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Time of India
an hour ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Jordan Love's fiancée Ronika Stone's emotional gesture shines as Thomas Graham Jr. finds forever in heartfelt proposal
Jordon Love's fiancée Ronika reacted warmly to Thomas Graham Jr.'s engagement ( Image credit: Jordan Love IG) Ronika Stone, fiancée of Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love, stole the spotlight this week with her warm and emotional reaction to fellow NFL couple Thomas Graham Jr. and Dreà's engagement. As the former Steelers cornerback shared the news of his proposal, Stone took a moment to publicly celebrate their union. Her Instagram Story quickly circulated among fans, adding another layer of joy to an already sentimental announcement. It's one NFL love story uplifting another. Graham's romantic post goes public, NFL circles take notice Graham and Dreà revealed their engagement on Thursday, nearly a week after the actual proposal. The couple shared a joint Instagram post that featured dreamy snapshots of the moment Graham got down on one knee. Alongside the photos, Graham captioned the post with an intimate message: '6/20/25 Found forever in you. A love deeper than words, stronger than time.' The emotional caption added weight to an already heartfelt reveal. Ronika Stone was among the first NFL insiders to respond to the news. On Friday, she reposted Graham's engagement announcement to her own Instagram story. Accompanying the couple's photo, she wrote: 'So happy for you both,' offering a warm, public nod to their milestone. The interaction highlighted how NFL WAGs (wives and girlfriends) often form a supportive community behind the scenes. Interestingly, Stone's message came just days after she and Jordan Love celebrated their own relationship milestone. Last week, the couple marked one year since their own proposal in Italy — a memory Stone commemorated with throwback images. 'One year ago today. Five years together tomorrow. And counting down the days until 'I do',' she captioned, further fueling engagement season buzz across the NFL circle. Personal victories amid career uncertainty for Graham Graham, a former Oregon standout drafted in 2021, has played for teams like the Bears and Steelers. Currently a free agent, his career path remains uncertain — but this engagement marks a clear win in his personal life. Dreà and Graham have long kept their relationship relatively private, so this joint announcement and high-profile reaction gave fans a rare peek into their world. Also read: Ravens safety Kyle Hamilton proposes to high school sweetheart Reese Damm in a magical seaside moment The NFL off-season is often filled with speculation, but these moments offer fans something different — genuine love stories. Ronika Stone's reaction didn't just amplify Graham's announcement; it reminded followers that behind every player is a life full of emotion, connection, and community. Game On Season 1 continues with Mirabai Chanu's inspiring story. Watch Episode 2 here.
The Citizen
6 hours ago
- Politics
- The Citizen
SA not ready for fallout if Israel-Iran ceasefire fails, warns UJ professor
As the ceasefire between Iran and Israel holds, the world watches with bated breath to see what will happen next between the two regional powers. To gain insight into the situation, Caxton Local Media spoke to Dr Suzy Graham, professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Johannesburg. Discussing the ceasefire, Graham explained that although it is still early days, the truce holds real potential, though it remains inherently fragile. 'Its longevity hinges on disciplined diplomacy, credible inspections, and political will from all actors. If any of these break down, especially due to hardliners or indirect aggression via proxies, the truce could unravel quickly,' she said. For now, however, the signs are cautiously optimistic. A ceasefire on edge: What's holding it together? Graham believes the ceasefire was primarily driven by a rapid cycle of escalation and daring diplomacy aimed at avoiding further catastrophic conflict. Although the ceasefire appears to be working, she warned that initial breaches from either side could lead to its deterioration. She described the thought of a third world war as unthinkable. 'Despite social media speculation, the probability of a full-scale World War III remains low, but not zero,' Graham said. South Africa's position: Legal, vocal, and diplomatic Speaking about South Africa's stance on the Israel-Iran conflict and how it aligns with the country's broader foreign policy, Graham said South Africa will almost always call for dialogue in any conflict situation. 