Jogo nº 7: ce serait apparemment sans Victor Hedman

Foi sem Victor Hedman que o Lightning de Tampa Bay afrontou o Canadá de Montreal no dia seguinte.

O capitão do Lightning é patinado com seus coéquipiers durante o treinamento matinal opcional do clube, mas um fato de tempo suplementar com os reservistas.

Le Suédois patinait no last da sessão com Declan Carlile, Maxwell Crozier, Scott Sabourin, Conor Geekie.

Ou o chef Jon Cooper confirmou 90 minutos antes do encontro que Hedman não estará disponível.

A decisão de abandonar Hedman é justificável: o Lightning veio para libertar uma partida formidável para o Canadá na rota, vendeu-se mais tarde e não mudou para uma fórmula vencedora.

Hedman não participou de nenhuma partida da série de estreia da turnê. Auparavant ausente pelas razões pessoais, ele vétéran a ensuite foi declarado abençoado.

Cooper, todos foram indicados no curso dos últimos dias que poderiam ser «uma possibilidade» para sua equipe.

6 meses para o semestre: as cadeiras do Senado que podem fazer pender a balança de poder

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A seis meses das eleições intercalares deste ano, o presidente do Comité Nacional Republicano do Senado (NRSC), o senador Tim Scott, diz acreditar que o Partido Republicano pode não só manter, mas também expandir a sua precise maioria de 53-47.

“Não há dúvida de que o clima está ficando cada vez mais difícil a cada dia”, reconheceu Scott em entrevista recente à Fox Information Digital. Mas ele enfatizou que permanece “incrivelmente otimista” rumo às eleições intermediárias enquanto defende a maioria do Partido Republicano no Senado.

Os republicanos – como partido atualmente no poder – já enfrentaram os tradicionais ventos políticos contrários que levaram à perda de assentos no Congresso. Acrescente-se a isso o clima desafiador alimentado pela inflação persistente, o aumento dos preços do gás ligado ao que as sondagens mostram ser uma guerra impopular com o Irão, e o Presidente Donald Trump’s classificações de aprovação subaquática.

A rival e contraparte de Scott no Comitê de Campanha Democrata para o Senado (DSCC), a senadora Kirsten Gillibrand, também está otimista, que também é otimista, de que os democratas podem virar a Câmara. Gillibrand disse à Fox Information Digital no início deste ano que ela vê “todos os ingredientes de uma onda azul”.

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Aqui está uma olhada nas 10 cadeiras do Senado com maior probabilidade de mudar e potencialmente mudar o equilíbrio de poder na Câmara.

Maine

A senadora republicana Susan Collins está concorrendo à reeleição para um sexto mandato de seis anos no Maine, de tendência azul.

Collins é o único senador republicano concorrendo à reeleição este ano em um estado que a então vice-presidente Kamala Harris carregou em sua derrota nas eleições presidenciais de 2024 para Trump. E Collins viu uma deterioração em seus números nas pesquisas entre os habitantes do Maine desde sua última reeleição, há seis anos.

A senadora Susan Collins, do Maine, dá uma entrevista à Fox Information Digital em Washington, DC, em 10 de fevereiro de 2026. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox Information)

Mas Collins, que há muito é um dos principais alvos do DSCC, provou ser difícil de vencer.

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Enfrentando Collins provavelmente estará o veterano e criador de ostras Graham Platner, o quase certo candidato democrata depois que a governadora de dois mandatos, Janet Mills, desistiu da disputa na semana passada. Platner é apoiado pelos campeões progressistas Sens. Bernie Sanders de Vermont e Elizabeth Warren de Massachusetts.

Graham Platner falando em uma prefeitura no Leavitt Theatre em Ogunquit, Maine

O candidato ao Senado Graham Platner fala em uma prefeitura no Leavitt Theatre em Ogunquit, Maine, em 22 de outubro de 2025. (Sophie Park/Imagens Getty)

Grupos republicanos que apoiam Collins já estão criticando Platner pelos comentários polêmicos que ele fez há mais de uma década no Reddit sobre estupro e por uma tatuagem bem divulgada em seu peito que lembrava um símbolo nazista.

Carolina do Norte

Os republicanos estão defendendo uma vaga no estado decisivo do sudeste, com o senador republicano Thom Tillis se aposentando no remaining deste ano.

Os democratas conseguiram seu melhor recruta quando o ex-governador de dois mandatos Roy Cooper lançou uma campanha para o Senado no verão passado. Cooper desfruta de muitos nomes de identificação na Carolina do Norte e tem 6-0 em corridas estaduais.

O republicano Michael Whatley e o democrata Roy Cooper se enfrentarão na corrida para o Senado da Carolina do Norte em novembro.

O ex-presidente do Comitê Nacional Republicano, Michael Whatley, à esquerda, e o ex-governador democrata Roy Cooper, estão quase certos de se enfrentarem no campo de batalha da corrida para o Senado de 2026 na Carolina do Norte. (Angela Weiss/AFP/Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu/Getty Pictures)

Os republicanos estão se unindo em torno do ex-presidente do Comitê Nacional Republicano (RNC), Michael Whatley, que tem o apoio do presidente.

O Relatório de cozinheiro, um importante deficiente político apartidário, recentemente mudou a disputa de uma disputa para um democrata magro.

Ohio

Os democratas obtiveram outra grande vitória no recrutamento quando o ex-senador Sherrod Brown anunciou que desafiaria o senador republicano Jon Husted.

Ex-vice-governador, Husted foi nomeado para o Senado há um ano, depois do então senador. JD Vance deixou o cargo para atuar como vice-presidente.

Ohio, que já foi um importante campo de batalha nas eleições gerais, ficou vermelho na última década, e os democratas veem Brown como seu único candidato competitivo na corrida para cumprir os dois últimos anos do mandato de Vance.

Senador Jon Husted e ex-senador Sherrod Brown

O senador Jon Husted e o ex-senador Sherrod Brown se enfrentarão em uma disputa para o Senado altamente antecipada em Ohio, em novembro. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Pictures; Justin Merriman/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)

Brown perdeu a reeleição em 2024 por cerca de quatro pontos, enquanto Trump superou Ohio por 11 pontos.

Mas o Relatório Prepare dinner alterou no mês passado a sua classificação de republicana enxuta para indefinida, observando que “mesmo as pesquisas recentes do Partido Republicano” indicaram que a disputa está toda complicada.

