Known as koi pla, it’s a plate of minced raw fish mixed with herbs, spices and lemon juice.

Unfortunately, the raw fish can be full of parasitic creatures which can give people liver cancer.

According to the BBC, the regions of Thailand where koi pla is popular have abnormally high levels of liver cancer and that studies of the disease found that in some communities up to 80 percent of people had the parasites that could lead to it, though the cancer didn’t usually develop until after the host was 50.

In some cases children as young as four years old had the parasites.

Research on the parasites found that they can make chemicals that trigger the immune system response in their host, which can cause inflammation, which then becomes chronic and develops into cancer.

Dr Narong Khuntikeo, from Thailand, has been working to fight against the dangerous delicacy after both his parents tragically died from liver cancer after consuming it.

“It’s a very big health burden around here,” the liver surgeon told Agence France-Presse.

He continued: “But nobody knows about this because they die quietly, like leaves falling from a tree.”

The ‘silent killer’ disease has one of the lowest survival rates of all cancers if left untreated by surgery.

Dr Khuntikeo, joined by scientists, doctors and anthropologists, have spent years testing villagers from the Isaan region for the parasite.

Using ultrasound machines and urine testing kits, the doctor found that as much as 80 percent of inhabitants from some communities were found to have ingested the deadly parasite.

The dangerous dish kills thousands of people every year. (Wikimedia Commons)

While he’s trying to spread information and warnings over the koi pla dish – alongside local health officials have introducing a school curriculum geared at teaching children about the risks of raw foods – Dr Khuntikeo has said he’s faced issues with the older generation.

“They’ll say: ‘Oh well, there are many ways to die’,” the health professional said.

“But I cannot accept this answer.”

Those who don’t want the potentially deadly dish to change despite the health risk have claimed that cooking the dish, which is the best way to kill the parasite, spoils the taste.

One might argue that the prospect of fatal liver cancer might make for a more off-putting meal.

Additional words by Britt Jones.

Kent Police said that the woman had been in the Three Horseshoes pub in the village of Knockholt on the evening of Valentine’s Day (14 February) when the shooting was carried out.

Police have said their suspect is a man who knew the victim, and the investigation found a vehicle containing a gun on the Queen Elizabeth II bridge which spans the River Thames.

Officers were called to the pub at 7.02pm, as was the South East Coast Ambulance Service with the woman declared dead at the scene.

“She was declared deceased at the scene and a murder investigation is under way. Her next of kin has been informed.

“Inquiries are ongoing to identify and locate all persons potentially involved.”

Ray Picot, a local parish councillor, said he’d heard ‘a couple of loud bangs’ at around 7pm and said that the other people in the pub had been left in ‘terrible shock’ by the shooting.

He told Kent Online: “It’s a shock. We’ve never had anything like this. It’s a very busy pub – a great pub. It never has any trouble and is very well managed.

“I understand those inside the pub were ushered back to their houses by police as they were all in terrible shock. It sounded awful.”

Police have cordoned off the Three Horseshoes pub where the shooting took place (Gareth Fuller/PA Wire)

Fellow councillor, Steve Maines, told the BBC he’d heard a ‘commotion’ outside the pub and was later told that someone had been shot.

Maines explained that he was ‘having our Valentine’s Day meal when all of a sudden we heard this huge commotion outside in the car park’ before being told that he’d have to leave because of the shooting.

Meanwhile, local man Chris Warner said it was ‘just so shocking that something like this could happen here’ as the village was a ‘quiet area’ and ‘everybody knows everyone’.

Another Knockholt resident said she heard ‘around three to four bangs outside and loud shouting from a woman’s voice’.

On social media the Three Horseshoes pub announced that it would be closed for the day (15 February) and said they hoped to be able to open again tomorrow ‘as usual’.

Whilst constantly dating beautiful women might not seem like the worst thing in the world, the SNL star insists that it’s not what you think.

The comedian, 31, most recently dated Outer Banks star Madelyn Cline, and their relationship ended last summer.

Davidson – who has now removed almost all of his tattoos – says he’s also on a deep cleanse from women, social media and drugs.

Explaining how difficult he’s found dating famous women, the actor said: “It was pretty humiliating and upsetting, honestly.

“But because I’m ugly, they wrote about me. I was harassed for like five years and it made my life a living hell.

“It’s embarrassing because you want people to write about your work.

“I was one of the youngest ever cast members on SNL and all that got pushed to the side because of who I was dating.”

Who has Pete Davidson dated?

