Mother’s Day is a cherished occasion in London, providing an opportunity to show appreciation for the maternal figures in our lives. Each year, millions of people search for the perfect gift to express their love and gratitude. Traditional presents such as flowers and chocolates continue to be popular, but recent trends indicate a shift towards more unique, personalised, and experience-based gifts. So, what are Londoners planning to give their mothers in 2025? Let’s take a closer look at the latest trends and insights.
Traditional Gifts Still Going Strong
Flowers remain the most popular Mother’s Day gift in the UK, and London is no exception. A 2023 survey found that around 60% of Britons planned to purchase flowers for Mother’s Day, with roses, lilies, and tulips being the most favoured choices. Similarly, chocolates continue to be a staple, with 43% of consumers opting for sweet treats as a simple yet heartfelt gift.
Greeting cards also hold a special place in British culture. According to recent data, nearly 80% of people still purchase a card for Mother’s Day, making it one of the most card-giving occasions of the year.
The Rise of Experience-Based Gifts
While traditional gifts remain beloved, experience-based gifts have been gaining popularity over recent years. Many Londoners are now choosing to create lasting memories through shared activities rather than just physical presents. A report from 2024 revealed that 46% of consumers preferred gifting experiences over material items. This trend is expected to continue in 2025, with spa days, afternoon tea experiences, theatre tickets, and dining out among the top choices.
Afternoon tea at luxury hotels such as The Ritz or Claridge’s has become a favourite way to celebrate Mother’s Day. Theatre tickets for West End shows are also highly sought after, with musicals and plays offering a special way to spend quality time with loved ones.
Personalised and Sentimental Gifts
Personalisation is another major trend for 2025, with many Londoners opting for gifts that hold sentimental value. Engraved jewellery, custom photo albums, and bespoke artwork are some of the most popular choices. Companies offering personalised gifts, such as Not On The High Street and Etsy, have reported a growing demand for unique and meaningful presents.
Subscription boxes and letterbox gifts have also seen an increase in popularity, offering a way to provide a gift that keeps on giving. Whether it’s a monthly delivery of luxury teas, skincare products, or books, subscription services add a touch of personalisation that extends beyond a single day of celebration.
Wellness and Sustainable Gifts
As awareness of self-care and sustainability grows, many people in London are choosing gifts that align with these values. Wellness-related gifts such as aromatherapy sets, organic skincare products, and yoga memberships are all trending in 2025. Similarly, sustainable gifting options, including ethically sourced flowers, eco-friendly hampers, and reusable beauty products, have gained traction among environmentally conscious consumers.
What is the Favourite Gift for 2025?
While flowers and chocolates continue to be popular, personalised experience gifts are expected to be the standout trend for Mother’s Day in 2025. A combination of sentimental value and shared memories makes experiences such as spa days, afternoon tea, and theatre outings the ideal choice for many Londoners looking to celebrate the occasion in a meaningful way.
With evolving preferences, Mother’s Day gifts in London are moving towards a more personalised and experience-driven approach. Whether opting for a classic bouquet, a heartfelt personalised item, or a memorable outing, the most important aspect of any gift remains the thought and love behind it.
Parenting can feel overwhelming at times, and it’s no surprise that sometimes parents want to be free and have a little fun. After all, caring for a child is a full-time job, and every now and then, parents need a break to recharge. However, when does the desire for fun cross the line? Is there such a thing as too much fun for parents who have serious obligations?
A mother recently shared a video on TikTok of her experience at Disneyland in California, where the parents of a baby left their child alone in a stroller while they went off to enjoy a ride together. The woman, who goes by Keesha, captured the moment, sparking a conversation about how far parents should go in their pursuit of fun?
A Disneyland guest shared her concerns after watching parents leave their baby unattended while they went on a ride together.
“I’ve honestly never seen this happen, but why did someone leave their baby here in the stroller while they went to go get in the ride?” asked Keesha, as she shared footage of the baby sitting alone in a stroller, tucked away in a corner.
Disneyland security quickly came to the rescue of the baby and removed the parents from the ride.
Keesha added, “That stroller, right there, there is a baby in there, as y’all can see. Somebody’s kid is in there, and their parents walked into Guardians, and they have not been back yet.”
She recalled the dad unintentionally grabbing her attention when he said, “Oh, just put a chair right there to block that side off.” Later in the video, a security guard was seen lifting the blanket to check on the baby. Keesha said the security guard then had the parents removed from the ride.
