Jessica Wright and Ricky Rayment, 20, finally agree to make things official as their relationship heats up in the Spanish sun.
The TOWIE lovebirds have been flirting and dating for weeks, but Jess, 26, refused to fully admit her feelings for her toyboy ... until now.
Meanwhile Sam Faiers and Joey Essex, both 21, are looking just as loved-up as ever.
The couple, who got together at the end of the last series, are getting more and more serious by the day and couldn't look happier as they stroll arm in arm in Marbs.
And if that isn't enough romance, Lucy Mecklenburgh, 21, and Mario Falcone are seen getting ENGAGED on the trip.
Mario, 24, pops the question during a romantic cruise off the coast of the Spanish resort.
But it isn't all sweet nothings on the ITV2 show, James 'Arg' Argent, who was seen smooching co-star Gemma Collins, 31, in the last episode of the series, reveals the pair are just "good friends".
He plays down their kiss telling pals Joey, James 'Diags' Bennewith and Tom Pearce: "Me and Gemma are good friends."
And a snap Arg, 24, posted on Twitter yesterday of the pair in Marbs, seems to confirm they are very close mates.
He uploaded the pic of Gemma cuddling up to him on a boat with the caption: "Bigger is beautiful haha! Miss my @missgemcollins Wouldn't change a thing about her! #HolidayBlues."
Things are also looking a little less rosy for besotted Tom P, who is desperate to make a proper go of things with Lauren Pope, but she isn't so keen.
The 28-year-old tells him: "I think how it is right now is good... it works."
Wanting more, Tom asks: "Are you saying that’s all it’s every going to be?"
Lauren, who is worried about their age gap, swerves the question, simply replying: "You’re 22, why are you looking so far ahead?"
Meanwhile the other Tom, Tom Kilbey, is forced to have a difficult conversation with ex Billi Mucklow on the trip.
Billi, 24, admits: "It’s just strange, because the last time we were out here – I was with you."
Tom K, who is now dating their co-star Lydia Bright, says: "You're right. it is weird, even sitting here with Lydia and you."
Billi, who is best pals with Tom's sister Cara, then asks: "So have you traded me in for a younger model or something?"
To which Tom K, 21, replies: "You two are different though aren't you. Are you alright with it though? Tell me."
Tom adds: "Well it's fine if we can talk and laugh about it now - no?"
Billi confesses: "I don’t know if I’d laugh at it yet but I’ll get over it. It’s not funny yet."
But co-star Chloe Simms, 30, isn't letting love woes ruin her holiday, declaring she's happier being single.
She tells Lauren P: "I feel like I met the love of my life in my past and I don’t think anyone else is going to be able to top him.
"So now I’m just chilling – I’ve got Pops (Lauren), she’s the new love of my life."
Despite their relationship ups and downs, the TOWIE lot are always in the mood for a party.
And rapper Tinchy Stryder is on hand to join in the fun at a champagne spray party.
The Only Way Is Marbs airs tomorrow night at 10.00pm on ITV2.
Source: www.thesun.co.uk
Food bank in appeal for more groceries to feed local people in need - this is plymouth
A FOOD bank which has helped 350 people this year is appealing for people to donate groceries this weekend.
A collection has been arranged this Saturday at Morrisons Supermarket Liskeard from 10am to 4pm to gather food for the Liskeard/Looe Food bank.
At the last collection local people donated just under a tonne of food - most of which has now been donated to local people in short term need.
Local Administrator of the Foodbank – Rob Humphreys said: “The Liskeard & Looe Foodbank has already helped 350 local people out of a crisis so far this year and see the problem of poverty continuing and growing. We only give food parcels to clients referred to us by a wide range of local front line agencies, the food itself all coming through public donations and given away free of charge.
"To help replenish our stocks we have another collection day at Liskeard's Morrison's supermarket this Saturday where we hope members of the public can again help with this important relief effort by donating one or two of the items we need. This time we are hoping for donations of tinned meat, fish, fruit, tomatoes and vegetables, along with coffee, chocolate bars and long life milk.
"We are sure the public will help again this Saturday and have been much encouraged by the generosity of the public - including those we have helped in the past returning to donate food themselves once their short term crisis has passed.”
Source: www.thisisplymouth.co.uk
Kent remains on flood alert after heavy overnight rain - Kent Online
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Heavy rain floods a road in Northfleet. Picture: Genny Jones
A weather warning remains in place for Kent today as the River Darent continues to be on flood alert.
Forecasters at the Met Office say they rain will last until at least lunchtime - and some showers could be heavy.
Water levels on the River Darent from Westerham to Dartford - including Otford, Eynsford and South Darenth - remain high after heavy overnight rain.
The Environrment Agency said the flood alert will be in force until at least 3pm.
The Environment Agency has issued 45 flood alerts, with more than 38 in the south east.
Meanwhile, Kent County Cricket club have moved tonight's Friends Life t20 match against Sussex Sharks to the St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury, after flash flooding in Tunbridge Wells.
Motorists are also being told to take extra care on the roads. There were delays on Kent's motorways this morning as traffic was slowed down by heavy spray.
