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TWO girls, both 12, have been struck by a van in a horror crash – with an air ambulance scrambled.
A blue Transit van hit the two girls in Newport in south Wales at around 7.45pm last Friday.
The van’s driver allegedly left the scene on Bridge Street near the city’s train station but has since been identified, cops said.
Both girls were raced to hospital after an air ambulance landed at the scene.
Their injuries from the smash are not believed to be life-changing or life-threatening.
Anyone with information is asked to call Gwent Police on 101 quoting log reference 2400412275.
The force said: “We received a report of a road traffic collision on Bridge Street, Newport at around 7.45pm on Friday 13 December.
“Officers attended along with paramedics from the Welsh Ambulance Service and the Welsh Air Ambulance.”
A spokesperson added: “The collision involved a blue Transit van and two pedestrians.
“The pedestrians, two 12-year-old girls, were taken to hospital for treatment.
“The driver of the van reportedly left the scene but has since been identified.
“Enquiries are ongoing and anyone with information is asked to contact us quoting log reference 2400412275.”
FROM bursting onto the scene at the World Championship to becoming a millionaire, Luke Littler has enjoyed a stunning 2024.
When the teen sensation made his Ally Pally debut almost a year ago, beating Christian Kist 3-0, nobody would have predicted his remarkable rise.
Littler banked £200,000 for losing in last year’s final to Luke Humprhies and has continued pocketing huge cheque since.
His 2024 prize money currently stands at £1,028,500.
An incredible £633,500 comes from ranking events and it includes the £15,000 he has got for appearing at the World Championship this year.
Winning the invitational Premier League and World Series of Darts banked him the other £395,000.
Lots of the cash already in his hands have come from the ten titles he has won this season.
To list them all, he has the crowns for the Premier League, Grand Slam, World Series, Bahrain Masters, Poland Masters, Austrian Open, Belgian Open, and three Players Championships.
It has been non-stop winning for Littler, in fact, the Nuke has sealed victory in 145 of 189 games played.
There has been five nine-darters and 800 maximums in PDC matches across the year.
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Unsurprisingly, that is the highest amount of 180s hit by any player.
Humphries is next on that list with 671.
Littler averages 99.26 throughout matches in 2024.
And his best came against Damon Heta at the Czech Darts Open when he recorded an insane average of 116.51.
If he can bring that form to Ally Pally, it will be tough to stop the 17-year-old from winning the Sid Waddell Trophy and putting £500,000 in his pocket.
STRICTLY Come Dancing champ Dianne Buswell gave fans a glimpse of her huge Brighton mansion after scooping the Glitterball trophy.
The Aussie, 35 – who triumphed in Saturday’s show finale with celebrity partner Chris McCausland, 47 – lives in a massive £3.5million pad complete with a home gym.
It was Dianne‘s first BBC One show win and the pair also made history with Chris being the first blind contestant to scoop the title.
With her hectic Strictly training routine now over for the year, Dianne has been eager to hunker down in the Sussex countryside.
She clutched her Glitterball trophy as she struck a pose in her huge hallway, which was adorned with celebratory balloons, glitterballs and a 2024 winner banner.
Fairy lights had been attached to the modern glass-walled staircase while a huge Christmas tree could be seen behind her in the open plan living space.
Dianne stood on a snug rug at the centre of the wood-floored room which featured a large pine cabinet.
At the top of the stairs, white walls give a fresh appearance while a modern piece of art showed Dianne and Joe enjoying a kiss.
The happy couple – who met on Strictly – then posed for a cute picture looking up at their decorations.
The duo have been in a long-term relationship for six years, after they met on set in 2018.
They now share the stunning home, fit with a handy home-gym and luxurious decor, which set them back a cool £3.5M.
With chic interior throughout, the home boasts a contemporary neutral colour palette with an array of comforting textures like fur chairs, a natural rug and soft couches.
In the living room, the scene is set with a crackling open-fire and a large flat screen TV, with a plush sofa for guests to lounge on.