Disney has strict restrictions when it comes to unattended minors in their parks, but cultural differences can sometimes cause confusion among guests.
According to Disney, “Children under age 14 must be accompanied by a Guest age 14 or older.” Simply put, if your child is under the age of 14, they cannot be left alone. To ensure that every visitor to Disney gets to enjoy the attractions, Disney has a program called Rider Switch, which allows adults to ride separately without having to wait in attraction lines twice, so a child is never left alone.
Leaving children unattended in a theme park may seem extreme, but similar practices are considered normal in some countries. Zoheb Alam writing for Good explained that in Scandinavian countries, for example, it’s common for babies to be left outside in their strollers, even in cold weather. Babies are often seen parked outside cafes and restaurants while parents go about their daily activities. However, these parents always ensure their children’s safety by keeping a baby monitor in the stroller. While this is a common practice in certain cultures, what’s acceptable in one place may not be viewed the same elsewhere, so it’s important to exercise caution.
Mina Rose Morales is a writer and photojournalist with a degree in journalism. She covers a wide range of topics, including psychology, self-help, relationships, and the human experience.
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He shared a long message on Instagram slamming critics and the Pakistan Cricket Board.
Pakistan batter Babar Azam’s father has hit out at critics questioning his son’s batting and even verbally attacked the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) following the nation’s ouster from the ongoing 2025 Champions Trophy. Babar endured a forgettable run in the Champions Trophy, aggregating 87 runs from two matches. Despite having scored a fifty against New Zealand, the pacing of his innings was criticised. The former captain was also dropped from Pakistan’s T20I squad for their upcoming tour of New Zealand.
‘Boss is always right’: Babar’s father
“Boss is Always Right. Member of ICC’s Twenty20 of the year team and even after getting the cap, he will drop. It is okay. He will perform in National T20 and in PSL. Insha Allah, he will come back soon after performing in the team. That’s the only respectable. They are very big former players. They are requested to keep their words right. If someone answers back, they may not be able to tolerate. You are the past and the door will never open,” Azam Siddique, Babar’s father, wrote on Instagram.
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“Some others say that if the father speaks more, then in the Holy Prophet. He is his first and last coach, spokesperson, mentor, and the most well-wisher and father in the world, so those who do not have or are not capable of it, please be patient and it is a request to the cricket lovers who have been shouting day and night for them. Before listening to what they did in their time, look at PCB website once. A hint is enough for the rest of the wise. Pakistan Zindabad,” he added.
Pakistan’s Champions Trophy disappointment
Pakistan suffered losses to New Zealand and India in the group stage of the Champions Trophy, whereas their last match against Bangladesh was washed out due to rain in Rawalpindi. Pakistan is hosting an ICC tournament for the first time since the 1996 ODI World Cup, which it co-hosted with India and Sri Lanka. The Men in Green will play five T20Is and three ODIs against the Black Caps, starting from March 16. Mohammad Rizwan will lead the ODI side whereas Agha Salman will captain the T20I outfit.
Making memories is The Municipal Hotel Liverpool’s speciality – and they don’t come more special than those you can treat your mum too this Mother’s Day.
The iconic Dale Street venue has pulled out all the stops to make sure you can show your mum, or mum figure, just how much she means to you on Sunday, March 30.
And better still, that magical day is promised in one of the city’s most stunning and luxurious locations.
If mum likes to indulge in an afternoon tea, then The Municipal is ready to serve the best, with a Mother’s Day Afternoon Tea that’s guaranteed to make her feel like royalty.
The setting is the hotel’s beautiful Botanic Tearoom where she’ll be treated to fabulous live entertainment and a classic menu that’s beyond exceptional.
There’s a mouthwatering welcome platter which includes Wye Valley Asparagus and Wild Spinach Velouté with a Parmesan Tuille, along with a Korean Sesame Chicken Lillipop, and a Scouse Croquette with Beetroot Puree; while the sandwich selection will wow with the likes of Wiltshire flaked ham with piccalilli and watercress, and North Atlantic prawn with caviar!
A hot dish comes courtesy of a Pork and Fruit Pig Pudding Hot Sausage Roll, and sweet servings include a Pistachio and Rose Macaron and a Lime & Liverpool Gin Curd Choux … and, of course, a warm scone with local clotted cream and fruit preserve.