Heavy rain flooded the junction of St Marks Avenue and Beresford Road in Northfleet.
A tree lies in the middle of the River Medway in Maidstone
And a tree ended up in the River Medway, in Maidstone, close to the bridge that is part of the gyratory road system.
The swollen river has claimed part of the footpath near the Kentish Lady mooring.
A fallen tree also blocked The Square, in Hadlow, at about 9am today.
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Judge_Mental wrote:
As the water companies prefer to give dividends to their shareholders rather than building reservoirs and adopting sound water management principles, nature has made its own arrangements for water storage.
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And we are on drought restrictions! come on Southern water/South East water and Thames water stop being greedy, i have so much water stored i won't need to touch the hosepipe this summer at all?
11 Jun 2012 10:29 AM
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First gay couple to become fathers in UK spend £65k to ensure next child is a girl - Daily Mail
- Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow already fathers to four boys and a girl
- Have travelled to the U.S. to seek specialist IVF treatment
- 'We wanted girls to balance our family,' says Tony
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Britain’s first gay fathers have have spent 65,000 travelling to the U.S. so they can undergo IVF treatment which will ensure their next child is a girl.
Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow, from Chelmsford, Essex, hit the headlines 12 years ago when they they became they became the first same-sex couple to be legally recognised in the UK.
They have used a surrogate mother and egg donors to father four boys and a girl, spending more than 1 million in the process, but they are now desperate for another daughter and have looked to overseas fertility specialists so they can choose the baby's sex.
Happy brood: The family laugh while dressing up as the Von Trapps for Closer's Sound Of Music-inspired shoot
It is currently illegal to use IVF in the UK for sex selection purposes other than for medical reasons.
Two weeks ago, three embryos were implanted in a surrogate mother in California that the pair chose to provide their new baby.
Now they are waiting to hear whether she is pregnant with their sixth child.
This time the two men have used a controversial method, costing 65,000 that is allowed in the U.S. but banned in Britain - to make sure the baby will be a girl.
Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow with children (from left) Aspen, Dallas, Saffron, Jasper and Orlando
As three embryos have been used, there is even a chance that the surrogate could give birth to triplet daughters. They already have two sets of twins Aspen and Saffron and Jasper and Dallas.
Barrie, 42, told Closer magazine: 'We would love to have three more girls. Saffron would love to have little sisters to play with.'
The millionaire dad added: 'We can’t wait to spoil our new daughters. I want to buy them pink Prada dresses and babygros.
'We will recycle too. We are going to use Saffron’s old wicker crib from Harrods, which cost 5,000, and divide one of the 100,000 diamond necklaces she does not wear any more into individual pieces for the babies.
'And we want to decorate the nursery as a rainforest!'
Barrie and 47-year-old Tony say that the sex selection technique is only available in the U.S., Mexico, Italy and Thailand.
Tony said : 'If sex selection was not possible, we would still have more children and love them, whatever their gender.
'But the technology is available and we wanted girls to balance our family. It causes outrage but I bet most people would do it.'
Tony added: 'The kids love the idea of getting sisters. They are so close. They are all such different characters, but get along so well.”
Barrie says they will adopt overseas if the current attempt at surrogacy fails to work. Whichever way they achieve their dream of a new daughter, they have promised to spoil the newcomer.
He said: “Saffron’s clothes come from every designer from Gucci and Karen Millen and she has 500 pairs of shoes.
'We spent 50,000 having her room designed like a swanky London flat with a 39-inch plasma TV and furniture from Harrods. The boys are not as bothered about clothes, but we get them the latest iPads and laptops.
The Drewitt-Barlows were the first British homosexual couple to be named on their children's birth certificates
'People say we should not spoil them, but they deserve it.
The pair became famous in 1999 when they became the first British same-sex couple to be named on their children’s birth certificates.
Read the full story in this week’s Closer magazine on sale now
Twins Aspen and Saffronwere born to a surrogate mother in California. After a ruling by an American court, they became the first British children to be registered as having two fathers and no mother.
Four years later, they used the same egg donor and a different surrogate to have Orlando.
In 2010, the couple welcomed their fourth and fifth children, twins Dallas and Jasper, into the world.
They were born to the same surrogate mother who carried Orlando. The couple entered into a civil partnership in 2006.
The couple sold a clinical testing business in 1998 and found themselves swamped by same-sex couples seeking advice. With Tony’s clinical expertise, they set up the British Surrogacy Centre in Maldon, Essex, in February 2011.
Last year, the couple, who have made millions from cosmetic research, were accused of fabricating the test results in clinical trials.
They were also accused of lying to an ethics committee by saying that Barrie was a nurse when he did not hold the appropriate qualifications.
Euroderm Research, which went into liquidation in March 2008, conducted tests for dermatological and cosmetic products. They pleaded not guilty to the allegations.
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
Essex bid to start t20 campaign with a win - East Anglian Daily Times
Greg Smith, who is in a 13-man squad for Essex's match against Surrey and could make his t20 debut for the county.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
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ESSEX Eagles turn their attentions to Friends Life t20 action for the next few weeks starting with a trip to the Kia Oval to face Surrey Lions tomorrow night for their opening match in this year’s competition.