Geórgia

Os republicanos veem o senador em primeiro mandato Jon Ossoff como o democrata mais vulnerável em busca da reeleição em 2026.

Mas Ossoff construiu um enorme fundo de guerra enquanto o Partido Republicano enfrenta uma desagradável batalha primária de três vias pela sua nomeação no essential estado de batalha do sudeste.

Senador Jon Ossoff falando em entrevista coletiva no Capitólio dos EUA

Os republicanos veem o senador Jon Ossoff, da Geórgia, como o democrata do Senado mais vulnerável em busca da reeleição nas eleições intermediárias de 2026. (Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg/Getty Pictures)

O Relatório Prepare dinner mudou recentemente a corrida na Geórgia de uma disputa acirrada para um democrata magro.

Michigan

O objetivo do Partido Republicano é conseguir uma vaga no campo de batalha de Michigan, onde o senador Gary Peters está se aposentando.

O ex-deputado Mike Rogers, que ganhou a indicação do Partido Republicano para o Senado em 2024 em Michigan, mas perdeu por pouco para a deputada Elissa Slotkin, está fazendo uma segunda oferta consecutiva e é o candidato quase certo do Partido Republicano.

Os democratas estão lidando com uma luta tripla entre a deputada de centro-esquerda Haley Stevens, o senador estadual Mallory McMorrow, que se autodenomina “pragmático”, e o médico progressista Abdul El-Sayed, que é apoiado por Sanders.

Ex-deputado Mike Rogers falando durante uma entrevista em Grand Rapids, Michigan

O ex-deputado Mike Rogers, candidato republicano ao Senado em Michigan, é entrevistado pela Fox Information Digital em Grand Rapids, Michigan, em 2 de abril de 2024. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox Information)

As primárias já expuseram numerosas divisões do Partido Democrata e forneceram bastante munição a Rogers, que é apoiado por Trump, e o candidato não será decidido até agosto.

Alasca

Os democratas receberam um grande impulso no estado de tendência vermelha quando a ex-deputada Mary Peltola anunciou em fevereiro que desafiaria o atual senador republicano Dan Sullivan.

A ex-deputada Mary Peltola falando em um pódio

A ex-deputada Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, está concorrendo para destituir o senador republicano Dan Sullivan nas eleições de meio de mandato de 2026. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Put up)

Peltola perdeu a reeleição há 15 meses no distrito geral que cobre todo o estado por três pontos, enquanto Trump venceu o Alasca por 11 pontos.

Texas

O antigo senador republicano John Cornyn, do Texas, está no meio de uma batalha competitiva e combustível no segundo turno da nomeação do Partido Republicano contra o estado Atty. Basic Ken Paxton.

Trump, até o momento, manteve-se neutro no segundo turno, que será realizado no remaining de maio.

Cornyn conta com o apoio do líder da maioria no Senado John Thune e o NRSC, que teme que a cadeira fique vulnerável se Paxton, que tem muita bagagem política, vencer as primárias.

O senador John Cornyn e o procurador-geral do Texas, Ken Paxton, lado a lado

O atual senador John Cornyn, republicano do Texas, à esquerda, enfrenta o procurador-geral do Texas, Ken Paxton, no segundo turno das primárias do Partido Republicano. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Pictures; Antranik Tavitian/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)

Os democratas, que estão de olho na vaga no estado de direita, nomearam o deputado estadual James Talarico, uma estrela em ascensão no partido.

Talarico arrecadou impressionantes US$ 27 milhões em arrecadação de fundos nos primeiros três meses deste ano.

Nova Hampshire

Os republicanos esperam reverter a antiga cadeira democrata no Senado no único estado indeciso da Nova Inglaterra, graças à aposentadoria da senadora Jeanne Shaheen, a primeira mulher na história do país a ser eleita governadora e senadora.

Espera-se que o deputado Chris Pappas, com quatro mandatos, obtenha a indicação democrata ao Senado nas primárias do estado no início de setembro.

A senadora Jeanne Shaheen falando em um pódio durante uma coletiva de imprensa em Washington, DC

A senadora Jeanne Shaheen, DN.H., anunciou no ano passado que não buscaria a reeleição nas eleições intermediárias de 2026. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu)

Há uma disputa nas primárias do lado republicano entre dois ex-senadores que buscam um retorno ao Capitólio. O ex-senador John E. Sununu, irmão mais velho do ex-governador Chris Sununu, tem o apoio do presidente e tem uma vantagem de dois dígitos nas pesquisas públicas. Mas o embaixador do primeiro mandato de Trump na Nova Zelândia, o ex-senador Scott Brown, continua na corrida.

Iowa

Os republicanos estão defendendo uma vaga em Iowa, um antigo estado indeciso que se deslocou para a direita na última década.

Mas o Partido Republicano uniu-se em torno da deputada Ashley Hinson, que é apoiada por Trump, na corrida para suceder ao senador republicano Joni Ernst, que se aposenta.

A deputada Ashley Hinson dando uma entrevista em Washington DC

A deputada Ashley Hinson, de Iowa, dá uma entrevista à Fox Information Digital em Washington, DC, em 4 de setembro de 2025. Ela está concorrendo na corrida de 2026 para ter sucesso na aposentadoria do senador republicano Joni Ernst. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox Information)

Hinson, um ex-âncora de noticiário de TV native que conquistou uma cadeira ocupada pelos democratas em 2020, é visto como uma estrela em ascensão no partido.

Os democratas têm uma primária contestada que inclui o deputado estadual Josh Turek, um atleta paraolímpico, e o senador estadual Zach Wahls.

Flórida

O senador republicano Ashley Moody, que como procurador-geral da Flórida foi nomeado pelo governador Ron DeSantis no ano passado para ocupar o cargo antes ocupado pelo agora secretário de Estado Marco Rubio, é o candidato republicano quase certo.

Senadora Ashley Moody deixando o plenário do Senado no Capitólio dos EUA

A senadora Ashley Moody, republicana da Flórida, deixa o plenário do Senado após uma votação no Capitólio dos EUA em 21 de outubro de 2025. (Invoice Clark/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Pictures)

Moody provavelmente enfrentará em novembro o desafiante democrata Alex Vindman, um tenente-coronel aposentado do Exército, denunciante na controvérsia Trump-Ucrânia de 2019 e irmão do deputado Eugene Vindman.

Pesquisas recentes sugerem uma corrida competitiva entre Moody e Vindman na Flórida, de tendência direitista.

