The Princess of Wales made an unexpected appearance at Everton’s stadium in Liverpool today as she joined the launch of her husband’s new suicide prevention toolkit.

Prince William had originally been expected to lead the event on his own, but Kate’s last-minute decision to attend made it the couple’s first joint royal engagement since their summer break, as well as since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex returned to the UK.

The Prince of Wales unveiled the initiative at Hill Dickinson Stadium alongside representatives from across the sporting world, with presenter Gabby Logan, Dame Kelly Holmes, Campbell Hatton and Jill Scott among the notable guests in attendance.

Bringing further star power to the campaign, the future king worked with high-profile names including England captain Harry Kane, Formula 1 driver George Russell, footballer Alan Shearer and cycling champions Sir Jason and Dame Laura Kenny to develop the new On Your Side “toolkit”.

The practical guide is designed to help people recognise warning signs more clearly, while giving them the knowledge and confidence to step in with timely support.

Kate matched William, who wore a navy suit and tie, in a light blue blazer and coordinating trousers from Edeline Lee, teamed with a white blouse to pay homage to Everton’s home colours. She also sported her £185 Laura Lombardi Portrait chain necklace.

Their outing comes after the King ruled out any role for Prince Harry and his wife Meghan within the Royal Family after they moved back to Britain from the US two weeks ago.

In a letter, the monarch told more than 100 ‘senior stakeholders’ across the country that his son and daughter-in-law are not working royals, with a reminder that their HRH titles remain on ice.

A spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess said they were ‘surprised’ by the King’s unprecedented letter in a statement issued to the media, claiming the couple had not been told about it in advance.

Palace sources told the Daily Mail that this is ‘incorrect’, insisting Harry and Meghan had received the letter before it was released publicly. However, they were not consulted on its contents.

The Palace made the point the letter was in full accordance with the Sussexes’ stated wish to remain ‘private citizens while in the UK’ and in keeping with the ‘Sandringham Summit’ agreement of 2020, after which the couple set up a new life in the US.

This prompted a jaw-dropping briefing to the Telegraph , which read: ‘The Duke is understood to have taken particular issue with the notion that the couple were to be treated as private citizens. If that were the case, it was claimed, such formal guidance would not be required.

‘The Sussexes prefer the term “public figures”, and would have liked an acknowledgement that, on a personal level, they remained members of the Royal Family, despite no longer receiving public funding.’ Buckingham Palace declined to comment, feeling the letter is sufficient. 

Earlier this week, Kate and William, both 44, accompanied their eldest son on his first day of school at Eton College. 

They travelled with their son the short distance from their home, Forest Lodge in Windsor Great Park, to the renowned private school, which has educated a string of prime ministers and Hollywood stars.

George is following in the footsteps of his father and uncle, the Duke of Sussex, who both attended the college, located just across the River Thames from Windsor Castle in the town of Eton.

In a speech at Everton football club today, on World Suicide Prevention Day, William will say: ‘My hope is that every sporting organisation in the country will look at what is being launched today and ask a question: “What more can we do?” 

‘Because the opportunity before us is enormous. Sport has the ability to reach people who may never walk through the door of a mental healthcare service. 

‘People who may never seek support themselves and may be struggling in silence. The sporting community can change that.’

William’s initiative is the result of a collaboration between his charitable arm, The Royal Foundation, the British Standards Institution and the charity Chasing the Stigma. 

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Suicide is the single biggest killer of men under the age of 50 in the UK – and while the campaign is designed to help both sexes, it is hoped that sport will provide a new way of reaching those men who traditionally find it difficult to talk about their emotions or reach out for help.

As well as the practical guide, which will be distributed to sporting organisations both grassroots and professional the length and breadth of the country, stars including Kane and Russell recorded a special film with the prince showcasing the power of having a conversation about suicide.

Leaders from major sports organisations will also announce details of their commitments to the initiative.

The Football Association, of which the prince is Patron, will commit to embedding the toolkit across its entire organisation, as well as its community and grassroots football network.

The Premier League and British Cycling will announce their commitment to prioritising suicide prevention across their organisations, and Team GB will use the resource with all athletes and staff.

In addition, over a dozen other sports organisations have signed up to become champions of the toolkit, committing to embedding practical, evidence-based suicide prevention techniques across their organisation, using the resource to strengthen their approach and help inspire wider action across all sports.

A video promoting the toolkit was screened for the first time earlier, featuring England captain Harry Kane and other leading competitors urging the sporting world to adopt the online resource.

The future king has written a foreword for the toolkit, in which he said: ‘Through my work on mental health, I have met people whose lives have been changed forever by suicide.