The Mother’s Day Afternoon Tea is just £65 per person or – and you know she’s worth it – for £75 you can add a glass of Champagne on arrival. And if that’s not enough of a treat for your marvellous mum, The Municipal will present her will a lovely gift too!
Or perhaps the Mother’s Day Sunday Lunch is your mum’s meal made in heaven?
Credit: The Municipal Hotel
There’s a fabulous two course or three course carefully-crafted menu at £60 and £65, which will be served amid live music to create a relaxed atmosphere for all the family.
To begin with you’ll be served an amuse bouche and a selection of nibbles including warm focaccia with a honey and truffle butter melt and Mediterranean Mixed Olives in Rosemary and Lemon, before you indulge in your starter from a choice including Soup of the Day and ‘Titanic’ Cure Locally Smoked Salmon.
Among the mains are Roast Cumbrian Sirloin of Beef, Pan Seared Fillet of Sea Bass and a delicious Vegan Roast of the Week, and desserts to die for include Baked Cheesecake and Salted Caramel Crème Brulée.
A gift for mum with her Sunday Lunch? But of course, if you want to treat her, The Municipal does too!
Not forgetting, an alternative treat (or even an additional one) for your mum, and maybe you, could be a visit to the hotel’s magnificent spa, which boasts a state-of-the-art Thermae spa sanctuary, with a luxurious pool boasting views of the city, beauty and wellness facilities, a sauna, steam room, Jacuzzi and luxury treatments – and there’s a range of spa packages that say ‘Love You Mum’.
Whichever way you choose to treat your mum you can be sure that The Municipal will make it a day to remember, and one she’ll cherish forever.
Erin knows her three children haven’t had an easy time. When they were growing up, her partner was abusive towards her and the children witnessed violence and coercion at home before she found the strength to end the relationship. A few years later, her child Jay – then in their early teens – disclosed that a trusted adult had sexually abused them.
Erin, a successful businesswoman, has always believed Jay. She reported the abuse to police and severed ties with the alleged perpetrator. But Jay’s behaviour began to change. They threw knives at Erin. They set fires in the house. “They would use anything as a weapon to cause injury and harm,” Erin says. Often, Erin was forced to barricade herself inside her bedroom when Jay tried to attack her, while the other children fled the house. In many ways, she felt as if she was living with her abusive ex again.
When Erin was with her ex, she knew there was help available for victims of domestic abuse. But when she sought support for Jay’s behaviour, she felt as if she was hitting a brick wall. A mental health assessment concluded that Jay was not struggling with any psychological conditions. Social workers focused on how Erin could improve her parenting and downplayed the severity of Jay’s behaviour. Eventually, afraid that Jay would kill her, or one of her other children, Erin begged her local authority to take Jay into care. It wasn’t until Jay made a credible attempt to kill one of their siblings that she succeeded.
Erin didn’t know it at the time, but Jay’s behaviour towards her had a name – or rather, lots of names. Among other terms, it is called filial violence, child-to-parent abuse or child-against-parent aggression. There is no legal definition but the national domestic abuse charity Respect uses the acronym Capva (Child and Adolescent to Parent Violence and Abuse) as a term to describe a person aged between eight and 18 who engages in “harmful and repeated” abusive behaviour. This might include physical violence, sexual and economic abuse or “emotional, coercive or controlling behaviour”.
Over the last two decades, interest in Capva has risen steadily among academics, social workers and practitioners in sectors including domestic abuse, adoption and mental health services. The pandemic saw a surge in reported cases and today, specialist services working to address child-to-parent abuse report that they cannot keep up with demand. A storyline about this issue even featured in EastEnderslast year, as Kat Slater struggled to cope with the increasingly violent behaviour of her teenage son Tommy. A new report by Femicide Census on more than 170 UK mothers killed by their sons (of all ages) in the past 15 years observed that mothers were sometimes considered a “safe space” for children to mete out violence.
But this gradual growth in awareness has yet to translate into families getting the support they need. In a recent landmark survey by Respect, British parents shared their experiences of Capva. The survey report paints a picture of desperate parents punched in the face so they need stitches; attacked with knives and other weapons; suffering heart attacks due to the stress of their situations. It also highlights the silence, stigma and lack of understanding that surround child-to-parent abuse. More than half of parents experiencing Capva told Respect they had not sought support at all; of these, 68% said this was because they were ashamed or worried about the stigma or judgment from professionals.