Menção honrosa: Minnesota

A aposentadoria da senadora democrata Tina Smith está dando ao Partido Republicano esperanças de poder virar a cadeira no estado de tendência azul.

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E o NRSC conseguiu o que dizem ser um recruta de primeira linha, a ex-repórter esportiva da NBC que se tornou analista e ativista conservadora Michele Tafoya, que faz parte de um campo lotado do Partido Republicano.

A tenente-governadora de Minnesota, Peggy Flannagan, uma progressista, está enfrentando a deputada democrata mais moderada Angie Craig, que parece ter o apoio do líder da minoria no Senado, Chuck Schumer, na corrida pela indicação de seu partido.

Neste ‘Senhor das Moscas’, os meninos ganham mais história de fundo, mas a tragédia permanece a mesma

Este artigo contém alguns spoilers de “O Senhor das Moscas” na Netflix.

Period meio da noite. Atormentado pela insônia, o menino britânico de 11 anos tirou da estante da mãe um livro fino, que ela havia roubado da escola onde lecionava.

“Senhor das Moscas.”

O romance teve um impacto visceral no menino e permaneceu com ele enquanto ele explorava a vida de pré-adolescentes e adolescentes enquanto co-escrevia a peça “Harry Potter e a Criança Amaldiçoada” e o filme “Surprise” e escrevia as séries de TV “His Darkish Supplies” e “Adolescência”.

“’O Senhor das Moscas’ é a pedra elementary da minha compreensão do mundo”, diz Jack Thorne, que agora deu vida ao livro de uma forma minissérie estreando nos EUA na Netflix na segunda-feira. “Eu vivi com este livro por 36 anos, relendo-o do começo ao fim e as crianças viveram em mim.”

A adaptação de Thorne é em grande parte fiel ao romance de 1954 de William Golding. Um avião que transportava estudantes britânicos durante uma evacuação em tempo de guerra cai em uma remota ilha tropical; nenhum adulto sobrevive, mas 30 crianças sobrevivem, uma mistura de “pequeninos”, com idades entre 5 e 6 anos, e os personagens principais, todos se aproximando da adolescência: Ralph, charmoso e de coração aberto, é rapidamente eleito “chefe”; Piggy, o mais inteligente e nerd dos meninos mais velhos, tem as ideias certas sobre como sobreviver, mas se torna um alvo imediato dos agressores; Jack, um cantor de coral que se autodenomina “caçador de cabeças” e fomenta uma rebelião contra Ralph e Piggy; e Simon, um introvertido vulnerável, que está fora de sincronia com os meninos do coral mais indisciplinados que se tornaram caçadores.

Sob Piggy e Ralph, os meninos começam construindo abrigos, criando um sinal de fogo e coletando comida e água. Mas os caçadores brand se diferenciam: eles são descuidados, imprudentes e, em última análise, mortalmente violentos, destruindo sua mini-sociedade.

Jack (Lox Pratt), no centro, é um menino do coral que se declara “caçador de cabeças”.

(Lisa Tomasetti/Eleven/Sony Photos Tv)

Thorne inicialmente se relacionou com o personagem Simon, “o estranho que tenta se comunicar, mas não consegue descobrir como fazê-lo, que não consegue entender por que os outros meninos o tratam daquela maneira”.

Ele se lembra de ter lido a passagem em que Golding matou Simon “tão claramente quanto me lembro de qualquer momento da minha infância”.

Thorne sentiu que a TV period o formato perfeito para adicionar profundidade à história. “A principal coisa que adicionei à história de Golding foi contar cada episódio da perspectiva de um personagem diferente em uma corrida de revezamento, para que você saiba que existem quatro maneiras diferentes de ver como esta ilha funciona e para que você entenda como essa tragédia aconteceu.”

Thorne e o diretor Marc Munden fizeram outras mudanças, dedicando mais tempo a um incêndio destrutivo causado pela má tomada de decisões dos meninos (e pela recusa em ouvir Piggy). “Isso mostra que eles não têm controle sobre a natureza e os elementos, o que é obviamente muito importante”, diz Thorne.

Thorne criou “vastas” histórias de fundo para cada criança, mesmo que apenas trechos – como o amor de Piggy pelos irmãos Marx – aparecessem na tela. Ele deu mais corpo a Jack. “Quando criança, eu odiava Jack”, diz ele. “Eu conhecia crianças como Jack no parquinho. Mas quanto mais eu lia, mais sentia que havia uma ternura que Golding procurava em Jack.”

Thorne escreveu novas cenas como aquela em que a bravata de Jack desaparece enquanto escala uma rocha e uma conversa sobre pais e ansiedade entre Simon e Jack; Munden adicionou close-ups de Jack em momentos cruciais para mostrar que, ao contrário de seus seguidores irritados, ele percebeu o quão longe havia levado todos.

“Não há respostas fáceis – ‘Jack tem um pai ruim, portanto Jack é mau’ – porque Simon também tem um relacionamento conturbado com seu pai”, diz Thorne. “Mas você consegue entender por que essas microdecisões dão errado, por que levam Jack na direção errada e, por fim, destroem a ilha.”

Dois meninos de shorts estão ajoelhados perto de um lago, um deles segurando uma laranja.

Thorne escreveu novas cenas envolvendo Simon (Isaac Talbut), à esquerda, e Jack (Lox Pratt). Os espectadores conseguem “entender por que essas microdecisões dão errado”.

(J Redza / Eleven / Sony Photos Tv)

Thorne também reescreveu a última cena de Piggy, embora seu destino permaneça o mesmo. “Eu queria dar a Piggy o seu momento”, diz Thorne, acrescentando que isso ocorre durante o episódio de Ralph. “O last de Piggy é sobre a jornada de Ralph. As pessoas acham que Ralph é perfeito, mas ele desistiu do apelido de Piggy rapidamente porque queria impressionar Jack. Mas, no last, nós o vemos apreciar Piggy como um amigo lindo e comovente. É uma das graças salvadoras de toda a história; Ralph não está quebrado no last, ele está horrorizado com o que aconteceu, mas ele aprendeu sua humanidade.

Thorne também confiou a Munden, um colaborador frequente, a interpretação do roteiro à sua maneira. Munden, que viu a adaptação cinematográfica de Peter Brook em 1963 antes de ler o livro, pediu a Thorne que retirasse alguns diálogos.

