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A tradie has gone into hiding owing hundreds of thousands of dollars to banks and finance companies and leaving the home of a 93-year-old grandmother unfinished. Sam Capper ran CM Contracting with his girlfriend Teau McKenzie, a former pageant winner and Olympian, in the Cook Islands but fled back home to New Zealand after complaints emerged of incomplete houses. Emerar Crummer, 93, and her daughter Jacki Brown were building their dream home on the island of Rarotonga. Ms Crummer wanted to be able to sit in her living room and look at her father's grave, Stuff reported. Beauty queen Teau McKenzie kisses her boyfriend Sam Capper. The couple own CM Contracting which owes hundreds of thousands of dollars  McKenzie won Miss Grand Cook Islands in 2018 and competed in the Rio Olympics in 2016 They paid CM Contracting $162,000, but after five weeks of building, construction stopped earlier this year. Ms Brown was forced to re-purchase the materials and pay more … [Read more...] about Tradie goes into hiding after fleeing the Cook Islands owing hundreds of thousands of dollars and leaving pensioner’s home unfinished

Ukraine fears that Russia could – by making use of its representatives in international observation missions – interfere with the presidential elections scheduled for March 31. Kyiv believes it's possible that Russian election observers, in particular, could become a "weak spot" when they supervise the voting process and vote count. For this reason, Parliament on Thursday passed a law which bans Russian nationals from taking part in the planned election observation mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The law stipulates that citizens of a country that has been classified as an "aggressor state" by Ukraine's parliament cannot be employed as observers – neither in the Ukraine presidential elections in spring, nor in the Ukraine parliamentary elections in autumn. Kyiv has categorized the Russian Federation as an "aggressor state" – due to Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula, which was against … [Read more...] about Ukraine aims to ban Russian election observers

The National Television Awards 2020 return in January and voting is open so you can decide who walks away with the trophies. From casting a vote for your favourite telly presenter to the top soap, it's the fans who get first say on the winners. There are plenty of family faces in the NTA s long list, with Ant & Dec going head-to-head with Holly Willoughby, Caroline Flack and Piers Morgan for the Best Presenter trophy. The Talent Show category features some new additions after Simon Cowell rolled out new versions of old favourites. Britain's Got Talent will do battle with new version, Britain's Got Talent: Champions, while the updated Celebrity X Factor also landed a nod. Fans can vote for free online , and it closes on Octoboer 25, 2019. Here's the full list TV PRESENTER Adam Hills Alesha Dixon Alex Jones Alexander Armstrong Ant & Dec Ben Shephard Bradley Walsh Caroline Flack Claudia Winkleman Davina McCall Dermot O'Leary Emma Willis Fiona Bruce Freddie Flintoff Gary … [Read more...] about National Television Awards 2020: Full NTAs nominations from Ant and Dec to Love Island

The book I am currently readingThings to Make and Break by May-Lan Tan is one of the strongest short story collections I’ve read in ages – sharp, strange and crystalline. I’m alternating it with The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, to remind me of what the best speculative fiction can do. The book that changed my lifeBluets by Maggie Nelson, a series of vignettes loosely based around the colour blue. I like work that plays with genre. Is Bluets poetry, memoir, essay? Who knows – it’s just brilliant. The book I wish I’d writtenMorvern Callar by Alan Warner. It’s chilling and darkly funny and the film soundtrack (lifted from the book) is brilliant. I’m very into unlikable heroines. The book that most influenced my writingThe Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter – I read it in my teens, and I remember feeling startled and amazed by it. It presses the mundane up against the magical, all wrapped up in dreamlike prose. The book I think … [Read more...] about Sophie Mackintosh: ‘There is a special place in my heart for Danielle Steel’

The camp outside of the city of Velika Kladusa in Bosnia and Herzegovina is growing every day. Its inhabitants: men, women, and children taking the new Balkan route as refugees in search of safety and security in Europe. Here their lodgings consist of improvised tents at best, but more often than not, the only "roof" over their heads is a thin plastic tarp supported by sticks.  When it rains, the camp gets particularly bad: wet tents and mud everywhere. "This is not a refugee camp," Kasim from Pakistan said. "It was good in Serbia. We had food and received clothing and good tents there. Here, we have nothing." Changed route The former "Balkan route" used to lead from Greece through Macedonia and Serbia to Croatia or Hungary. Since early 2018, however, there has been a new route. Because the Serbian border with EU countries is practically impassable now, refugees are trying to reach Croatia via Bosnia and Herzegovina instead. They are currently concentrated in two … [Read more...] about Refugees on new Balkan route stuck in limbo