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PH Moriarty dead aged 86: Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and Jaws star dies as tributes pour in for ex-boxer & actor
TRIBUTES have flooded in for British actor P.H. Moriarty who has died at the age of 86.
“Gentleman” Paul, who was best known for starring as Razors in 1980s gangster film The Long Good Friday, died peacefully in the company of his wife in the early hours last Sunday.
Appearing alongside Helen Mirren and Bob Hoskins, the former boxer highlighted the movie as the one that “made all the difference” and kickstarted his illustrious acting career.
Paul later featured in movies such as Jaws 3, the final installment of the iconic trilogy, and Patriot Games, the sequel to The Hunt for Red October.
In 1998, he went on to play another violent character, Hatchet Harry, in Guy Ritchie’s award-winning crime movie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Confirming the actor’s death in a social media post, charity Orchid Cancer said: “We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of P.H. Moriarty.
“He was a talented actor best known for his roles in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and The Long Good Friday.
“A gifted voice actor and a dedicated supporter of Orchid, his contributions and unwavering commitment will always be remembered.
“Our heartfelt condolences go out to his family, friends, and all who had the privilege of knowing him.”
At the age of 14, Paul met notorious gangster Jimmy Tippett Snr, nicknamed the Guv’nor of Lewisham, who “took him under his wing”.
Family friend Jimmy Tippett Jr told The Sun: “Paul met Dad when he was very young and they went on to become lifelong friends.
“They always took the time to see each other and Paul often came to see my Dad in care when he was suffering with dementia.
“I know that Paul died very peacefully, his wife was holding his hand the whole time and talking to him.”
‘Recluse’ Sweden shooter dressed in military gear in toilet before killing 10…but made mysterious choice during rampage
The “recluse” suspected to be behind Sweden’s worst mass shooting in history reportedly changed into military gear in the school’s toilet before killing ten people.
Rickard Andersson, 35, has been accused of carrying out a horrifying rampage at the Campus Risbergska in Orebro – but the gunman made a mysterious choice during his killing spree on Tuesday.
Police believe the suspected killer turned the weapon on himself but his motive was not immediately known.
Chilling new details have revealed the gunman reportedly changed into green military clothes in the school’s toilet before unleashing his killing spree.
A current police theory is that the suspect calmly walked through the school’s corridors taking his shots at people.
The gunman however is said to have made a mysterious decision to walk past certain people while choosing to not to shoot them, according to Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet.
Cops did not immediately reveal the suspect’s identity but his family painted an image of him as a loser recluse to local media.
One family member said he was unemployed and had isolated himself from his friends and loved ones.
The suspect – who is also said to have “extreme social phobia” – would always keep his hood up, cover his hands and mouth, and was dubbed a loser in school.
Andersson legally changed his name from Jonas Simon in 2017 – to the shock of his family.
He reportedly grew up in Orebro with his parents and siblings in an affluent part of the city – before moving to nearby Storgatan after he finished school.
One relative said: “We haven’t had much contact with him in recent years.
“As a child he was different but lively. He did well in school.
“But in recent years he has had a hard time. He is not working.”
Another family member shared how the suspected gunman had completely changed in recent years.
They said: “He’s really a loner. He used to have a friend he hung out with a lot, but not now. He wants to be by himself.
“He doesn’t seem to like people.”
The suspect didn’t spend time with his family at Christmas as “he wasn’t feeling well mentally”.
He was also repeatedly denied military service, documents from the Swedish National Service Agency show.
The Swedish National Service said the reason he was never called up for muster was due to him lacking upper secondary school qualifications, newspaper Aftonbladet was told.
Everything we know about the Swedish mass shooting
SWEDEN experienced its worst shooting in history when a gunman opened fire at an adult education centre on Tuesday.
The alarm was sounded around 12.30pm at the Campus Risbergska School in Orebro, around 200km west of Stockholm.
At least 11 people are believed to have been killed and police believe one of these in the gunman.
The shooter reportedly turned the gun on himself after his horror rampage.
Police identified their suspect as 35-year-old Rickard Andersson.