“Há cenas não-verbais no livro, como quando um menino, Roger, está testando silenciosamente os limites do que pode fazer, assustando dois meninos jogando pedras na água, e então pedi a Jack para escrever isso”, diz Munden. Ele também passou mais tempo pintando os rostos uns dos outros enquanto os meninos mergulhavam no tribalismo.

Algumas cenas da minissérie lembrarão “Apocalypse Now”, incluindo uma flagrante homenagem “irônica”, mas Munden diz que Francis Ford Coppola passou um tempo com Brook na década de 1960, então “Flies” de Brook pode ter influenciado a obra-prima de Coppola.

No entanto, Munden adicionou seu próprio talento visible, com saturação de cores, close-ups distorcidos para mostrar a desorientação dos personagens e fotos hipnotizantes da natureza em grande escala (incêndios violentos, ondas turbulentas do oceano, tempestades torrenciais) e pequenas (formigas devorando um inseto).

“Eu queria mostrar o frágil ecossistema da floresta tropical e como ele reflete o frágil ecossistema dos meninos”, diz ele. “Parte da vida lá é simbiótica e parte é parasitária.”

O diretor também capturou imagens na hora, usando seu iPhone durante a exploração de locações para obter close-ups dos insetos e no set durante perseguições na floresta.

Mas todos esses florescimentos de escritor e direção só funcionam por causa dos atores inexperientes que habitam plenamente seus personagens, liderados por Winston Sawyers (Ralph), David McKenna (Piggy), Ike Talbut (Simon) e Lox Pratt (Jack).

Foi “assustador” construir um elenco extenso de 30 jovens recém-chegados, diz a diretora de elenco Nina Gold, “mas eles nos deram muito tempo”. Ela e seu parceiro Martin Ware lançaram uma ampla rede em todo o Reino Unido, vendo milhares de crianças em sua busca inicial antes de trazerem dezenas de meninos para ler.

Um grupo de crianças sujas está sentado na praia enquanto as ondas batem neles. Um menino está de pé.

A diretora de elenco, Nina Gold, disse que foi “assustador” construir um elenco extenso de 30 jovens recém-chegados.

(Lisa Tomasetti/Eleven/Sony Photos Tv)

Gold, Ware e Munden permaneceram flexíveis em sua busca. “Embora tivéssemos alguns marcadores de como Piggy precisava ser, tínhamos a mente aberta sobre a aparência dos outros”, diz Gold, observando que a maioria das estrelas interpretava papéis diferentes enquanto experimentavam diferentes permutações.

Ware diz que eles trouxeram crianças para seis a oito reuniões. “Precisávamos ver se eles tinham o talento, mas também a personalidade certa para fazer parte de uma equipe e a resistência para passar o dia todo sem desmaiar.”

Eles não apenas observaram como as crianças lidavam com as leituras de cenas, mas também com exercícios de atuação e o tempo entre os trabalhos. “Quando eles estavam comendo sanduíches, isso também fazia parte do processo”, diz Gold.

Munden então passou cinco semanas ensaiando na Malásia antes do início das filmagens. Filmar no native significava lidar com tufões, escorpiões e cobras, e trabalhar com crianças significava dias de trabalho mais curtos. Munden filmou a maioria das cenas em estilo documentário, geralmente com apenas uma câmera “para que pudéssemos capturar as coisas como acontecia com os meninos”.

Embora “O Senhor das Moscas” proceed sendo uma história trágica e preventiva, Thorne, que tentou adaptá-la pela primeira vez há 15 anos, vê nela vislumbres de esperança. “Estamos numa situação incrivelmente difícil como planeta neste momento”, diz ele. “Mas acredito na luz inside e penso que enquanto Golding escrevia sobre destruição, ele escrevia sobre a nossa capacidade de regeneração como humanos, o que considero algo notável.”

Mas Munden diz que a história parece oportuna agora por causa do lado negro da humanidade que Golding explorou.

“Há duas facções aqui, uma liderada por um democrata zeloso, Ralph, e a outra por um valentão egoísta com um ego frágil, que você pode chamar de narcisista”, diz ele. “Esta série é uma oportunidade de mostrar o colapso da sociedade.”

What you need to know about hantavirus

Three passengers on an Atlantic cruise ship have died, a British man is in intensive care, and two crew members are sick amid an outbreak of hantavirus, spread by rats.

The MV Hondius is currently off the coast of Cape Verde, a West African archipelago that is a popular holiday destination, and is not being allowed to dock because of the risk that infection will spread.

The cruise began in Argentina and was set to travel north up to the Canary Islands. The 69-year-old British passenger was taken to a hospital in Johannesburg.

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Experts have said the illness is likely to be caused by a strain of hantavirus that has a high death rate and can spread more easily, passing between people.

What is hantavirus?

Hantaviruses are a group of 38 viruses carried by rodents such as rats, mice and voles, most of which can cause disease in people. Symptoms vary from too mild to be noticed, to severe sickness and death.

The bugs can trigger two main types of illness, affecting either the lungs, as in this outbreak, or the kidneys. In the lung condition, the chest fills with fluid, which causes the lungs and the heart to stop working properly.

Hantavirus was also in the news last year, when actor Gene Hackman and his wife, concert pianist Betsy Arakawa, were discovered dead in their home in New Mexico. It was found that the disease caused the death of Arakawa, and it is believed Hackman, who had advanced Alzheimer’s, died a week later.

How does hantavirus usually spread?

Hantavirus is usually caught from rodent droppings, often when people breathe in dust contaminated with faeces, urine or saliva from infected animals.

In the UK, it is often caught by people who have been exposed via their job – for example, if they clean outbuildings where rats have been nesting.

“As you as you move the nest, that creates dust, and the virus is found in those bits of dust,” said Professor Adam Taylor, head of the clinical anatomy learning centre at Lancaster University.

“Rats do their business in relatively close proximity to the places that they’re residing.”

Why is person-to-person transmission suspected?

So far, only one person has been confirmed to have hantavirus, with five more suspected cases, according to the World Health Organisation. It is not yet known which type they have. But experts have speculated that the outbreak may involve a type called Andes hantavirus, which can be transmitted from person to person.

That is because the Andes strain is found in Argentina, where the passengers embarked on the cruise. Andes hantavirus also causes lung infections, as has affected the six people affected on this cruise.

“The Andes hantavirus is characterised by respiratory symptoms. It’s most likely this small outbreak in the boat is due to this,” said Professor Antti Vaheri, a virologist at the University of Helsinki.