“Shame and blame are really prevalent issues for Capva, and I think they are part of the reason this issue can stay hidden for so long,” says Justine Dodds, head of young people’s services at Respect. “Parents will maybe reach out to family and friends at first and get a response that’s quite shaming. Unfortunately, sometimes professionals in services working with children have very similar responses.”
Dodds says she often hears of parents who are told they simply need to “get a grip of their kids and take charge” – by friends, family or frontline practitioners such as social workers, police officers and teachers. “All of this is because of a lack of awareness,” she says. “If you haven’t seen Capva in action, it can be hard to conceptualise that somebody might be really frightened of their children.”
Michelle John is the founder of Pegs (Parental Education Growth Support), a social enterprise launched in 2020 to support parents and caregivers affected by child-to-parent abuse. She compares the disbelief and victim-blaming to the way domestic abuse was widely talked about in the 1960s or 70s. “There are those really damaging attitudes: ‘Just tell him no.’ ‘You must be doing something wrong.’ ‘Put up and shut up’,” she says. Between 2023 and 2024, Pegs saw a 70% increase in referrals. John met a solicitor recently and mentioned what her organisation does. “They laughed and said: ‘That doesn’t happen.’”
Helen Bonnick first met a mother who was scared of her child in the 1980s, when she was a social worker in London. Recently awarded an MBE for her work to raise awareness of child-to-parent abuse, Bonnick remembers how the idea that parents should be held responsible for curbing their children’s harmful behaviour dominated public discourse in the 1990s, as Tony Blair’s Labour government began to send people on mandatory parenting courses via antisocial behaviour orders. Bonnick was sure the fearful parents she met through her work in social services, and then in education, were facing problems beyond “normal teenage stuff”. But, she says, the prevailing political narrative was that if your child was being violent or aggressive, “you, as a parent, needed to pull your socks up”.
In 2025, some cultural narratives around raising children may look very different – this is an era of gentler parenting, after all. But judgment and shame still underscore conversations about raising families, and modern parents who can’t stop their child from hurting them report receiving similar messages about how they are failing.
“You do worry that you sound like a really weak parent,” says Tim. He lives with his partner Charlie and their 12-year-old son Silas. When Silas was younger, some teachers dismissed him as naughty and he was often punished. Later in childhood, he was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Today, he regularly blocks doorways, punches Tim in the stomach and jabs him in the chest. Insults, swearing and name-calling are a daily occurrence.
There are moments of joy and peace – Tim chuckles as he describes watching The Fresh Prince of Bel-Airwith his son and doing 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles together at the kitchen table. But more often, Tim feels scared in his own home. “Silas’s behaviour feels more threatening as he’s got bigger and stronger. His language is becoming more sophisticated, too. He’ll be really aggressive, two inches from my face. Then he’ll flip into talking really calmly, like: ‘I’m not wound up at all.’ It can feel like you’re being gaslit.”
Silas was adopted so Tim and Charlie have had readier access to professional support than some other parents. On top of the training they had as part of the adoption process, the couple have attended three intensive courses on “positive parenting”, five workshops on raising neurodiverse children and multiple child psychotherapy webinars. None of this has made a meaningful difference to Silas’s violence and aggression. “It feels like the message is: ‘If you just learn to parent a bit better, all this will go away.’” Tim says. When that doesn’t work, “you start to feel powerless. There’s a real sense of despair.”
It is no surprise that traditional parenting strategies, which focus on rewards and consequences, don’t work for families like Tim’s. While there is no one reason for child-to-parent abuse, or one type of family in which these dynamics play out, research suggests that neurodivergence and the experience of care – including fostering and adoption – can be compounding factors. Children who have grown up in homes where intimate partner violence is present may also be more likely to engage in child-to-parent abuse themselves. Overall, a child who has “experienced loss, grief, trauma, adverse childhood experiences, bullying at school, parental conflict, domestic violence, mental health issues [of] a parent, mental health issues for themselves [and/or] neurodiversity” may find it extremely difficult to communicate their needs or emotions, says Jane Griffiths, the co-founder of Capa First Response, an online support service for families affected by child-to-parent aggression.
