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BBC News
19-06-2025
- General
- BBC News
Gardens in Duns open to public for first time in over 40 years
A historic walled garden and glasshouses in the Borders are to open to the public for the first time in more than 40 last public viewing at the site now run by The Hugo Burge Foundation (HBF) near Duns was in foundation is taking part in Scotland's Garden Scheme which encourages owners to open their gardens to raise money for part of the initiative, the walled gardens and glasshouses will be open every Friday afternoon in July and August. The glasshouses were built in the early 20th Century by Mackenzie and Moncur, who counted Queen Victoria among their estate owner at the time, Robert Finnie McEwan, commissioned the company to design and build them as part of a grand development plan for the house and fell into disrepair before the late Hugo Burge financed their restoration and are now at the heart of the work of the foundation which carries his name. Head gardener Toby Loveday said: "The driving force behind opening the gardens is to allow people to appreciate our beautiful surroundings at the peak of summer."We're looking forward to seeing the reaction to our contemporary approach within such a historic horticultural space."As it develops, there will be opportunities for visitors to enjoy seeing the garden grow and change over all the seasons to come."HBF chief executive Lucy Brown said they hoped the site would offer visitors a "sense of beauty, nurture and calm that is often missing in the anxious and ever-present online world".
Daily Mail
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
David Bailey's son Sascha reveals his baby's gender and unusual name as he confirms what he'd tell his unborn child about trans ideology after he nearly transitioned to be a woman
Photographer David Bailey's son Sascha has revealed he and girlfriend are expecting a baby boy. The baby's gender reveal comes just three years after Sascha considered transitioning into a woman. The former model, 30, who is the son of renowned photographer David Bailey and his model ex-wife Catherine, was so depressed during his marriage that he believed he was suffering from gender dysphoria - and seriously considered undergoing irreversible surgery to become female. Now, as he prepares to welcome his first child in August with Lucy Brown - a former assistant to political activist Tommy Robinson - Sascha said that he is finally out of the 'worst years of my life'. He told MailOnline: 'We're having a boy. We're calling him Wolfgang Robert Bailey. 'Wolfgang was going to be my name, but my Dad vetoed it. I always wanted it, so now I'm passing it on. And Robert is after Lucy's uncle, who has passed away.' From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the Daily Mail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. The milestone is made even sweeter, he said, by the fact that his divorce from Japanese lawyer Mimi Nishikawa, 49, is now finally coming to an end after three tumultuous years. 'It has been a nightmare but the divorce is in the final stage and is due to go through next month,' he said. 'So this will be a whole new beginning. I've never felt happier.' Sascha and Lucy, 34, are currently staying with his parents in London but have found a new flat which they will move into in the next few weeks. However, marriage isn't on the cards just yet. 'I'm still traumatised from the last one,' Sascha admitted. 'But with Lucy, I see it in our future. I want to do it properly this time.' It's a remarkable turnaround for the model turned art curator, who in 2021 spiralled into a mental health crisis so severe that he considered ending his life. 'I felt totally lost. I didn't want to be alive,' he told the Mail at the time. 'I convinced myself I must be transgender - that I was living the wrong life in the wrong body. It felt like the only way out.' Sascha began exploring gender transition online and quickly found an echo chamber in chatrooms and forums. 'There was so much encouragement to 'just do it',' he recalled. 'I saw a private doctor who spent ten minutes with me, said I was trans and gave me a prescription for female hormones. That was it.' He said he was days away from booking gender reassignment surgery when something shifted. 'I just stopped and thought: hang on, this isn't right. This is trauma. I don't need a new body - I need to understand why I'm in pain,' he said. He credits his famously brusque father - and Lucy, who he met shortly after leaving his marriage - with helping him find his way back to himself. He said: 'Lucy saved my life. She helped me feel grounded again. Like I wasn't broken.' Now, as he prepares to become a father, Sascha is braced for his unborn child perhaps one day broaching the subject of gender dysphoria themselves. 'I'd be very against it, obviously,' Sascha mused. 'You can't get a tattoo. You can't change your gender. It's really as simple as that. 'If you give someone one little piece of control, one little thing they can do, they will gravitate towards that little bit of control. 'Kids have no control over their life. So we have to look after them, we make sure that they don't make bad decisions. 'If you allow them to have this one avenue, a lot of them will take it just because it's a bit of control.' Now firmly on the other side of that dark chapter, Sascha has become a vocal critic of what he calls the 'rushed' approach to gender treatment, especially for young people. He revealed he's been contacted by dozens of detransitioners since sharing his experience publicly. 'So many of them regret it. But the system doesn't want to hear from them - they're treated like they're an inconvenience.' His memoir, Try to Hit the Pool - which will be released next month - dives deep into his mental health battle, marriage breakdown, aborted transition, and journey back to himself. Sascha added: 'The book is a way for me to close that terrible saga of my life.' Now, Sascha is focused on the arrival of baby Wolfgang - and on building a new life with Lucy, who has won the approval of hard-to-impress Bailey Snr.
