TROUBLED Paul Gascoigne’s agent told last night how the soccer legend needs help “immediately” — as video emerged showing the tragic extent of the star’s public disintegration.
Terry Baker said he was “desperately worried” about Gazza, seen in a rambling ten-minute appearance at a charity bash. He added: “He immediately needs to get some help. His life is always in danger because he is an alcoholic.”
Yesterday we revealed how the ex-England star, looking far older than his 45 years, sobbed and shook uncontrollably during an interview with Terry before 500 guests in Northampton on Thursday.
Terry said Gazza was “incoherent and drunk” after a stay in a medical facility where someone died as he held their hand.
He added: “Maybe no one can save him, I really do not know.”
Fallen star ... Paul Gascoigne in show
Terry, who spoke to Gazza yesterday, said: “He has got to want to help himself. He has to recognise the problem, I think deep down he does. But he didn’t know he was shaking on Thursday.”
As the fallen star starts sobbing, Terry tries to hold his arm still and continue the interview. But Gazza is unable to remember the script. He slurs: “I’ve been on a whisky diet.”
With the audience walking out fearing Gazza was “dying in front of our eyes”, he is helped off stage.
The main tipped as the next big challenger to Cain Velasquez's UFC heavyweight title saw his championship hopes go up in smoke after a spectacular TKO loss to Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva at UFC 156
Saturday night's UFC 156 event at the Mandalay Bay Event Center proved that you can never take anything for granted in the fight game, and especially in the toughest arena for fighters, the UFC.
Jose Aldo survived a late flurry by Frankie Edgar to hang on to his UFC featherweight title in the night's main event, but that bout, entertaining though it was, was overshadowed by a huge shock in the heavyweight bout between Alistair Overeem and Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva.
Despite Silva's pedigree, Overeem's multiple world titles, coupled with his destruction of Brock Lesnar in his last fight, marked him out as the massive favourite going into the fight.
The Dutchman was already being lined up as the next challenger to UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez, but those plans went up in smoke when Overeem was knocked out in dramatic fashion in the final round.
Overeem dominated rounds one and two, showing a blatant disregard for Silva's striking skills that bordered on cocky. That over-confidence backfired in the worst way as, at the start of the third round, Silva landed a huge head kick that rocked "The Reem".
Sensing his opportunity had arrived, the huge Brazilian threw the kitchen sink at Overeem, unleashing a salvo of huge punches that rocked, then knocked out, the Dutchman to leave the crowd stunned.
That wasn't the only surprise result of the night, as Jon Fitch, considered one of the best 170-pounders in the world, dropped to a decision defeat against Jiu Jitsu ace Demian Maia.
The Brazilian comprehensively out-grappled Fitch, effectively turning the tables on the American on his way to a shutout win on the scorecards.
Also on the card, Joseph Benavidez took a decision victory against fellow flyweight contender Ian McCall in the first bout on the main card.
Elsewhere, the co-main event between Rashad Evans and Antonio Rogerio Nogueira was the biggest disappointment of the night, with neither man really showing their best form in a dull three round contest that went the way of the Brazilian.
The bout was so bad, UFC president Dana White tweeted, saying he scored it two rounds to nil for Nogueira, and that nobody won the first round because "it sucked".
The England legend won the hearts of French fans last week after vowing to play at his new club Paris Saint-Germain for nothing
Behind every great man...
FilmMagic
David Beckham’s decision to give all his £3.3million football wages to a children’s charity was his wife Victoria’s idea, it has emerged.
The England legend won the hearts of French fans last week after vowing to play at his new club Paris Saint-Germain for nothing, the Sunday People has reported.
But it was Posh, 38, who suggested he give up his £150,000 a week pay – because she knows he is passionate about helping children. When she put the idea to Becks, he agreed immediately.
Victoria Beckham in London
Splash
A source close to David, 37, said: “Victoria thought giving money to such a good cause would be a brilliant and kind thing to do.
