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A SECOND police force is investigating alleged sexual assaults by predator Mohamed Fayed.

Detectives from Surrey Police are looking at a report of sexual abuse at his mansion in Oxted.

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A second police force is now investigating alleged sexual assaults by predator Mohamed Fayed[/caption]

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A woman contacted the force on Saturday — the day after London’s Met Police said it was looking at 40 new reports of attacks by the ex-Harrods boss.

It comes as the Justice for Harrods Survivors Group — now representing 116 women who say they were attacked by Fayed — said abuse was carried out throughout his empire including at the Oxted property where he spent weekends and threw lavish parties.

Surrey Police confirmed it was investigating a report of “non-recent sexual abuse”.

It said an initial search of its records did not find allegations against Fayed before a BBC documentary on September 19 outed him as a sexual predator.

That programme focused on his reign of terror at London department store Harrods from 1985 to 2010 plus attacks at his apartments nearby in Park Lane and in Paris.

But women have also reported attacks at his property in Oxted where the ashes of Fayed and son Dodi are interred.

Claims have also been made about assaults at Fulham FC, which Fayed owned from 1997 to 2013.

In total, more than 500 women and girls have made claims of sexual assaults and rapes by Fayed, who died last year aged 94.

RENEE SLEGERS admitted to being shocked by Jonas Eidevall’s resignation from his role as Arsenal Women’s boss.

The interim Gunners gaffer refused to be drawn on whether she is keen on doing the job permanently.

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Jonas Eidevall resigned following Arsenal’s losses to Bayern Munich and Chelsea in the Champions League and the WSL[/caption]

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Renee Slegers has taken charge as interim Arsenal Women’s head coach ahead of their games against Valerenga and West Ham[/caption]

Slegers, whose past managerial experience includes leading Rosengard to back-to-back top-flight Swedish titles, was sharing her thoughts on Eidevall’s departure today. 

The head coach resigned following a disappointing run of one win from four WSL games and a Champions League group stage opening loss. 

The Gunners were trounced 5-2 by Bayern Munich away on October 9.

Former Chelsea midfielder Pernille Harder ran riot netting a 16-minute hat-trick after her team mounted a fightback from 2-0 down.

That defeat was followed by a 2-1 Arsenal loss to the Blues at the Emirates in the top tier last Saturday. 

The result led to some Gunners fans taking to social media platform X calling for Eidevall to step down. 

The former Arsenal chief coach came under more pressure with a painted “Jonas Out” sign spotted on a wall on a road in north London, just hours after the game. 

Slegers, who was informed by Eidevall on Monday of his impending departure, said: “I was shocked by the news and very sad because he’s been a good leader for the staff. 

“I’ve worked with him before in Sweden and we worked really well together. 

“I’m very sad that it got to this point.”

Eidevall’s departure saw him become the first WSL boss to leave this term following an underwhelming run of results.

His former side are currently sixth and five points behind leaders Man City after four WSL fixtures so far this term.

The team, who are playing all their league home games at the Emirates this season, are currently winless at the stadium after three games there this term. 

On whether there is more pressure than ever on women’s football bosses, Sleger adds: “I think especially coming to a big club like Arsenal it is definitely a change.

“Particularly compared to where I’ve come from (in the Netherlands) and in Sweden where I’ve worked before. 

“I hadn’t worked in England for so long, but I’ve been following it (the game) from the outside.

“It comes with a lot of positives. It’s alive, it’s big now with lots of fans and supporters. 

“A lot of people are involved and engaging which is very positive, but it comes with (situations like) this as well.”

Casey Stoney, 42, who managed Man United Women for three years from 2021, is among the figures rumoured to be linked to the role.

The ex-San Diego Wave chief, who guided the American side to an NWSL Shield and  Challenge Cup triumphs, was at the Emirates watching Arsenal last Saturday. 

However, the former Red Devils boss is currently not thought to be a candidate, according to BBC Sport. 

On whether she wants the job permanently, Slegers said: “Right now I’m just focused on these next two games that are ahead of us.”

Tomorrow Arsenal host Norwegian side Valerenga in at the Emirates in the Champions League.

The team are eager to return to winning ways ahead of a trip to West Ham on Sunday with their last win across all competitions occurring at Leicester on September 29.  

Skipper Kim Little said: “Jonas had been our leader for the last few years and he’s made the choice to step away. 

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Arsenal hope to register their first win in the Champions League group stage this term when they host Valerenga tomorrow evening[/caption]

“We have a huge amount of respect for him and as a group of players and as a leadership group we have to get the players together. 

