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Daily Mail
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Kate Middleton's former boss wins his three-year battle to host weddings at his £12million Cotswolds estate
Fashion tycoon John Robinson, who employed Kate Middleton before she wed Prince William, has won a three-year battle to host weddings at his Cotswolds estate. The multi-millionaire founder of fashion chain Jigsaw had to overcome objections from locals about noise pollution and congested roads. He was given four months' notice in 2022 to stop hosting events at his £12 million property, Euridge Manor. But, after a nine-day public inquiry, Robinson, 77, has been granted permission to continue hosting events on the sprawling 450-acre estate, where Poldark star Eleanor Tomlinson exchanged vows with rugby player Will Owen. 'Euridge Manor Weddings is delighted at the grant of planning permission,' a spokesman says. When Robinson bought Euridge Manor Farm in 1980, it covered 200 acres, with a five-bedroom farmhouse, outbuildings and three cottages. But the tycoon extended the estate, purchasing 250 acres of surrounding land, and building an orangery with two bedrooms and an indoor swimming pool. He married now ex-wife Belle at Euridge in 2004. After their divorce in 2014, Robinson registered company Euridge Manor Weddings Incorporated and began hosting ceremonies. Neighbours complained about traffic, music and firework displays lasting into the small hours and said the estate did not have permission for 'change of use' in order to host weddings. After two planning applications and an appeal, planning permission has now been granted subject to a range of conditions to control noise and address highway safety concerns. No cut prices for Stella's clan You might think the name McCartney would open doors and curry favours – especially for a relation of Sir Paul. But comedienne Sophie McCartney, a cousin of the former Beatle, says it doesn't cut any ice with Sir Paul's daughter, fashion designer Stella. 'When I was younger, my Nana took me to Paris because I wanted to be a fashion designer as I was doing textiles GCSE,' says Sophie. 'We went to go and see Stella. She was at Chloe at the time. I did get some sunglasses and a Chloe [bag]. But that's it. 'But no I've never had any Stella McCartney discount. 'I'd take 25 (per cent).' Lily's friends get a wake-up call as star says she ranks them Anyone receiving unexpected FaceTime calls from Lily Allen for catch-up chats perhaps shouldn't feel too honoured or excited – until they've worked out its duration and the interval since the last one. 'I create lists of people who I like in order of how much I like them,' the pop singer, 40, reveals. 'I send that list to my assistant and ask her to schedule the time for me to have FaceTimes with them.' In March, I revealed that Lily's husband, Stranger Things star David Harbour, had been having an affair with a colleague. 'David cheated on Lily,' an associate told me. 'They met on a movie they did together.' Having been a pop star herself in the 1980s and '90s, Cathy Dennis went on to compose hits for Kylie Minogue, with Can't Get You Out Of My Head, Britney Spears (Toxic) and Katy Perry (I Kissed a Girl). Now, however, she's fed up with writing for others. 'I am done with that,' says Dennis, 56. 'There have been many [recording] sessions where I've been asked to get into a box and one day I just think, 'No, no more'. I will continue to write, but I am not writing music in the same way.' Duckface is a punchy guest She knocked Hugh Grant's character flat out after being jilted in Four Weddings And A Funeral, and 'duckface' Anna Chancellor is almost as pugnacious in real life. The actress, 60, admits she lost her cool at Arizona's Grand Canyon. 'I behaved quite badly,' she tells Travel Secrets podcast. 'I booked a '1930s cabin' – when I got in there I was like, 'This is s***'. I said, 'You need to relocate me'. I'm capable of kicking up a fuss.' The Ritz played a key role in King Charles's life when he and Camilla Parker Bowles were pictured leaving the London hotel in 1999 in their first public appearance together as a couple. And His Majesty was, I hear, quick to get in touch earlier this year when The Ritz was awarded fine dining's coveted accolade. 'I got a nice little letter from King Charles, congratulating me on getting two Michelin stars,' John Williams, executive chef at The Ritz, tells me at the National Restaurant Awards, where The Ritz was crowned best in the UK. GP error? You can blame Lesley! Opera singer Lesley Garrett was a panellist on ITV's Loose Women for four years, but her husband, retired GP Peter Christian, intervened. '[It's] the only time he's ever asked me to stop doing something,' she reveals. 'He said, 'At the surgery I've got ten minutes with each patient. And eight minutes is taken up with what you've said the day before. I'm worried I'm going to misdiagnose somebody, so please could you stop?' Tamara still has very bad habits! Former 'It-girl' Tamara Beckwith's wild partying days aren't completely behind her if this picture is anything to go by. Tamara, 55, attended the fancy dress tenth wedding anniversary party of Sofia Barattieri Weinstein, co-chair of the London Air Ambulance, and her husband, Brian Weinstein, in Sicily at the weekend. Beckwith can be seen surrounded by fellow partygoers dressed as priests and nuns in these pictures she shared online. 'It was a spectacular example of when friends show how much they love their hosts,' says Tamara, who is married to Italian businessman Giorgio Veroni. 'Incredible dresses, head-dresses, naughty lace, brocades and enchanted gardens filled with candlelight.'
