62 minutes ago ‘Australia deserves a champion’: Alex de Minaur ready to meet great expectations | Simon Cambers

World No 8 is coming off a career-best year as pressure mounts to become the first homegrown Australian Open men’s singles champion since 1976Playing at home in front of a home crowd can go one of two ways. For some, it’s an inspiration, they play their best tennis at the most important moments. For others, it can be crippling, the tension ripping through their body and stopping them from playing the way they so dearly want to.Think Sam Stosur, the Australian who won the US Open in sensational style in 2011, beating Serena Williams in the final, but for whom the expectations at Melbourne Park were simply too stressful. For all his talent, Nick Kyrgios’s best run in Melbourne is a quarter-final effort in 2015. Frenchwoman Amelie Mauresmo made one quarter-final at Roland-Garros but triumphed in Australia and at Wimbledon. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago Lauryn Goodman asks Kyle Walker to rent out £2m Sussex home amid plans to move abroad

The 34-year-old footballer is facing a turbulent period, with transfer rumours surrounding his playing career and reports of a divorce adding strain to his personal life

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16 hours ago Crippling five months of rail strikes set to begin today will cost us £1billion and 'paralyse' UK economy, say hospitality chiefs

Train managers at Avanti West Coast will walk out every Sunday until May 25 in an ongoing row over rest-day shifts, bringing another blow to venues which have already lost billions in previous strikes

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2 hours ago Andy Murray could REVERSE his retirement decision, John McEnroe teases, despite Scot coaching old rival Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open

EXCLUSIVE BY DAN DAVIS: Andy Murray, a three-time Grand Slam champion, brought an end to his glittering career after bowing out of the Paris Olympics last August.

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1 hour ago California man says two of his cats died after drinking raw milk recalled for bird flu

A California man says his two cats died and a third was hospitalized after he fed them raw milk recalled for bird flu risk

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81 minutes ago Pharmacists explains how to tell the difference between Covid, RSV and norovirus

Last week, hospital admissions due to the flu were 3.5 times higher than the same period last year.

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10 hours ago BBC celebrity chef nicknamed 'Flamebaster' went from working as a carer to traveling the culinary world

Chris 'Flamebaster' Roberts' from Caernarfon began showcasing his cooking skills on Instagram in 2016, but has since garnered a glittering career as a chef

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62 minutes ago Being a parent means you’re never quite your own person again, but that self

Parents must frequently say ‘no’ to their own wants and needs to serve their child’s long-term flourishing – and growth into a wonderful adultRead more in our Making sense of it seriesI believe power trips and parenting should never mix, so I freaked out when the early childhood nurse told me that to my baby boy, I was a “goddess”. She meant he was dependent on me for everything, so I had to be everything to him, come what may. But the life divine didn’t come easily to me: my boy didn’t sleep much, so I didn’t either.A decade on, I’ve seen the light. The nurse was right all along: parenting is a God gig. You don’t need to be a believer for something miraculous to happen when you become a parent: you go about becoming the god you don’t believe in, and your child’s personal guarantee that the world is a welcoming place. Continue reading...

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22 hours ago Ozempic didn't work for me because I kept making this big mistake. Then doctors told me the incredible unknown secret to using weight

Often patients reach their goal weight and feel good about themselves. Then, because of the initial success, they decide the drugs have done their job and simply stop taking them.

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25 hours ago Ruben Amorim can finally unleash £52m Manchester United signing Real Madrid envy

Leny Yoro has had to be patient for his chance at United but is beginning to show his worth

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9 hours ago 11 footballers with very different careers after retiring – tattooist to greengrocer

It turns out not every Premier League star ends up becoming a pundit or football manager. Some have chosen to take their careers in different directions completely

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2 hours ago Attempted murder arrest as ‘hospital nurse’ seriously injured in stabbing at A&E

Police were called to Rochdale Road at 11.30pm on Saturday to reports of a stabbing, Greater Manchester Police said.

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25 hours ago Three in hospital and cars burst into flames after s'erious' incident on Scottish road

Three people were taken to hospital after a serious road accident last night which saw two vehicles burst into flames.

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74 minutes ago The Inbetweeners icon unveils career move away from acting in surprising venture

James Buckley, who famously played a Jay Cartwright in the Channel 4 comedy The Inbetweeners, appeared on James Martin's Saturday Morning with his wife Clair Meek.

