The TOWIE star, 36, stunning dancer, 30, have found themsleves embroiled in romance rumours for weeks amid their intense rehearsals.

The couple said 'I do' around 4pm on Saturday under an arch of flowers at Villa Yasmin, a property understood to have bought in 2017 from Real Madrid president Florentino Perez.

SINGAPORE — National postal service provider Singapore Post has closed 12 post offices, or one out of five branches, in the last two years. This comes as the company struggles with declining mail volumes as most turn to electronic communication instead. Five of the shuttered post office branches were in malls, including Suntec City, Northpoint City and Westgate, while the rest were either standalone branches or found in community clubs, office buildings or Housing Board blocks. SingPost has 44 post offices remaining. A SingPost spokesperson told The Straits Times that adjustments will be made to some post offices and locations to ensure postal services remain cost-effective and relevant. This is part of business transformation efforts to meet evolving consumer demands in a rapidly changing digital landscape, she said. One of the most recent branches to cease operations was the one at The Clementi Mall, which had operated for 11 years before it closed on Sept 20. The nearest alternative branch is a 15-minute bus trip away — in Clementi West Street 2, near West Coast Plaza.

Disruptions to SMRT's train services on the East-West line for the past five days have impacted not just commuters, but some businesses around the affected stations as well. Lunchtime crowds have visibly thinned at malls and food courts near Buona Vista station, according to Shin Min Daily News on Saturday (Sept 28), with F&B operators reportedly seeing up to a 70 per cent drop in business. Train services between Jurong East and Buona Vista in both directions were halted since last Wednesday (Sept 25) because of a train fault and subsequent damage to tracks and trackside equipment. At The Star Vista mall and The Metropolis business center located near Buona Vista station, the usual lunchtime crowds were missing when reporters visited the area on Friday, Shin Min reported. When interviewed, several F&B operators expressed that they've seen a drop in business since the start of the disruptions. One employee at a cafe shared that the number of patrons has halved.

SINGAPORE — From Oct 1, all foreign-registered vehicles entering Johor from Singapore must have a Vehicle Entry Permit (VEP), though those without one can still enter the country, but receive a warning. If you have not already registered for your permit, you can find out more here. If you already have registered for one, or activated the RFID tag, here are some things to look out for before you drive into Malaysia on Oct 1. 1. Activation of RFID tag Log into the TCSens portal at vepams.jpj.gov.my. Under the «VEP Tag Application» tab, make sure that your tag is activated.