Yahoo
09-06-2025
- Yahoo
Man misses Spirit flight so allegedly calls in bomb threat to delay plane: FBI
**Related Video Above: What is Swatting? DETROIT (WJW/AP) — A man is charged after calling Spirit Airlines last week to report a fake bomb threat on a plane at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, the United States Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Michigan confirmed in a news release. 'No American wants to hear the words 'bomb' and 'airplane' in the same sentence,' U.S. Attorney Jerome Gorgon, Jr. said in a statement. 'Making this kind of threat undermines our collective sense of security and wastes valuable law enforcement resources.' Nick Chubb expected to sign with Houston Texans: Report The authorities were alerted Thursday, June 5, around 6:30 a.m., after the budget airlines received a call there was a bomb on an airplane soon headed to Los Angeles. 'There's gonna be someone who's gonna try to blow up the airport,' the man was recorded as saying on the call, according to the attorney's office. 'There's gonna be someone that's gonna try to blow up that flight, 2145.' The man then said: 'They're still threatening to do it, they're still attempted to do it, they said it's not going to be able to be detected. Please don't let that flight board.' The flight was soon postponed and all passengers and crew were told to exit the plane. An investigation, which included bomb-sniffing dogs, unearthed no credible threat and no explosives were found. The flight reportedly left about six hours later. FBI agents soon learned that a 23-year-old man named John Robinson had been booked for flight 2145 but arrived too late for boarding and was told he needed to rebook. Family gathers to remember victims, push for justice in unsolved Metroparks murders The FBI said investigators connected the Michigan man to the threat through phone records. He was arrested when he returned to the airport for another flight Thursday night. He 'stated that he made the call with the hope that it would delay the flight long enough for him to make it in time so he would not have to take a different flight,' the FBI said in a court filing. Robinson was charged with maliciously giving false information about an explosive, and is out on bond. He is scheduled to appear in court on June 27. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Sun
07-06-2025
- The Sun
True story of Heather Robinson kidnapped by serial killer uncle who hid bodies in barrels & called himself ‘Slavemaster'
THE woman who was kidnapped by a serial killer and sold to his family is having her story retold in a new movie. At just five months old, Tiffany Stasi was snatched from her mother Lisa, by killer John Robinson in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1985. 9 9 9 She would not find out the dark truth about her life and her sick uncle for another 15 years when he was revealed to be a serial killer whose victims included her own mother. It is the focus of a new film Kidnapped by a Killer: The Heather Robinson Story that airs tonight. Tiffany was brought up as Heather Robinson by her adoptive parents Don and Frieda Robinson. But in 2000, her uncle John Robinson, Don's brother, was arrested after bodies of multiple women were discovered in barrels on his property as part of an investigation into missing people. It was then, when she was 15 years old, that Heather learned Robinson had kidnapped her and handed her to his family for an illegal adoption for which he got $5,500. Her biological mother, Lisa, met Robinson after she went to a woman's shelter following a split with Heather's dad. Robinson said he would help the pair find a home but instead he brutally killed her mother and sold the baby to his brother and sister-in-law who thought they were legally adopting her. He had claimed 19-year-old Lisa committed suicide in a hotel room. By the time of his arrest in 2000, the then 56-year-old had been linked to the murders of eight women. He had a lengthy criminal record that included fraud and embezzlement and had tricked people with the alias of John Osbourne. My dad spied on my sister with hidden cameras & stalked her at work before she vanished at 17 - I'm convinced he killed her despite serial killer confession The depths of his depravity were not uncovered until a woman came forward accusing him of sexual assault and theft which led to a police search at his home near La Cygne, Kansas. He had already been named as a person of interest in a number of cases across Missouri and Kansas of missing women. HOUSE OF HORRORS When cops scoured his farmland, they found barrels containing the decomposing bodies of Izabela Lewicka and Suzette Trouten. Lewicka was reported missing in 1999 and Trouten in 2000. The bodies of Beverly Bonner, Sheila Faith, and her daughter, Debbie Faith were later found at two storage units he rented in Missouri. After his arrest, Heather's DNA was tested which confirmed the truth about her adoption and the forged certificates. In 2002, Robinson went on trial for the murders of Trouten, Lewicka, and Lisa Stasi, though her body was never recovered. He was found guilty of all counts and handed two death sentences and a life sentence as well as convicted for the kidnap and false adoption of Heather. A year later, he received more life sentences after pleading guilty to the murders of Paula Godfrey, Catherine Clampitt, Beverly Bonner, and Sheila and Debbie Faith. 