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Yahoo
12 hours ago
- Climate
- Yahoo
Rare 'pollen bomb' to strike Edinburgh as temperatures set to hit 27C
Edinburgh locals with seasonal allergies are set to face a challenging weekend - as the Met Office predicts a "very high" pollen count. Those with hay fever are no strangers to being forced indoors and closing their windows to avoid airborne pollen. The city has been enjoying hot and humid weather over the past few days with temperatures peaking at 27C on Saturday, but with the hot temperatures comes a high pollen count that will likely force those with hay fever inside. READ MORE: Edinburgh locals rage 'this is just wrong' as dozens of people dump cars at park READ MORE: Edinburgh locals praise 'lovely' Andy Murray after spotting him at shopping centre Met Office forecasters have predicted the "very high" pollen count for Friday and Saturday. Temperatures will cool slightly into the evening on Saturday with the heat set to finally break on Sunday. Pleasant 15C lows are expected in the early hours of Sunday, rising to a peak of 20C by 1pm. According to the Met Office, hay fever is the most common name for pollen allergy and it is most commonly caused by grass pollens, although other pollens can also trigger the symptoms Hay fever symptoms include frequent sneezing, a runny or blocked nose, itchy eyes and an itchy throat, mouth, nose and ears. Sufferers may also experience the loss of sense of smell, facial pain, sweating and headaches - although these symptoms are less common. Join Edinburgh Live's Whatsapp Community here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages. The forecast for Friday reads: "A dry day with long bright or sunny spells. A warm day from the start and becoming hot by the afternoon especially for the Borders. Maximum temperature 29 °C." Forecasters predict for Saturday: "Largely dry and bright with the odd thundery shower on Saturday and remaining very warm or hot. Turning cooler during Sunday and Monday with sunshine and showers, heavy on Sunday." You can read the full forecast here.
Daily Mail
13 hours ago
- Automotive
- Daily Mail
Murray: I bought a Ferrari after split from Kim… only to get stopped 2mins later by the police
Heartbreak affects people in many different ways. But Sir Andy Murray has admitted he dealt with a breakup by buying a Ferrari – which he ended up getting rid of within weeks. The sporting great, speaking to a Glasgow audience about his career highs and lows, revealed he made the extravagant purchase in his younger days. He said the pressures of fame affected his personal life and, aged 21, he and his long-term girlfriend Kim Sears split up. In response, he bought a Ferrari because 'I thought that was going to be a cool thing to do'. The car, however, caused a headache. He said: 'When I first took it out on the road I was pulled over by the police. Not because I was driving too quickly but because the insurance hadn't gone through yet. This was literally within two or three minutes of driving on the road with it.' Sir Andy got rid of the car after a couple of months, and he and Kim reconciled, marrying in 2015. He also revealed that after a glittering career taking in two Wimbledon wins and becoming world number one and Olympic champion, he does not miss tennis at all. He said: 'Honestly, I don't miss it at all. And that was something that I was really worried about.' It is nearly a year since Sir Andy officially retired from tennis, and the 38-year-old is now taking part in a four-venue speaking tour of the UK. At the event hosted by sports commentator Andrew Cotter, Sir Andy spoke candidly about the highs and lows of tennis, including his well-documented hip and back problems. He said now he far prefers spending time with Kim and their four young children, with his sporting talents channelled into skiing and golf. Sir Andy said: 'I don't miss hitting a tennis ball. I'm happy just doing stuff with my kids and my family, and just doing normal stuff.' At the age of 15, having been scouted for Rangers, he had to choose between a professional tennis career and football. He chose tennis – but the path was far from easy. He said: 'Unfortunately, in Scotland at that time, there weren't many tennis players and you need to play against a similar level to improve.' At a junior competition with Rafa Nadal, he asked his Spanish rival what his training was like and he mentioned working with Carlos Moya, who was the former world number one. Sir Andy said: 'And I was like, you know, I've got my mum.' Speaking of the difficulties of being in the limelight, Sir Andy said he was ill-prepared and quickly gained a reputation as a 'grumpy teenager'. He added: 'The media in Great Britain can be pretty harsh and the mood changes fast. 'A lot of the pundits are people that you've looked up to ... It's hard. You take what they're saying to heart.' He spoke of the notorious incident when a reporter asked him which team he would support in the 2006 World Cup and he replied 'anyone but England'. Hate mail began to arrive and he was the subject of whispers from other players and their teams at Wimbledon. He said: 'I remember walking to the court for one of my mixed doubles matches and someone was on the phone and just went, ''There's that f***ing Scottish guy,'. 'I was 19 at the time. I was very miserable and I'm aware of that but it changed my relationship with the media.'