“She and David don’t need the cash, they have plenty already. But they do like helping others.
“Victoria knows David loves playing football, he has never been doing it for the money. And he has always been keen on helping youngsters who are having a tough time. So when she mentioned it, he thought it was a great plan.
“They then told their management, who agreed it was a lovely, selfless thing for him to do.”
PARIS, FRANCE - JANUARY 31: International soccer player David Beckham attends the press conference for his PSG signing at Parc des Princes on January 31, 2013 in Paris, France. (Photo by Marc Piasecki/Getty Images)
Marc Piasecki
PARIS, FRANCE - JANUARY 31: International soccer player David Beckham poses with his PSG Football shirt after his PSG signature at Parc des Princes on January 31, 2013 in Paris, France. (Photo by Marc Piasecki/Getty Images)
Marc Piasecki
After signing a five-month deal with French Ligue 1 side PSG, David said: “The money doesn’t interest me, I want to play for the best team, the best club.
“I won’t receive any salary. We have decided my salary will go towards a local children’s charity and that’s one of the things we’re very excited and proud to do. We haven’t decided the charity yet.”
Becks has worked tirelessly for good causes. He is an ambassador for UNICEF, a big supporter of the NSPCC, has worked on Comic Relief campaigns and last year took part in a Save the Children campaign, persuading Prime Minister David Cameron to take action on global malnutrition.
David, worth around £190million with Posh, has also declined to take fees from the sales of replica No32 Beckham shirts. All profits will go to PSG.
During his five years at his former US club LA Galaxy, he took 50 per cent of income from shirt sales.
David Beckham and Victoria Beckham with their three sons
Getty Images
The source added: “David won’t be taking any money from merchandising at PSG. It’s about football for him. He is delighted to be there.”
Victoria will live in London with their four children, Brooklyn, 13, Romeo, nine, Cruz, seven, and Harper, one.
But the former Spice Girl turned fashion designer will take them to Paris to watch their dad play regularly.
Since returning from Los Angeles, the Beckhams have been living in a rented £20million mansion in Knightsbridge, central London.ew he had to be up but it would be fair to say he was given a bit of wriggle room because it was his birthday after all.”
Houses, restaurants, cafes and flats all converted from public toilets
Property for sale, no chain... It’s a perfect offer for a wave of people making their homes in old LOOS.
This is no potty scheme but the result of councils closing down sites and selling them to raise cash, the Sunday People has reported.
A deluge of old public lavatories has come on the market.
The British Toilet Association says more than 600 have been shut for good in the past 18 months – with planning permission for many to be turned into homes.
But buyers may need to spend a pretty penny doing them up.
It cost Laura Jane Clark £60,000 to convert an underground toilet in Crystal Palace, South London. Now it is her dream flat.
Her living room was the gents’ cubicles and urinals. Her bathroom was the cleaner’s cubby.
Thick glass tiles on the pavement are in her ceiling giving natural light to her one-bedroom home below street level. Laura, 32, said: “I love the originality of living in a toilet.”
AFTER: The public toilet following Laura Clark's conversion
Tracy Woodhouse and partner Graham Peck transformed a seafront public lavatory into a home with magnificent views in Scarborough, North Yorks.
A £35,000 refit turned the gents’ into the lounge and the ladies’ into the bedroom and bathroom.
Tracy, 47, said: “Some people joke about it. At work they’ll say things like, ‘Oh yes, you’re the couple who live in a lavatory.’
“We have a lovely little house with a sea view that used to be a loo. We understand the amusement it causes. It tickles us too.”
Jon Du Croz and partner Emma Lally’s project was doing up a dingy loo in Witney, Oxford.
They bought the site for £36,000 and spent £155,000 renovating it and a neighbouring substation.
Jon’s first plan was to build a house from scratch but he could not afford it. He said: “I had to see the potential in something that nobody else wanted.”
