found standing with them, and travelling along beside them as they faced their own battles, in and out of court, quietly going through the process along with them, offering support and solidarity. She would take them lunch, celebrate their wins, and comisserate their losses. And her influence will continue to be felt for years to come, including at an upcoming book launch where the author will credit Audrey's contribution to the documentary series Revelation for inspiring her to write it. The series, by ABC television's Nial Fulton and Sarah Ferguson, followed the criminal trials of Catholic priests accused of child sexual abuse. While that part of the story is well known, the personal price that Audrey has paid for speaking out is not so well-known - the people at church who turned their backs on her, and asked her to be quiet. To be silent. But she was not. In the last of her many generous interviews with the Newcastle Herald earlier this year, Audrey continued to champion the cause, calling on the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic Diocese to deliver the memorial promised to victims, survivors, and their families after years of delays. "It should be at the Sacred Heart Church, our biggest church," she said. "That's where a lot of the priests especially were during that time. And now." And that is where the life of Audrey Nash will be celebrated. Because for all of the trials and tribulations that came her way, due in large part to the crimes and betrayals of the men who run the institution that is the Roman Catholic Church, she kept her faith. She was read the last rites before her death, and made sure her family knew which prayers she wanted at her funeral to be held at the Hamilton church where she worshipped, worked, and prayed. Audrey Nash is survived by her children Patricia, Geoffrey, Carmen and Bernadette, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The details of her funeral will be confirmed in the coming days.