The Andes strain may be fatal in 40 per cent of cases. “It’s a killer,” added Professor Vaheri.

Professor Rainer Günter Ulrich, former head of the National Reference Laboratory for Hantaviruses at Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut in Germany, said it was a “realistic assumption” that the outbreak involved the Andes hantavirus.

How could the virus have got on the ship?

Passengers or crew could have caught the virus in Argentina, and it then started spreading between passengers. Alternatively, rats in Argentina could have boarded the vessel.

“If a reservoir animal is on board, the virus can be transmitted by aerosolised excreta,” said Professor Ulrich. “To answer these questions, a study is needed to identify the site of the infection and when the first symptoms arose.

How can the cruise passengers stay safe?

Hondius has not been allowed to dock at Cape Verde, to stop the infection from spreading on to the islands.

That means there are about 150 people on the ship, including passengers and crew, under the threat of a deadly illness that can spread through the air.

“To prevent human-to-human transmission – if it really is the case that we have Andes virus on board – isolation of the passengers would be the best, meaning they stay in the cabin,” said Professor Ulrich. “When leaving the cabin, wearing a [high-quality] mask would be recommended.”

A spokesperson for cruise provider Oceanwide Expeditions said as of midnight on Sunday Cape Verde authorities had still not given permission for passengers to disembark. “Local health authorities have visited the vessel to assess the condition of the two symptomatic individuals. They are yet to make a decision regarding the transfer of these individuals into medical care in Cape Verde,” the spokesperson added.

Plan to ramp up heat pump and EV use under threat as UK electricity price doubles

Britain’s switch to greener energy is wobbling as new figures show the country is lagging behind most others in its use of electricity to power cars, homes and industry – with the cost doubling over 20 years.

The Government is pushing households to consider green technology such as rooftop solar panels and electric vehicles which will reduce the UK’s dependence on gas for home heating and petrol to power cars.

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband’s plan to reach net-zero carbon emissions then relies on using an electricity grid powered mostly by renewable sources to provide the energy consumed.

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However, data from across three dozen countries compiled by the pro-growth pressure group Britain Remade shows that Britain’s progress in switching to electric-powered technology is relatively poor.

The UK’s electricity use per person has fallen by 22 per cent since 2000, faster than every other country on earth apart from Yemen, Zimbabwe, Jamaica, Tajikistan and Syria – all much poorer and in some cases devastated by civil war.

While some of that decline is likely to be down to electrical devices becoming more energy efficient, this should have been offset by the growing uptake of electric cars, heat pumps and industrial processes switching to electric power.

Overall, 17.5 per cent of Britain’s energy consumption is driven by electricity. That compares to 50 per cent in Sweden and Norway, 32 per cent in France and 23 per cent in China.

Other countries which are ahead of the UK in electricity usage include Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan and Spain – and even the US, despite a perception that Americans still rely on fossil fuels more than other places.

It would take until 2086 at the current rate for Britain to catch up with China’s electricity usage and 300 years to reach the level of Sweden, according to Britain Remade.

Forecasts by the Government have proved optimistic

Official forecasts made by the Government have repeatedly proved overly optimistic, predicting a level of electricity adoption that has been much higher than the eventual outturn.

Britain Remade has blamed the cost of electricity for the disappointing pace of change, pointing out that the price for households has more than doubled in two decades even after controlling for inflation – while industrial users are paying 175 per cent more.

Electricity prices are relatively high in Britain because of factors including the difficulty of building new energy infrastructure due to strict planning regulations, and a pricing structure which means that wholesale costs are usually set by the cost of natural gas rather than renewables. The Government also puts additional costs on to electricity bills to pay for the green transition without having to use taxpayers’ cash directly.

The think-tank’s CEO Sam Richards said: “Electrification is how Britain wins. It is how we cut emissions, cut bills and compete for the industries of the future – heat pumps in our homes, electric cars on our roads, the data centres and factories that will power the next economy. Cheap, abundant electricity is the foundation of all of it.

“But we have made electricity so expensive that our own households and our own factories are being priced out of using it. Use per person has fallen further here than anywhere on Earth outside countries at war or under sanctions.

“And still, Whitehall forecasts a surge in demand that never comes. We are building a grid for a country that doesn’t exist.”

The Government has promised to change planning laws to make it easier to build the infrastructure that can boost energy supply and bring down prices, as well as subsidising households to switch to heat pumps and install solar panels and battery storage.

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero was approached for comment.

Starmer’s leadership rivals are circling. These are the hurdles they’d face to oust him

Rarely are the stakes this high when voters head to the polls in UK local elections.

If Friday’s results are as difficult for the Labour Party as projections suggest, Sir Keir Starmer could face a fresh wave of calls to resign from his own MPs – and even ministers.

Speculation over whether the Prime Minister has enough political capital to carry on has been swirling around Westminister for weeks.

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But the one thing that has protected him so far is the paralysis his three main rivals have faced when it comes to staging a challenge.

Based on conversations with a range of political sources, The i Paper has analysed the hurdles Starmer’s three main rivals would have to overcome in order to launch a leadership bid – and can reveal what one candidate in particular might want in return for remaining loyal.

Wes Streeting

Health Secretary Wes Streeting is widely believe to have put in the groundwork to get enough MPs to back him if he were to enter the race to be the next Labour leader at any time.

The MP for Ilford North has long been considered a frontrunner to take over due to the breadth of the support he can command, his political instincts and strong communication style.

But as the soft-left arm of the party seems to be growing in influence, a traditionally more right wing Labour candidate like Streeting is seeing his prospects diminishing.

He was also professionally close to Peter Mandelson before he was sacked as US ambassador, an association which could harm his standing among the wider Labour membership.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - APRIL 28, 2026: Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting arrives in Downing Street to attend the weekly Cabinet meeting in London, United Kingdom on April 28, 2026. (Photo credit should read Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Health Secretary Wes Streeting heading into Downing Street for a Cabinet meeting last week (Photo credit should read Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Sources close to Streeting have dismissed claims that he has secured the backing of enough MPs to launch a formal challenge at any time, saying: “Wes has said repeatedly, including in several interviews last week that he supports the PM and isn’t preparing to challenge him.”

And he is understood to be spending much of this week campaigning in Redbridge, his local council in East London.

It was here that a pro-Gaza independent candidate came close to kicking him out of the Commons at the last general election.

