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Daily Record
2 days ago
- Daily Record
Scots Travelodge window smashed with 'blood over road' as police race to scene
Emergency services were called to the hotel at Dreghorn Service Station after the alarm was raised at around 2.45pm on Monday. A window has been left smashed at a Travelodge in Edinburgh with blood seen "splattered across the road". Emergency services were called to the hotel at Dreghorn Service Station after the alarm was raised at around 2.45pm on Monday, July 28. Pictures taken from the scene showed officers outside the premises as well as by the adjoining Starbucks. One local resident said there was "blood all over the road" as well as "blood on the smashed window" on the first floor of the hotel. Kevin Forshall, who was passing by the service station, told Edinburgh Live: "There's a police presence. "Blood all over the road outside the petrol station. Then round at the Starbucks, there's police there. There's a smashed window in the first floor of the Travelodge, blood all over the window." Police Scotland have since confirmed they were called to the scene with reports of concern for a person. Travelodge have been approached by our sister title for comment. 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. All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile, select 'Join Community' and you're in! If you're on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click 'Join Community'. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose 'exit group'. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice.
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Me, You, Them by Evie Sage: I don't get jealous watching my husband have sex with other women. I find it attractive!
Me, You, Them by Evie Sage (Michael Joseph £20, 304pp) On a dull Tuesday afternoon in 2019, the businesswoman and author Evie Sage turned up at an ordinary shopping centre with an extraordinary mission: to meet the woman she and her husband had arranged to have a threesome with. It was the first time they'd organised such a thing, and Sage's state of mind was understandably anxious. In a Starbucks, they found the woman they'd been messaging online, and made small talk, avoiding the elephant in the room. 'Shall we do this?' the woman finally asked. They agreed and headed, all three, to a Travelodge by a motorway, where they enthusiastically got down to the matter at hand. In her eye-opening and unashamedly steamy memoir, Sage (not her real name) explains what led to that Travelodge tryst, and recounts the sexual adventures that came afterwards. She was, she writes, a high-achieving girl, who grew up in a nice house with a loving family. But she was soon yearning for more – as a teenager she wrote in her diary: 'Do not accept an ordinary life.' And though she basked in the attention of boys, her first love was a girl: a classmate who was rebellious and 'stop-traffic good-looking'. The girls spent all their time together, doing normal stuff best friends do (clubbing, drinking, hanging out) along with quite a bit of not-so-standard stuff (kissing, buying sex toys together, falling asleep in each other's arms). But their bond was tested when they went to different universities, and Sage met the man who was to become her husband. When the pair got married, he and Sage moved to a farmhouse close to his parents in the Scottish countryside, and readied themselves for an idyllic country life full of home-cooked bread and children reared in the great outdoors. But the children never arrived – and once Sage had moved from grief about her and her husband's inability to conceive, to acceptance, she set about building a new life: one relieved of responsibility, and bent around the fulfilment of her and her husband's desires. The book skips back and forth in time, and unsurprisingly, the bits set after Sage's sexual awakening are rather more absorbing than those set before. At a sex party in London, she leads a woman into a large cage, and has her way with her in front of the woman's husband, as well as her own (both men end up joining in). At another party, a white pill is presented to Sage on a silver tray; she takes it, and eventually allows an Amazonian 'giantess' wearing long patent boots to whip her so ferociously her mind 'goes blank', but the feeling is 'delicious, clear', she writes. At yet another gathering, she and her husband meet a couple who invite them to join their holiday in Ibiza. The couple take them out on a boat to a cave lapped by azure waves, where Sage gets to know her male host very well indeed, and finds the acoustics of the cave to her liking. The book tackles many of the questions you'd have if your friend told you she'd embraced polyamory. No, Sage doesn't get jealous: she feels her husband's attention is usually partly on her, even if he is physically with someone else; in fact he becomes more attractive to her when she sees him attracting (and administering to) other women. Yes, sometimes she just doesn't fancy the people she has organised to have sex with, and it can be awkward. No, her family doesn't know (she is tempted to tell her kindly father, but realises she never will). And yes, there is a split between Sage's normal self and the self she is at orgies. Sage and her husband run a cottage rental and wedding business, and quite a bit of the book is given over to descriptions of how they got the business up and running. Their clients have no idea what they get up to. After one party in London, she washes her underwear in the sink and hangs it indoors, rather than let it dry outside where people staying in the cottages might see it. It's not that she isn't proud, she explains; she just wants the privacy 'to explore this new adventure alone'. All this adventuring does bring odd moments of peril. At one rather yucky get-together in a private house, Sage is repelled by the advances of a man in a hot tub, who tries to get to work on her in full view of the house next door. (Afterwards, she goes looking for her husband – and finds him under a pile of three women. 