Builder Nick Willan paid £104,000 for a toilet block dating from 1900. It was a 30th anniversary present for his wife Sue.
Now it is their ideal home with sea views in Sheringham, Norfolk. Nick, 55, said: “It has awesome views. You just can’t beat it.”
A public toilet before Tracey Woodhouse and partner Graham Peck turned it into an apartment
The council shut the Victorian conveniences in 2006 because they needed a lot of improvements plus electrical work.
They opted to sell and put the proceeds into building a new lavatory block 300 yards farther along the beach. Nick is busy spending £30,000 adding an extra floor with a spiral staircase, balconies and big windows.
In a final creative touch the couple have decided to rename the property Wee Retreat.
Old loos across the land are being converted into homes AND business premises.
One was bought by a charity and turned into a cafe in Bristol. Takings will provide support for the elderly and disabled.
The toilets cost £20,000, snapped up by church-run Sea Mills Community Initiatives, who manage to raise £120,000 for the conversion.
Chairman of the trustees Andrew Street smiled and said: “It’s quite small but perfectly formed. We thought about calling it The Wee Cafe but decided against it.”
Toilets in Peckham Rye Park, South East London, have been turned into a thriving pre-school, the Rye Garden Day Nursery.
PTomlinson spent redundancy money from his marketing job converting a former public lavatory into a sandwich and coffee bar in Oxford Street in the heart of London’s West End.
The old attendant’s office has been converted into a kitchen and the urinals are now table tops in a project which has cost more than £100,000.
Peter, who calls his place The Attendant, said: “Everything has been jet washed. It smells beautiful down here now.”
An underground Victorian loo In Manchester became a bar called the Temple of Convenience.
An Edwardian block which contained TWO loos has been turned into the Toulouse restaurant in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex.
Facilities which had been shut for two years were available again because owner Colin Thorne opened his toilets to the public. Persistent vandalism to lavatories in Bearwood, West Midlands, forced a council to close them down in 2011. Businessman Barry Hall is developing them into a deli and restaurant but he also include new public loos.
British Toilet Association director Raymond Martin said: “It’s quirky and all very well for people to move into converted toilets but councils need to make sure they are being replaced.
“This does not always happen because councils are not obliged to provide toilets. The facilities can help bring money into an area by making it more attractive for shoppers and tourists to visit.”
The furry rodent emerged from his hole today to a waiting audience of thousands in Gobbler’s Knob, west-central Pennsylvania - but did not see his shadow
Prediction: Punxsutawney Phil says spring will come early
Getty
Punxsutawney Phil has made his prediction on the 127th annual Groundhog Day – and he says it will be an early spring.
The furry rodent emerged from his hole today to a waiting audience of thousands in Gobbler’s Knob, west-central Pennsylvania.
But the famous winter-weather prognosticator did not see his shadow – meaning spring will come early this year.
.
Getty
Legend has it that if the groundhog sees his shadow on February 2, winter will last six more weeks.
But if he does not, spring will come early.
At least that is what the Inner Circle says - the group that dons top hats and tuxedos on roundhog Day each year to oversee the ceremony.
Inner Circle president Bill Deeley said that after "consulting" with Phil, he makes the call in deciphering what the world's most famous groundhog has to say about the weather.
Wakey wakey: The Inner Circle tap on Phil's door
Getty
And Phil has company this year. Groundhogs in Atlanta, New York and Ontario also make predictions.
But Punxsutawney partisans say Phil is the original and the best.
The 1993 movie Groundhog Day starring Bill Murray brought the Pennsylvania rodent even more notoriety.
Organisers say around 20,000 people were expected this weekend, a larger-than-normal crowd because Groundhog Day falls on a weekend this year.
The college student, from Blackpool, Lancashire, was found in the South Shore area of the resort at about 9pm on Thursday
A TEENAGE girl whose body was found burning in an alleyway had been stabbed dozens of times in the face and head.