• Carly Aquilino (2015)

• Cazzie David (2016–2018)

• Ariana Grande (2018)

The pair were engaged for a few months (Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

• Kate Beckinsale (2019)

• Margaret Qualley (2019)

• Kaia Gerber (2019–2020)

• Phoebe Dynevor (2021)

• Kim Kardashian (2021–2022)

The duo met on SNL and dated for about nine months (Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images)

• Emily Ratajkowski (2022)

• Chase Sui Wonders (2022–2023)

• Madelyn Cline (2023-2024)

Davidson was briefly engaged to pop star and actor Ariana Grande for around four months in 2018.

“When we see each other, which is few and far between, because we’re not in the same circles, it’s all love,” he explained, adding that he’s rooting for her at the Oscars.

“I hope she wins the Oscar [for Wicked], I hope she takes the gold,” Davidson continued.

“I’ve had some pretty adult relationships with some pretty amazing women, and when it’s ended it’s been cool.”

Davidson was just seven years old when his father Scott Matthew Davidson, who was a firefighter during 9/11, died.

“I had someone in my family say something to me one of the last times I went away [to rehab],” he added.

“They said, ‘I’m so afraid to look at an article to see that you’re gone,’ and that kind of hit me in the balls.

“It made me be like, showbiz is not my life anymore. If I get to do it, great. But I’m someone’s son, brother, friend, grandson.

Laura Whitmore has shared the last messages she received from Caroline Flack before the TV presenter died by suicide.

Love Island presenter Flack was found dead in her home on 15 February 2020, with her family representatives saying she had taken her own life, which was supported by an inquest into the 40-year-old’s death.

Two months prior she had been charged with assaulting her boyfriend Lewis Burton, and days later stood down from her TV presenting role on the ITV2 dating show so she would ‘not detract attention from the upcoming series’.

Whitmore said she’d got a new phone and had seen a lot of old messages, including the ones Flack had sent to her.

“I got a new phone this month and as I was trying to download WhatsApp messages from my cloud loads of old messages came up,” Whitmore wrote in a post on Instagram.

“Ones I thought I lost a few years ago and no longer had. It really hit me hard.

“Looking at messages I’ve never publicly shared as they were private messages. Media outlets wrote a lot far from the actual truth.

“I think they show a side to Caroline which is nice to remember. Hence I’m sharing now.”

In the messages, dated 18 December the day after Caroline Flack said she was stepping down from Love Island, Flack told Whitmore ‘I hope you are doing the job’ and that she ‘wouldn’t want it to be anyone else’.

Whitmore told her that she had been offered the role and wanted to tell Flack first, to which the TV presenter said she was ‘glad’ it was Whitmore getting the job.

Whitmore revealed her final messages from Flack (Instagram/@thewhitmore)

The last message Flack sent was a string of love hearts (Instagram/@thewhitmore)

The pair had first met in 2011 when Whitmore succeeded Flack in the presenting gig on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! NOW!

The 39-year-old said Flack had been ‘as supportive of me doing that role back then as she was when she supported me doing Love Island in 2020′.

She said: “I will always be so thankful of the last messages between me and Caroline.

“Every time I’ve been asked to speak about the situation or be part of a documentary I decline.

“I’ve already said all I can say on the tragedy and don’t want words to be misconstrued and need to look after my own mental health.

“This was the last correspondence I ever had with her. The last message from her to me were love hearts.

“I’d like to think wherever she is now, she’s at peace and somewhere lovely like I hoped.”

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The financial journalist and broadcaster is considered to be somewhat of an oracle when it comes to all things money saving, with the 52-year-old always looking out for ways in which we could be saving or stretching our money.

Whether that’s ways to double your time off work, ‘haggling’ to get the best deals on mobile phone or TV contracts, or even tips on how to beat the family in a game of Monopoly.

When it comes to affairs of the financial kind, whatever Lewis recommends is what we usually do.

And he has a piece of advice which is particularly applicable to those amongst us who are enjoying a romantic Valentine’s weekend. Dishing out the advice on a romantic special of his The Martin Lewis Money Show on Thursday, February 13.

“All the benefits start the day you’re married,” Lewis explained, adding that marriage was ‘absolutely’ worth it in terms of financial benefits.

“None of these apply if you’re just living together,” he continued.

“I don’t care whether you’ve lived together for 20 years, it doesn’t make any difference, I don’t care if you’ve got kids, it doesn’t make any difference. This is about marriage and civil partnerships.”

Lewis also urged couples in a long-term relationship who aren’t interested in the idea of marriage to consider getting a civil partnership as it comes with the same ‘legal and tax benefits’.

Lewis then went on to explain how marriage is fiscally beneficial from the get-go, revealing that couples could be eligible for a £1,260 marriage or civil partnership tax break (as long as you’re under the age of 90). Couples can also maximise their savings and financial protection should the relationship fail.