“It’s a big change but we need to move forward now and change our focus to the game (against Valerenga). 

“Ultimately our job is to get out there and play as players and that’s what we need to focus on.”

THOMAS TUCHEL has agreed to take over as England manager.

The former Chelsea and Bayern Munich boss is expected to be announced as Gareth Southgate’s permanent successor this week.

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Thomad Tuchel has agreed to take over as England manager[/caption]

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Tuchel has a track record of winning trophies[/caption]

Tuchel, 51, has been in talks with the FA over the role after Lee Carsley failed to impress as interim manager over the last two international breaks.

The German has been without a job since he was sacked as Bayern boss last summer, but will now land one of the biggest roles in international football.

Tuchel has a track record in tournament football, leading Chelsea to Champions League glory in 2021 and winning the German Cup during a spell with Borussia Dortmund.

Everyone knows his tactical pedigree on the sidelines, but here’s five things you may not know about the new man in the Wembley hot-seat…

FASHION-FORWARD

Tuchel doesn’t just get his teams playing attractive football, but also looks good while he’s doing it.

In fact the 6ft 2in gaffer even earned himself a fleeting side hustle as a model during his time as manager of Borussia Dortmund in 2017.

Coming towards the end of a successful spell with the Black and Yellow, Tuchel starred in a trendy campaign for German magazine ZEITmagazin MANN.

Perhaps it was his stylish clobber in the photoshoot that caught the eyes of Paris Saint-Germain – with Paris being the home of fashion.

Tuchel landed the PSG job the following year in 2018, where he went on to win two league titles with the Parisians.

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EARLY RETIREMENT

Not every manager has a glittering playing career before making their mark as a coach like Zinedine Zidane and Pep Guardiola.

Tuchel is the perfect example of that, having been forced to retire at just 24 YEARS OLD.

The former defender rose through the ranks at Augsburg as a kid but was released at the age of 19.

He soon moved to second division Stuttgarter Kickers, playing eight times for the club.

Then, with his career in football stalling, he joined third tier SSV Ulm – where he was forced to hang up his boots aged 24, after suffering a serious knee injury.

Maybe the likes of Ryan Mason and Jack Wilshere will soon be following in Tuchel’s footsteps.

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Tuchel was forced to retire from playing at 24 after a career-ending injury[/caption]

RAISING THE BAR

Tuchel wasn’t immediately gifted a role at one of his former clubs after his injury and instead had to fight his way back into the world of football.

The injury-riddled youngster decided he would enrol himself onto a Business Administration course.

While taking the course Tuchel supplemented his income WORKING IN A BAR, where he learned how to work on his self confidence and how to make a martini.

“I don’t want to have drunk the cocktails that I mixed at the beginning,” he laughed in his chat with ZEITmagazin MANN.

“I slowly developed a new self-confidence in the bar, shift by shift, evening after evening.

“I had overcome the inhibition threshold of asking strangers if they needed me.

“And suddenly I made the experience: ‘Your colleagues just like you for who you are, they have no idea that you were once a professional footballer’.”

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Tuchel spent time working as a bartender before becoming a coach[/caption]

NINE YEAR TURNAROUND

It took Tuchel just nine years to go from serving cocktails in a bar to managing a Bundesliga side.

After earning his business degree and learning how to make a cocktail or two, Tuchel still had the itch to return to football.

He tried to get back into the game as a player but his chronic cartilage damage did him no favours when attempting to impress at a trial with Stuttgart’s reserves.

Then-Stuttgart boss Ralf Rangnick new that Tuchel’s football brain was moving much faster than his knackered knees and pushed him to try out coaching with the club’s youth setup.

Tuchel shadowed coaches at the German club’s academy and eventually took over as U14 head coach in 2000.

After five years of youth coaching at Suttgart, Tuchel returned to former club Augsburg where he earned his badges and became reserve team manager.

With his ambition knowing no bounds, Tuchel moved onto Mainz in 2008 where he led their U19s to the Bundesliga U19 title.

The German national side were knocking on Tuchel’s door to give him the job as their U21 coach, but he turned to club management instead – securing the role as Mainz first team head coach just nine years after leaving his job as a barman.

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Tuchel became manager of Bundesliga side Mainz just nine years after being a bartender[/caption]

NEW GIRLFRIEND

Tuchel’s life away from the technical area became big news during his time at Chelsea after reports that players in the Stamford Bridge dressing room were discussing his divorce from wife Sissi.

The pair brought an end to their 13-year marriage back in 2022 with Tuchel quick to move on.