If Labour can hold off the challenge from a group of similar independents in these elections, it may help Streeting answer the claim sometimes made by his rivals that his own position in Parliament is too shaky for him to take over as leader.

Angela Rayner

The former Deputy Prime Minister has been the subject of a tax probe by HMRC after she was forced to step down from her Cabinet position for failing to pay the correct amount of stamp duty on an £800,000 seaside property in Hove.

A source close to Rayner told The i Paper she did not know when the investigation would conclude – but earlier reporting has suggested it is close to a resolution.

Without a clean slate, it is hard to see how Rayner could either stand for leader or make a return to the Cabinet.

If Starmer formally offered her a Cabinet position to win her loyalty, Rayner is expected to put forward her own conditions for accepting any position.

ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, MANCHESTER - APRIL 13: Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L), Labour Party MP and former deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner (C) and Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham (R) meet with schoolchildren during a visit to a primary school on April 13, 2026 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, north-west England. During the visit to the breakfast club, the Prime Minister is speaking about the government's policies aimed at providing support for families. (Photo by Paul Ellis - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Some sources have suggested that former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner and Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham could form a joint ticket to challenge the PM (Photo by Paul Ellis – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

She has, for example, been looking at policy papers being circulated by MPs calling on the Labour leadership to change course to see off the rise of populists on the left and right.

Both the soft left Tribune Group and the centrist Labour Growth Group (LGG) are due to present Starmer with bolder policy proposals to take forward in the aftermath of what is expected to be a dire set of election results.

The Tribune proposals will be published as a set of essays next week, while the LGG is due to publish a report, currently under the working title “An Honest Day”.

The report is likely to call for changes to taxation, so that it focuses more on taxing land and resources, rather than work and enterprise, and to regulate markets to stimulate greater competition, not to protect incumbents.

Crucially, neither of the Labour factions have warned against attempting to reform the welfare system, with the LGG warning it now “traps, rather than liberates” people on benefits and that a new system should actively reward contribution.

Reports have emerged in recent days citing allies of Rayner calling on the former deputy leader to move against the Prime Minister after Thursday’s elections.

But there is also skepticism among MPs and insiders as to whether Rayner actually wants the top job or would be happy with an influential Cabinet role. Some have suggested that she could form a joint ticket with Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham.

Andy Burnham

Burnham has made no secret of his desire to challenge Starmer but he cannot do so unless he is a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) – in other words, an MP.

He attempted to return to Parliament earlier this year and wanted to become the Labour candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election but was blocked from doing so by the party’s ruling body, which has so far been loyal to Starmer.

A Labour insider claimed that Burnham was now laying the groundwork for a leadership bid more methodically than his rushed and unsuccessful attempt to stand in the by-election.

They said those around Burnham were aware that they had not successfully done the groundwork in winning over the party’s National Executive Committee before declaring his intentions.

“His team are very open that they didn’t do the work before Gorton, and they are now,” they told The i Paper said.

Reports over the weekend suggested Burnham had successfully convinced them not to stand in his way should he make a second attempt, but his own team dismissed the claims as “gossip”.

A return to Westminster could open him up to criticism from Manchester residents for abandoning his position as Mayor – and putting political ambition first.

Several Labour MPs have suggested that talk of a Rayner-Burnham leadership pact is overblown, after he was photographed visiting Rayner’s constituency home in Ashton-under-Lyne last month. One Manchester Labour MP said: “I think they’re just good Manc mates.”

A pro-Burnham Labour MP said: “There is a lot of scuttlebutt going around. Much of it fevered speculation and wishful thinking. Pacts need two sides to agree on something. Talking isn’t a pact.”

However, the MP said that “a setting out of positions” may have taken place between the pair.

A Labour insider said they believed MPs had built Burnham up as a “dreamy and perfect” candidate, precisely because he was not currently available. “People can unite around Andy because he’s not here,” they said.

With MPs divided over who should take over if the PM were forced out, and fears over whether a change in leader could spook the bond markets, it is impossible to predict whether Starmer will stay in post. Nevertheless, he is about to face his toughest week in politics.

The Diego Simeone disciple desperate to manage Barnsley

He is the cartoon villain of the piece, football’s black-clad master of the dark arts, the man who got David Beckham sent off in Saint-Etienne all those years ago.

Beyond the caricature, though, Diego Simeone – the man whose Atletico Madrid side stand between Arsenal and the Champions League final on Tuesday – is a man who leaves a lasting mark on the players he works with.

Just ask former Barnsley player Hugo Colace. Now a coach himself, the 42-year-old Argentine spent only six months with Simeone during his time leading Estudiantes de La Plata two decades ago. Yet, it was enough to effect a “360-degree change” in Colace.

“He changed my mentality, the way I lived,” Colace tells The i Paper.

“He changed the way I played. He gave me discipline. I’d been a more tactical, positional midfield player; he made me more aggressive, more intense, more box to box.

“The main point is the intensity, day after day, because it’s not only in the game but in the week – you train hard every single day.”

Diego Simeone has been in charge of Atletico Madrid since 2011 (Photo: Getty)

Today, at 56, Simeone is no different, with one source at Atletico noting that he still “leaves nothing behind” on the training ground each day – an unrelenting approach that his players have no option but to follow.

It was at Estudiantes in 2006 that Simeone first showcased his coaching gifts by leading the club to their first league title in 23 years after defeating Boca Juniors 2-1 in the final.

Estudiantes’ best years had come in the late 1960s when they played a notorious two-legged Intercontinental Cup final against Manchester United in 1968, featuring red cards for Nobby Stiles and George Best.

In their midfield was Carlos Bilardo, later coach of Argentina’s 1986 World Cup-winning team, and a player described as “an expert in immobilising his opponent”.

The same might be said of Atletico, given the outstanding defensive organisation and discipline that have helped take them to the cusp of Simeone’s third Champions League final with the Rojiblancos. 

Yet, as Colace attests, Simeone has an appreciation of good football too.

Colace had come through the ranks of Argentinos Juniors, Diego Maradona’s first club, as a teenager.

As a result, Simeone would tell him: “Come on, Hugo, Maradona and [Fernando] Redondo were born there, if you come from that club, you can’t play a bad pass.”

BARNSLEY, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 22: Hugo Colace #5 of Barnsley celebrates scoring the third goal during the Carling Cup Third Round game between Barnsley and Burnley at Oakwell on September 22, 2009 in Barnsley, England. (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)
Colace joined Barnsley from Newell’s Old Boys in 2008 (Photo: Getty)

Twenty years on, Simeone shows similar admiration for Antoine Griezmann, Atleti’s floating French attacker who was their biggest threat in the first leg.

