Murders of Playboy bunny and girl, 16, still unsolved
Buy Now An error occurred. Buy Now An error occurred. Book Novotel Hotel Murders of Playboy bunny and girl, 16, still unsolved Banzai Japan Music Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPElmgQJGBo Half a century after 22-year-old model Eve Stratford was murdered, her friends have never forgotten her – and the police have not identified her killer. Miss Stratford, a Playboy bunny, was discovered dead in her flat in Leyton in March 1975. Her neck had been slashed. The case has also not been closed into a schoolgirl found dead six months afterwards – Lynne Weedon, 16, who was attacked and raped in an alleyway near her home in Hounslow, west London. The murders were linked in 2004 after matching DNA was found on the victims. Book Novotel Hotel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJsGZL-zb54 Singer – and former Playboy bunny – Sheen Doran, now 75, was one of Miss Stratford’s closest friends. She used to stay overnight at the Leyton flat with the model. “Her boyfriend was a singer and we used to go the Royal Standard in Walthamstow to support him.” The Playboy club opened on Park Lane, Mayfair, in 1966, and many of the girls who worked there were singers or aspiring actresses or models. Miss Stratford had started work at the club in 1973, and Ms Doran in 1974. Banzai Japan Music Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3syHHGzkF_s “It was very good money, but very hard work. “You are a glorified waitress. You had to stand for 10 hours in heels. But we felt safe on the job. “We had room managers and no one was allowed to touch us. “We even had families there in the daytime. I used to sit with the children and draw. We were a lovely bunch of girls, we stuck by each other and we all got on.” In March 1975 Miss Stratford had been Girl of the Month on the front cover of Mayfair magazine, an adult magazine for men. Police later concluded that the magazine cover had likely enticed her killer. Ms Doran was on Oxford Street when she found out Miss Stratford had been murdered. “I was with another bunny friend when we saw the Evening Standard poster saying ‘Bunny Girl Dead’. “We ran straight from Oxford Circus to the Playboy Club and into the bunny mother’s office.” Miss Stratford had been murdered after walking home from Leytonstone Tube station at about 15:30 after a meeting with her agent. At 16:30, neighbours heard a male and female voice and then a loud thud. At 17:20 her boyfriend returned – to find her dead. The Metropolitan Police confirmed to the BBC that Eve Stratford and Lynne Weedon’s murder are still live investigations. Det Ch Insp Ali Foxwell, of the Specialist Crime Command, is leading the investigation. The force said since this is a live investigation, “it would be inappropriate to provide a running commentary” and the Met “does not identify any person who may, or may not be, subject to an investigation”. There is no evidence to link the two murders to any other historic case. Ms Doran and three other former “bunnies” have sent flowers to Miss Stratford’s grave on the anniversary of her death – and plan to commemorate her memory together. She left Playboy after her friend’s murder. She said it was “too much” for her. Fifty years on, she added, “It still is”. Book Novotel Hotel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR8YYeb4PMk Banzai Japan Social Media Fumi Fujisaki Idol Riko Ueno Idol Rino Ibusuki Idol Yunagi Nino Idol Shiori Fujisaki Idol Kana Ichinose Idol Hoshino Arice Idol Sasa Sasagawa Idol Kosaka Yuu Idol Tsukumo Aira Idol Maika Ando Idol Yuuki Mochimaru Idol
Twenty-nine councillors defect to Reform UK
Buy Now An error occurred. Buy Now An error occurred. Book Novotel Hotel Twenty-nine councillors defect to Reform UK Banzai Japan Music Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPElmgQJGBo Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has welcomed 29 councillors who have defected to his party in recent weeks from parties including the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. It takes the party’s total number of council seats to more than 100. Speaking at a press conference in Westminster, Farage said the defections demonstrated how his party was “broadening and deepening”. However, it comes as some Reform members are expressing concern about the party’s leadership and the suspension of MP Rupert Lowe from the party. On Sunday, Maria Bowtell, a councillor on East Riding of Yorkshire Council, quit the party. She accused, external the leadership of “a lack of integrity and resolve” and said the treatment of Lowe had been “the final straw”. Farage acknowledged that his party had experienced a “little bit of turbulence” over the past few weeks. He said the suspension of Lowe had caused “consternation” adding: “Any argument that’s seen to happen within the family does, but I can promise you that in terms of our progress and our planning, that upset is very much at the edges.” Book Novotel Hotel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJsGZL-zb54 Lowe, the MP for Great Yarmouth, was suspended by the party and referred to police over allegations he made “threats of physical violence” against party chairman Zia Yusuf. The party also said it had received allegations of bullying in Lowe’s parliamentary and constituency office. Lowe has said the party’s allegations are “untrue and false”. He argued he had been suspended for criticising Farage in a newspaper interview. Addressing the row, Farage said: “We’ve been increasingly concerned about the behaviour of one of our members of Parliament, and when we found out that some serious complaints have gone in, we thought, you know what, let’s just suspend the whip and let’s find out what the truth is, and we will wait.” He said the report they had commissioned into to the allegations could be completed this week. Farage also criticised “the online abuse and frankly outright racism” directed at Yusuf in recent weeks. Banzai Japan Music Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3syHHGzkF_s He said the public spat with Lowe would not “put a dent” in Reform UK’s electoral chances, as the party