The frenzied attack on college student Sasha Marsden, 16, was described by police as “one of the worst” they had ever seen.
It is believed the killer had tried to cover his tracks by setting her body ablaze after attacking Sasha in a nearby guest house.
Detectives were yesterday granted extra time to question a 22-year-old man. A 20-year-old woman arrested earlier was released without charge. Police are investigating Facebook messages between Sasha and the suspect.
A source said: “This is one of the worst murders police in the area have ever seen. It was brutal beyond words.”
Dog walkers who discovered the body at 9.15pm on Thursday initially mistook it for a mannequin.
Local businessman Darren Roles said: “She was curled up but the white of her back looked just like a shop dummy. It is too horrific to think about.”
Hotel owner Carl Evans said: “The first thing I knew something was wrong was when the fire alarm went off next door.
“The alarm was raised a short time later when a neighbour came across what turned out to be a burning body.”
Police inquiries are concentrating on the Grafton House guest house in Blackpool, Lancashire, where the attack took place.
A member of the teenager’s family said: “We are traumatised. Sasha was just starting out in her life and for it to be cut short in this appalling manner is dreadful.”
The tragedy happened four months after Sasha, who lived in the area, went missing for six days, sparking a frantic search.
She was eventually found a week later 300 miles away in Lowestoft, Suffolk. It is not known why she went missing.
The craze in dog grooming has increased dramatically thanks to TV shows such as TOWIE and Real Housewives
routine trip to the dog groomers for Trudie the cocker spaniel... but she ended up being burned so badly she had to be put down.
After her bath, the seven-year-old pet, much loved by her owners, was dumped in a tarpaulin-covered cage fixed to a heater to dry off.
This resulted in severe burns and internal bleeding and her owner Maureece Sarell took the heart-breaking decision to end her suffering.
She said: “I can’t imagine what she went through in that contraption.”
Trudie was a victim of unlicensed groomers... one of the growing number of family pets burned, maimed or killed at unregulated parlours.
The craze in dog grooming has increased dramatically thanks to TV shows such as TOWIE and Real Housewives, where pampered pooches are often taken to “beauty” parlours.
Experts now fear that celebrity culture and reality shows are creating a boom for unqualified groomers. They have called for the industry to be regulated to prevent more deaths and injuries.
In the last two years, the RSPCA has brought prosecutions against four different businesses which burned dogs under giant dryers. Anna Claxton, scientific officer, said: “While dogs do need grooming they should not be treated as people.”
Owner: Maureece
Caters
Jo Taylor, who ran the Yensid dog grooming business in Wigston, Leicester, where Trudie was fatally injured in 2011, has been convicted of failing in her duty of care following a prosecution brought by the RSPCA.
She was given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £350 costs.
In another case a shih-tzu puppy was baked to death in a giant hairdryer in Sheffield in 2010.
Online forums are filled with complaints about dangerous groomers.
Torture chamber: The drying cage
One owner posted a picture of her dog’s ear with a huge 2.5in gash sustained after a trim at a dog parlour. In another post a user tells how her Yorkshire terrier and poodle were both left with blood-red ears after a groomer plucked too much hair.
Animal welfare chiefs are backing the call for regulations and claim too many businesses are set up without proper training and equipment. Currently anyone can set up as a dog groomer without any training or licensing.
Space rock will pass beneath satellites and will be the nearest miss ever known
metre lump of space rock with the destructive power of an H-bomb will narrowly miss Earth a week on Friday, the Sunday People has reported.
The mini asteroid will fly BENEATH satellites on February 15, missing us by 15,000 miles, the nearest ever known.
Don Yeomans of NASA’s Near Earth Object Programme said: “It will be a record-setting close approach though the orbit of the asteroid is known well enough to rule out an impact.”
But the asteroid will keep coming back every year and astronomers cannot rule out an impact on one of its visits.
The lump, the size of a block of flats, would flatten London if it hit the capital.