Cops added that they believe he worked alone and have not confirmed his motivations.
Authorities said six people were being treated in hospital – four women and two men.
Five of these people have required surgery and two remain in a serious condition.
Cops also said the death toll and number of injured could rise as they carry on with their investigation.
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Tuesday’s attack was the worst in the country’s history and called it a “painful day”.
During the massacre, the suspect was believed to have been carrying three rifles – including a standard hunting rifle with 30-06 caliber ammunition.
Some reported have claimed a shotgun was also used during the shooting spree.
Authorities said six people were rushed to hospital and two of them remain in an intensive care unit.
The identities of the killers victims have not been revealed.
Although cops revealed they believe the suspect acted alone they have not ruled out the possibility of other suspects being involved.
Police added that he had previously not been known to them and he had a gun licence.
Coronation Street villain reveals he’s QUIT soap and his dramatic final scenes have already aired
ONE of Coronation Street’s nastiest villains has confirmed he has QUIT the soap amid the ongoing cast exodus.
Harry Lowbridge, who has been appearing as Logan Radcliffe on the ITV soap opera, confirmed that his final scenes on the show had aired after his character attacked David Platt following the Platt house inferno.
Logan first appeared on the show last year and was introduced as one of the brothers of another recently axed character, Mason Radcliffe, played by Luca Toolan.
However, taking to Instagram today, Harry confirmed that he would no longer be appearing on the show for the time being amid a difficult period behind-the-scenes at the soap.
Harry wrote online alongside a snapshot of him in character as Logan: “That’s farewell to Logan… for now.”
Viewers of the soap were quick to send their congratulations to the budding soap star for his debut performance on the cobbles.
One viewer said: “You’re brilliant!! Such a good baddie.”
Another added: “All the best, you were great, hope you come back.”
Before a third posted: “The future is bright for you Harry x.”
Harry’s exit from the show comes after he previously opened up on his daily mental health battle that he faces.
He revealed online he has had his own private mental health battle whilst recording the show’s harrowing knife crime storyline which saw him knife his brother to death.
One fan asked Harry if it was “ok to not be ok”, on the platform.
In response, Harry opened up to confess: “Yes, I struggle on the daily with my mental health.”
He then issued an urgent plea to his followers to be open about their own mental health problems as he shared the importance of talking to someone about struggles.
Harry said: “Reach out to someone, whether it be family, friends or professionals.
“There’s always someone who will listen.”
Harry is the latest star to either be axed or walk away from the programme.
Sue Devaney was controversially axed from her role of Debbie Webster with Colson Smith also being given the boot as Craig Tinker.
Others to have been written out include Charlotte Jordan as Daisy Midgeley, Shelley King as Yasmeen Metcalfe, Sue Cleaver as Eileen Grimshow, Luca Toolan as Mason Radcliffe and Paddy Bever as Max Turner.
Helen Worth also quit the soap last year as Gail Platt after 50 years in the role.
It comes amid news that Corrie has had an episode AXED as a result of the cash crisis with a new soap schedule coming into play from January 2026.
Corrie cash crisis: shock exits for 2025
ITV bosses are locked in a battle to save the cash-strapped soap.
This means that a number of stars have either been axed from or have abandoned the long-running serial drama.
Colson Smith – Craig Tinker
The character of Craig Tinker has been axed by bosses after 14 years. After he was told of the news in Autumn 2024, Colson Smith confirmed that would be written out of the show with scenes to air later this year. Craig’s on-screen mum, Beth Tinker, also left the show in the summer when actress Lisa George was written out from the role.
Sue Cleaver – Eileen Grimshaw
After 25 years playing Eileen Grimshaw, former I’m A Celebrity campmate Sue Cleaver will quit the show. The Sun on Sunday reported in January that she’s already begun to film her exit scenes. However the character will not be killed off in case Sue opts to make a return in the future.
Luca Toolan – Mason Radcliffe
Bosses decided to axe the teenage character after just 16 months after he first joined the show. Recent scenes saw Mason stabbed by his criminal brothers after his pal Dylan brought a knife in an attempt to defend him.