Daily Mail
15 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
An audience with Sir Andy includes his most candid revelations yet, including an impulse buy after a break-up and a major clue as to why his partnership with Novak Djokovic ended
There is an almighty roar from the back of the auditorium - the sort normally reserved for the sports field and almost never heard in a theatre. But this is no ordinary evening. It is an audience with the usually reticent Sir Andy Murray and he is being unusually candid in front of an adoring crowd. We hear about the time he traded in his wife for a Ferrari, how he was accidentally high at the start of a match - and we get the inside scoop on why the curtain came down on his coaching partnership with Novak Djokovic. This is Andy Murray, Centre Stage, an event touted as 'a rare opportunity to be in the company of one of the world's most beloved and entertaining athletes'. Sir Andy is a bag of nerves as the evening begins, clearly anxious about being under the theatre lights and telling the audience he was terrified no one would show up. The national treasure needn't have worried. Not only is the 3,000-seater SEC in Glasgow sold out, he's in safe hands with a crowd who quite literally cheer him on throughout. The opening gambit from host Andrew Cotter - the 'lesser of the two Andrews', as he jokes - is a question about Djokovic. Sir Andy was briefly appointed as coach to the 24-time Grand Slam champion. They worked together through the Australian Open, where the Serb reached the semi-finals before being forced to retire injured. Shortly afterwards, a split was announced. 'We had a chat on the phone and he asked me if I would consider coaching him, which I wasn't expecting,' Murray told the audience. 'I thought I should give it a go and see whether I enjoyed it.' There was a pause. 'I'm not sure if I did.' Frustratingly, Cotter failed to push for any more information, instead taking Sir Andy on to his love of golf, which he plays four times a week when his children are at school. In heartwarming revelations about his family life growing up, he spoke of his grandparents' dogs and said he and his wife Kim have just welcomed a black retriever puppy into their home. The intimate atmosphere is helped by the audience being banned from whipping out mobile phones, instead having to lock devices away in special pouches. Sir Andy recalls how, when he was 15, he had the choice of playing for Rangers or trying for a professional tennis career. With the mere mention of 'Rangers' there are roars of approval from sections of the audience and good-natured boos elsewhere, but there is also a strong sense that the crowd are happy tennis was his sport of choice. At 17 he was faced with another choice - train at the Lawn Tennis Association academy in Sutton or move to Barcelona. 'I don't know if many of you have been to Sutton ... but I chose to go to the academy in Spain,' Murray deadpanned. 'I loved it there. Those are the years where, if I could go back in time, that would be the time I would go back to.' Throughout the two-hour event, Sir Andy is self-effacing and the very model of understated charm. His knighthood, he said, is 'not something I think about'. He never dreamed of great tennis success, he 'just wanted to be good enough to play at the major events. I never thought I was going to end up winning them'. Sometimes the public perception of Murray caused him real pain, the interest in his talents beginning when he was 15. As his success grew, so did media attention. It 'changed massively, overnight, and it was initially exciting and fun to do press conferences and have people taking pictures of you,' he said. 'And it's nice, but you're not properly prepared for it. 'The media in Great Britain can be pretty harsh and the mood changes fast. At first you're a breath of fresh air, who speaks his mind, to being a moody teenager. 'People start talking about how you speak, how you look, how you behave, the things you should be doing differently. 'A lot of the pundits are people you've looked up to, people you've watched on TV. It's hard. You take what they're saying to heart.' Then came his infamous 'anyone but England' response to being asked who he would support at the football World Cup - after being mocked by Tim Henman that Scotland would not be there. 'A lot of the fan mail would come to your locker [at Wimbledon] at that time and there was a lot of abusive mail. 'I remember walking to the court for one of my mixed doubles matches and someone was on the phone and just went: 'There's that f***ing Scottish guy'. I was 19 at the time. 'I was very miserable, and I'm aware of that, but it changed my relationship with the media. I felt unbelievably defensive and very guarded.' Growing up in the spotlight was hard, even with close family support, and it had a knock-on effect on his relationship when Kim was his girlfriend. When he was 21, he and Kim split up and, in response, he bought a Ferrari. 