Just days after his divorce from Sissi was granted, the then-Blues boss whisked away new girlfriend Natalie Max on a holiday to Sardinia.

Tuchel is still dating Max who is actually 14 years his junior.

The pair met while Tuchel was managing in London with Max, 37, a Brazilian businesswoman living in the English capital.

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Tuchel divorced from wife Sissi after 13 years of marriage in 2022[/caption]

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ALEX Salmond died while opening a bottle of ketchup, according to a witness.

The former Scottish First Minister, 69, collapsed as he had lunch in a crowded room at a conference in North Macedonia on Saturday.

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Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond died while opening a bottle of ketchup, according to a witness[/caption]

Witness Mark Donfried told Times Radio he watched as Mr Salmond’s Alba party colleague Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh asked for help to get sauce out of the bottle.

Mr Donfried said: “He came together with Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, also from the Alba Party in Scotland, and they were eating.

“Later on Tasmina told me she was having trouble opening the ketchup and she reached over and said, ‘Hey, can you give me a hand?’.

“And he was helping her with that when literally he fell back in his chair, totally out of the blue, without warning.”

The former SNP leader later helped set up the Alba party, which has said a post-mortem examination showed he died of a heart attack.

The Scottish and UK governments are working together to repatriate the body of Mr Salmond, who was Scotland’s first minister between 2007 and 2014.

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RETAIL giant Shein has withdrawn some of its birthday balloons from sale in the UK after a woman became ill after blowing dozens of them up.

Grace Piper said she became feverish, nauseous and tired after inflating them for her baby daughter Poppy’s first birthday.

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Grace Piper said she became ill after inflating Shein balloons[/caption]

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Grace blew up 50 balloons for her daughter Poppy’s first birthday[/caption]

Grace, 36, from Cheltenham, Glos, said: “As I blew up the balloons, my mouth got really dry.

“They tasted very strange.

“It dried out my entire mouth. My lips went really dry.”

She added that her husband blew up one balloon with his mouth before opting to use a pump.

Grace said he became slightly nauseous after blowing air into the single balloon with his mouth, but nothing like as bad as her, after she blew up about 50 of them.

There was a delay of nearly two days between her blowing up the balloons on the Friday night and becoming very ill on the Sunday afternoon.

She said: “I had awful diarrhoea. I felt very sick but managed not to be sick because I have a real phobia about it and kept suppressing it.

“I was shivery despite having two jumpers on and a duvet on me. I couldn’t sleep.

“On the Monday I was in bed all day. I couldn’t do anything.”

Grace said she felt so rotten that she did not eat anything until having a piece of toast on the Wednesday and she didn’t have a meal until the Thursday.

She added: “It was awful. I’ve not been that ill for about 10 years.”

A part-time teacher at an infants’ school in Gloucester, she has previously picked up illnesses from her pupils but she ruled this out as a cause.

She said: “Usually when that happens, the sickness comes on within 48 hours of me seeing the children.

“I left the kids on the Wednesday. If I had got it from them I would have been ill by the Thursday evening or the Friday, not the Sunday.”

The experience has left her wondering about the safety of the balloons.

She said: “I would like to know what was on them. Imagine if Poppy had got one of them in her mouth.”

Grace bought 66 packets of a DIY Birthday Balloon Set, which included standard balloons and a large foil balloon in the shape of the number one, to make Poppy’s first birthday display.

Imagine if Poppy had got one of them in her mouth

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A spokesperson for Shein said it had withdrawn the product from sale in the UK after it was informed about Grace’s concerns and that it would investigate the matter further.

In a statement, it said: “When we are made aware of an issue with an item from one of our third party suppliers, we immediately remove it from our site.

“We are committed to product safety and we will continue to work hard to provide customers with safe and affordable products.”

The Chinese-founded company was launched in 2012 and focused on fashion.

It has grown massively, now has 16,000 employees and sells all kinds of things for the home and work place to more than 150 countries.

It has been dogged by controversy over its environmental impact and working conditions, including allegations of forced labour in its supply chain.

Jake E. Lee, a guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne, Badlands, and Red Dragon Cartel, was shot multiple times in Las Vegas, Nevada on Tuesday.

The buzzy show returns after a five-year absence.

The Treasury also issued sanctions against a “sham charity” that took left-wing US donors’ money and funded the speaker’s Palestinian terror group.

A woman who was forced out of her Aurora, Colo. apartment complex after it was taken over by members of the notorious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua blasted the media for downplaying the terrifying situation — after GOP Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance clashed with an ABC reporter over the gang takeovers. “I feel like...