Above the dining table, Joe and Dianne have made sure they don’t miss a thing and have included an atmospheric, modern chandelier above a large solid wood table, with room for nine guests.
At every corner there are thoughtful decorations and soft furnishings like an incense burner, house plants and draped throws.
Strictly first kicked off back in 2004, and over the years has crowned 21 winners.
Here is a full list of who has been lucky enough to win the famous Glitterball Trophy:
The show-stopper of the mansion though, has to be their at home gym.
Posing in the work-out spot, Dianne showed off a state of the art squatting rack fit with a selection of weights and accessories.
The gym is also kitted out with a variety of free weights, yoga matts and a flat-screen TV.
Joe and Dianne’s multi-million pound house was owned by Brighton and Hove Albion football player Lewis Dunk, 31.
Lewis, 31, bought the sprawling West Sussex property for £787,500 in 2016, and listed it last year for £3.5 million, reports the MailOnline.
THE battle between the Buffalo Bills and New England Patriots has been moved to a national TV spot on Sunday afternoon.
The AFC East Game in Buffalo has been flexed into the 4.25pm ET slot by the NFL, having been originally pencilled in for 1pm ET.
The decision comes after the Bills ended the Detroit Lions‘ 11-game winning streak with an incredible 48-42 win on Sunday.
Moving the game will likely see the game between the San Francisco 49ers and Miami Dolphins moved to regional broadcasters.
The announcement also means that the AFC North clash between the Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals has been moved from Fox to CBS – that will stay in its 1pm ET timeslot.
Week 16 will see two games on Saturday with four of the AFC’s top teams all meeting in what will be a big day in the playoff race, while the Denver Broncos and Los Angeles Chargers meet on Thursday Night Football.
The Houston Texans and Kansas City Chiefs go head-to-head at 1pm ET on NBC, before the Pittsburgh Steelers attempt to seal the AFC North title against the Baltimore Ravens at 4.30pm on Fox.
Bills fans had a scary moment on Sunday afternoon when star quarterback Josh Allen took a hit.
He was sent for an X-ray for a potential shoulder injury after the game, but later confirmed he was fine.
After the game, Allen said: “Just took a funky fall. More peace of mind than anything.”
Head coach Sean McDermott confirmed the good news on Monday, adding: “Josh is all good.
“He had some of those tests after the game. He’s all good.”
Allen is the frontrunner for the MVP race with 25 passing touchdowns and 11 rushing TDs – adding two of each against the Lions.
He has three games to four total touchdowns to reach 40 combined for the fifth consecutive year.
Allen is already the only player in NFL history to do it in four straight seasons.
The Patriots slipped to 3-11 after a 30-17 loss to the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday.
Quarterback Drake Maye said: “Yes, it is definitely deflating.
“You want to get down there and put the defense in a good spot, get some points on the board and get down there and stall out.
“Getting a holding call, which you have to look back. I think it was a holding, I’m not sure what penalty it was, but some unfortunate things happened the whole game really.
“They had a basically a video game, Madden like touchdown in the corner of the end zone, the lineman falling on it.
“They had the interception that was a questionable call, but the refs called it.
“We have to live with it on the interception that we had.
“At the end of the day, I don’t think really any of that matters. I think we just have to execute better.
“Not let those things kind of just decide the game.”
STOCKING up your cleaning caddy can often set you back significantly but it doesn’t have to break the bank.
A Dollar Tree shopper shared the range she came across that leaves surfaces sparkling and your home smelling amazing.
In her viral video, TikTok user Kayla (@kaylaasmothers) showed her followers the budget-friendly cleaning products she picked up.
“Dollar Tree is straight up killing it and I swear if I share this with you guys and I can’t find it because it sells out, I’m going to be so sad,” she told her audience.
However, the TikToker added that the new brand is “too good not to share.”
While she pointed out that the range “doesn’t actually have a name,” Kayla held up each of her buys for her viewers to see.