'The South African government has been vocal in strongly condemning the recent military strikes on Iran, describing the attacks as violations of international law. It has urged all parties, Iran, Israel, and the USA, to engage in UN-led dialogue, emphasising diplomacy, restraint, and nuclear inspection,' she explained. Regarding the potential impact on South Africa if the conflict reignites and becomes a wider regional crisis, Graham said the country would likely continue championing international law, human rights, and nuclear non-proliferation. She noted that South Africa could strengthen its moral leadership among Global South and Muslim-majority countries. 'At the same time, the country could face intense backlash from Israel and Western allies, particularly the USA, Germany, and the UK, especially if Pretoria doubles down on its International Court of Justice genocide case or calls for sanctions. 'South Africa could see reduced goodwill from Western investors or governments, especially if tensions rise over its international legal campaigns or alignment with Iran.' 'In the immediate term, South Africa would likely call for a ceasefire, condemn aggression, and activate international and legal channels. In the short term, it might push for UN and BRICS statements and engage the African Union and Global South partners. 'In the mid-term, it would need to manage economic fallout, reinforce public diplomacy, and maintain BRICS plus solidarity. In the longer term, South Africa could use the crisis to push for UN Security Council reform, nuclear disarmament, and multipolar global governance.' Graham emphasised that if South Africa is drawn into the conflict, its role would be principled, vocal, and legalistic, not military. 'It may be drawn in politically, but not militarily,' she said. 'The country's focus would remain on shaping the normative global order, not engaging in hard power projection.' What escalation could mean for South Africa Although South Africa would not be militarily involved, Graham said a wider Middle East conflict would hit its economy hard, particularly through rising fuel prices, increased trade costs, and inflation. 'An escalation in the Israel-Iran conflict could seriously disrupt global oil flows, and South Africa, as an energy-importing nation, would feel the effects quickly and deeply. 'The country's inflation rate, currency, fiscal stability, and household livelihoods would all come under pressure.' When asked if South Africa is prepared for possible knock-on effects of war, such as cyberattacks or disruptions in trade, Graham said the country is not fully ready for the complex and interconnected consequences of a major regional war involving Iran and Israel. 'While it has some institutional frameworks and economic policy tools, South Africa lacks a coordinated national resilience strategy, particularly for cyber threats and maritime trade disruptions. 'A greater focus on strategic planning, inter-agency coordination, and public-private resilience building is urgently needed.' Breaking news at your fingertips… Follow Caxton Network News on Facebook and join our WhatsApp channel. Nuus wat saakmaak. Volg Caxton Netwerk-nuus op Facebook en sluit aan by ons WhatsApp-kanaal. Read original story on At Caxton, we employ humans to generate daily fresh news, not AI intervention. Happy reading!
West Australian
19 hours ago
- General
- West Australian
Spotlight: Deaths of Ray and Jennie Kehlet leave an outback mystery with two burning questions
Graham Milne must be the luckiest man alive. With an emphasis on the word 'alive'. Because his two workmates and camping companions are both dead. I've purposefully avoided using the word 'friends' as there is some conjecture as to the exact status of their collective relationship. But in this story — one of the most significant outback mysteries of recent times — words have become very important. Having had the dubious pleasure of meeting Graham on two separate occasions over the past 10 years, I know that he is a man who chooses to use them sparingly. But when he does try to verbally elucidate, in official settings, he tends to have a slight problem recollecting which descriptive he's used before and in which order. It's a memory issue that may be beyond a clinical diagnosis but most certainly could do with some analysis by experts in blue uniforms and peaked hats. Let me explain further. Ten years ago, Graham convinced Ray and Jennie Kehlet to go prospecting at a potential gold-yielding site he had scoped out near Sandstone, about 750 kilometres north-east of Perth. They made the eight-hour trip in separate four-wheel drives loaded with all their gear and multiple quad bikes, rendezvousing