Spain’s Clara Basiana Canellas, Alba Cabello Rodilla, Ona Carbonell Ballestero, Margalida Crespi Jaume, Andrea Fuentes Fache, Thais Henriquez Torres, Paula Klamburg Roque and Irene Montrucchio Beaus in action during the Free Routine Final of the Synchronised Swimming Team competition at the Aquatics Centre. Picture by: EMPICS Sport/EMPICS Sport/PA.
THESE ARE THE things you need to know as we round off the day in three easy steps.
THINGS WE LEARNED:
#NAMA: Property developer Patrick McKillen has lost his English High Court action against Nama, Derek Quinlan and the Barclay Preview brothers in relation to the sale of an €800 million debt. McKillen alleged that the debt transfer from NAMA to Barclay’s investment vehicle Maybourne Finance Ltd was invalid, arguing that Nama had failed to comply with a contractual requirement to consult with Quinlan’s company Coirin Ltd – and its other shareholders, including McKillen himself – before transferring the loans.
#HOME PAYMENTS: The High Court has approved an interim payment of €1.2 million to be distributed to the customers of the now-defunct Home Payments Ltd, which went into liquidation last year. When the household and family management company collapsed in 2011, it owed customers in the region of €6.7 million – but had just €2.1 million in it s accounts.
#TIA SHARP: Police in London have confirmed that a body has been discovered at the home of the grandmother of missing 12-year-old girl Tia Sharp. The identity of the person found has not yet been released, but the London Metropolitan Police said Tia’s family have been informed. The authorities are seeking Stuart Hazell, the 37-year-old partner of the girl’s grandmother, in connection with the case and have warned the public not to approach him.
#SHELL TO SEA: Campaigners at the Rossport solidarity camp in Mayo are seeking legal advice over a report that a private security company has the camp under 24-hour surveillance. The security company is employed by Shell EP Ireland.
#MONET: The National Gallery of Ireland has begun restoration work on a Monet painting which was punched while on display in June; it is expected that the work on Argenteuil with a Single Sailboat (1874) will take about a year to complete. Andrew Shannon of Willans Way, Ongar, was charged last week with criminal damage in relation to the incident.
China’s Zou Shiming, right, fights Ireland’s Paddy Barnes, during their men’s semifinal light flyweight 49-kg boxing match at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 10, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
THINGS WE LOVED:
- This Guardian slideshow of funny-face pulling by divers at the Olympics.
- …and this BBC gallery of Usain Bolt behind the lens – particularly for Yohan Blake’s performance of his pre-race routine, aka “The Beast”.
- Wikipedia has locked down Mitt Romney’s page, and those of other members of the Republican party, after US comedian Stephen Colbert suggested on TV that viewers should edit the pages. Naughty.
THINGS WE SHARED:
- The defiant closing statement from Yekaterina Samutsevich, member of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot, during their trial for “hoolinganism” for performing an anti-Putin demonstration at a Moscow Cathedral. “We have won,” she said. “Now the whole world sees that the criminal case against us has been fabricated. The system cannot conceal the repressive nature of this trial.”
- Austin Weirschke, a 17-year-old from Wisconsin, USA, has been crowned the fastest texter in the United States. Despite one task forcing participants to text with their vision blocked and another seeing them text with one arm tied behind their back, he still walked away with the $50,000 prize.
- Vietnam airline VietJet Air has been fined for breaching aviation safety and security regulations by hosting an in-flight… bikini show. It’s probably one of the more bizarre things you’ll come across today (don’t ask us why stuffed toys are distributed at the end of the performance, we have no idea). Bonkers.
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