Marina Joyce’s boyfriend denied she was missing on Friday, with police confirming that she had been found on Saturday afternoon.
British YouTube star Marina Joyce has been found by police – 10 days after she went missing.
The 22-year-old was last seen on 31 July in her hometown of Haringey, north London, but was only reported missing to police on 7 August.
On Friday night, Joyce’s boyfriend Brandon Mehmed denied that she was missing – writing on Instagram: “Please don’t worry about her as she is safe and well.”
Despite this, it took Metropolitan Police until Saturday afternoon to confirm the vlogger’s welfare.
We had appealed for help to locate Marina Joyce, 22, reported #missingfrom #Haringey – she has been located & is safe and well. Thanks for your RTs.— MPS Haringey (@MPSHaringey)August 10, 2019
Missing People, the charity that launches appeals for missing people on behalf of families and the police, thanked the public for their help in a tweet.
“Our helpline continues to be here 24/7 for anybody affected by a disappearance, on 116 000. Please continue to share our appeals and help bring #missing people back safely.”
Joyce’s last video was uploaded to YouTube on 21 June 2019, with a promise for more content a week later.
Fans of the lifestyle vlogger, best known for her make-up and clothing reviews, were swift in their campaign to find her, with #FindMarinaJoyce trending on Twitter.
Fans travelled from as far as Canada and Argentina mark the anniversary.
By Gemma Peplow, entertainment reporter
Thursday 8 August 2019 19:03, UK
Beatlemania has returned to Abbey Road, 50 years on from the camera clicking on the image that would go on to become one of the most famous album covers ever created.
Tribute act Fab Gear followed in the footsteps of their heroes Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison to re-enact the iconic zebra crossing photograph as about 2,500 fans cheered them on.
Traffic stopped, musicians played and sang their favourite Beatles hits – and there was even a proposal of marriage from one of the Fab Four.
Such was the sense of occasion for lifelong Beatles fan Joe Kane, who performs as Paul, he decided to get down on one knee, right in the middle of the crossing, to pop the question to his now fiancee, Lindsay Humphreys.
“This is one of the best days of my life because The Beatles have been my favourite band since I was a kid and I learned to play music because of them,” he told Sky News. “To do this is incredibly special.
“We drove up and we were mobbed with photographers, which doesn’t happen every day. I’m still taking it in. As a Beatles fan, to be involved is just mind-blowing.
“And I proposed to my girlfriend and she said yes!”
Fans travelled from all over the world to mark the anniversary, with one man saying he had travelled on a plane for the first time to make the journey from Canada, while others from America, Mexico, Argentina, Japan and Australia also joined the crowds.
Ruben Mata, 39, made the Abbey Road pilgrimage with his parents Rodolfo and Dolores, all the way from Mexico
“I vividly remember a black girl saying at training that the reason black girls don’t swim is because of their hair.
“I was about 12 or 13 at the time and had never thought of the idea of hair stopping you from swimming. Now that I am older I can fully understand why someone would quit over their hair.”
Alice Dearing, a 22-year-old student at Loughborough University, is one of Great Britain’s top female marathon swimmers.
She’s also currently the only black swimmer on Team GB and is only the second to represent them in the water.
“It sounds ludicrous but it can be really damaging to your self-image and confidence as chlorine wrecks hair. But it’s even harder for girls with thicker hair, which the majority of black girls have.”
Alice has represented Team GB at numerous international competitions including two World Championships. She’s English and Ghanaian and seeing someone like her in the sport at this standard is rare.
The BBC sent a Freedom of Information request to Swim England asking how many competitive swimmers who are registered with them identify as black or mixed race. The national governing body responded saying just 668 out of 73,000.
It comes as Swim England has told the BBC it’s seen a rise in the number of BAME people swimming recreationally over the past few years.
Swimming can actually be more damaging to afro hair than non-afro hair, because of a substance used in swimming pools called sodium hypochlorite, more commonly known as bleach.
“Afro hair is naturally drier than other hair because it has less cell layers, which means it doesn’t retain as much moisture,” says Shirley McDonald a consultant trichologist at The Institute of Trichologists in London.
“Sodium hypochlorite can cause excess dryness leading to damage if the hair is not washed and conditioned after swimming – and so afro hair is likely to suffer more quickly because of its structure.”
Team GB’s swimming squad had one of its most successful international competitions at this summer’s World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. The team finished seventh in the medal table with seven medals – three gold, one silver and three bronze.
Alice placed in the top 20 in the women’s open water 10k race.
“I like to think I represent black competitive swimmers in the UK who may often feel out of place – as I sometimes did during my early years,” she said.
Diversity in swimming has always been limited not just in the UK but on a global scale.