‘But I have also met people whose lives have been saved because someone stepped in to help. Each of their experiences has had a profound impact on me.’

William goes on to write: ‘Whatever your role – athlete, coach, parent, official or supporter – you may be the person who notices that someone is struggling.

‘You could be the one who starts an honest conversation, and who helps that person to find the support they need.

‘This toolkit gives you clear, practical guidance to do exactly that. I hope that On Your Side encourages everyone in sport, in every discipline and at every level, to make suicide prevention part of your game plan.’

Hazel Detsiny, Executive Director of The Royal Foundation, said: ‘This toolkit is the first of its kind, uniting the sector across all sports and at every level, with the aim of bringing about meaningful change.

‘Sport can be a powerful force for connection and support, and everyone engaged in sport has the power to make a difference to those at risk of suicide.

‘Research commissioned by The Royal Foundation shows that the sports sector has the potential to be a powerful platform for suicide prevention but is hampered by stigma – particularly among men and elite athletes – as well as gaps in skills, knowledge and resources.

‘The findings show strong goodwill and pockets of effective practice across sport, but that the sector’s scale and diversity mean activity is often siloed, inconsistent, and unevenly resourced. At grassroots level, many clubs lack clear guidance on how to recognise risk and respond appropriately.’

The toolkit explains how to create safe and supportive environments where people feel able to speak up and support others in distress, including outlining appropriate language and providing conversation starters.

It also hopes to make suicide prevention part of everyday practice, including policies and ways of working.

Footballer Alan Shearer suddenly lost his best friend and ex-Newcastle teammate, Gary Speed, in 2011.

The two men had seen each other just hours before his death and had been planning a holiday together when Wales manager Speed apparently took his own life at the age of just 42.

He said: ‘For me this is obviously very personal and it feels particularly poignant that it is being launched at Everton, a club that meant so much to Gary Speed. 

‘We can’t all know when somebody is struggling but we can all be better at asking and listening and helping someone find the right support. 

‘That’s what On Your Side is all about, giving people across sport practical advice to help start those conversations. Prince William has done a huge amount around mental health and support.

‘You don’t have to be an expert, you don’t have to have all the answers, but I hope that everyone in sport will use the toolkit. We can all be on the same side.’

A spokesman for the Prince of Wales said it was well known that he has worked for many years to support changing the national conversation on mental health and this was a development of that.

‘The prince is very passionate about sport and truly believes in its ability to bring people together,’ they said.

He has already invested £1 million of his charity’s funds to set up a national suicide prevention network.

For confidential support, call Samaritans on 116 123, visit samaritans.org or visit https://www.thecalmzone.net/get-support 

BEIJING — A cargo vessel undergoing repairs at a port in China caught fire, leaving 25 people dead, Chinese state media reported Thursday.

The fire broke out while the ship was at Beihai Shipbuilding Co. in the port city of Qingdao, one of the major shipping hubs on China’s northeastern coast.

A photo published by the Xinhua news agency identified the vessel as the Ocean Melody, a ship that sails under the Liberian flag, according to the tracking site VesselFinder.

Xinhua reported that 42 people were on board at the time, with 12 able to evacuate safely.

Five others were injured and transported to a hospital, where they were listed in stable condition.

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The fire started around 11 a.m. Thursday and was extinguished by 2:30 p.m. local time.

Videos online showed workers on the ship attempting to put out the fire.

China’s President Xi Jinping issued “important instructions” to urgently conduct rescues of missing people on the ship, Xinhua said, adding that Premier Li Qiang called for “trapped” people to be rescued.

Xi also called for ensuring “preventive measures are thoroughly implemented” and “resolutely prevent major and catastrophic accidents.”

Beihai Shipbuilding is part of the state-controlled China State Shipbuilding Corporation, the world’s largest shipbuilder.

Its main businesses include shipbuilding and ship repairing, according to Beihai Shipbuilding’s website.

A quarter-century after the Sept. 11 attacks, Salvation Army responder Ken Tregellas still carries the sorrow of that day — along with a deep belief that answering the call to serve at Ground Zero was a sacrifice he would make again.

“My kids had asked me over the years, ‘Dad, knowing you’d get cancer, would you still have served?’ And I told them, ‘I wouldn’t have changed a thing. It was an honor,’” he said.

As the nation marks another 9/11 anniversary, Tregellas is revisiting the choice that pulled him away from his home and family in Wisconsin and sent him to Lower Manhattan, where he spent months supporting rescue and recovery workers as well as families desperate for news about missing loved ones.

The day began like any other Tuesday. Tregellas was helping his twins get ready for school when he first saw reports that a plane had hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center. At first, like so many watching in disbelief, he struggled to understand what had happened. Then United Flight 175 slammed into the South Tower, and the reality became unmistakable: America was under attack.