Sue Devaney – Debbie Webster
In November 2024, we revealed that Debbie Webster is set to be killed off after 40 years on the cobbles. The character will die as part of a heartbreaking long-running dementia storyline.
Charlotte Jordan – Daisy Midgeley
The actress became the fifth star to leave Coronation Street in just one month. We revealed that she will bow out of the ITV soap later this year after four years on-screen. Charlotte told sources that she’s hungry to see what other opportunities await.
Shelley King – Yasmeen Metcalfe
The actress has played Yasmeen Metcalfe on the cobbles for the past 11 years and we revealed in January that she finished filming her final scenes. This follows the departure of her on-screen partner Stu Carpenter.
Irish families holding wakes for dead relatives by candlelight due to Storm Eowyn damage as power outrage hell laid bare
PEOPLE have been forced to hold wakes for dead relatives by candlelight due to the delay in restoring power to homes following Storm Eowyn, the Dail heard today.
Almost 800,000 people lost power and 200,000 households lost access to water following the record-breaking wind storm.
Two weeks on from the storm, more than 18,000 properties remain without electricity with the ESB admitting that some will not get power back until next week.
The Dail today heard from TDs about the devastating impact of the storm as the Government promised to put in place actions to ensure the mass outages won’t happen again.
Labour leader Ivana Bacik told the Dail that she has been contacted by people who were forced to hold wakes for dead relatives by candlelight due to the outages.
She said: “I have heard from families who have been tragically forced to wake their dead relatives by candlelight.
“From parents unable to cook a hot meal for their bored and cold young children, from older people terrified and isolated by power outages and fallen trees, from people with chronic health conditions whose appointments were cancelled or to which they couldn’t access them.
“I heard just today from one family in Roscommon who are still without power and will remain so until this coming weekend.
“They have had no electricity, no heat, no water since January 24 and this has been the case four times in the last ten weeks.”
The Labour leader demanded that the ESB not pass on the costs of the storm repairs to customers after they recorded operating profits of nearly €500 million last year.
The Dublin TD demanded that the Government put real investment into Ireland’s energy, water and transport systems to make it more resilient for future storms.
Taoiseach Micheal Martin praised the response from Ireland’s emergency services and the ESB as he called Storm Eowyn “the worst storm in a century”.
The Fianna Fail leader has ordered officials to accelerate a plan to improve Ireland’s electricity grid as he claimed it requires an investment of €13 billion over the next five years.
Some 3,000 workers have been working “night and day” to restore power to homes including crews flown in from the UK, France, Finland, Germany, Austria, Norway and the Netherlands.
The Dail heard that Ireland borrowed 18 generators from Denmark, Austria, and Poland to switch on water treatment plants and restore services to properties.
However, Taoiseach Martin admitted that Irish Water should have had back up generators ready to go as he warned that this would not be allowed to happen again.
‘NOT GOOD ENOUGH’
He said: “I don’t think it was good enough that Irish Water didn’t have generators in place at multiple locations. That is now happening and that will not happen again.”
New Energy Minister Darragh O’Brien told the Dail that te ESB will try to stock pile spare parts in order to speed up repairs after future storms.
Some 380 emergency hubs were set up in GAA clubs and other local facilities across the country to help communities with 330 of these remaining open this week.
Devastating blow for Pat Ryan as promising Cork GAA star ruled out for the rest of the season with horror injury
PROMISING Cork hurler Pádraig Power has been dealt another crushing injury blow that will rule him out for the rest of the season.
Power, 23, had to be replaced in the 17th minute of the National League clash with Limerick at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday.
Cork boss Pat Ryan revealed afterwards that he was likely to be out of action for six weeks after dislocating his shoulder.
Ryan has now trimmed his panel for the 2025 season and Power’s name was included on the 37-man list that was announced on Tuesday evening.
However, the Blarney forward will not play for his county again this year as it has since emerged that he also ruptured his anterior cruciate knee ligament in the 1-16 apiece draw with the Treaty.