Yahoo
02-06-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
At $1,900, Could This 2011 Nissan Have You Turning Over An Old Leaf?
Today's Nice Price or No Dice Nissan Leaf never had great range due to its relatively small battery, and issues with this one's battery have cut that number to what the seller says is "around town" miles. Could that still make this electric a viable contender? James May recently made a couple of trips to Southern California to support awareness of his namesake booze, James Gin. Documenting these adventures has been Lucy Brown, the head of the Gin maker's marketing arm and famous cheese-avoider. On multiple occasions in their videos, both James and Lucy have commented on the massive portion sizes of meals in the U.S. In fact, both have noted that everything seems bigger here, and that is typically true. Consider the 1986 Ford F-350 Crew Cab Dually pickup we discussed last Friday. With its for-doors, long bed, and extra-wide booty, it's bigger and more roomy than James' pub. The only thing that could be considered not-so-grand on that Ford was its $8,000 asking price. That earned the big truck an expansive 84% Nice Price win. Read more: 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ Is All About Big Numbers Last Friday's F-350 may have been large and in charge, but today's 2011 Nissan Leaf can only claim half that statement. With its 110-horsepower AC electric motor and 24.15 kWh lithium-ion battery pack under the floor, this Nissan is small and fully in need of charge when its electrons are expended. Nissan introduced the Leaf in late 2010 for the 2011 model year, earning the car the distinction of being the first mass-produced battery electric vehicle (BEV) on the market. Many other manufacturers followed with electric versions of existing internal combustion engine cars, all in an effort to meet California's 2011 zero-emission mandate. Nissan was the only major carmaker to introduce a ground-up electric to achieve compliance. The introduction of the long-range Tesla Model 3 two years later made all of these "compliance cars" feel out of date, and of them, only the Leaf survives in production to this day, gaining range with bigger batteries and going more mainstream with less weird styling. When new, this first-year Leaf could go somewhere between 80 and 100 miles between plug-in sessions, which is not particularly great by today's standards. Being an early electric, its charging speeds were pretty pathetic as well, requiring overnight sessions even on 220-volt power. According to the seller, a battery issue has compromised this Leaf's range even further, with it now pooping out at "about 41 miles." It's quite amusing that they claim the range to be "about 41 miles" rather than just "40 miles." That extra mile is really the cherry on the top, I guess. The ad doesn't go into detail regarding what has gone wrong with the car that is causing the range to be cut in half, but the culprit is likely the battery pack. Used packs are available for these cars, but, like buying a used engine for transplant into an ICE car, that's a roll of the dice that might end up in the same place but around $2,501 poorer. Perhaps it would be better to leave the Leaf as is and use it, as the seller suggests, "around town." According to the ad, the car is in "Excellent" condition other than the constrained range, having done a mere 78,310 miles. Nissan built the Leaf to a price, meaning that some of the interior components are somewhat chintzy, but it does have a lot of comfort and convenience features like power windows and locks and a CD stereo. It also features some pretty cool blue lights inside, which, when it was new, was a common feature among many electric cars. The exterior, in dark metallic red, looks to be in solid shape, although the expired HOV lane stickers on the corners are a blight. There's no word on the age of the tires, but they don't appear bald or anything in the pictures. The interior is also clean and seemingly well-maintained. This is a one-owner car and comes with a clean title. The asking price is $1,900. That gets you a comfortable and cheap-to-run car whose only constraint is that it has the battery capacity of an old man's bladder. For someone with a short commute to work or who just needs to get to the local grocery store once or twice a week, this could be the perfect ride. Alternatively, it could be a fun project to buy and fix with a replacement battery reinstating the lost range. What do you think about this opportunity and that $1,900 price? Does that feel like a great deal to get into the electric car space and save some money on short commutes? Or do this Nissan's problems mean it's a Leaf that's better left alone? You decide! Nice Price or No Dice: San Francisco Bay Area, California, Craigslist, or go here if the ad disappears. Help me out with NPOND. Hit me up at robemslie@ and send me a fixed-price tip. Remember to include your commenter handle. Want more like this? Join the Jalopnik newsletter to get the latest auto news sent straight to your inbox... Read the original article on Jalopnik.