First, she showed off the multi-surface wipes, which she picked up in a tub but that also come in “baby wipe packaging.”
According to the packaging, the tube includes 30 cleaning wipes.
The Dollar Tree fan also held up a spray bottle, which she explained was a granite and marble cleaner.
However, Kayla revealed that she has used the product on a most of the surfaces in her home.
“I’ve literally used it for everything because it smells so good,” she said.
She also pointed out that the range also includes a scented dish soap.
And no matter what your personal preference is, they probably have it in stock.
“The dish soap makes me actually want to dishes because it smells fantastic and actually works,” Kayla said.
She opted for a scent that left her house smelling festive for the holiday season.
“I got the peppermint sage, it is so good, I am obsessed,” she explained.
“They also had a lavender and a couple of other scents but I’m a peppermint girly.”
Despite the name of the store, Dollar Tree recently added items that cost more than $1 to its inventory.
Most items at the store cost no more than $1.25, but items in the Dollar Tree Plus section cost up to $5.
Dollar Tree introduced Plus aisles to 100 locations in 2019 as part of an effort to diversify its products.
By 2022, Dollar Tree had added the items to over 1,500 locations.
“We believe testing additional price points above $1 for Dollar Tree products will enable us over time to expand our assortments, introduce new products and meet more of our customers’ everyday needs,” president and CEO Michael Witynski said in a statement.
“Our brand promise is that customers get great value for what they spend at Dollar Tree. We will continue to be fiercely protective of that promise, regardless of the price point.”
She joked that the scent was so nice that it “actually makes me want to clean.”
“It makes my house smell so good and any surface, the smell actually stays for a good while,” Kayla added.
The TikToker pointed out that the scent usually doesn’t linger for long with other cleaning products.
She revealed that each of the products only cost her $1.25.
“I have used all three of these the past two days and have fell in love,” she concluded.
A FORMER NBA player shared a somber final video days before he was found dead in Russia on his ex-wife’s birthday.
The body of Janis Timma, 32, was uncovered on the entrance stairway of a high-rise residential complex in central Moscow on Tuesday.
In an Instagram post shared five days before his death, Timma records a short clip of himself shooting jump shots outside in the pouring rain.
Timma did not caption the post but added the song Boombastic by Jamaican reggae artist Shaggy in the background.
“Boombastic, Tell me fantastic, touch me on the back, She says I’m Mr. Ro-Mantic,” the lyrics in Timma’s video say.
An official cause of death for Timma, who played on the Orlando Magic‘s Summer League squad before the start of the 2021-2022 NBA season, has not been determined.
However, a preliminary cause of death has been ruled as suicide.
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A HARROWING timelapse has exposed the devastating transformation of a once-unremarkable site near Damascus into one of Syria’s largest mass graves.
It was at the site in Al-Qutayfah where tens of thousands of bodies are believed to have been buried under Bashar al-Assad’s barbaric regime.
The Al-Qutayfah mass grave, located 50 kilometres northeast of the capital, reveals chilling evidence of the systematic disappearance of Assad’s perceived enemies during the height of the civil war.
Before the outbreak of war in 2011, Al-Qutayfah appeared to be nothing more than open land.
But satellite imagery and witness testimonies suggest the site became a graveyard of atrocities as early as 2012.
By 2013, long trenches — up to 50 meters in length — were dug under strict military supervision, hidden from the public eye.
And over the next several years, refrigerated trucks carrying bodies began arriving under the cover of darkness, dumping human remains into these pits.
Eyewitnesses described horrifying scenes.
Mohammad Abou al-Bahaa, a teacher performing military service in Al-Qutayfah, recalled the “worst smell you could ever smell” emanating from the area.
Soldiers told him it was from “carcasses,” though it quickly became clear these were human bodies, victims of detention centre torture, disease, and execution.
“I would see refrigerated trucks filled with bodies, some in plastic bags and others uncovered,” he told The Times.