Within a few hours, his phone rang, a call that would change the course of his life.

Tregellas previously operated The Salvation Army’s emergency assistance programs in underserved communities. So when he was asked to be the Red Zone coordinator at Ground Zero, he knew he needed to deploy.

When flights opened back up, Tregellas flew from Wisconsin to New York City. Only four other passengers were on board.

“I’d never been to New York in my life, so I really didn’t have, other than pictures and movies, I didn’t have anything to compare it to,” he said.

Tregellas could not have known that his first glimpse of New York would come under such unimaginable circumstances.

Walking into the Red Zone in Lower Manhattan, he encountered a scene unlike anything he had ever witnessed. Smoke continued to rise from the twisted shards of metal, while the remains of the World Trade Center smoldered in a massive pile.

“I was still pretty shocked that there was still fire burning,” Tregellas said. “I mean, the piles where the two main towers were, were still burning every time they were picking up debris.”

Working at Ground Zero

As the Red Zone coordinator, Tregellas was responsible for overseeing all of The Salvation Army’s efforts on the ground.

“Our job was really to take care of the people that were looking for bodies at that point,” Tregellas said. “It was more of a recovery effort.”

Six tents were set up at the site, including makeshift cafeterias and sleeping areas that quickly became a refuge for workers. Weary responders arrived with boots melted by the intense heat of the metal. They could replace their shoes, grab a meal, rest and talk with others about what they had witnessed at the pile.

The Salvation Army provided more than food, clothing and shelter. Beyond basic necessities, workers received counseling and other forms of spiritual relief to make the grueling work at Ground Zero somewhat manageable. Tregellas emphasized that the organization’s mission went beyond meeting physical needs. It was also there to provide emotional and spiritual care.

Prayer was offered around the clock to anyone who wanted it. Tregellas said one of the most striking parts of the experience was the diversity of people who came to the site including families who traveled from around the world searching for answers about their loved ones.

“There were people coming from all over the world to look at the site and try to understand why they weren’t hearing anything about loved ones,” Tregellas said. “You had to listen. You were dealing with interpreters. It was a whole different thing than I think most of us had ever dealt with before.”

At Ground Zero, Tregellas said, the work extended far beyond recovery. The Salvation Army was caring for people in the middle of unimaginable loss, providing a meal, a place to rest, a prayer or simply someone willing to listen.

Although he had worked for The Salvation Army for almost 32 years and witnessed many heartbreaking moments, the weight of what Tregellas witnessed at Ground Zero followed him home.

After seeing the scale of the loss in New York, he found himself struggling to process other disasters the way he once had. Returning to disaster sites, such as floods, where people had lost their homes and belongings, he found himself comparing those losses to the lives lost on Sept. 11.

“Seeing the depth of tragedy of New York, so much loss of life, and just how large and devastating it was, I really had a hard time on the empathy part,” Tregellas said.

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He knew the loss of a home, furniture or clothing was devastating to the people experiencing it. But privately, he found himself thinking about how different those losses were from what he had witnessed in New York.

“I was thinking in my head, ‘that’s just stuff, you didn’t lose your life,” he said. “And I compared everything in my life, even my children I would tell them, doesn’t compare to the loss of life. I had a really hard time getting over that.”

Cancer certifications have risen from 3,204 in 2015 to 57,044 this year between workers, Twin Tower survivors, and Manhattan residents, The New York Post reports.

Ten years after Sept. 11, Tregellas became a part of those statistics.

When Tregellas was having trouble eating and swallowing, he went to the doctor, not thinking much of it and unaware that his sacrifice helping others at Ground Zero would come at a cost.

During the visit, doctors found cancer in his tonsils.

“I hadn’t really dealt with cancer at all. And then as they started to look at it and it showed up in a couple other places,” he said.

He was then diagnosed with stage 4 mantle B-cell lymphoma, and the treatment was intense.

“It was probably eight months of chemotherapy and long stays in the hospital, and it was a very rare cancer.”

According to the Victims Compensation Fund, cancer has become one of the lingering health consequences of 9/11, as responders and survivors continue to face illnesses linked to their exposure at Ground Zero.

There were more than 69 reported types of cancer, with non-melanoma skin cancer being the most common, with more than 18,400 cases among responders and survivors, while lymphoma, on the rarer side, accounted for around 2,500 cases among responders and survivors.

The 9/11 VCF was able to assist him with his treatment.

“I went through a bunch of chemotherapies. I had a stem cell transplant that was, they said, my best chance to survive.”

About a year after completing that first treatment, the cancer came back in his other tonsil.

“I thought we were just going to do the same thing again, which I wasn’t excited about, but I was thinking, “Well, it worked once, it can work again,” he said.

