3 weeks agoBlogsComments Off on Met Eireann warn ‘unseasonably’ windy conditions with ‘heavy’ rain to batter Ireland before return of drier 21C weather
IRELAND is set for a dull and damp week with plenty of cloud and rain, despite glorious conditions in recent days.
Some drier spells and occasional sunshine will be dotted throughout the week and it will be humid with temperatures remaining in the low 2Os.
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Today will see a wet and cloudy start for most of the country with patchy rain and drizzle across the country.
It will turn drier later on in parts of Connacht and Ulster accompanied by temperatures of 15C to 21C.
Overnight then will see much of the same in a mix of wet and cloudy weather.
It will be a “mild and humid” night with temperatures of 10C to 15C, but some mist patches are expected along southern coasts.
Weighing in on today’s weather outlook Alan O’Reilly of Carlow Weather issued the same mostly bleak forecast.
Posting on X he said: “A cloudy morning but most of showers clearing at present it will be dull with some patchy light showers.”
No real improvement is expected in conditions tomorrow with further cloud and rain to come.
Met Eireann’s Liz Walsh explained: “Variable cloud, some sunshine and well scattered showers for most.
“Although it will become mostly cloudy with patchy drizzle and mist near the south coast for the afternoon.
“Thickening cloud and rain will develop in the southwest and west by evening turning heavy and spreading eastwards later.”
The meteorologist added: “Highs on Wednesday 17C to 22C in mainly light to moderate southerly winds.”
Rain will be heavy overnight on Wednesday but will begin to clear before dawn.
Overnight temperatures down at 9C.
‘STRONG’ GUSTS
Wind will begin to pick up on Thursday, leading in to a blustery couple of days.
Thickening cloud and outbreaks of rain will accompany the “breezy” conditions later in the week.
These outbreaks of rain will continue to push in from the Atlantic towards evening on Thursday.
Much milder amid the “fresh” and “gust” winds with highs of only 18C.
Overnight we can expect more of the same with “heavy” rain falling as cloud continues.
Winds will turn “strong” towards coasts as temperatures struggle to get above 14C.
Hill and costal mist will develop too.
‘LIKELY TURNING WARMER’
And while windy weather will continue into Friday, it is not all bad news.
Alan O’Reilly of Carlow Weather explained it is going to get a little warmer and drier.
Posting on social media he said: “Still a risk of some windy weather Friday along with some heavy rain early in day but could clear for afternoon and evening.
“Weather models not fully in agreement yet on details. Likely turning warmer and humid at same time too.”
Met Eireann are warning of “damp and rather unseasonably windy” conditions across the country.
In Friday’s forecast they explained: “Damp and rather unseasonably windy on Friday with further outbreaks of rain and drizzle, possibly heavy at times in the west and north.
“Drier and brighter intervals will increase towards evening and the fresh to strong and gusty southwesterly winds will gradually ease. Highest temperatures of 17C to 20C.”
POTENTIAL SWITCH
At the moment it appears the weather will improve slightly over the weekend and into next week.
However, there are no guarantees improved conditions will get us back to a dry and scorching heatwave.
Saturday will be much drier aside from the odd shower with 21C temperatures.
However, it will be windy amid sunshine breaks.
And looking ahead Met Eireann said: “Still uncertain, but potentially more cloud and rain spreading from the Atlantic, with the best chance of drier and more settled conditions in the east and southeast.”
Experts have pinpointed the worst of the windsBrian Lawless/PA Wire
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3 weeks agoBlogsComments Off on Dark secrets of ‘UK’s Guantanamo Bay’ where murderers are punished with trips to ‘The Box’ & no inmate has EVER escaped
SOME call it the UK’s Guantanamo Bay, others know it simply as Hellmarsh.
With a level of security second to none, no prisoner has ever successfully escaped from HMP Belmarsh, but now its most chilling secrets can be revealed – from secret hellhole punishment cells to inmates’ brutal games.
PA:Press AssociationThis chilling UK prison has been dubbed the UK’s Guantanamo Bay[/caption]
Charles Bronson, one of the UK’s longest serving inmates, is said to have had his own wing at the prison due to his violent reputationKiller rapist Wayne Couzens has been held at BelmarshMetropolitan Police/PA Wire
Through accounts of daily routines, brutal fights, gang warfare, drug smuggling and moments of unexpected redemption, my new book uncovers the truth about life inside Hellmarsh.