One local told Channel 4 News of when he saw a female gymnast among the dead, still wearing her sports clothes, moments before she was buried.
Another, meanwhile, recounted how the fire brigade was once called to thaw over 100 bodies that had frozen together, enabling soldiers to separate and bury them.
“Blood would be pouring out the bottom of the trucks,” said a gravedigger near the site.
For years, civilians were forbidden from approaching the area, their questions silenced by threats.
The timelapse shows how the grave expanded dramatically between 2013 and 2015.
Historic satellite images reveal the creation of a 10-acre burial site, which was later surrounded by high walls and bulldozed to erase evidence.
In recent years, the area has been repurposed as a Hezbollah base, with army vehicles and communication equipment scattered across the grounds.
And beneath it, an unthinkable number of bodies remain abandoned and unidentified.
Mouaz Moustafa, executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, told Channel 4 News: “Where are the forensic teams? Where are the experts to exhume and identify the remains? My friends and even family members could be buried here.”
Al-Qutayfah is not the only location to bear witness to the regime’s mass killing.
The nearby Adra graveyard, located in a Damascus suburb, tells a similarly grim story.
The mass burial ground was constructed following the United States’ infamous “red line” warnings in 2014.
In response to Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapon attacks on civilians, President Barack Obama declared that further use of such weapons would trigger military intervention.
Yet, weeks after Assad’s supposed renunciation of chemical weapons, satellite imagery reveals the construction of Adra’s purpose-built mass grave began in July 2014.
Rows of meticulously planned trenches and roads designed for body-filled lorries soon appeared, suggesting a chilling level of organisation.
The burial site, located near a government office, expanded systematically over the years, with grave lines appearing in successive satellite images until as recently as 2021.
The timing of the site’s construction coincided with Assad’s contested election victory, which saw his third presidential term inaugurated on July 16, 2014.
At the time, the international community widely condemned the election as illegitimate.
William Hague, then British Foreign Secretary, remarked: “Assad lacked legitimacy before this election, and he lacks it afterwards. This election bore no relation to genuine democracy.”
Despite the regime’s claims of normalcy, Adra’s graveyard became yet another tool of mass terror.
Witnesses interviewed by ITV say that the bodies buried at the site belonged to civilian victims of the Assad regime.
Blood-streaked trucks delivered corpses under the watchful eyes of soldiers, mirroring the practices described at Al-Qutayfa.
The Assad regime’s systematic disposal of bodies reflects the brutal scale of Syria’s conflict.
Of the 136,000 forcibly disappeared Syrians, at least 105,000 remain unaccounted for.
The sites at Al-Qutayfa and Adra represent just a fraction of the fallen regime’s hidden atrocities.
THE “red line” warnings referred to a statement made by U.S. President Barack Obama in August 2012.
During a press conference, he warned that the use or movement of chemical weapons by Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria would cross a “red line” for the United States, potentially triggering military intervention.
The former US President said at the time: “We have been very clear to the Assad regime… that a red line for us is if we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilised.
“That would change my calculus. That would change my equation.”
This warning came as Syria’s civil war intensified and there were growing concerns over Assad’s stockpile of chemical weapons.
However, the “red line” gained global significance in 2013 after the Syrian regime carried out a large-scale chemical attack in Ghouta, a Damascus suburb, killing over 1,000 people, including civilians.
The attack, widely attributed to Assad’s forces, violated international norms and the US red line.
While military intervention appeared imminent in response to the attack, Obama ultimately backed away from strikes, opting instead for a diplomatic solution brokered by Russia.
In the resulting deal, Assad pledged to dismantle his chemical weapons arsenal and allow international inspections.
The agreement, formalised in 2013, was seen as a temporary resolution, though critics argued it emboldened Assad.
By 2014, Assad was still in power, and evidence suggested continued atrocities, including alleged chemical attacks and mass killings.
The “red line” moment became a symbol of perceived US inaction, sparking criticism that it allowed the Syrian regime to continue its brutal crackdown with little consequence.