Doctors thought that would be too harsh on his body, so they put him on ibrutinib, a drug used to treat certain blood cancers and one he’d be on until this year.

“And boy, I was on that drug till February of this year, and it put me back in remission, I never had any cancer since,” he said.

Today, Tregellas spends part of his time speaking, often to students, about what he witnessed on 9/11. For many of them, the attacks are something they have only learned about in history books.

When speaking to Fox News, he got emotional. He took a beat with a heavy sigh that held weight as if sharing his experiences with younger generations brought him back in time to those moments.

Tregellas knows he and others on the ground will never forget. But feels it’s vital to bring it to the forefront so the younger generations know, so they can remember.

“That’s where we bring it back,” Tregella said. “It’s an important part of history. And yeah, it united us. I think it still does at times.”

This week, on the 25th anniversary, he says most of all he looks forward to the shared solidarity.

“It’s a week of, ‘we did it,’ this is how we did it and let’s look back and learn that together we can do a whole bunch,” Tregellas said. “And yeah, I’m proud to be a part of that.”

A pilot aboard the Amazon cargo jet that overshot a Miami runway and left five people dead warned in the final seconds that the aircraft was moving “too fast,” according to cockpit audio released Wednesday.

The transcript shows the unidentified crew member urgently called for a “go around” as the plane approached landing Sunday, signaling an attempt to abandon the touchdown and climb away.

Flight data indicated the aircraft’s brakes were released and its throttles advanced just 15 seconds before impact, the National Transportation Safety Board said as it made the audio public.

The pilot’s warning that the jet was going “too fast” to land safely came only moments before the crash. Five seconds later, the aircraft went off the runway, according to the transcript.

The plane tore through a fence and struck a van belonging to an airline cleaning company, killing all five workers inside. Authorities identified the victims as Rolando Aleman, 55, Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo, 53, Julio C Pineda, 75, Carlos Acosta Fajardo, 53, and Javierkys Reyes Quevedo, 47.

The NTSB has not released the full audio, but said Wednesday that the pilot ‘made additional comments regarding the aircraft’s excessive speed throughout the remainder of the recording’ before the crash.

Earlier this week, the pilots on board the aircraft were named as Jaime Felipe Silva Molina and Joseph Carroll. The pilots survived, and NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said they were interviewed after their release from hospital with minor injuries. 

The contents of their interviews have not been revealed, and the investigation into the tragedy remains ongoing.

The NTSB said on Wednesday that evidence suggests the pilots of the aircraft knew they had botched the landing moments before the crash, but left it too late to perform a ‘go around’ and re-try the landing.

Alongside one of the pilots making multiple warnings that they were going ‘too fast’, electronic systems on board the plane also blared several warnings beginning a minute before the collision, officials said. 

Chihoon Shin, the lead investigator into the crash, said at a press conference that the plane was traveling at 182mph when its nose landing gear first touched down. 

The pilots did not apply the brakes for another seven seconds, and the left side of the main landing gear did not touch the runway for another four seconds.

The data showed that the pilots severely botched the landing, Michael O’Donnell, a former Federal Aviation Administration investigator, told the New York Times, describing the touchdown sequence as ‘really bad.’

‘The nose should not hit first,’ he explained. ‘That is an unstable approach right there, and that really tells me that the go-around should have been executed a lot sooner, and they weren’t in total control of the aircraft.’

The NTSB data showed that 15 seconds before the audio cut off in the crash, the plane’s brakes released and the throttles increased, indicating that the pilots attempted to reverse the landing at the last second and attempt the ‘go-around.’

At that moment, the plane was moving at 138mph, Shin said, and the ‘throttles increased to values consistent with go-around thrust.’

Shin said the pilots did not re-apply the brakes until 11 seconds before the recording cut off, and they allegedly never deployed the aircraft’s speed brakes or thrust reversers, both of which could have helped slow the plane.

Homendy said that investigators are still looking into how close to the end of the runway the plane was at these moments, and that is ‘something we still have to determine.’ 

O’Donnell told the Times that the plane would have been moving at roughly 200 feet per second during those crucial final seconds when the brakes were released.

‘If you do the math, that’s a lot of runway that went by while they were doing that,’ he said.

Shin said that when the recorder stopped and the plane crashed, the aircraft was still moving at 75mph.

Steven Arroyo, an aviation expert and retired United Airlines pilot, told the Times that the newly released audio timeline suggests there was indecision or confusion in the cockpit over whether to abort the landing at the last moment.

‘You either land or you go around,’ Arroyo said.

‘You don’t land, attempt to go around and then get back to landing again, unless there was some mechanical malfunction.’