Hair isn’t the only factor in this. It’s an expensive sport that has historically meant racial segregation and discrimination in countries like South Africa and the United States.
BBC World Service spent some time with swimmers from Howard University at the Black History Month invitation in Washington DC for The Documentary Podcast, Black Girls Don’t Swim. It’s the only historically black university in America that has a men and women’s swim team.
Chandler Carter is a member of the women’s team: “I know loads of girls who quit swimming because of their hair.”
“It can be really hard because in the summer you see your friends popping with fresh braids and long weaves and I just have to have my hair natural or get ‘bob braids’ because that’s all that fits under the swim cap.
“But you get used to it.”
Latroya Pina is also on the team and also competed at the world championships representing Cape Verde. Although she understands the difficulty of balancing hair and swimming she thinks it’s worth it.
“One of the best things about being at Howard is if I’m having a bad hair day and struggling to put my cap on I look at the girls and see them struggling too and we’re all struggling together.”
Of course there are some swimmers who have been highly successful regardless. In 2016, American Simone Manuel became the first black female swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal in Rio. In total she won two golds and two silvers at the games.
Ebony Rosemond is the founder of Black Kids Swim, a non-profit organisation offering guidance and information for black swimmers and their families in the US.
She’s also aware of the factors behind why the sport tends to see fewer black competitive swimmers, especially women.
“The two main reasons I hear as to why we don’t see as many black girls in the sport is inherited fear of the water and hair. Hair is extremely important to young black girls.”
“For a very long time, black women have been told that there’s something wrong with their hair, and even today we can see the impact of that message.”
“We lose a lot of girls around 10 years old because they want their hair to look a certain way.”
The importance of hair to black women is reflected in their spending on hair products. According to a report in the Huffington Post, in 2017 the UK black hair industry was worth an estimated £88 million with black women on average spending three times more than white women on hair care.
Even though there are only a small number of black and mixed race swimmers competing in the sport in the UK, Alice hopes she can make a difference.
“I’m not a high profile swimmer but I hope the little bits of coverage I get through the media help encourage other people of colour who wouldn’t normally take part in swimming to go get lessons, or join a club or even just splash around with friends.”
A Swim England spokesperson said: “Swim England is working to understand the challenges and barriers to swimming and other aquatic activity through the project Barriers to Swimming.”
It says the project aims to understand the barriers that communities have in making swimming and other aquatic activities a regular habit.
The new service Disney+ launches in the US in November and is expected to hit the UK next year.
The Christmas classic starring Macaulay Culkin was originally released back in 1990 and has an audience rating of 80% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Also in line for one of these “reimaginations” is Night at the Museum. You know, Ben Stiller running around a museum at night. The 2006 original only has a modest audience rating of 42% on Rotten Tomatoes, so maybe there is room for improvement? In addition to these remakes, Disney+ will also have content from both the Star Wars and Marvel franchises as it enters a crowded marketplace, trying to become the latest streaming giant. It’ll have more than 7,500 episodes of TV and 400 movies. There aren’t any details yet on how exactly the likes of Home Alone will be adapted, so no word yet on who will get to shout “Kevin!” on a plane, or indeed who will take on the iconic roles of the Wet Bandits. Disney merely says it hopes the remake will have the “same standards and the same creative discipline” as the original.
(CNN) Two countries issued travel warnings to their citizens about the United States following two mass shootings that killed 31 people.
Both Venezuela and Uruguay warned their residents about violence and hate crimes in the United States Monday.
Uruguay’s Office of Foreign Ministry issued an advisory Monday saying citizens should “take precaution amid the growing indiscriminatory violence, specifically hate crimes including racism and discrimination” when traveling to the United States.
The alert noted that other factors, such as the “indiscriminate possession of firearms by the population” and the “impossibility of authorities to prevent these situations,” were among some of the reasons travelers need to be particularly wary of highly populated areas or events.
Uruguay’s warning also suggested avoiding the cities of Detroit, Baltimore and Albuquerque, as they were listed as part of the 20 most dangerous cities in the world according to the CEOworld Magazine 2019 index.
Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry office also issued a warning to its residents Monday, saying Venezuelans should postpone their travels or exercise caution when traveling as a result of the events in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.
The statement posted by the Foreign Ministry said that the “recent proliferation of violent acts and hate crimes” need to be considered by those planning to travel into the US.
“These increasing acts of violence have found an echo and support in the conversations and actions impregnated by racial discrimination and hatred against migrant populations, pronounced and executed by the supremacist elite who holds political power in Washington,” the statement read in part.
According to the statement, one of the main reasons for the violent acts in the US is the “inexcusable indiscriminate possession of fire arms by the population, encouraged by the federal government.”
April, the US State Department gave Venezuela its highest travel advisory, Level 4: Do Not Travel, citing crime, civil unrest and the arbitrary arrest and detention of US citizens.