“The most important thing about this asteroid is it reminds us the threat from such objects is very real,” said Jonti Horner, astronomer at Australia’s University of New South Wales.
The asteroid – named 2012 DA14 after it was discovered last year – is one of 500,000 known rocks circling us. Experts predict there are many more.
International governments are currently in talks on how to deflect one if it was on a collision course with us.
One proposal would be knock it off course by flying rockets at it.
The European Space Agency plans to practise this on 800-metre asteroid Didymos in 2020.
Other proposals include nuking asteroids with missiles.
It was an asteroid six miles across which is believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Anything larger than 1,000 metres wide would cause a global catastrophe.
The map of the UK, as seen from space by Nasa’s Terra satellite, shows the country almost completely engulfed in white
Chilly: The UK blanketed in snow as seen from the Nasa Terra satellite
NASA
Britain was blanketed by a final fall of heavy snow last weekend, as this incredible satellite image shows.
The map of the UK, as seen from space by Nasa’s Terra satellite, shows the country almost completely engulfed in white.
Scotland, northern England, the Midlands and the east were hardest hit with heavy snow and ice causing widespread disruption.
Drivers were stuck for up to 10 hours as blizzards brought one of Britain’s busiest motorways to a grinding halt.
Mountain rescue teams and police were called in to help as a foot of snow fell in just over an hour, causing chaos on both directions of the M6 in Lancashire.
Following the heavy snow, more than 200 flood alerts were issued as heavy rain mixed with melting snow caused further weather battles.
The image was captured by Nasa's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on its Terra satellite.
A spokesman said the incident happened outside the grounds of the palace just before midday
A man has been Tasered and arrested outside Buckingham Palace
Getty
The Metropolitan Police has confirmed that a Taser stun gun has been used on a manoutside Buckingham Palace.
A spokesman said the incident happened outside the grounds of the palace just before midday. The man was arrested.
Mobile phone footage uploaded to YouTube shows mounted officers directing onlookers to move away from the incident before blasting the man with the stun gun.
A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said they would not comment as it was a police matter.
According to the claims of some observers on Twitter, the Changing of the Guard ceremony was interrupted by a man 'carrying one or more knives'.
A scene was cordoned off with police tape 30 metres from the palace gates and an ambulance was parked to the side of the building.
Inside the cordoned-off area lay two knives with six-inch blades and a pair of Nike high top trainers.
In other snaps taken by onlooker @LondonPRGuru, remnants of what appears to be the Taser's insulated wire as well as shoes - said to be those worn by the man before he was shocked - can be seen strewn behind police lines.
Four plastic tubes of two different sizes, three large ones and a small one were also spotted, said to be police property used for removing "sharps".
A hat and a black carrier bag containing paper material with a handkerchief beside it also lay on the ground.
Police at the scene were telling members of the public that a man "tried to make an exhibition of himself during the guard change" and that there were "mental health issues".
Two knives at the scene
PA
A pair of trainers and a backpack left in the a cordoned off area
PA
The man "tried to make an exhibition of himself during the guard change"
PA
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: "It was approximately 11.50. A man was seen outside the centre gate in possession of two knives.
"He was not making threats to members of the public but he was challenged by police.
"He acted aggressively and a taser was discharged.
"He isr and St Paul church in thought to be in his fifties. He was arrested on suspicion of affray and has been taken to a central London police station."
PA
Eyewitness Kevin Burrows, 33, from Surrey, said the man broke through a cordon as the changing of the guard was about to happen.
The kitchen porter said: "I thought 'Oh my God, I can't believe it'. There must have been about 15 police officers on foot who surrounded him once he'd been Tasered.
"The police saw him really quickly and were obviously cautious. He was in his 40s I'd say and I think he had knives in both hands.
"Everybody was standing back when it happened and people were actually quite calm, I think everyone was surprised.
"They had to divert the procession away from him. I think he was making his way to the guards."