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Illegal poaching, overfishing and climate change are some of the biggest challenges the population of sooty terns is facing on Seychelles' Aride Island, said an official of the Island Conservation Society (ICS).    Anthony Bentley, the Aride Island manager, gave details on the ICS annual census on the sooty tern. This year, through the census, ICS noted a 36 percent decline in the number of sooty terns on the island compared to last year. Bentley said that these impacts are especially apparent during breeding season. The sooty tern is a medium-sized, highly pelagic seabird with contrasting black and white plumage and a distinctive wideawake call. They are extremely sociable, forming very large nesting colonies on open ground. «A combination of factors is causing this decline on Aride and in the Seychelles. Overfishing and climate change are two of the biggest causes of the sooty tern population declines. Lack of food due to overfishing and shifts in climatic patterns affect sooty terns foraging and the impacts are higher during breeding season when adults need to have a more limited foraging area due to the necessity to return to the nesting sites to incubate eggs and feed chicks,» he told SNA. Bentley said that illegal poaching also «remains one of our biggest problems. As a protected island, the taking of eggs or animals is strictly prohibited, however, it still takes place every year. This year we have found evidence of poaching of both eggs and birds on the island which has a direct negative impact on the survival and breeding success of Aride.» Aride is the most northerly of the Seychelles granitic islands. (Gerard Larose) Photo License: CC-BY  The census found that this year the total population of sooty terns on Aride was 4,519, the second lowest on record, compared to 7,659 in 2023. Bentley said they are noticing the birds moving away from traditional nesting sites and nesting in enclosed forests in very low numbers. Furthermore, there is a continued long-term decline across the Seychelles. The island nation has already lost 70 percent of sooty terns and areas like Aride are still seeing declines. Research in other areas of the western Indian Ocean concluded that the risk of extinction in sooty terns is 1 percent by 2,100. On poaching on Aride, the most northerly of the Seychelles granitic islands, Bentley said the low breeding success of several colonies due to these interferences means a continuous decline in the population and that at least two sooty tern colonies had eggs poached. The colonies had 798 pairs, and only 11 chicks managed to fledge the nest. «Sadly, it is not just eggs that poachers take, they also kill and take adult birds for bush meat. We found 15 dead sooty terns that were killed on the island last week. Along with four tropical shearwaters and 11 wedge-tailed Shearwaters. The poaching of birds and their eggs on Aride continues to add extreme pressure on an already struggling species. If these activities continue Seychelles and Aride could very easily see the extinction of the sooty Tern. History tells us that this is possible, many species of birds are now globally extinct due to exploitation by humans, the Passenger Pigeon and Dodo are prime examples of this,» Bentley stated. The Island Conservation Society does regular poaching patrols and necessary work to the landscape such as removing vegetation that gets in the way of the birds nesting, but is more to be done. He emphasised the urgent need to extend the existing two-year ban that was put in place by the Ministry responsible for Environment.   Since 2021, ICS has been working with Ministry of Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment, to conduct national scale censuses of sooty terns and based on the information a national decline in populations was recorded hence an imposed ban on harvesting of sooty tern eggs until the 2025 season.  «To better understand the impact on the population, ICS had recommended that the ban on sooty tern egg cropping should be for a minimum of two cycles, each cycle being at least six years corresponding to the time that a fledgling would require to return to an island and become a successful parent. Thus, the recommendation was for a 12-year ban. A review of the existing 2-year ban is highly recommended,» said Bentley. He emphasied the importance of spreading awareness and educating especially the youth in regard to issues such as poaching. «ICS was fortunate to be granted funding from the Global Economic Fund for use on Aride and other islands. Some of this money will be used to tackle illegal poaching on the island. Equipment such as thermal imaging drones is to be purchased to help identify poaching activity that can be resolved quickly. Moving forward, educating the younger generation on the impacts of illegal poaching and other human impacts is essential. We must do all we can to ensure biodiversity in the Seychelles continues to flourish,» he said. 

JOHOR BAHRU/SINGAPORE — Motorists from Singapore continued to throng the TCSens Centre at Danga Bay to secure a vehicle entry permit (VEP) on Sept 28 despite assurances that they can still enter Malaysia after Oct 1 without one. Drivers that The Straits Times spoke to were fraught with worry and uncertainty despite clarifications on Sept 27 from Malaysia’s Road Transport Department (JPJ) that they will be allowed into Johor even if they do not yet have VEP tags. However, the agency — responsible for the enforcement of the VEP — said they will be given reminders to register, install and activate their radio frequency identification (RFID) tags upon entering Johor’s two land checkpoints as enforcement is implemented in phases. They can also be given a warning when they leave Malaysia, along with reminders to install the tags as soon as possible. Many motorists, however, were unconvinced about the leeway given to them if they drive to Johor without a VEP.

A family has accused a helper of elder abuse, after capturing footage of the Indonesian maid man-handling her employer's bedridden mum. The employer, surnamed Wang, told Shin Min Daily News that this happened «thrice in one night», with the helper accused of pushing her mother's head down onto the bed, shaking her and forcefully prying open her eyelids. According to Wang, the 26-year-old Indonesian helper named Janna (transliteration) was hired to take care of her elderly mother in her 70s, who'd suffered a stroke. The family were in the living room having dinner last Monday (Sept 23) when they saw through a CCTV camera Janna man-handling the elderly woman. The helper appeared to be rough and impatient while feeding the elderly woman milk in her bedroom, forcefully pushing her head onto the bed, reported Shin Min Daily News. On seeing this, the family rushed into the bedroom to confront Janna. The latter stated that she had reacted this way as the elderly woman refused to drink her milk. The family then left the room after giving the helper a stern warning.

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