It is rotten luck for Power, who was considered a legitimate contender to secure a starting berth in Ryan’s side for this year’s Championship.
Scoring a combined tally of 2-6 from play across the two finals, he emerged as a hot prospect as Cork won the All-Ireland Under-20 titles of 2020 and 2021.
Power also missed most of last season with a shoulder injury that required surgery. He returned in time to appear off the bench in the All-Ireland preliminary quarter-final win over Offaly and the semi-final victory over Limerick.
The new season got off to an impressive start for Power, who bagged 1-4 as Cork eased past Wexford in their Division 1A opener.
But he now joins a growing list of sidelined Rebel forwards that already includes Séamus Harnedy, Conor Lehane, Ben Cunningham and Declan Dalton.
Harnedy is unavailable for a number of weeks with a thumb injury, while Lehane is set to miss the next six weeks having also dislocated his shoulder against Limerick.
Dalton, who was red-carded in the defeat of Wexford, will serve the second game of his two-match suspension when Cork travel to Thurles to face Tipperary on February 22.
Cunningham is another former Under-20 star whose chances of establishing himself at senior level have been hindered by injury problems.
A three-month lay-off is expected for the St Finbarr’s attacker after he picked up a significant hamstring injury while on Fitzgibbon Cup duty with UCC last week.
США ведуть дуже конструктивні переговори щодо України – Трамп
Фото: Getty Images Трамп заявив про дуже конструктивні переговори щодо України Президент США Дональд Трамп веде переговори як з українським, так і з російським керівництвом. Американський президент Дональд Трамп заявив, що США ведуть «дуже конструктивні переговори щодо України». Про це політик сказав на спільній з прем’єр-міністром Ізраїлю Біньяміном Нетаньягу пресконференції у вівторок, 4 лютого, повідомляє […]Фіалка більше не чахне на очах: після цього підживлення навіть «гербарій» зацвіте
Фіалка нерідко розчаровує квітникарів: то в’яне, то коріння гниє, то не цвіте, а тільки зелень нарощує. З проблемами при вирощуванні фіалки стикаються ті квітникарі, які забувають підгодувати рослину під час цвітіння. Подробиці Однак є один універсальний засіб, який оживить навіть ту фіалку, що чахне. Для цього знадобиться яєчна шкаралупа, з якої можна отримати користь. Як […]Santorini rubble dogs & search drones on standby amid fears of brewing mega-quake & LOOTING on deserted holiday island
THE Greek island of Santorini is bracing for a major earthquake after a series of mini quakes sparking safety and looting fears.
Earthquakes started over the weekend but severely increased over the past 24 hours rattling the volcanic island every few minutes through the Tuesday night and into Wednesday.
Now scientists are warning of the possibility of a major earthquake in the region hitting a magnitude of 6 after the series of mini quakes have continued to increase in strength.
Temblors warning of a larger quake to come are being reported every 10 minutes on the island and could last for weeks.
Emergency rescue crews, drones, and sniffer dogs have been deployed in preparation for a major quake with the largest tremors hitting 4.9 on the Richter scale.
An emergency announcement was issued by the Interdisciplinary Committee for Risk and Crisis Management of the National University of Athens on Wednesday.
It declared that between February 2 and 5, “seismicity in the Santorini-Amorgos zone intensified even more.”
Data collected on February 2 showed over 1,300 earthquakes took place followed by more than 1,400 the following day.
In total between January 26 and February 3, there were 6,400 recorded quakes between the volcanic island of Santorini and Amorgos.
The committee warned that the “number of earthquakes with a magnitude of 2.5 is gradually increasing per day.”
Five were recorded on Sunday, seven on Monday, and nine on Tuesday and continued recordings into the early hours of Wednesday with over 30 detected, the biggest being 4.4 in magnitude.
It is possible that this activity “stimulates the rupture of a significant part of a large active fault in the area, thus giving rise to a main earthquake,” they said.
Schools have closed and ferry and flight operators have ramped up services to depart the island.
Shocking footage shows horror landslides, leaving behind large clouds of dust just along the edge of Santorini’s stunning, all-white landscape.