A former inmate told fellow author Emma French and I: “HMP Belmarsh is a brutal place, and every movement around the jail is along long internal walkways. Every move you make is monitored.
“It is run by staff who set examples to instill fear into you. They have a saying: ‘Treat them as you expect to be treated.’
“If you keep your head down, you will be left alone, but if you are rude then they will target you.
“The Ministry of Justice will of course never admit their prison is run on intimidation with a hard line, but it is.
“To be fair to them, as much as I personally am not a fan of Belmarsh, given the serious nature of some of the offenders’ offences, I guess it has to be run in a firm and brutal fashion to keep good order and discipline.”
Belmarsh, in south east London, is the only prison in England and Wales with a “prison within a prison”, otherwise known as the High-Security Unit (HSU).
Surrounded by 20-foot-high concrete walls and monitored by 96 cameras, it’s designed to house some of the most dangerous criminals in the country.
While Belmarsh can hold up to 910 men, just 48 can be confined within the HSU at any given time.
The prison also contains a segregation unit and two notorious cells known as The Boxes. These are bleak, windowless isolation rooms with no beds, sinks or toilets.
Over the years, the HSU has held a chilling mix of IRA bombers, KGB spies, al-Qaeda terrorists and even Charles Bronson, whose violent reputation earned him his own private wing.
Yet, despite its Category A prisoners, Belmarsh also functions as a standard prison. Around one in five inmates is a convicted murderer, yet many others serve time for lesser offences.
How do staff balance handling petty criminals alongside serial rapists, terrorists and gang leaders? And what happens when such high-risk individuals are forced to coexist?
As one former Belmarsh inmate put it: “Over the years, you can be sure that with all the high-profile cases heard at the Central Criminal Court or Woolwich Crown Court, the offenders were detained at HMP Belmarsh.
“Some of whom I have personally met: Mark Dixie (The Sally Anne Bowman case), Steve Wright (The Suffolk Strangler), Stuart Hazell (The Tia Sharp murder in Croydon), Barry George (The Jill Dando case), John Worboys (The Black Cab Rapist).
“Also Wayne Couzens (The Sarah Everard case), Steven Barker (The Baby P case), John Duffy (the 1980s railway killer), Kenny Noye, Ian Huntley (The Soham Murders), and Lea Rusha, Roger Coutts, Stuart Royle, Ermir Hysenaj, and Jetmir Bucpapa, who all pulled the largest cash robbery in UK history – the Securitas robbery in Tonbridge, Kent, in February 2006.”
“Many high-profile cases over the years have had the pleasure of experiencing the harsh regime at HMP Belmarsh.”
RexNo one has ever escaped from the high security prison[/caption]
Former Conservative Cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken served time in Belmarsh and became an unlikely confidante to many lagsJohn Stillwell/PA Wire
‘Many were completely messed up’
Former Conservative Cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken served time in Belmarsh after being convicted of perjury and became something of confidante to many lags.
What really struck Jonathan was their vulnerability.
He explained: “Many were completely messed up. One guy, I found out, should have been released already, but nobody had told him.
“All the time, I felt like I was on the funny farm, yet at the same time, people confided in me.
“‘Do you think my wife will ever let me back?’ or ‘How will I ever lift up my head again?’
“I was a middle-class bloke, and there was a lot of agony-aunting. But I did feel I was being of some use.”
A prisoner officer warned the ex MP he was to be moved, saying, ‘Aitken, you’re going to Beirut.’
Another inmate warned: “Oh, don’t go to Beirut. That’s where the real hard men are. If you get on the wrong side of them, they’ll crush your balls, mate.”
Aitken added: “I had no idea what he meant. Eventually, I learned Beirut was just B Wing.
“That night, I heard a ritual called ‘doing a quizzy’. Inmates shouted questions across the wing.
“Sometimes they were crude. ‘Who’d like to s**g Officer S?’
Prisoners acting out of turn were sent to ‘The Boxes’Glenn Copus/REX/Shutterstock‘Honour killing’ murderer Mahmod Mahmod made tea for prison officersMetropolitan Police/PA WirePA:Press AssociationRahim Mohammadi had a job handing out milk[/caption]
“Sometimes they were coded messages. ‘Remember to tell the court the car was green.’
“But that night, it was about me. ‘What are we gonna do to him?’
‘Let’s eat his balls!’
‘Let’s give him a good kicking!’
