Good afternoon and welcome to Saturday’s news briefing.
The top stories on the Daily Record website include: family hit out at BA, Andy Goram’s ex-wife speaks about late Rangers star and Covid variant throws up new symptom.
Here are the main headlines from today.
Andy Goram's ex-wife: 'Our marriage may not have lasted but our love always did’
Andy Goram ’s ex-wife Miriam Wylie has revealed how the pair became best friends after their divorce – and that she helped him through his final days.
Miriam held the former Rangers goalkeeper’s hand and tearfully declared how much he meant to her as he battled cancer. She said: “Our marriage may not have lasted but our love always did and I will miss him.”
Goram lost his fight with oesophageal cancer last Saturday, just 10 weeks after being given a shock diagnosis. He died, aged 58, on what would have been the couple’s 21st wedding anniversary.
READ MORE: Andy Goram's ex-wife: 'Our marriage may not have lasted but our love always did’
New Covid variant throwing up new symptom that affects people at night, expert claims
An expert has claimed that a new variant of Covid is throwing up another new symptom of the virus.
Luke O’Neill, who is a professor of Biochemistry and Immunology at Trinity College Dublin, said that there have been reports of people coming down with night sweats.
This finding came as the BA.5 Omicron sub variant looks set to dominate in a number of countries, including here in the UK and in Ireland.
READ MORE: New Covid variant throwing up new symptom that affects people at night, expert claims
Pub manager stunned as couple walk out mid-meal refusing to pay their £67 bill
Staff at a popular pub were left stunned after a couple stormed out in the middle of their meal refusing to pay their bill. The diners were eating at the Bunch of Grapes gastropub in Pontypridd on Thursday, July 8 when they suddenly left before they were served their main courses.
The unknown pair had drinks at the bar before moving to the restaurant, where they enjoyed a glass of wine and appetisers including garlic bread, olives and Welsh rarebit. After ordering their mains, a 12oz steak and black pudding and ox shank, they had run up a bill totalling £67.25.
The couple ordered three rounds of drinks with their meal before those serving them realised that they "seemed to have had a few more elsewhere" before arriving at the pub.
READ MORE: Pub manager stunned as couple walk out mid-meal refusing to pay their £67 bill
Evil parents left five children living in squalor in smelly and ‘vile’ home
An evil mum and dad who let five children aged under 12 live in squalor in a foul-smelling home have been sent to prison. Lee Carnell, 32, and his ex-girlfriend, Sarah Lamb, 33, of Hull, admitted a series of child cruelty offences involving five children - four girls and a boy.
Investigators found a disgusting scene at the family home . Mouldy food, only four beds for seven people and a “vile” smell, were all discovered at the home. Human waste was smeared on walls close to where toothbrushes were kept.
A court heard how the parents openly smoked cannabis in front of the children, a girl had been assaulted and a boy was banned from using the toilet at night so had to urinate in his room. The mum gave birth to another child during the investigations - her sixth - however it is expected that he will likely to be removed from her indefinitely, the court was told.
READ MORE: Evil parents left five children living in squalor in smelly and ‘vile’ home
