Midweek Sport

FLEEING THE FLAMES OF DESTRUCTIO­N

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I’M really proud of David Weir in the Paralympic­s getting his Gold medal.

We grew up on the same estate in London, the Roundshaw Estate, and he’s a year younger than me.

He’s a great lad and I’m so pleased he got gold in the 5,000 metres. What an amazing achievemen­t. I’M lucky to be alive.

I’ve just got back from Marbella where I have a holiday home – and thank God I flew back here just as the fires started.

I was packing up my stuff when I looked up at the Mijas mountains and saw smoke coming from them.

It looked like the fire was heading our way but luckily the wind changed directions and the flames spread to Marbella instead.

Our villa is in La Cala, which is just outside but I could see the fire raging from my gate, and you can see from the photos how close it was – it was just terrifying.

Some of my friends live closer to the mountains and their homes have been burnt to the ground.

They’ve lost everything. It’s just devastatin­g.

Horrendous

In a way I’m glad I flew home just as the fire started as it would have been horrendous lying in bed waiting for the fire to hit us.

Thankfully it didn’t and my cleaner says that other than a bit of soot, our place is fine.

The other thing that really upset me was that the local rescue centre had to beg people to come and look after their animals.

They have 150 dogs there and 200 cats but they couldn’t leave them in their pens because the fire was heading towards them.

It was so sad. One of the cats had all his fur burned off and it totally broke my heart.

I don’t know what has happened to the rest of them but I hope a kind hearted vet has stepped in to stop them suffering any more.

And a poor man burned to death in his shed too. It’s just terrible.

Whoever is responsibl­e for this disgusting crime needs to be punished. They should let them burn.

for hacking her phone and finding out about Prince Harry and her having a bit of a thing.

I like Lauren. We met in Marbella this summer and she was lovely.

I think if she was hacked then I definitely was.

In the 1990s there were always stories in the

about me getting up to various mischiefs and I used to be tearing my hair out wondering how they knew.

Now it seems pretty obvious.

I’ve called the cops to see if I’ve been hacked and I’m still waiting to hear back but if I have I’ll definitely be suing the arses off them. I’M annoyed that Khloe Evans ( above) won The Bachelor. I think it’s totally out of order because she only took part to get famous.

There was a story in the paper a few weeks ago about her snogging some fella in a club in London so it was obvious before the final that she wasn’t still with Spencer Matthews.

The other girl seemed to genuinely like Spencer as well and missed out on the chance of being with him which is a shame.

I think most of the time, these girls use talent shows to get famous and they don’t want the prize.

But to be honest, I wouldn’t want Spencer either.

He’s a right knobhead!

 ??  ?? TERRIFYING: The Marbella fires rage next to Linsey’s house
TERRIFYING: The Marbella fires rage next to Linsey’s house
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