'I thought that was going to be a cool thing to do. 'When I first took it out on the road I was pulled over by the police. Not because I was driving too quickly but because the insurance hadn't gone through yet. 'This was literally within two or three minutes of driving on the road with it.' Murray got rid of the car after a couple of months, having never driven it again. His success allowed the public to warm to him, he said, and that warmth is clear in the SEC - the audience gripped by his every word. Mum Judy Murray joined him on stage to talk about the effects of watching her boy struggle and win, struggle and win. 'When he won Wimbledon, it was complete and utter relief,' said Judy. 'It always helped me through the boys' journeys that I was a coach, as well as obviously being a parent, because I was always able to look at a match analytically and look for the things that could be improved. 'So I wasn't just entirely caught up in the emotion of it, but when I saw how much the loss in 2012 (at Wimbledon) affected Andy and watching him give the speech on court when he lost, they were really, really difficult moments. 'People forget that everything is relatively easy when you win, but dealing with the defeats and the disappointments is incredibly tough, not just for the player, but for everybody around the player.' Andy revealed there was a time when he wished the 'When are you going to win Wimbledon?' questions would stop. Instead it became 'Are you going to win again?' after his 2013 triumph. Asked if he was bothered about Djokovic, Roger Federder and Rafael Nadal being termed as the Big Three during his era, he was characteristically modest. 'It's not something I lose any sleep over at night,' he said. 'I'm fully aware that those guys, what they've achieved is far greater than anything I've done. 'And I would never claim to be on the same level as them...' It's hard to hear the end of his answer as the audience calls out 'You are, yes you are'. Sir Andy is candid about the emotional side of the game and brutally honest about his physical trials. Hip problems started when he was 21 and he went to see a specialist after the Australian Open. Sir Andy was told that, because of the particular shape of his hips, they might cause him problems later in his career. He was offered an operation to potentially help with the issues - but it held no guarantees so he turned it down. It was only in 2016, after the Olympics, when the hip started to become a problem in matches. At the end of 2016, he lost from two sets to one up in the US Open quarter-finals, and lost from two sets to one up in the Davis Cup against Juan Martin del Potro. 'At the end of these matches, the long matches, I was really struggling to use my right leg properly,' he said. In January 2018, Murray had his first hip operation with the surgeon he had initially seen in Australia. By this point there was no cartilage left in his hip, just bone rubbing on bone. Before a match at Wimbledon in 2017, during warm up running drills, Murray was in so much pain he cried. To get him through the match he took a codeine tablet for the first time. 'I had never had one before,' he said. 'And I was totally spaced out at the beginning of that match. 'Usually I'm quite nervous but I just remember looking around thinking: 'What's going on out here'?' Cotter joked: 'Usually as commentators we think we know what's going on. Now, if I could go back in time, I'd say he was clearly off his t*ts.' When Murray had revealed that his hip caused him so much pain he would cry at night, one commentator in the US remarked how 'beautiful' it was that the Scot was so emotional about tennis. 'No,' he said, 'I was in so much pain I couldn't sleep at night.' He had lost sensation in his right leg and it emerged he had a cyst that was pushing on his spinal cord. Due to have surgery right before Wimbledon, he knew he was going to retire after the Olympics but was worried he wouldn't make it. Now, he has no such fears. 'Honestly, I don't miss tennis at all,' he said. 'And that was something I was really worried about. 'But I don't miss hitting a tennis ball. I'm happy just doing stuff with my kids and my family, just doing normal stuff.' The evening ends with a photo reel of family pictures. In one, it is Halloween and Sir Andy is dressed as a clown. None of the other parents are dressed up. 'I got properly stitched up with that,' he said. His children, he added, stopped their tennis lessons because 'they just weren't very good at it'. But, he is sanguine about this, as he is with so much else. Murray just wants them to be happy and, after all the ups and downs of professional life, he seems truly happy himself. As a theatre audience in Glasgow can testify.