in Wubin and arriving on a Thursday afternoon. The way Graham tells it, by the early hours of Sunday morning, he'd had enough and decided to make the lonely drive back home. It was around 2am and apparently, without waking anyone up, he packed his rig and motored into the blackness and that is where the mystery begins and ends because Graham is the only one of the trio who made it home. Seventeen days later Ray Kehlet's body was accidentally discovered — by a police rescue team conducting a media demonstration — at the bottom of an abandoned mineshaft about a 1.5km away from their campsite. To this day, his wife Jennie has never been found, although a WA Coroner has ruled that she is dead. Now, if you believe Graham's story, when he left they were sleeping peacefully and there was absolutely no sign of any trouble or hint of a potentially fatal problem. He would become the lone survivor of a terrible tragedy that somehow claimed two lives for reasons unknown. And if he hadn't left when he did? Well, goodness knows how lucky he was to escape the aforementioned tragedy caused by who knows who. But someone — or some people — are clearly still out there, somewhere. The trouble is, which of Graham's version should we believe? Our investigation has uncovered some contradictions in his recollections that would make a seasoned politician blush. And if we look at his re-telling chronologically, it's extremely difficult to reconcile. For example, in the immediate months following the tragedy, Mr Milne made a decision to be interviewed on national television and give his version of events. This is an excerpt from Seven's Sunday Night program when Milne's memory was supposedly crystal clear, in response to a question about Ray Kehlet's gun, which was found when police arrived at the campsite. Q; Is there any way you can explain the loaded gun on the back seat of his vehicle? Milne: I don't know about his weapons at all. I don't know whether, I know he carried it when we're on the quads, but as for those habits, he's pretty safety conscious. But I don't know whether it was just a momentary thing that he hasn't unloaded. I don't know. So, Graham Milne simply didn't know anything about Ray using his gun. And then he doubled down on not knowing anything about seeing anyone else out in the bush while they were camping. Q : And were there other people around the camp at all? Did you see anyone else or . . . Milne: No, I didn't. That's fairly definite isn't it? 'No, I didn't'. In fact, you can't get much more certain. But, incredibly those three words morphed into an entirely different story some six years later when the lone survivor was asked to take the stand at the coronial inquest. Before Coroner Ros Fogilani, Mr Milne changed his mind and remembered not one but two people around the camp, with a clarity that included the make of a motor vehicle. He told counsel assisting; 'We were up on top of the hill. A white, I assume it was a Prado came in. Two guys were in it. They got out. They were looking around. Next thing we heard, there was — I assume it was a low-powered rifle. Because it didn't sound like a high-velocity weapon.' So, from seeing nobody, there is now two mysterious men in a Prado. And that's not where the new detail stopped. Milne then produced a new memory of Ray twice firing his rifle. He told the inquest: ' Ray wanted to set — crack a shot off. Just to let them know on the other side of the hill that there's someone else in the immediate area. So, I went further off . . . down the track, got my packet of cigarettes out, put it in a tree, went back, told him to take a crack at that. First shot he missed and the second shot, it went straight through dead centre'. So, what happened to not knowing anything about Ray using his weapon, but simply carrying it on his quad bike? Milne's change of story was a stunning turnaround. Even by the wildest neurological analysis at the world's best brain clinic, it's one for the ages. To say it should have been examined and challenged more strongly at the inquest is also an understatement of gargantuan proportions. For Ray and Jennie's family it's never too late for the right people to ask the right questions, and let's hope that happens in the near future. Last weekend was Ray and Jennie's birthday. They were a day apart on June 21 and 22, and always celebrated together. Hopefully one day they can be together again when Jennie is finally brought home. When that happens, for the sake of justice, the cold-blooded killer or killers will be held accountable. As the sole survivor, Graham Milne is very lucky indeed. * Watch the 7News Spotlight 'Mystery Survivor' special on 7 and 7plus on Sunday night at 8.45pm.