Venezuela was ranked as the most dangerous country in the world for the second straight year, according to a Gallup survey in 2018. It is one of 13 countries issued the highest advisory.
Uruguay is listed as a Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution on the State Department’s travel advisory list. The advisory was issued due to violent crimes, the website said.
Although nothing is official, it has been reported that Spurs are ahead in the scramble with United and Arsenal for the Barcelona playmaker’s signature.
Coutinho, 27, is looking for a way out of the Nou Camp this summer having flopped since his £142million transfer in January 2018.
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He has been told that he is free to leave and is braced to have plenty of options in a bid to reignite his career
But such a move is not quite so straight forward for Dybala.
He was demanding £350,000-a-week at Old Trafford, despite the entire squad taking a 25 per cent pay cut after failing to qualify for the Champions League.
The author’s family said she ‘treasured the written word’ and that she was ‘most at home when she was writing’.
The Nobel Prize and Pulitzer winning author Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88.
Her publisher said she died on Monday night at Montefiore Medical Centre in New York after a brief illness.
In a statement, her family said: “Toni Morrison passed away peacefully last night surrounded by family and friends.
“She was an extremely devoted mother, grandmother, and aunt who revelled in being with her family and friends. “The consummate writer who treasured the written word, whether her own, her students or others, she read voraciously and was most at home when writing.”
Morrison was the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature – which she was awarded in 1993. She won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988 for her novel Beloved, in which a mother makes a tragic choice to murder her baby to save the girl from slavery.The book was adapted into a film of the same name in 1998, which starred Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover. She was praised in 1993 by the Swedish academy for her “visionary force” and for her delving into “language itself, a language she wants to liberate” from categories of black and white. She was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford in Lorain, Ohio as the second of four children in 1931 and was encouraged by her parents to read.Morrison was “unimpressed” by the white children in her community, believing she was smarter and wiser. She attended Howard University in Washington DC, where she met and married Harold Morrison, who she later divorced in 1964. They had two children together, Harold and Slade.In the same year she divorced her husband, she began working at the publisher Random House in the textbook division and became one of the very few black women in publishing. Whilst there, she championed black women authors such as Gayl Jones and Toni Cade Bambara, as well as working on Muhammad Ali’s memoir, and topical books by Angela Davis and co-founder of the Black Panther movement, Huey Newton. It was not until she was 39 that she released her first book, The Bluest Eye, at the height of the Black Arts Morrison went on to write 10 more novels, with her last one being in 2015 called, God Help the Child. She also wrote a number of plays, non-fiction publications and children’s books with her son during her illustrious career. Alongside the Nobel Prize, she also received honorary degrees from Oxford, Geneva and Harvard, has been awarded the Légion d’Honneur in France, and was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama, who was one of her notable admirersPaying tribute to her, Mr Obama described Morrison as a “national treasure”. He added: “Her writing was a beautiful, meaningful challenge to our conscience and our moral imagination. What a gift to breathe the same air as her, if only for a while.” In 2016, she wrote an essay called Mourning for Whiteness, in which she argued that white American’s elected Donald Trump as president to avoid losing privileges that were afforded to them by way of their race.
The number of viewers signed up to the most popular platforms rose from 11.2million in 2018 to 13.3million in 2019.
UK viewing habits are rapidly shifting with around half of homes now subscribing to TV streaming services.
The number of viewers signed up to the most popular platforms – Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Now TV and DisneyLife – increased from 11.2million in 2018 to 13.3million in 2019.
The top streamed programmes in the UK were Friends and You, both on Netflix, and The Grand Tour on Amazon.
Ofcom found that while traditional viewing still amounts for 69% of TV watching time, that figure is rapidly declining.
We currently watch on average 3 hours and 12 minutes of traditional TV a day, 11 minutes less than last year and 50 minutes less than in 2010.
The shift was most pronounced among 16 to 24-year-olds, whose viewing of traditional TV has halved since 2010.
The research also found that two in five adults now consider online video services to be their main way of watching TV and film.
Yih-Choung Teh, group director for strategy and research at Ofcom, says a move away from traditional TV could mean we watch less home grown content.
The UK’s public service broadcasters – BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and S4C – showed more than 100 times more original, homegrown shows than overseas streaming platforms.
Mr Teh said: “In seven years streaming services like Netflix have grown from nothing to reach half of British homes, but traditional broadcasters still have a vital role to play.
“Our research shows that viewers really value their brilliant UK programmes which the streaming giants struggle to match… viewers tell us that they really love this content as it reflects their lives…and so one concern is that we will see less of that content on our screens unless we look to sustain that and the benefits of it in the future.”
Another concern is that online viewing habits could make it harder for parents to control screen time.