In these situations, some children may resort to “externalising” their emotions by displaying violent or harmful behaviour, Griffiths explains. An effective response to child-to-parent aggression, she says, has to involve helping children and parents to learn to communicate with one another. “This is not an issue that can be resolved by putting boundaries in place or using star charts.”
For parents, finding a way to communicate to other adults what they are going through – simply having the right language to describe their experience, and trusting that others will believe them – is essential. Yet there is no legal definition of child-to-parent abuse. A Home Office consultation was held in early 2024 but shelved when the general election was called. Meanwhile, parents and professionals are divided over whether the word “abuse” should be used at all. Many parents feel the word is the only way to adequately convey their suffering. Others recoil from it, fearing that it further stigmatises the vulnerable children involved.
Dolly certainly doesn’t think of her 15-year-old son Jack as abusive. Instead she describes him as outgoing, charismatic, cheeky, struggling with big emotions. Jack’s dad has never been around, but he has grown up surrounded by a tight-knit, affectionate family that many would envy. He loves motorbikes and keeps busy with extracurricular clubs; he has no special educational needs. “From the outside, Jack’s got a great life,” says Dolly. “He doesn’t want for anything.” But around the start of the pandemic, Jack began lashing out at Dolly. “He’s never punched me. There have only been a couple of occasions where I really felt like he was going to hit me,” she says. “But he’s kicked me and been very violent around me – hitting or kicking or punching the windows or the doors, screaming.”
Jack is much taller than Dolly now, and can “be really scary”, she says. “I think he knows he can intimidate me.” Predictably, some relatives have suggested that she simply needs to be tougher. “My dad said: ‘If he hits you, you hit him right back.’” But Dolly didn’t want to hurt her son – she wanted to understand him.
Recently Dolly and Jack came to the end of Respect’s Young People’s Programme, a three-month intervention for families where children or young people are being abusive or violent towards their parents or carers. Families participate in sessions designed to help them identify negative behaviour patterns and work together to improve their situation. Evidence so far suggests this approach can make a meaningful difference: one evaluation in Cambridge found the programme reduced violence and abusive behaviour for all parents and carers who took part, while a recent pilot in Norfolk reported that 100% of children said the programme helped to improve their relationship with their parent or caregiver.
Dolly was particularly moved by sessions in which she and Jack recorded voice notes for each other, guided by a trained practitioner from the relationships charity Talk Listen Change. “Jack said some things he’d never told me before about his feelings about his dad. I said his behaviour does scare me sometimes,” she says. “He was shocked by that.” While Jack has not stopped being aggressive to Dolly entirely, she feels that they both have new tools to communicate their emotions and needs. “It’s helped because it’s not a parenting course aimed at me,” she adds. “It’s about him.”
Capa First Response’s approach, which draws on neuroscience and attachment theory, is designed to help whole families develop strategies for communicating emotions. It has also seen positive results: 96% of parents who have worked with the organisation reported feeling more confident about working with their child to change their behaviour, while 83% said they felt better able to seek support from others. Inevitably, resources are limited. Most families have to wait years to get this kind of help. Long-term funding is desperately needed for specialist support, especially for families with neurodivergent children. More training is needed for professionals in social care, education, health and the police. In the meantime, says Justine Dodds, of Respect, compassionate, honest conversations about child-to-parent abuse will help to bring the issue out of the shadows so that families don’t have to suffer in silence. “We cannot solve a problem that cannot be discussed.”
Names and some details have been changed to protect privacy.
A couple of years ago I wrote about the nepo baby discourse that had kicked off, arguing that focusing all of our energy on the very rich and famous was a distraction, when we should be talking about class and opportunities among the rest of us ugly losers. I still stand by this position. However, I am now being forced to expend a bit of the energy I have saved up. After years of discussion around this, my patience is wearing thin. No matter how measured and logical I attempt to be about the issue, it turns out I am still vulnerable to getting really pissed off by it.
Last week, Patrick Schwarzenegger turned out to be the straw (nepo baby) that broke the camel’s (my) back (made me so mad I’m writing this). Schwarzenegger is an actor who is currently starring in the new season of The White Lotus, one of the most coveted jobs in TV. He plays the arrogant and awful son of a very wealthy man, and he’s good! If you don’t know Patrick’s work, you might know his father, Arnold Schwarzenegger, or his mother, Maria Shriver, due to the fact they are extremely famous and powerful, both politically and in Hollywood.