'Just checking he's still alive,' she trills at them.) At a hotel meet-up with another couple, a man puts his penis inside her without asking and without a condom. The violation shakes her, and she goes to the bathroom. 'In the mirror, I see a whore, with bleary, smudgy eyes and slutty lingerie', she writes. These moments aside, Sage argues that her new life has freed her in a number of ways: from the responsibility of being 'the sole keeper' of her husband's pleasure, from the conventional life she grew up dreading, from feelings of insecurity. There's nothing like striding through a packed room in your underwear to boost your 'inner confidence', she notes. And, she writes, she and her husband are still very much in love. Yet she knows this sexual gallivanting won't last forever. Some day, she writes, when she and her husband are 'old and tired' and sitting in rocking chairs on a veranda, they will turn to each other and say: 'Do you remember when…'
BBC News
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Latitude festivalgoers bemoan 'chaotic' traffic delays
Disgruntled music fans said they had to endure hours of "chaotic" traffic delays while driving to Latitude behind the arts and culture event put the extra congestion down to "weather conditions and localised flooding".Some festivalgoers told the BBC they had grown so fed-up with waiting in tailbacks near the Henham Park site they instead found hotels to stay social media, a spokesperson for the festival said: "We have worked as hard as we can to mitigate the traffic and to get everyone into the festival. Thank you for your patience." James Adamczuk described the traffic as "pretty bad". "It took us about two and a half hours to get in from the last six miles," he told the BBC."It was a bit chaotic and everything literally ground to a halt - but what can you do? You just have to be patient. "It was exacerbated by the rain and mud at the time but I think they could have put temporary traffic lights in and or stewards could have made it a little better." Scott Siwicki said he was queuing to get on to the A145 and into the event for more than four hours."That's for a couple of miles, not the full trip," he told the BBC."There was no traffic control or marshals and unfortunately the problem stemmed from vehicles getting stuck at the entry point." According to reports on social media, some festivalgoers faced delays of up to six hours from the likes of Woodbridge and Dereham. Another said she opted to turn her back on the traffic and booked into a Travelodge in Ipswich after hitting standstill traffic on the A12 about seven miles from the site."The only update we got was just after 22:00 BST when we arrived at the hotel, but it was too little too late," she said. "I get challenges happen but I'm appalled by the lack of communication - it is unacceptable." This year's event is being headlined by Sting, Fatboy Slim, and Snow Patrol and is expected to attract 40,000 people each Thursday's traffic issues, campervan and motorhome users are being urged to use Orange Gate 1 on the A145 to gain access, while day and weekend ticketholders should continue to use the Festival was contacted for further comment. Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
BBC News
5 days ago
- BBC News
Two appear in court following assault at Spalding hotel
Two people charged following an assault at a hotel have appeared in Police was called to the Travelodge at the Springfields Outlet Centre in Spalding on 24 Lodge, 24, of Bishops Way, London, and Leanne Thornton, 42, of Low Gate in Gosberton, Lincolnshire, appeared at Lincoln Crown Court on pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent, perverting the course of justice, and assault on an emergency worker. Ms Thornton did not enter any pleas. Ms Thornton's case was adjourned until 1 September. A provisional trial date has been set for 15 December at Lincoln Crown previously said the victim was taken to hospital but his injuries were not believed to be life-threatening or life-changing. Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here. Download the BBC News app from the App Store for iPhone and iPad or Google Play for Android devices
The Independent
20-07-2025
- The Independent
Bournemouth named best beach as thousands plan summer trip to coast
Bournemouth has been voted the best beach in the UK, with holidaymakers praising its miles of sand and attractions including a zipline. A survey of 70,000 people found other popular beaches include Bamburgh in the North East, Brighton in East Sussex, St Ives and Newquay in Cornwall, and Llandudno in Wales. Half of those surveyed by hotel chain Travelodge said they plan to visit a beach during the summer. Almost two-thirds of respondents said they enjoy walking along a beach, one in five make sure they buy fish and chips, while the biggest bugbears include litter, expensive parking and lack of toilets. The top 10 beaches were named as Bournemouth, Bamburgh, Brighton, Scarborough, Blackpool Pleasure, Llandudno West Shore, St Ives, Weymouth, Whitby and Blackpool Sands.