“It was nasty. They were high on drugs, but it was still terrifying. The threats felt real, and I took them seriously.
“I have never felt more lonely, frightened or vulnerable. I knelt and tried to say a prayer, but I was too scared.”
Prison jobs for monsters
In Belmarsh’s jail within a jail, anti-Isis or anti-Islamic inmates have to be separated from Islamic prisoners for fear of reprisals
Some prisoners are allowed to work at Belmarsh. Ex prisoner Mike observed that in his experience, some of the best prison jobs went to the worst people.
He revealed: “The honour killing. The guy who put his daughter in a suitcase. He made tea for the prison officers at Belmarsh. Some multiple murderers, horrible human beings, get privileges like that.”
He’s talking about the case of Mahmod Mahmod, who orchestrated the murder of his own daughter with accomplices including her uncle.
Mike recalled another depraved murderer having a degree of responsibility in Belmarsh, too.
He said: “The Colindale killer has a funny eye. He had a job giving out milk. He killed a woman on an allotment because he wanted to run the allotment.”
Mike is referring to Rahim Mohammadi, who strangled 80-year-old widow Lea Adri-Soejoko with a lawnmower cable in February 2017 at an allotments plot in London.
I have never felt more lonely, frightened or vulnerable. I knelt and tried to say a prayer, but I was too scared.
Jonathan Aitken
One ex-inmate of several prisons described the exercise yard at Belmarsh as “small and secure, nowhere near the boundary fence.
“No spur (wing) mixes with another spur on exercise. The surrounding fence and wall are huge with razor wire running around the top, CCTV watching your every move.
“If you stop and bend down to pick something up off the floor you are challenged there and then.
“This is even after the exercise yard was previously checked and searched by staff prior to the inmates even going out on the yard.
“I guess a testament to their paranoid security measures. There are posters on the walls throughout the prison warning staff. They state, ‘Believe nothing, check everything, keep calm and carry on.’”
Former officer Nik said of the meals served up: “The food was grim. But sometimes we ate it. Some of the curries were actually okay.”
Inside Belmarsh: Banged Up in Britain’s Toughest Prison by Jonathan Levi and Emma French is published on July 3.
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A QUARTET of bombshells has landed in the famous villa, with the impact already being felt by the OGs.
Among them is Caprice Alexandra — here’s everything we know about her.
Shutterstock EditorialCaprice Alexandra is a new Love Island star[/caption]
InstagramShe’s a nursery owner from Romford[/caption]
InstagramCaprice says she won’t be taking any ‘prisoners’ on the show[/caption]
She describes herself as “high maintenance” and is happy to be that way.
Caprice says she is “very particular about everything” and embraces her personality fully.
She won’t hesitate when it comes to breaking up a couple if necessary, saying: “It’s going to come naturally. I take no prisoners.”
Her main goal on the show is to find a serious, mature relationship — or possibly even “a ring”.
Caprice said: “The streets are cold. The next person I bring home needs to be my husband.”
She’s looking for what she describes as “’90s era love”, adding: “A lot of men are quite sassy in this generation. I just want someone that’s going to treat me well.”
Caprice’s dream man would be “obsessed” with her, as well as being “a good listener and funny”.
And on how she’ll behave , Caprice plans to just be herself on Love Island, which “could be really chilled and cool, calm and collected, or really funny and outgoing”.
Caprice appears to be another travel bunny — her Instagram is filled with curvy bikini snaps from destinations including Mauritius and Morocco.
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UP to 11 passengers and crew fell ill with food poisoning on a nine-hour Air India flight from London.
Passengers said they felt dizzy and nauseous on the hellish flight to Mumbai on Monday.
Up to 11 passengers and crew fell ill with food poisoning on a nine-hour Air India flight
Air India confirmed the incident but said just five passengers and two crew members were ill.
But earlier eyewitness accounts suggested as many as 11 people, including six crew, were affected.
Air India said in a statement to Hindustan Times: “On board flight AI-130 from London Heathrow to Mumbai, five passengers and two crew reported feeling dizzy and nauseous during different phases of the flight.
“Our medical experts were prepared to offer prompt medical aid after the airplane safely touched down in Mumbai.
“Two passengers and two cabin staff members who were still feeling ill after landing were brought to the hospital room for additional testing before being released. We have informed the regulator and are looking into the incident.”
The Boeing 777 landed safely in Mumbai, with medical teams on standby.
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