In an interview last week, Schwarzenegger (the smaller) said:
I know there are people who’ll say I only got this role because of who my dad is. They’re not seeing that I’ve had 10 years of acting classes, put on school plays every week, worked on my characters for hours on end or the hundreds of rejected auditions I’ve been on. Of course, it’s frustrating and you can get boxed in and you think at that moment, I wish I didn’t have my last name. But that’s a small moment.
Aw, I’m playing the world’s muscliest violin. This is the crux of the thing that I can’t stand. Nobody is saying this genetically gifted man can’t act, or that he doesn’t work hard, or that he didn’t earn his way on to The White Lotus. He has been largely praised. This has only become a problem because he has the common Achilles heel of a privileged life – being defensive about it. It’s annoying. It’s being unable to look at your life and the surname you have, and recognise all the opportunities that your privilege afforded you, and the ways your career has been easier, even if you have worked hard. It’s not thinking about the ways you have been able to get better, because you had the time and support and wealth to spend on it.
Actors from different backgrounds don’t get to study theatre full-time while also doing acting lessons with Nancy Banks, one of the best (and I assume most expensive) in the country. They don’t get to walk on to Hollywood sets as a child and meet everyone in the industry.
But this isn’t even about connections; it’s about the fact that living life as a normal person means dedicating a huge amount of your available energy to surviving, especially as an aspiring creative in this time of dying industries. Many very talented people have to give up, many chase their dreams forever without ever catching them, while a select few get to dedicate every bit of their energy to acting, because the issue of survival just isn’t on their radar. And that is perfectly fine and good; they should do what they want. Except complain about it to the rest of us, publicly.
Maybe you get your foot in the door, but you still just have your foot in the door. There’s a lot of work that comes after that.
OK! Everyone else works hard as well, they just don’t get their foot in the door automatically from birth – the hardest part. For the rest of us that door is hidden behind a series of similar looking doors in the world’s biggest door factory. Not recognising or conceding the truth of that? I can’t handle it. Not only are these some of the blessed in life who got this incredible leg up into the thing they love to do, not only were all the draining hard parts of life taken off their shoulders – they are defensive about it. They still can’t just admit they got help, they had advantages, and used them well. That’s literally all we want.
In recent years, a few nepo babies have decided to be direct and honest, and it’s absurdly refreshing. Jack Quaid, one of the most nepo baby babies in existence, son of Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid, said:
People have called me a ‘nepo baby.’ I’m inclined to agree. I am an immensely privileged person, was able to get representation pretty early on, and that’s more than half the battle.
Allison Williams, star of Girls and M3gan, whose dad (journalist and news anchor Brian Williams) isn’t even the same field as her, said:
To not acknowledge that me getting started as an actress versus someone with zero connections isn’t the same – it’s ludicrous. It doesn’t take anything away from the work that I’ve done. It just means that it’s not as fun to root for me.
That’s it! That is literally all it takes for us to move on and feel warmly about you forever. Having a semblance, or even some tiny crumb, of self-awareness.
I understand it must be a bit annoying for Patrick Schwarzenegger to have a few people say he got into acting because of his dad. I’m sure if you are someone who works very hard and takes acting classes and has rejections and a few people still say your dad got you the work, that may feel dismissive. But on the other hand … who cares? You have been given every single advantage in life and you are succeeding in what you want to do, and your ego is so fragile that you can’t even acknowledge the clear help you have had? It comes across as clueless and thin-skinned, insecure, selfish – and it’s deeply annoying.
If the worst thing about your blessed situation is that you have to convince people you’re good at acting in your own right, you should stop complaining and do that. You’ve had enough lessons.
Pakistan cricket team batter Babar Azam was dropped for the upcoming T20I series against New Zealand following a disastrous Champions Trophy 2025 campaign. The batter was unable to score big as his side crashed out of the group stage without winning a single match. As a result, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) went for a complete overhaul and dropped both Babar and Mohammad Rizwan. Babar’s performances were also slammed by both fans as well as critics with Shoaib Akhtar even calling him a ‘fraud’. Amidst the criticism, Babar’s father – Azam Siddique – has slammed both PCB and the critics for their constant comments and also backed Babar to bounce back and perform well in the T20 format.