Simeone called him “a genius” when they sat on the dais together at a recent press conference following the announcement of Griezmann’s summer departure for MLS side Orlando City.

That said, for all the mutual respect – and the pair have holidayed together with their families – Griezmann has said their conversations seldom stray beyond football.

As for Colace, the Simeone experience set him up to shine in the Championship with Barnsley.

He arrived in south Yorkshire fresh from a loan spell at Brazilian club Flamengo, swapping the Maracana for Oakwell, where he hit the ground running.

“Thanks to Simeone’s intensity I was able to do well at Barnsley,” says Colace, who collected the club’s player of the year award in 2009-10 when, under manager Mark Robins, he scored seven league goals from midfield.

Colace was back at Oakwell on Saturday to watch their 3-1 loss to Stockport County in Conor Hourihane’s last match as manager.

The connection he forged with the club as a player means that “it’s the place in the world that I dream of returning to as coach”.

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Once captain of an Argentina Under-20 team including Javier Mascherano, Carlos Tevez and Pablo Zabaleta, Colace played in 10 countries, ending his career in Wales with Bangor City, where he subsequently faced a managerial baptism of fire.

Bangor were in the Welsh second tier, Cymru North, but after Italian owner Domenico Serafino disappeared, the club were suspended from the division.

In 2022, with players unpaid for months, they withdrew from the league altogether.

“Overnight he vanished and left the club with nothing,” Colace says.

“My assistant Riccardo [Pellegrini] and I had to do everything – we had to buy food for the players, clean the club buildings, try to find sponsors.”

While his coaching badges carry the stamp of the English FA, Simeone’s influence remains strong – right down to his black attire on the touchline during his recent spell coaching Atletico Tucuman in his home country.

Now, however, this Simeone disciple is back in the UK, and will be at the Emirates for Tuesday’s semi-final second leg.

While El Cholo aims for a Champions League final in Budapest, though, Colace is dreaming of Barnsley.

What you need to know about hantavirus

Three passengers on an Atlantic cruise ship have died, a British man is intensive care, and two crew members are sick, amid an outbreak of hantavirus, spread by rats.

The ship is currently off the coast of Cape Verde, an African island that is a popular holiday destination, and is not being allowed to dock because of the risk the infection will spread.

The cruise began in Argentina and was set to travel north up to the Canary islands. The 69-year-old British passenger was taken to a hospital in Johannesburg.

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Experts have said the illness is likely to be caused by a strain of hantavirus that has a high death rate and can spread more easily, passing between people.

What is hantavirus infection?

Hantaviruses are a group of 38 viruses carried by rodents, such as rats, mice and voles, most of which can cause disease in people. Symptoms vary from being too mild to be noticed, to severe sickness and death.

Hantaviruses can cause two main types of illness, affecting either the lungs, as in this outbreak, or the kidneys. In the lung condition, the chest fills with fluid, which causes the lungs and the heart to stop working properly.

Hantavirus was also in the news last year, when it caused the death of actor Gene Hackman’s wife, concert pianist Betsy Arakawa.

How does the infection usually spread?

Hantavirus is usually caught from rodent droppings, often when people breathe in dust contaminated with faeces, urine or saliva from infected animals.

In the UK, it is often caught by people exposed through their job, for instance, if they clean outbuildings where rats have been nesting.

“As you as you move the nest, that creates dust, and the virus is found in those bits of dust,” said Professor Adam Taylor, head of the clinical anatomy learning centre at Lancaster University.

“Rats do their business in relatively close proximity to the places that they’re residing.”

Why is person-to-person transmission suspected?

So far, only one person has been confirmed to have hantavirus, with five more suspected cases, according to the World Health Organization. It is not yet known which type they have. But experts have speculated that the outbreak may involve a type called Andes hantavirus, which can be transmitted from person to person.

That’s because the Andes strain is found in Argentina, where the passengers embarked on the cruise. And Andes hantavirus causes lung infections, as has affected the six people affected on this cruise.

“The Andes hantavirus is characterised by respiratory symptoms. It’s most likely this small outbreak in the boat is due to this,” said Professor Antti Vaheri, a virologist at the University of Helsinki.

The Andes hantavirus may be fatal in 40 per cent of people infected. “It’s a killer,” said Professor Vaheri.

Professor Rainer Günter Ulrich, the former head of the National Reference Laboratory for Hantaviruses at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute in Germany, said it was a “realistic assumption” that the outbreak involved the Andes hantavirus.

How could the virus have got on to the vessel?

Passengers or crew could have caught the virus in Argentina, and it then started spreading between passengers. Alternatively, rats in Argentina could have boarded the vessel.

“If a reservoir animal is on board, the virus can be transmitted by aerosolized excreta,” said Professor Ulrich.

“To answer these questions, a study is needed to identify the site of the infection and when the first symptoms arose.

How can the cruise passengers stay safe?

The ship, M/V Hondius, has not been allowed to dock at Cape Verde, to stop the infection from spreading on to the island.

That means there are about 150 people on the ship, including passengers and crew, under the threat of a deadly illness circulating that can spread through the air.

“To prevent human-to-human transmission – if it really is the case that we have Andes virus on board – isolation of the passengers would be the best, meaning they stay in the cabin,” said Professor Ulrich. “When leaving the cabin, wearing a [high-quality] mask would be recommended.”

A spokesperson for the cruise provider Oceanwide Expeditions said as of midnight on Sunday that Cape Verde authorities had still not given permission for passengers to disembark. “Local health authorities have visited the vessel to assess the condition of the two symptomatic individuals. They are yet to make a decision regarding the transfer of these individuals into medical care in Cape Verde.”

I’m Jewish – antisemites are hiding behind free speech

With characteristic pithiness and perspicacity, the comedian and filmmaker Mel Brooks encapsulated the whole panoply of Jewish culture, and an entire history of overcoming tragedy, in one line. “If you can laugh at it, you can survive it,” he said.

So, it is that much of Jewish humour is generally characterised by a knowing, almost self-deprecating, quality, a witty observation in the face of adversity. Brooks has impeccable credentials in this area: it was in his seminal film, The Producers, that Hitler’s persecution of the Jews was turned into a musical, Springtime for Hitler. “Don’t be stupid, be a smarty/Come and join the Nazi party”, sang the chorus line.