gears up for local elections on 1 May. “We’re going to be out there canvassing, campaigning, and doing our best to prove that the polls aren’t virtual, actually, the real votes exist out there on the ground.” The party has said it plans to stand in all the council seats that are due to hold elections in May. Of Reform UK’s 113 councillor seats, 15 have been won through elections, including seven from Labour and four from the Conservatives. The remaining 98 seats have turned Reform UK through defections – 62 of those defections have happened since the beginning of the year. The majority of the defections (66) were originally elected as Conservative councillors. Three came from Labour and one came from the Liberal Democrats. The rest were independent councillors or came from local parties. Farage has previously spoken about his aim to “professionalise” Reform UK and the importance of vetting the party’s candidates. Following Monday’s press conference, Farage was questioned about reports, external that in 2022 his party’s head of vetting Jack Aaron had said Adolf Hitler was “brilliant” at inspiring “people into action”. Asked if Reform UK would be investigating the comments, Farage said: “No, don’t be ridiculous. “This is an orthodox Jew who said Hitler was evil but he acknowledged he was very good at getting a crowd.” Questioned about his comments by the Times last year, Aaron said:, external “Yes, Hitler was as brilliant as he was utter evil. How is that controversial to say, given that he was able to turn the Germans to such destructive acts, including killing many members of my own family?” Book Novotel Hotel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR8YYeb4PMk Banzai Japan Social Media Fumi Fujisaki Idol Riko Ueno Idol Rino Ibusuki Idol Yunagi Nino Idol Shiori Fujisaki Idol Kana Ichinose Idol Hoshino Arice Idol Sasa Sasagawa Idol Kosaka Yuu Idol Tsukumo Aira Idol Maika Ando Idol Yuuki Mochimaru Idol
Covid pandemic remembered: ‘Every day was scary’
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I can remember most of the patients, I can remember their faces.” She pauses again. Book Novotel Hotel “I used to come into work one day and it would be one set of patients, then I’d come in the next day and it would be a completely different set of patients… and it wasn’t because they were getting better.” Banzai Japan Music Video Five years on, Laura, who is now 28 and a ward manager on the Rodney Smith Ward at St George’s, has had plenty of time to reflect on her Covid experiences. “So it was scary – every day was scary. I remember having the visor and mask on, and I could just hear my own breath. “It was like when you’re scuba diving and you can just hear your own breath over anything else and that’s what it was like every day when you’d gown up outside the bays.” Laura pauses again. ” But… I mean, yeah… it was… it was one of the hardest times of my life for sure.” The experiences in the first wave of Covid were bad enough but a second wave was to follow. “At the time I did have staff support through the hospital which did help – just someone to vent and cry to – I just remember crying in my first session the whole way through. I didn’t… I didn’t know how to express what I’d been through because it was so difficult.” Laura adds: “You know, everyone had a family member, a friend or someone in their personal life that was going through something to do with Covid. So it was hard to then come home and tell them about all the horrific things you’d been seeing at work.” She says she had a lot of support at home from her parents, and from her friends, but that her colleagues who experienced similar things are the ones who helped her through the most – then and now. Laura did have to take time off work to deal with what she’d been through, but has used her experiences to help staff in her new role as ward manager – telling them it’s “OK not to be OK”, encouraging them to talk, to share. It’s clear though, I say to her, that Covid has never really left her. “Yeah, 100%. I tried to watch a couple of programmes about Covid, and I just can’t watch them at all – it brings all the emotions back – things like the noises, the sounds. “I can’t go over to the wards I was on then. The smells over there and the wards bring everything back and I never thought it would have that effect. Yeah, I definitely still struggle with it and I think about that time all the time.” Dr Nirav Shah, who is now the hospital’s clinical director for adult critical care, was also at St George’s five years ago as the first wave struck. “We changed everything,” he says. The hospital went from about 60 intensive care beds to around 120 at the peak. At one stage there were about 700 patients in the hospital with Covid. “There was a lot more death,” he remembers. “It was also the manner of the deaths. If someone is going to die, we aim to give them a good death. We aim to give them time, we like to make sure family are with them and we can support the family through that period but that was just impossible, particularly in the first wave of Covid – it was so difficult.” But Covid brought lessons, such as new ways to care for patients. Hospitals learned how to work more closely together, to share the overwhelming workload. One example Nirav points to is the new ACCESS system – developed during the pandemic to move critically ill patients between hospitals. It has just completed its 3,000th patient journey in the past three years. When I ask respiratory consultant Dr Jane Evans for her memories, she pauses – like many of the staff BBC London spoke to – because there are mixed memories. Thoughts of the courage shown, the teamwork, the dedication, the exhaustion and the tears. “A lot of us felt lucky,” she says. “We were able to come to work, we were able to feel that we were doing something. But that didn’t detract from how difficult it was to see people get sick.” On one afternoon, she says nine of her patients died. “We saw our colleagues get sick, we saw our friends and family get sick. Some people lost friends and family through this time… and that was really tough. So I think it shows just how the NHS did pull together and did some really amazing things really quickly.” She adds: “There’s a hidden part to it as well – for example, there have been a few television programmes that have highlighted or dramatised the world of Covid, and