“Boss is Always Right. Member of ICC’s Twenty20 of the year team and even after getting the cap, he will drop. It is okay. He will perform in National T20 and in PSL. Insha Allah, he will come back soon after performing in the team. That’s the only respectable. They are very big former players. They are requested to keep their words right. If someone answers back, they may not be able to tolerate. You are the past and the door will never open.”
“Some others say that if the father speaks more, then in the Holy Prophet. He is his first and last coach, spokesperson, mentor, and the most well-wisher and father in the world, so those who do not have or are not capable of it, please be patient and it is a request to the cricket lovers who have been shouting day and night for them. Before listening to what they did in their time, look at PCB website once. A hint is enough for the rest of the wise. Pakistan Zindabad,” he added.
Pakistan play five T20s and three ODIs in New Zealand starting March 16.
Pakistan will still be without dashing opener Saim Ayub, who is yet to recover from a ankle injury while opener, Fakhar Zaman has also been ruled out of the tour with an injury he sustained in the first match of the CT.
His injury came after making a comeback to the Pakistan squad last month in the three-nation event while Saim got injured while fielding during the Test series in South Africa earlier this year.
T20: Salman Ali Agha (captain), Shadab Khan (VC), Abdul Samad, Abrar Ahmed, Haris Rauf, Hasan Nawaz, Jahandad Khan, Khushdil Shah, Muhammad Abbas Afridi, Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Haris, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Omair Bin Yousuf, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Sufyan Muqeem, Usman Khan.
An electrician in the United Kingdom has won 700,000 pounds (Rs 7,86,00620) in property and cash and will fight after a video emerged of his younger sister holding and “propelling” their dying mother’s hand as she signed over her fortune on her deathbed, according to The Independent.
In this dramatic legal battle, a will signed by 76-year-old Margaret Baverstock, who was gravely ill, has been ruled invalid after a judge saw video footage showing her daughter, Lisa, guiding her mother’s hand to sign the document. Margaret, who could barely move at the time, signed a will in March 2021 that cut out her son, John Baverstock, and left everything to Lisa, including her property in Herne Hill, South London, as per the news portal.
John, now 61, was left nothing from his late mother’s estate when she passed away just eight days later. He contested the will, arguing that the signing, captured on video, was not an independent act of his mother but rather the result of Lisa’s manipulation. The footage showed Lisa physically moving her mother’s hand to sign the document, which John claimed made the will invalid.
After reviewing the video evidence, the judge agreed with John’s claim, ruling that the will was not executed properly. As a result, John has been awarded half of the estate, overturning his sister’s claim to their mother’s wealth.
According to The Metro, Judge Jane Evans-Gordon agreed that Margaret had no idea what was going on – having been diagnosed with dementia in 2021 – and declared the will invalid.
As a result, the judge found that Margaret died intestate, so the brother and sister must share the assets 50/50. Lisa will also have to pay John’s 80,000-pound legal bill.
The footage showed Margaret could barely talk and was only able to respond by saying ‘yeah’ or grunting.
Speaking on behalf of John, barrister Mark Jones said Lisa was ‘repeatedly attempting to place a pen into her mother’s right hand in a manner by which the deceased could hold or grip the same.
In the latest episode of The Kardashians, aired on March 6, Khloé Kardashian candidly opened up that her daughter, True– who she shares with ex Tristan Thompson (they also share a son– Tatum) thinks that her parents are married.
In the episode, Khloé, while having a chat with her best friend, Malika Haqq reportedly said, “True thinks me and Tristan are married.” She added, “It is the right thing to do, in my opinion—get married, have kids. That’s what I wanna teach her.”
But it seems that the reality show star has already decided to clear it out eventually.
In the episode’s confessional, Khloé shared that the thing that bothered her was that she did not want True going through life and thinking– “This is what a marriage is.”
The Good American founder continued, “That, ‘Oh, you’re married to someone and they don’t live with you. And you never have to kiss them or you don’t sleep in the same bed together.’”
Khloé said that she would “love” her children to see her have a spouse one day and also for them to witness “love and affection and romance,” and that she does want them to have that.
She added that when True is older, she can “explain” that to her, but as of now, Khloé believes one does things for their children because they “should not be involved in adult problems.”
The reality show star told Haqq at lunch that she was “doing things,” but she was not on dating apps such as Hinge or Raya. she expressed not wanting to be on those and that she was okay.
When it comes to her and Thompson’s relationship, it has been filled with controversies. After being on and off, both of them parted ways in 2021, per the reports.
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