Daily Mail
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
'Hate club': Girlfriend of photographer David Bailey's son Sascha set to write tell-all memoir dishing the dirt on her time with Tommy Robinson and his fellow 'free speech activists'
Lucy Brown, who once stood shoulder to shoulder with far-Right activist Tommy Robinson, is getting ready to settle some old scores – and she's not pulling any punches. I can reveal that the girlfriend of art dealer Sascha Bailey, son of celebrated photographer David Bailey, is to publish an explosive memoir. 'I'm writing a book about my time working in free speech activism that will probably p*** everyone off – which is what I'm hoping it will do,' she tells me. Lucy has previously said that the behaviour of Robinson, who was jailed for 18 months last year for contempt of court, 'changed after the fame and money started rolling in'. She said the former English Defence League leader became 'very nasty and misogynistic'. Her memoir, working title Hate Club, promises a no-holds-barred account of the chaos among the so-called free-speech warriors she once worked alongside. They include Robinson, Milo Yiannopoulos – who ran rapper Kanye West 's US presidential campaign last year – Lauren Southern, Gavin McInnes, Sargon of Akkad, and Count Dankula. 'Everyone was a narcissist,' she adds. 'It was terrible. Those people are a mess.' Lucy, 34, says the book will draw on her experience organising the ill-fated Day for Freedom event in London in 2018, including never-before-seen footage she shot at the time. 'We tried to make it all free speech and punk and edgy and then it all blew up,' she recalls. Now pregnant with her first child with Sascha, Lucy takes a very different view on the cause she once championed. 'I hate free speech [absolutism] . . . it's just a stupid concept that flits and changes depending on whether you like the person,' she says. 'I don't think, for example, Kneecap should be able to say that you should kill your Tory MP on stage, considering what happened to [murdered Tory MP] David Amess, and I couldn't give a toss that they're getting cancelled.' Rather than trusting publishers to tell her story, she's opting to self-publish. A bad break for poor Benedict? The greatest mystery at the Cannes Film Festival was why Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch had to wear a sling on his left arm. The Hollywood actor, 48, sported a black sling that matched his dinner suit on the red carpet for the Sunday evening premiere of Wes Anderson's new comedy The Phoenician Scheme, which also stars Scarlett Johansson and Tom Hanks. He was joined by his wife, the theatre director Sophie Hunter, 47. And yesterday, Cumberbatch wore a patterned sling that matched his brown jacket at a photocall. His spokesman declines to comment on the injury. Age-old problem for Nicole, 57 Nicole Kidman, who received the Women In Motion Award at the Cannes Film Festival, says she faces a constant battle against ageism in the business. 'We get judged very harshly,' the Hollywood star, 57, tells me. 'You'll have a big film, then suddenly you're in your 40s and you haven't followed it up, or you've made some choices that didn't succeed. You're, like, 'But I'm not over. Please still keep investing in me.' That's important, resisting ageism. 'I've got a wealth of knowledge now and experience, yet I somehow have been cast out, or I'm not the cool person, or I'm not the one. So, it's always going, 'No, no, you can have a second to third chapter.' That's an important message.' Charlotte's not weedy... she rips them out fast TV presenter Charlotte Hawkins has a secret cure for the pressures of showbusiness. 'Whenever I get stressed, I take it out on the weeds in my garden,' she tells me at RHS Chelsea Flower Show's VIP preview. 'I know I give the appearance of being cool, calm and collected, but I do sometimes get wound up. It's therapy to me. I go outside and attack the weeds really aggressively.' Charlotte, who turned 50 on Friday, lives in Surrey with husband Mark and daughter Ella. Miriam's heartbreak over Stoppard affair When Miriam Stoppard was betrayed by her husband of 20 years, the celebrated playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, with actress Felicity Kendal, she was the model of quiet dignity. But now the doctor and journalist has revealed that her Oscar-winning husband's affair with The Good Life star plunged her into years of mourning. 'I never felt jealous, I never felt angry, but I did feel grief,' she tells Saga magazine. 'I grieved for three years, but I was grieving for the idea of how my life would be and who I would grow old with. And that was kind of chopped out of my life.' Kendal was married to American theatre director Michael Rudman when she began her affair with Sir Tom, whom she first met while starring in his West End play The Real Thing in 1982. Their relationship continued until 1998 when Kendal returned to her ex-husband, with whom she has a son, Jacob. On his controversial former TV show, Jeremy Kyle never hesitated to tackle family matters. Nor did his father, Patrick. Kyle, whose mother died in 2017, reveals on Mark Wogan's Spooning podcast that his father's dying wish in 2019 was to know if his son's then-fiancee, Victoria, was 'the One'. He told Kyle: 'When I get upstairs, and it won't be long, I'm going to get a massive telling-off from your mother because I have been chasing women around the care home for six years, so I need to give her some good news.' Jeremy married Victoria in 2021.
