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Jeremy Kyle is returning to TV screens after nearly three years off air

The 56-year-old presenter has been confirmed as part of the launch of TalkTV on 25 April.

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Jeremy Kyle is set to make a return to our TV screens after what has been nearly three controversial years since he was last on air.

The Jeremy Kyle Show was first broadcast on ITV back in 2005, and ran for 17 seasons producing over 3,000 episodes, before it was scrapped in 2019 after the shocking death of guest Steve Dymond – who passed away a week after “failing” a lie detector test on the popular daytime talkshow.

Now, the 56-year-old presenter – who currently presents the Drivetime slot on talkRadio – has been confirmed as part of the launch of TalkTV on 25 April.

Piers Morgan’s new global show, Uncensored, will also debut on the channel on the same day.

Confirming Kyle’s return to screens, a spokesperson for the new TV channel said in a statement: “TalkTV’s primetime schedule will also be simulcast on talkRadio, and talkRadio’s roster of daytime talent, including Julia Hartley-Brewer, Mike Graham, Ian Collins and Jeremy Kyle, will be broadcast on talkTV.

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“TalkRadio has seen fast growth in recent years across all platforms and has been broadcasting successfully on talkRadio TV since last year.”

Jeremy Kyle has been confirmed as part of the launch of TalkTV on 25 April / Credit: TalkTV

If the reasoning behind his exit from TV wasn’t controversial enough at the time, the news of Kyle’s on screen comeback comes just weeks after a Channel 4 documentary, named Death On Daytime, explored the scandals behind what was once daytime TV’s biggest show, and what it was like for employees working there.

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Kyle addressed the documentary on his talkRadio show after it aired, telling his listeners: “I have said that I will not comment on the tragic death of Steve Dymond until the legal process has finished and that is the position that I will maintain.

“And when, and trust me there will be a time after the inquest, when it is right and proper for me to have my say.

“Because of course, there are two sides to every single story.”

Featured Image – ITV

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Bents Garden Centre – the Christmas wonderland that everyone, including Molly-Mae Hague, obsesses over

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Don’t ask us when it happens, but there’s a point in life where you favourite place on earth becomes a garden centre.

And garden centres don’t come much fancier than Bents Garden Centre, an enormous sprawl of a building filled with the obvious stuff (like, you know, garden plants) but also so much more.

The Warrington favourite is never more popular than at Christmas, when it turns into a twinkling wonderland and people from across the north west make the pilgrimage.

There are colourful decorations spilling out from every corner, from themed baubles to fairy lights to festive soft furnishings.

Bents Garden Centre does not hold back on its decorating – this year alone there are Alpine dining scenes, a life-size car with presents spilling out of the boot, and an arctic landscape with polar bears and igloos.

That’s on top of a whole display inspired by an ice cream parlour, and others that take inspiration from woodland and The Grinch.

There’s also a winter food market, where wooden lodges sell everything from Yorkshire pudding wraps to bratwurst sausages to beef brisket sandwiches.

Inside Bents Garden Centre at Christmas
Inside Bents Garden Centre at Christmas
Inside Bents Garden Centre at Christmas
Inside Bents Garden Centre at Christmas
Inside Bents Garden Centre at Christmas
Inside Bents Garden Centre at Christmas
Inside Bents Garden Centre at Christmas
Inside Bents Garden Centre at Christmas. Credit: The Manc Group

In the outside space there are heated dining globes, decorated with plants, blankets and bunting.

Bents garden centre is so popular, it even had a fairly famous visitor a couple of years ago, when Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury popped in for a day out, documenting the whole thing to her (at the time) 1.7m YouTube subscribers.

She proudly showed off a trolley piled high with food-themed baubles, in the shape of cakes, doughnuts, gingerbread men, candy canes, and even a giant pink lollipop.

She said: “Don’t ask me why we’ve never come here before. It’s SO cosy.”

Molly-Mae added: “This garden centre, Bents, in I think Warrington, it’s unbelievable. I don’t know why we’ve never come here before.

“It’s kind of like a farm shop too, they’ve got food and food stalls. I am so excited to come back here with a baby next year, like it’s so special.

“It is quite expensive I’m not gonna lie, to get all the decorations and things, but we’ll keep them each year and reuse them.”

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Featured image: The Manc Group

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Manchester scientists have unlocked the ‘explosive’ secrets of the squirting cucumber

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Manchester is constantly positioning itself at the forefront of scientific discoveries.

Scientists born or based in our city have played truly integral parts in so many major breakthroughs throughout the centuries, including the invention of the first electronic stored-program computer in 1948, the discovery of the electron in 1897, and more recently in the 21st century, the creation of graphene in 2004.

But could this be their most important discovery yet? Probably not… but it certainly grabbed our attentions, that’s for sure.

That’s because scientists from the University of Manchester (UoM), together with the University of Oxford, have uncovered the secrets behind one of nature’s quirkiest plants – the Ecballium elaterium, also known as ‘the squirting cucumber’.

While the name might suggest otherwise, this breakthrough by Manchester‘s-own is no joke.

Manchester scientists have unlocked the ‘explosive’ secrets of the squirting cucumber / Credit: Wikimedia Commons

This cucumber – which has intrigued scientists due to its dramatic seed dispersal method for a long time – spreads its seeds by launching them at high speed in a pressurised jet, sending them more than 10 metres from the parent plant.

For as long as the plant has intrigued scientists, the exact mechanism and its benefits were said to be “poorly understood”.

But now, through using high-speed videography, image analysis, lab experiments, and mathematical modelling to examine each phase of the seed ejection process, scientists have found that, as the cucumber ripens, fluid from the fruit is squeezed into the stem, causing it to stiffen and straighten, and changing the inclination of the fruit so that it is better suited for launching seeds over long distances.

The internal pressure in the fruit is so high that, once it detaches from the stem, the fluid and seeds within the shell are explosively launched in a powerful jet.

This finding has been described as having “important implications” for the understanding of the plant’s population dynamics, could help scientists better understand how plants might adapt to environmental changes such as temperature, rainfall patterns, and soil conditions due to climate change, and even inspire new technologies.

It also offers insights into evolutionary adaptations related to explosive fruit mechanisms.

Lead researcher Finn Box, from The University of Manchester, said that the Ecballium elaterium’s seed dispersal is a process that’s “almost unheard of in the plant world”.

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He added that this particular research is “the first comprehensive mechanical explanation for how the cucumber plant launches its seeds with remarkable speed and precision”.

Featured Image – UoM

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