9 9 9 9 Despite two life sentences being overturned in 2015, Robinson remains on death row at the age of 81. He was found to have been one of the first killers to use the internet to lure in victims, speaking to women in online chat rooms under the username "slavemaster". Authorities discovered that with some of his victims, Robinson engaged in sadomasochistic sex and master-slave relationships before killing them, per Biography. In a rare interview with ABC News in 2019, Heather said she believes she witnessed her mother's murder but does not remember it. She said that while she was growing up, Uncle John "gave me this really weird, off-putting feeling in the pit of my stomach." "It's like walking down a dark alley in the middle of the night while you know someone is behind you, approaching you closer and closer." Heather also claimed that just months before Robinson's arrest, she nearly ended up as one of his murder victims. At a wedding in Florida, she said he asked her sexual questions and offered to pay for a plane ticket so she could stay with him. Had she said yes, Heather said: "I'd be dead. I would be in that barrel". Lisa's remains have still not been recovered with Heather continuing efforts to try to find her biological mother to have her buried on a family plot. Heather Tiffany Robinson was eventually legally adopted by Don and Frieda at the age of 18. Kidnapped by a Killer: The Heather Robinson Story airs on June 7 on Lifetime at 8/7c. 9 9
Yahoo
07-06-2025
- Yahoo
Spirit bomb threat: FBI says suspect missed flight before calling in hoax at Detroit Metro
The Brief A Monroe man was arrested for calling in a false bomb threat on a Spirit Airlines flight from Detroit to Los Angeles. The threat, which claimed a bomb would be smuggled through security, caused the flight to be canceled and investigated, though no explosives were found. Robinson, who had missed the original flight, was apprehended when he returned to the airport for another Los Angeles-bound flight and has been released on bond. DETROIT (FOX 2) - A 23-year-old Monroe man has been arrested for calling in a bomb threat on a Los Angeles-bound Spirit flight out of Detroit on Thursday. John Robinson, 23, was arrested and charged with calling in the threat that delayed the flight on Thursday. According to charging documents, Robinson used a cellphone to call Spirit Airlines and reported the false threat on flight 2145. "I was calling about 2145, because I have information about that flight," he said in the call. "There's gonna be someone who's gonna try to blow up the airport. There's gonna be someone that's gonna try to blow up that flight, 2145." He gave a brief description of the alleged indivdiual and then said they were carrying the bomb through security. "They're going to be carrying a bomb through the TSA," he sai. "They're still threatening to do it, they're still attempted to do it, they said it's not going to be able to be detected. Please don't let that flight board." The plane was immediately canceled and checked with bomb-sniffing dogs. No explosives were ever found. According to authorities, Robinson was booked on flight 2145 and had missed it. The gate agent said he needed to book a new flight. Robinson was arrested when he returned to the airport for another flight bound for Los Angeles. What they're saying "Anyone who threatens to bomb an aircraft and endanger public safety will be swiftly investigated and brought to justice," said Cheyvoryea Gibson, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Detroit Field Office. "The alleged bomb threat prompted a coordinated response by our FBI Detroit Joint Terrorism Task Force, in partnership with the Wayne County Airport Authority Police Department and the U.S. Federal Air Marshal Service, leading to the arrest of John Robinson as he attempted to board another flight at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. We remain committed to protecting the public and confronting those who seek to spread fear in our communities." Robinson was released on bond after appearing in federal court. He's due back in court on June 27. The Source The U.S. Attorney General's Office provided details on the arrest and threats.
CBS News
06-06-2025
- CBS News
Michigan man reported fake bomb threat on Spirit Airlines after missing flight to Los Angeles, feds say
A Monroe, Michigan, man accused of calling in a fake bomb threat that halted a Spirit Airlines flight Thursday at the Detroit Metro Airport was taken into custody, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. John Charles Robinson, 23, is charged after federal authorities say he reported the threat when he missed his flight to Los Angeles and was told to rebook. Officials say Robinson, who was supposed to board Spirit flight 2145, called the airlines and said that "there's gonna be someone who's gonna try to blow up the airport," according to a news release. The call forced the plane to evacuate. Passengers were then transported to Evans Terminal. Investigators did not recover any explosive device. Federal prosecutors say Robinson returned to the airport to board another flight to Los Angeles and was subsequently arrested. He appeared in court on Friday and was released on bond. His next court hearing is scheduled for June 27. "Anyone who threatens to bomb an aircraft and endanger public safety will be swiftly investigated and brought to justice," said Cheyvoryea Gibson, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Detroit Field Office. "The alleged bomb threat prompted a coordinated response by our FBI Detroit Joint Terrorism Task Force, in partnership with the Wayne County Airport Authority Police Department and the U.S. Federal Air Marshal Service, leading to the arrest of John Robinson as he attempted to board another flight at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. We remain committed to protecting the public and confronting those who seek to spread fear in our communities."