Irish Independent
a day ago
- Automotive
- Irish Independent
Driving test waiting time down to 17 weeks as 10-week target for September, says RSA chair
The wait has decreased from 27 weeks in April this year, with the organisation aiming to reduce it to 10 weeks by September. However, many people continue to wait to sit their driving test for almost five months on average, as there were 100,000 people on the waiting list last month. Speaking with RTÉ Radio One's Today with Claire Byrne, Ms Graham, who became the chair of the RSA in February, confirmed the organisation's target is 10 weeks and apologised to those still waiting for tests. 'I know how frustrating it has been over the last number of months,' she said. 'And so, we have a plan now in place to bring the target time, which is 10 weeks, back in place by September of this year. 'We're seeing significant progress, and that progress will continue over the summer months, until we get to the 10-week line by September. 'What the team have done is look to see whether they can increase the amount of driver testing time with the existing testers, as well as then bring forward the recruitment of the additional testers,' she said. There are currently 70 additional testers being recruited at the RSA, Ms Graham said, adding that the recruitment is going 'very well'. 'There's another tranche now in place and will begin to do tests shortly. And then another tranche of testers will start their training and will be in place in July.' When asked how testers are meeting demand, she said: 'Just increasing the working time, working overtime, working bank holidays. "So I have to also say, thanks to the team that are actually working additional hours in order to assist the wider public to get their driving tests.' The RSA is 'able to cover' the costs of additional testing hours from their existing budget, she said. The latest figures from the RSA show that the number of learners who failed to arrive for their test is now above 3,000 this year. Ms Graham said this figure marks a 2.2pc decrease in missed tests, but 'it's a resource that could be better used in order to shorten your waiting time'. 'It's hard to determine what are real problems that people have on the day of their test, because there are real issues that people have if they're not in a position to do their test due to illness, or even they might be nervous about doing their test. "But there is a proportion that are probably doing it in order to retain their learner permits. 'The work that's going to be done in terms of the driver learning permits and different legal requirements later on this year, and that the [Minister of Transport, Darragh O'Brien] will be bringing in with the RSA, will close the loophole around you being able to do that and keep extending multiple learner permits. "But the authority wanted to be in a position that had enough driving testing capacity to be able to deal with what would have been another increase in the number of driving test requests.' The limit for the learner permits would be a maximum of three, she said. 'If you haven't completed a test by the time it comes to your fourth, you won't be able to have a fourth learner's permit.' The plan was made by the Government in November last year to split the RSA into two independent agencies, following a spike in road deaths in 2023. She said: 'We continue to operate under the existing legislation of the RSA, and there is one change that's underway at the moment, which is in relation to the road safety strategy. 'It's now going to be more responsibility for the Department of Transport than for the RSA. We had a role of putting it together and promoting all the actions, and that is now transferring to the Department of Transport. 'So the phase two action plan will be published very shortly by the Minister, which sets out all the actions that the different partners that are involved in road safety want to deliver over the next three-year period, including the RSA. 'We'll always retain what we're required to do in terms of driver testing, driver education, vehicle testing, that's part of the core business of the organisation, as well as the research and education and promotion of road safety matters. "That will be retained within the organisation until the implementation of the government decision, which is to split the two parts of the organisation into two separate organisations.' Although there's currently no plan to increase the prices of tests, she said the RSA got approval last year to 'increase some of those tests'. 'There hadn't been any changes to those costs for a period of time. It just enables us to be able to provide the services that we're providing. 'In previous years, the authority was a self-funding agency, so any surplus that it had would go into promotion and education, but that's now a defined budget is going to be put in place for education. 'We only need to provide any increases if we need to extend the service, or if the cost of that service is going up. 'It's only then that you would want to transfer that to the customer. But for the moment, I think we're in a position that we can deliver the service that we want to deliver based on the current income that we have.' Ms Graham described the spike in road deaths as a 'tragedy for this country' and 'families of the victims', appealing to the drivers to slow down. "Unfortunately, we're on a par with this time last year, so the same number of unfortunate deaths have occurred on our road.'