With around 11,000 people fleeing their homes after the continuous rumbles and horror landslides, officials are concerned about criminals who may make the most of the opportunity.
Police have been put on high alert and officials have increased their patrols in Fira, the island’s capital while also enforcing roadblocks to try and stop break ins and looting.
‘EVERYONE IS WORRIED’
One local business man told Proto Thema: “We are afraid that some will take advantage of the situation and start breaking into houses.
“We have already heard about incidents.”
Speaking of the days-long mini quakes, fellow local Michalis Gerontakis said “everyone is worried.”
He said: “I have never felt anything like this and with such frequency – an earthquake every 10 or 20 minutes.
“Everyone is anxious even if some of us hide it not to cause panic, but everyone is worried.”
Nadia Benomar a tour guide from Morocco who has lived on Santorini for 19 years rushed to buy a ferry ticket to flee to the nearby island of Naxos.
She said: “We’ve had earthquakes before but never anything like this. This feels different.”
Nadia joined hundreds of others at the island’s main port on Monday to catch a ferry.
The Ministry of Shipping confirmed that between Sunday and Tuesday over 9,500 people fled by sea alone.
Those who have stayed behind have been alerted on their phones to the dangers of the quakes and falling rubble with many areas near cliffs being closed off as a safety measure.
Citizens and tourists have been advised to avoid abandoned buildings, choose safe travel routes and avoid places at risk of landslides, and become aware of designated refuge areas.
They have also been told to move away from coastal regions if strong vibrations are detected.
Santorini is not the only island at risk of a massive earthquake with nearby islands Amorgos, Anafi and Ios also on high alert after over 200 undersea tremors were recorded over the past three days.
Speaking from Brussels, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said: “We have a very intense geological phenomenon to handle.
“I want to ask our islanders first and foremost to remain calm, listen to the instructions of the Civil Protection Authority.”
The Protection Minister Vasilis Kikilias urged citizens late on Sunday to “strictly adhere to safety recommendations to minimise risk”.
Santorini sits in the middle of the Aegean Sea Plate and close to an active volcanic arc that runs between Greece and Turkey across the Aegean.
Glastonbury fans ‘work out’ nepo baby pop star with HUGE hit will play festival after London gig date ‘clue’
MUSIC goers hope a pop starlet will perform at Glastonbury after noticing a promising gap in her tour schedule.
The singer thrilled fans when she announced she was heading to the UK this year for The Secrets of Us Tour.
And eagle-eyed fans have spotted some empty spaces in her schedule that could work for Glasto.
Glastonbury is scheduled to take place from June 25 to June 29, 2025.
Following this, the British Summer Time (BST) festival in Hyde Park, London, kicks off on June 27 and runs until July 13.
Gracie Abrams has been booked to support country music star Noah Kahan at BST on July 4.
While there has been no official word on her rumoured appearance, Glastonbury is known for its unexpected performances and the gap in her schedule has fuelled anticipation among fans.
Taking to Reddit, one fan pointed out: “Gap after Australian leg of her tour ends in mid-May, and her next stop is BST after Glasto weekend.”
Gracie is the daughter of Star Wars: Force Awakens director JJ Abrams, and has been making waves in the music industry with her emotive songwriting.
The That’s So True hitmaker, who is dating Gladiator II actor Paul Mescal, has had over a billion streams on Spotify alone.
Rihanna, Madonna, and Eminem are also among the superstars rumoured to headline the festival.
Neil Young has already confirmed he is performing after a surprise outburst about the festival.
The singer was booked to headline Glastonbury, 16 years after he last played on the Pyramid Stage.
But a month later he spectacularly pulled out – claiming it is a “corporate turn-off” due to its broadcast deal with the BBC
In a surprise U-turn, the singer confirmed his slot blaming “an error in the information I received” for him initially turning down the offer.
A statement on his website read: “Due to an error in the information received, I had decided to not play the Glastonbury Festival, which I always have loved.
“Happily, the festival is now back on our itinerary and we look forward to playing. Hope to see you there.”