Eagles head coach Paul Grayson has selected a 13-man squad for the match, start 6.30pm, and he is anxious to see his charges commence their South Group qualifying matches with a victory.
“One-day cricket is all about momentum and, obviously, we want to make a good start against Surrey Lions where we have a good record over the years,” he said.
“We know that the South Group is tough and there are some good cricketers in our section but I believe in our lads. We have some excellent players ourselves and if we get some good results early on in the competition, then I believe that there is every chance that we can qualify.
“Last year, we won seven and lost seven plus a couple of games were washed-out so we were inconsistent. Batting will be our strength this year in this format and so we’ve got to be very workmanlike in the way that we bowl. We’ve also got to be smart with our bowling changes and our spin options.
“We feel that we are better prepared this year than we were last year when we came straight off a four-day game and went immediately into the Twenty20 campaign. This time, we’ve had some time to prepare and practise our skills and we are hoping for a big performance on Wednesday night.
“Then we’ve got three matches in as many night next week, so the games come thick and fast and if you do lose a game, you can’t sit around feeling sorry for yourself, you might have to play again the next night.”
Essex will only have one overseas player for the competition despite intense efforts to sign another player to join James Franklin.
“We really tried to get a second overseas player in to join us but we have been let down by a couple of players,” Grayson explained.
“It’s proved a really difficult situation trying to bring someone else in but I’m happy with the squad we’ve got. I would have liked another one-day specialist bowler but we’ll live with that. It means that we’ve got to find a way to bowl well in the format and trust our batsmen to perform more consistently because last year, they didn’t do that.”
History favours for a winning start for the Eagles whose impressive record against Surrey in the FL t20 format includes victories in nine of the 13 matches with only two defeats while the other couple of games were abandoned.
Essex squad: J Foster, J Franklin, M Pettini, T Westley, G Smith, O Shah, R ten Doeschate, A Wheater, G Napier, T Phillips, D Masters, T Mills, M Chambers.
Source: www.eadt.co.uk
Big Brother Ashleigh gives Essex a bad name, says 'TOWIE' Amy Childs - Digital Spy
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Wales floods: Mines pollution fear investigated - BBC News
Scientists are to investigate whether severe flooding near Aberystwyth has contaminated land with harmful metals from abandoned mines.
River banks that have stored toxic metals such as lead, zinc and cadmium for generations, could have been eroded and the toxins washed down stream.
A team from Aberystwyth University will survey the catchments areas of the rivers Leri, Rheidol and Ystwyth.
There are fears the pollution could pose a risk to land, animals and crops.
Parts of Ceredigion were flooded by 5ft (1.5m) of water with record high river levels in parts on Saturday.
A major clean-up operation continues in Aberystwyth and the nearby villages of Talybont, Dol-y-Bont and Llandre and other areas affected by the flooding.
The Met Office has confirmed that more than a month's worth of rain fell in the Aberystwyth area on Friday.
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Mark Macklin, a professor of physical geography at Aberystwyth University, said the force of the flood waters could have eroded river banks which stored harmful metals.
These metals could have flowed down stream and been deposited on the flood plains.
"Much of Ceredigion was affected by metal mining, but most of it finished before the start of World War I," he said.
"As a result of the mining, rivers and river banks in the area have been contaminated from the mines themselves right the way down to the sea.
"There are concerns that farmland has been contaminated and this could pose a risk to animals and crops," he added.
"We're starting a survey of the flood plains on Tuesday. We'll take fresh flood deposits, such as silt, and they will be chemically analysed. We will hopefully have some answers in a month or so."
Meanwhile, planning consent given to homes built on a floodplain in Aberystwyth might have been considered differently if an application was submitted today, a planning chief has said.
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Properties in Parc y Llyn were given the go-ahead in July 1994.
The area was flooded at the weekend forcing businesses and retailers to temporarily close. However, the homes on the site were not flooded.
Planning guidelines, TAN 15, were changed in 2004.
"The planning system is more cautious than when the permissions were granted in 1994 for the development of the Parc y Llyn area," said Russell Hughes-Pickering, Ceredigion council's assistant director of planning.
"I suspect there would be a different approach to the housing application - the retail perhaps not, they are less vulnerable."
He added that the planning system was "more cautious than back in 1994".
Mr Hughes-Pickering said "the defences worked in this case" but the retail outlets, like Morrisons and a newly opened B&Q, were flooded.
Significant damageThe houses are built on raised ground.
Environment Agency Wales said flood risk was an important factor which was considered in all relevant planning applications.
A spokesperson said: "Our role has been to advise local authorities on planning applications in line with Welsh government's planning policy Wales, and taking advice from its technical advice note TAN 15."
One of the services affected by the flooding in Aberystwyth was Ystwyth Medical Group.
Its medical centre in Llanbadarn Fawr, which has 9,000 patients, has been relocated temporarily after suffering significant damage.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