That’s not to say that Jews will laugh at anything, but it does go some way to explain why the reaction of British Jews to the antisemitic horror that exploded in the Golders Green area of north London last week was not to get militant, not to take to the streets in furious protest, or to march on Westminster demanding the Government take action, but more a mixture of self-possession and steely resolve.

We are all appalled and dismayed, and some of us may even feel scared to go about our daily business. And yet the natural response of the overwhelming majority of Jews in the face of this latest expression of antisemitism is not to make a fuss. That disposition – call it heroic, stoic or pragmatic – is more likely the scar tissue of millennia, and a history which includes the Pharaohs, the pogroms and the Holocaust. And, of very recent memory, Bondi Beach and Heaton Park, where Jews were also murdered just for being Jewish. We have been through worse. Much worse.

For most of our time in exile, particularly in Europe, the Jewish diaspora has lived at the sufferance of others. To draw attention was to invite resentment; and resentment invited violence. The lesson was absorbed across generations: do not be conspicuous, do not complain too loudly, do not antagonise the predominant culture. Assimilation meant survival. This may seem paradoxical when so many Jews have risen to achieve pre-eminence in business, entertainment and indeed politics, but it was a rational response to a world in which antisemitism seemed perpetually to exist just below the surface.

And this is how most of Britain’s 320,000 Jews generally go about the business of being Jewish. (Interestingly, according to the 2021 Census, around 34 per cent of UK Jews identify as secular, or as having no religion.) There is a particular anxiety about calling out antisemitism, too. It casts us into victimhood, and, moreover, would draw attention to our Jewishness. In truth, we generally do outrage in private.

I was born Jewish, but have preferred to wear my Judaism lightly. Growing up in Manchester, ours was not an especially observant household – the nearest thing my father got to giving me spiritual guidance was his advice not to buy retail – and I’ve never gone out of my way to identify as Jewish (even though, for some reason, Wikipedia seems to think it’s the most interesting thing about me).

It’s hard, however, to avoid being radicalised by what’s going on at the moment. A lot of people who don’t like Jews in the first place have found oxygen for their poisonous views while antisemitism is legitimised as an expression of the horror at what’s going on in Gaza. We cannot simply dismiss this as an epic non-sequitur, peddled by useful idiots, and get on with our day. Not now, not now that peace-abiding British citizens are being knifed in suburban streets merely for their faith.

The question is no longer whether antisemitism exists in British life. It is there all right, in both subtle and overt forms, in private clubs, in universities, on social media, proclaimed loudly on banners, and in chants, on our streets, even in political parties who say they stand against prejudice. I think we have to agree that it has gone largely unchecked, its apologists hiding behind free speech issues.

Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party, talks nonsense when he says he has no interest in policing what people say. Of course you have to police hate speech: protecting minority groups is a first principle of a liberal democracy.

So, yes, send the marines in to safeguard Jewish schools and synagogues. But that’s only part of the answer. Antisemitism, like other forms of racism, feeds on the grievance politics that has become the lingua franca of those who seek to polarise opinion, whether from the left or the right. Jews and non-Jews alike have a role to play in re-establishing respect in public discourse, which includes consideration for the beliefs of others, and zero tolerance for anything that diminishes the worries of a minority group.

In the wake of the Golders Green attack, however, it’s in Jewish communities where pain and anxiety is acutely felt. They should not be left to fight antisemitism alone. Visible, consistent support from wider society is critical. That means speaking out, mobilising political will and resisting the temptation to minimise or relativise antisemitism compared with other forms of hate.

Jews should not regard this moment as an existential threat. There have been much worse moments down the years. But history tells us that terrible things can happen when the hateful depiction of Jewish people is allowed to thrive. It is definitely time to make a fuss.

Fãs de Emmerdale ‘confirmam’ resultado enquanto a sentença de assassinato vai ao ar

Chegou a hora do julgamento do assassinato de Ray Walters na novela ITV

É hora de Bear, Paddy e Dylan enfrentarem seu futuro(Imagem: ITV)

Os fãs de Emmerdale “confirmaram” o resultado enquanto Bear Wolf, Paddy Kirk e Dylan Penders enfrentam o que fizeram no tribunal.

No ano passado, Bear Wolf desapareceu durante meses depois de começar a se sentir isolado e vulnerável na aldeia. Dizendo a Paddy que estava indo para a Irlanda, ele foi embora.

No entanto, depois de meses sem notícias dele, a novela da ITV revelou que ele estava trabalhando como escravo em uma fazenda a poucos minutos da vila de Emmerdale, nas mãos de Ray e Celia, que administravam seu negócio merciless e explorador.

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Bear disse a Ray que seu nome period Ted e que vivia na miséria enquanto trabalhava até os ossos por muito pouco. Os indivíduos tiveram seus telefones e passaportes retirados, impedindo-os de contato com o mundo exterior.

Depois que Dylan e April foram preparados por Ray para traficar drogas para ele, Dylan foi levado para a fazenda onde Celia lhe disse que estava pronta para torná-lo o “novo Ray” enquanto lhe mostrava seu negócio.

Emblem tudo foi exposto e Celia tentou começar uma nova vida no País de Gales com Ray ao seu lado. No entanto, Ray acabou matando Celia na tentativa de tirá-la de sua vida para sempre.

Ray também encontrou seu fim mortal depois de ameaçar Paddy e Dylan. Mesmo que os espectadores acreditassem que Bear havia morrido, ele apareceu e estrangulou Ray antes que ele caísse no chão, sem vida.

A partir da noite de segunda-feira (4 de maio), terá início a sentença do trio. Eles enfrentarão a vida atrás das grades? Ou a história de Bear será ouvida pelo júri?

Enquanto os espectadores esperam para ver qual será o resultado, alguns já têm certeza de que resolveram o problema na esperança de que Bear possa voltar para casa após sua provação.

Em um Instagram postado por Emmerdale, @aaron_cormiskey teorizou: “Acho que Bear se safa ao ver que ele foi abusado por Ray, mas Paddy e Dylan são punidos por perverter o curso da justiça e mover o corpo”.

Outro visualizador, @lucyannebridge concordou e disse: “Bear deveria sair porque não estava com o estado de espírito certo. Paddy provavelmente deveria cair.”

Emmerdale vai ao ar durante a semana às 20h no ITV1 e também está disponível para transmissão no ITVX ou YouTube a partir das 7h.