For the first time young people now spend more than an hour on YouTube a day.
Ms Turner said: “I let (my son) use YouTube in his room on my account so I know what he’s watching, but online streaming is always going to be a concern for parents… you just have to limit it I think every day if they have too much then their brains will just go to mush.”
Irish vloggers the Saccone Joly family have nearly two million followers on their YouTube channel.
The family of six (and six dogs) post videos online of their everyday lives, and father Jonathan says online streaming has changed their lives.
Mr Saccone Joly said: “Overall with our Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, we have a reach of over 8 million.
“It’s crazy you know and somehow we picked up four children and six dogs along the way as well… for ten years we’ve been making YouTube content so we’ve seen from when YouTube was a platform for filming cats to turn into a huge thing.
“We watch traditional shows that everyone else watches, but how we consume them is that we watch them on a smart TV or we watch on apps, we don’t actually have connection to a TV service here but we do watch those things on the internet… with our children they watch iPads a lot, they watch smart TV, they’re pretty much the same things that’s on traditional TV but they watch it on different devices, so I don’t think the future is no more TV – it’s just a different way of viewing it.”
BBNaija organisers have added another twist in the ‘Pepper Dem’ edition. The host of the Big Brother show, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, made the announcement on Monday night.The housemates were divided into two different teams named ‘The Icons’ and ‘Cruisetopia’ to compete in Big Brother Naija challenges rather than being nominated for eviction as usual. They were made to pick one armband from a drum that contained red and green armbands after which, they were asked to wear it and proceed promptly to the box with the matching colour of the armband. This new twist means all the housemates will henceforth play all the Big Brother Naija games in their selected Teams. ‘Team Cruisetopia’ consists of Diane, Esther, Gedoni, Jackye, Joe, Mercy, Mike, Seyi, Venita while ‘The Icons’ are Cindy, Elozonam, Enkay, Frodd, Ike, Khafi, Omashola, Sir Dee and Tacha.The housemates are not allowed to change camps and team challenges will be designed to reward the winning team and punish the losing team. ‘Pepper Dem’ housemates will no longer have the usual nomination process of putting up fellow housemates up, instead they will be having nomination challenges.
He had been drinking with family and friends to celebrate his engagement to fellow Emmerdale star Laura Norton.
Emmerdale star Mark Jordon has been cleared of attacking a pensioner after an argument in a beer garden.
The actor said he was looking forward to getting his career back on track after the ruling at Minshull Street Crown Court, where a jury found him not guilty of affray, unlawful wounding and assault by beating.
During the seven-day trial at the court in Manchester, the jury was told how the 54-year-old bit Andrew Potts, 68, after a row broke out at the Farrars Arms pub in Oldham on 1 July last year.
He had been drinking with family and friends to celebrate his engagement to fellow Emmerdale star Laura Norton, but drama erupted when Mr Potts’ partner, Rosalind O’Neill, insulted Jordon’s daughter.
She was claimed to have called Poppy, 18, a “s***”.
In CCTV footage shown in court, Jordon could be seen having to be held back from Mr Potts, who said the soap star had screamed: “I’ll f****** kill you, you old b******.”
Jordon claimed he was trying to grab a phone from Mr Potts, who claimed he had video of Poppy which he would post to YouTube.
Jordon, who plays Daz Spencer in the ITV show, denied a claim by Mr Potts that he had been taking cocaine and said a punch from the pensioner had made his nose bleed.
The jury was told that Mr Potts and Ms O’Neill left the venue after the altercation, but were later confronted by Jordon as he got out of a taxi.
Mr Potts said he “growled like a mad dog” before pushing Ms O’Neill to the floor and biting him on the thumb and face, but the actor said he bit him in self-defence as he had been attacked first.
The court heard how he suffered a fractured wrist as a result of being kicked by Mr Potts.
Jordon said: “It was not planned. It was pure instinct.”
The jury heard Mr Potts received £400 for two stories about the incident which appeared in The Sun , but he denied “boasting” that he might make £20,000 from the case.
He hugged his fiancee, who plays Kerry Wyatt in the soap, outside the courtroom after being cleared and thanked his legal team, the judge and the jury.
He also thanked his friends, family and colleagues, with several of his co-stars including Nick Miles and Sammy Witward appearing in the public gallery during the trial to support him.
“I really am grateful to the jury for proving my innocence and especially for proving the innocence of my loved ones, who’ve had to endure this awful ordeal with me this last year,” he added.
“I’m looking forward to getting back to our engagement and my career, which has been on hold.”
Jordon’s character was last seen in the soap back in January, when he moved away from the village to begin a new life in London.
A Emmerdale spokesman declined to comment on the verdicts but said there were “no current plans” for the character to return.
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