BBC News
18 hours ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Brilliant Fearnley beats Moutet to reach Queen's last eight
Britain's Jacob Fearnley produced a hugely impressive display to see off mercurial French qualifier Corentin Moutet at Queen's and reach a first ATP Tour Fearnley battled to a 6-3 2-6 6-2 win on the Andy Murray Arena to set up a meeting with Czech Jiri Lehecka in the last match looked to be getting away from Fearnley after a dominant start as Moutet - who stunned world number four Taylor Fritz in the opening round - swept through the second Fearnley dug in with an impressive third-set display as the fiery Moutet lost his cool - not for the first time - and hit a ball into the stands after being broken by the by the vocal home crowd, Fearnley upped the aggression on the court to secure a fine victory. Fearnley continues impressive rise Fearnley has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the last 12 months, rising from outside the top 500 to now sitting at 60th in the was just his sixth tour-level match on grass but it did not look like it as he played some brilliant tennis at times that Moutet had no answer British number two came back from 0-40 down in his first service game of the match before immediately breaking Moutet to take control of the looked like a straightforward afternoon for Fearnley as Moutet grew increasingly irked but the Frenchman regained his composure to dominate the second set, the momentum swinging after three double faults by the Scot in his first service Fearnley found an extra level in an excellent third set and Moutet had no answer to his big hitting, with his frustrations boiling over as he received a time violation after arguing with the Fearnley kept his composure well to serve out victory and join compatriot and British number one Jack Draper in the last eight.
Edinburgh Live
18 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Edinburgh Live
Edinburgh locals praise 'lovely' Andy Murray after spotting him at shopping centre
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info Sports star Andy Murray was spotted in Edinburgh's city centre on Thursday afternoon. The retired tennis champion was seen outside St James Quarter around 2.45pm on June 19 leaving locals starstruck. After taking photos with fans while waiting for a takeaway coffee, some noted how "lovely" the 38-year-old was during the interactions. He was pictured posing with a family before walking down near the Playhouse ahead of his sold-out show. One local who caught sight of the star said: "I was walking down from the St James Quarter when I saw a family taking a picture with someone, he walked past and I realised it was Andy Murray. "He went up to get a coffee and someone who was in line next to him stopped me to say how lovely he was to him. "It was crazy to see him walking about the streets of Edinburgh. I think he went down to the Playhouse after that." Murray is taking on a completely different venture throughout the summer with his Centre Stage theatre shows. The tour is taking place over four dates in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and two in London. He is taking to stage at the Playhouse on Thursday evening after tickets sold out back in November. We reported a number of fans were able to secure a seat, but hundreds were left disappointed after the quick sell out. One fan said on X, formally known as Twitter: "Went online at exactly 10am for Edinburgh Playhouse tickets and was already 1723 in the queue. "Sold out in about two minutes. Might need some more Scottish dates @andy_murray." Join Edinburgh Live's Whatsapp Community here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages. Another devastated fan wrote: "You're going to need a bigger venue or do more shows, please please please. I logged on five secs after the tickets went on sale for Edinburgh to find there were already 2,500 people in front of me in the queue. "Sold out by 10.15 so no chance." The show is set to put Andy in the limelight as he shares stories from his sporting years, with 46 titles under his belt. He will be providing insight into his relationship with Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer as BBC commentator Andrew Cotter interviews him on stage. Sharing the news on social media, Andy said: "I am stepping onto a different stage this summer. Come and see me on my first ever theatre tour, with Andrew Cotter, in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Hammersmith and Wimbledon."
