“The typical criticism is that women with long hair look older, but that cliché makes no sense”, stylist and fashion connoisseur Linda Van Waesberge responds in “The world today” on Radio 1. “If you feel better with long hair, then that’s all that matters.” Van Waesberge also has long locks at the age of 69. “I try to stay as natural as possible as I get older. I’ve always had long hair myself, why would I suddenly change something about it when I get older?”

Is this preference for short cuts in older women something typically Western? Or does this idea also exist elsewhere in the world? “In the East, women often have shorter hair anyway,” says Van Waesberge. “That’s because their hair has a different structure. It falls down like a clear waterfall. That’s why many women cut it straight off for convenience. The African women have their frizzy hair, which also requires a different approach.” 

Western women have the worst hair quality of all. “That means we have to pay more attention to it if we want to grow it,” says Van Waesberge. This is especially true as you get older, because then your hair will become brittle and weaker anyway. “Our hair dries out with age. So if you want long locks as a woman, you have to take good care of your hair.”

“Dull and lifeless hair can effectively make you look older,” warns Van Waesberge. Some even think that older women would look like a witch.” But if you buy the right products to take good care of your long locks, long locks are magnificent, as Helen Mirren shows. 

According to Van Waesberge, times are also changing. “Awareness is growing that you shouldn’t take anything from anyone. Our society is in transition.”

The broadcaster now announces that the four-person editor-in-chief of the sports editors is stepping down to make room for “new leadership” and a culture change. The resignation will be phased “to ensure the continuity of sports coverage”. 

Employees can receive professional guidance. In addition, the broadcaster wants to train its managers to identify undesirable behavior earlier and to be able to act accordingly.

These experiences teach us that we need to do better in the future.

Alain Remue of the Unit for Missing Persons: “I can confirm that we recovered Valentin’s body around noon. The divers of the Civil Protection found him in the water of the Handelsdok, near the pedestrian and cyclist bridge. We have informed the family immediately.” The young man’s family was in Ghent to follow up the searches. They had started after the boy had disappeared on the Nieuwe Vaart, nearby. 

How and where Valentin ended up in the water, no one can say yet. “It’s still too early to elaborate on that,” says Remue, “for the serenity to the family.” According to some sources it may have been an accident. A medical examiner has been appointed to examine the body.

The young man disappeared Friday night when his friends entered the Kompass Club nightclub on Nieuwe Vaart without him. He was too drunk to enter, and left alone. There was no trace of Valentin after that. On Monday morning, dozens of police officers searched the banks of the Nieuwe Dokken and a helicopter flew over the search zone. On Tuesday, three boats with sonar equipment and two diving teams were deployed, but without results. A search was also made in and around the nightclub, but without success. Yesterday, the detective focused on camera images along the route that the man may have traveled. And today there was another search with boats and divers from the civil protection. They found his body around noon.