Man denies public nuisance over Big Ben climb
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MCM Comic Con adds Nadji Jeter to its London guest lineup
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Firefighters tackle large blaze in Kingston
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St Patrick’s parade and festival set for London
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In Pictures: Holi brings colour to Chalk Farm
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‘Men and boys struggle with emotional literacy’
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Ben believes there is a “real systemic issue” across the UK with how boys, and men, have been socialised to move through and experience the world. He said it is about addressing the “attitudes beneath the behaviour”. Book Novotel Hotel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJsGZL-zb54 The Old Bailey heard Sentamu had a history of aggression towards young people and girls. In her sentencing remarks, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said on Thursday, when he was aged 11, he harmed himself and, unprovoked, assaulted other children at school. She added: “While in foster care you used a knife to threaten a pupil who you thought was mocking you on a school trip. You threatened to stab another student with scissors. On another occasion you assaulted two female pupils at the school.” The court also heard Sentamu had “not had the benefit of a settled and nurturing, childhood and family life”. Banzai Japan Music Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3syHHGzkF_s Ben told BBC Radio London: “My heart breaks for Elianne and the Andam family, that’s a life that’s been cut short, potential that’s wasted that will never be seen. “There’s also some kind of feeling there for Hassan, not in a sense of ‘I wish that hadn’t happened to him’, because we want justice ultimately, but we know the statistics about prisons, which don’t often lead to rehabilitation.” “So the question remains, what happens to this young man who’s done this thing and how do we move forward? Two wasted lives,” he added. Ben believes there are real issues with how boys are able to process situations. He said: “They manifest in a range of different ways and lots of ways that are widely inappropriate – and you add that to the context of sexual harassment, sexual violence, gender-based violence, men’s violence against women and girls, men’s violence against men.” The court heard the day before Sentamu killed Elianne, she and her group had teased him and thrown water over him in an attempt to get him to apologise to his ex-girlfriend. Jurors were told that later that day the teenager had told a friend he felt there had been disrespect shown to him by Elianne and her group. The court heard that Sentamu had called the friend and told him: “I can’t let this slide.” Elianne’s cousin, Reverend Denzil Larbi, told BBC London: “We knew exactly what that meant,” Rev Larbi told BBC London. “We knew it meant he’s going to bring some sort of harm. “I honestly believe if it wasn’t Elianne it would have been someone else, and so yeah, he was looking to bring some sort of revenge that day.” In his victim impact statement, Rev Larbi told Sentamu he had committed “the most monstrous and evil act that is imaginable”. He told BBC London he questioned whether more could have been done to prevent Elianne’s murder. “What would have happened if maybe another male took him by the hand and maybe invested in him and mentored him? “Or if other organisations really took him by the reins and said: ‘Yes, we recognise you’re struggling here, we’re here to listen’. “I really wonder if maybe my cousin would still be here.” Croydon Council said there were no plans for a Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review to examine Sentamu’s care. Rev Larbi said Elianne’s family hope to work with schools to talk to young people about the dangers of carrying a knife. “There are many Hassans just walking around Croydon. Young boys who are angry, young boys who are lost, young boys that want to be listened to. “But I do believe there are great people in our community, great organisations who are in place who can really help and support these young people.” ‘Violent, calculated crimes’ Outside court after the sentencing on Thursday, Pastor Mark Rossell, from New Life church in Croydon, issued a statement on behalf of the family. “Our daughter Elianne Andam was a vibrant, bright and loving innocent 15-year-old with her entire future ahead of her, until it was stolen in the most horrific way. “Brutally killed in broad daylight by a 17-year-old who showed no mercy.” Mr Rossell said the justice system had “failed to reflect the sheer brutality” of Elianne’s killing and that the Andam family were critical of Sentamu’s minimum term, saying it had left them feeling “abandoned and unheard”. He added: “We cannot accept such lenient sentences are appropriate for violent, calculated crimes like this. “The current legal framework does not deter young individuals from committing violent crimes, it does not provide sufficient accountability for those who commit the most heinous acts.” Ben told BBC Radio London the work of Beyond Equality is “preventative”, to have conversations with boys, and men of all ages, before these situations arise. Their aim is to try to address gender equality “through the lens of masculinity”, with an approach that asks the questions, “what is masculinity, how does that feel, do we like it, would we change it if we could?” and to build a picture about stereotypes, norms and the expectations from there. Ben added: “It’s an epidemic – it’s not decreasing, we all need to find a role in this conversation.” Book Novotel Hotel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR8YYeb4PMk
Elizabeth line gets posters to prevent dirt marks
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