More importantly, being married is also critical should one partner pass away, as it allows the surviving spouse more protection.

Which isn’t the most romantic of notions, but it’s certainly something you need to consider.

“When marriage really counts is when you die,” he explained.

The situation becomes even more complicated if an unmarried person dies without a will, as it could leave the surviving partner without access to inheritance or even their home.

There’s more to marriage then just being in love (Getty Stock Images)

“Unmarried couple? That often means diddly squat in law,” Lewis said of the topic back in October.

He continued: “If you’re not married or don’t have a formal civil partnership, your relationship usually has no status. So if your partner dies, the other one may not get the house. That makes a will even more important here.”

The Tesla founder, 53, shares his eldest children with his ex-wife Justine, as the pair were married from 2000 to 2008.

Twins Vivian and Griffin were born in 2004, while triplets Kal, Saxon and Damian were born in 2006.

However, their first child, Nevada, tragically passed away from sudden infant death syndrome at just 10 weeks old in 2002.

“The first child was too much with nannies,” he said.

“They were too rich, [had] too many nannies… then he had five children with the same woman – five sons all brought up, each one had its own nanny. You following me?

“When they got divorced, the nannies were six on this side and six on that side. So it was a really weird situation.”

Musk previously addressed his child’s death in a tweet, which read: “My firstborn child died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat.

“I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame.”

Wilson said of her child’s death in a 2010 essay for Marie Claire: “Nevada went down for a nap, placed on his back as always, and stopped breathing. By the time the paramedics resuscitated him, he had been deprived of oxygen for so long that he was brain-dead.

“He spent three days on life support in a hospital in Orange County before we made the decision to take him off it. I held him in my arms when he died.”

Errol Musk is the father of the tech billionaire (GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP via Getty Images)

This comes as author Ashley St. Clair claimed she had given birth to Musk’s 13th child five months ago, adding: “I have not previously disclosed this to protect our child’s privacy and safety, but in recent days it has become clear that tabloid media intends to do so, regardless of the harm it will cause.

“I intend to allow our child to grow in a normal and safe environment.”

The Tesla CEO has faced more intense public scrutiny than ever after President Trump appointed him to a newly created role in his government, with an aim to overhaul public spending and bureaucracy.

Musk’s daughter Vivian slammed her father after he was accused of doing a Nazi salute at Donald Trump’s inauguration last month (January 20).

Without naming her dad, she tweeted: “I’m just gonna say let’s call a spade a f**king spade.

“Especially if there were two spades done in succession based on the reaction of the first spade.”

She added: “I don’t know why y’all are reacting with such vigour, I’m clearly only talking about card suits.

“I mean I have ADHD and this was CLEARLY just an accident that people happened to interpret to mean something other than just card suits.

Elon Musk’s daughter commented on the incident (TikTok/@vivllainous)

“After all, there’s no proof I’m not just talking about card suits. Y’know… people assuming that I’m not just talking about card suits just goes to show how dishonest people/the media can be.

“For those who can read between the lines, do y’all understand how f**king easy this is to do? “Plausible deniability honey. Just saying.”

Musk has denied the claims he made an antisemitic gesture, writing on X: “Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The ‘everyone is Hitler’ attack is sooo tired.”

Thompson was gunned down just outside his hotel in New York City, prompting a manhunt for his killer which ended in a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania where Mangione was arrested.

Since his incarceration there has not been much of an opportunity for Mangione to speak out, though he did at one point shout ‘it’s completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience’ while being moved by officers.

Now his team have released a statement from him while he’s in jail in which he has thanked everyone who has offered him their support.

A website has been set up for people interested in Mangione’s case and want to monitor all of the official updates, including a statement from the man himself.

“Powerfully, this support has transcended political, racial, and even class divisions, as mail has flooded MDC from across the country, and around the globe.

“While it is impossible for me to reply to most letters, please know that I read every one that I receive.

“Thank you again to everyone who took the time to write. I look forward to hearing more in the future.”

Mangione thanked people who’d offered their support to him while in prison (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Over $400,000 (£317,000) has been raised in public donations to help fund Mangione’s legal defence, and his representatives said he ‘very much appreciates the outpouring of support’.

His legal team has accepted the donations from over 10,000 members of the public and said the money will go towards paying Mangione’s legal costs.

Bullet casings recovered from the site of the shooting were etched with the words ‘Deny’, ‘Depose, and ‘Defend’, which appears to echo the title of a book about the US health insurance system titled Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance companies don’t pay claims and what you can do about it.