The Irish Sun
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Gogglebox star slams ‘exploitative' show saying she LIED to quit it and made no money
FORMER Gogglebox star Rev Kate Bottley has slammed the "exploitative" show, saying she LIED to quit it and made no money. 4 Former Gogglebox star Rev Kate Bottley has slammed the "exploitative" show, saying she LIED to quit it and made no money Credit: Instagram The Church of England vicar, who appeared on Gogglebox with her husband Graham for five series until 2016, said signing up for the show ended up damaging her family's home life. She alleged it left her children isolated, meal times disrupted, and their modest fee swallowed up by hidden costs. Speaking on the The journalist said she originally agreed to take part in a bid to change how people of faith were portrayed on screen - but soon found the filming schedule was 'quite intrusive'. read more on Rev Kate Bottley Her son Arthur, who she described as on the 'autistic spectrum', and daughter Ruby, then still in school, would hide away in their rooms twice a week while a large production crew set up in the family home. She continued: 'My kids spent two-and-a-half years sat in their bedrooms every Tuesday and Thursday night or whatever nights they came to film. 'My kids didn't have friends round for a lot [of the time], didn't have help with their homework. Things like that.' Meal times also took a hit, with Kate adding: 'I'm married to a man who won't eat takeaways, and I don't want to be filmed eating on camera so I was like, 'No, I'll cook.' There were casseroles and chillis.' Most read in Reality She added: 'They paid, but I cooked two nights a week for the crew… all the money we got from it went on the electricity, the internet connection that they were using, and the food and being hospitable to six people in my home two nights a week. "It's a vicarage as well, I should be hospitable. We should be sharing our home to people, and eating food together. Inside Gogglebox star Rev Kate Bottley's home with hot tub in the garden - including the bits you never see on camera "It was a good two and a half years but we couldn't have done any more. It got to the point where we were just a bit overwhelmed." Kate said she was first approached to take part after a 2013 video of her dancing down the aisle to Kool & the Gang's Celebration at a wedding she officiated went viral. It clocked more than eight million views on YouTube and caught the attention of Channel 4, who signed her and Graham up the following year. The pair were a hit with audiences, but Kate's confident personality drew online criticism from some viewers. She recalled: 'We used to get that whole 'Oh, you never let your husband speak.' It was like, 'Wow.' Be careful there, your misogyny's showing. 'Of course if you're a confident woman married to a quieter man he must be henpecked, and he must be bossed about - it's not that he's just naturally quieter. In any relationship there's someone that is more outgoing.' She said that while she and Graham were paid, the fee was small - and worse, being tied into the show stopped her from taking up better-paid offers elsewhere. She said: 'As well as finding the modest amount of money we were paid disappearing. There was stuff coming in that I wanted to have a go at that I just wasn't able contractually to do.' Offers from major entertainment shows like Would I Lie To You? were off the table due to the show's strict exclusivity clause. Kate said: 'There's quite tight exclusivity, and rightly so. Because if you're filming ordinary people sat on their sofa watching TV you can't then have those people on the TV. It sort of breaks the fourth wall too much.' Eventually, the family decided to walk away from Gogglebox, but not before offering viewers a cover story. She said: 'It so happened that it came around the time that Ruby was doing her GCSEs so the excuse we gave was, 'We're going to take some time away while she does her exams.' But we were just a bit overwhelmed.' Despite her experience, Kate credits the show with boosting her public profile. Since quitting, she's become a regular on Songs of Praise and built a successful career in radio and television, while husband Graham returned to teaching music. Speaking of her decision to go on Gogglebox, Kate previously told The Sun: "We wanted to show people that just because we have a faith and are Christians, it doesn't mean we are four-headed. Kate met her husband Graham at school when both were aged 13 years old but didn't begin dating until they were 18. Since her rise to fame. she has put her culinary skills under the microscope on She has also presented the BBC's Songs of Praise. 4 Kate appeared on Gogglebox with her husband Graham for five series until 2016 Credit: Handout 4 Since her rise to fame. she has put her culinary skills under the microscope on Celebrity MasterChef Credit: BBC 4 Kate now presents on BBC Radio 2 Credit: PA