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26 hours ago 'I forked out £10k for weight loss surgery but was left throwing up lumps of flesh'

An influencer who was left with pneumonia, sepsis and blood clots after weight loss surgery said she doesn't regret her 'glow up' despite spending three months in hospital afterwards

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19 hours ago James Rodríguez is a player out of time who brings his best to international stage | Jonathan Wilson

The 2024 Golden Boot winner flopped at Everton and faded away at Real Madrid but is still a maestro for ColombiaOn Monday, Rayo Vallecano released James Rodríguez on a free transfer. It hadn’t been much of a stay. In four and a half months at the club, he managed 136 minutes of league football. Only once did he start in La Liga. Rodríguez is 33 now. Since he left Everton in 2021, he has started just 37 league games and scored only 10 goals. This is the sixth season in a row in which he has been released on a free transfer as he has drifted from Real Madrid to the team currently 12th in the table, via Qatar, Greece and Brazil. The sense is of a waning career nearing its end.And yet in those three and a half years since his last game for Everton, Rodríguez has played 32 times for Colombia. While at Rayo, he has played 374 international minutes. True, he doesn’t often last a full game, but there are few other indications of decline. As Colombia reached the final of last year’s Copa Amé...

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2 hours ago Nurse in critical condition after being stabbed in brutal late night A&E attack

The victim, a woman in her 50s, is understood to have been attacked with a 'sharp instrument' in a Manchester hospital – as a man, 37, is being held by police on suspicion of attempted murder

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6 hours ago HMPV virus infected 28,000 people in the US last year alone, worrying research reveals

The 'mystery virus' has sparked fears of another devastating pandemic due to videos of patients being treated in overwhelmed Chinese hospitals circulating on social media

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77 minutes ago Only Fools and Horses star James Buckley shares career move away from acting

Actor James Buckley, best known for playing Jay Cartwright in The Inbetweeners and Del Boy in Rock and Chips, appeared on James Martin's Saturday Morning with his wife Clair Meek.

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30 hours ago 11 Rangers players who nearly joined Celtic including Ibrox hero who would've 'jumped' at Parkhead move

The career paths of some famous names in Rangers' history could've turned out very differently

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2 hours ago Greater Manchester Hospital stabbing horror as 'nurse attacked in A&E'

A nurse is fighting for her life after being stabbed at a Greater Manchester hospital - a man is being held on suspicion of attempted murder following the incident on Saturday

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6 hours ago Dancing on Ice: Michaela Strachan's surprise career, cancer diagnosis and partner

Michaela Strachan is taking to the ice for Dancing on Ice 2024

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2 hours ago Alive in the Merciful Country by AL Kennedy review – peace of mind meets a monster from the past

This provocative novel contains two narratives: the memoir of an activist starting a new life and the violent manifesto of a spy cop who knew herAnna McCormick, as many people did, is discovering that the first pandemic lockdown is playing havoc with time. Becalmed in her deliberately fortress-like London home with her young adult son Paul, she is simultaneously under pressure – teaching primary school children on Zoom, maintaining her stockpile of tinned goods, attempting to communicate with her mother’s care home – and forced into unnatural, unwanted inaction. As a survivor of domestic abuse, and several other threats to her safety and sanity, she is aware of the immense prize – a sanctuary, a job, meaningful relationships – she has secured, but also of its precariousness. Amid these conditions of unbidden contemplation, she begins to write a sort of memoir.So too does Buster, the shape-shifting, monstrous undercover cop who once infiltrated the OrKestrA, the “merry little band of...

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2 hours ago Nurse fighting for life after being stabbed in 'murder bid' at hospital A&E

A man is being held on suspicion of attempted murder following the incident with a 'sharp instrument', but understood to not be a knife.

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16 hours ago BBC Casualty fans all say the same thing as new paramedic arrives at hospital

Casualty viewers were left all saying the same thing as new paramedic Indie Jankowski arrived on the medical drama.

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2 hours ago Thousands of NHS hospital beds have been lost in Wales according to new claims

James Evans MS criticised the Welsh Government for “allowing a significant reduction in the number of NHS beds in Wales”

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3 hours ago LIVE: Nurse fighting for life after being stabbed in hospital A&E attempted murder

A man has been arrested

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19 hours ago Breast surgery horror as patient starts 'convulsing' on operating table but doctor continues

Beauty clinic manager Jean Huang tragically died following a botched breast augmentation surgery - unregistered doctor Jie Shao was jailed and has now been banned from providing health services

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3 hours ago Had Meghan Markle's acting career hit a dead end before she married Prince Harry? When she was written out of her big

Like many young women living in Los Angeles , Meghan Markle was always trying to get her big break and make it as a famous actress

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3 hours ago LIVE: Nurse fighting for life after being stabbed in hospital A&E ward attempted murder

A man has been arrested

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22 hours ago Patients at King’s College Hospital waiting four days for a bed as it reaches 96.4% bed capacity – the second highest in

Patients at King’s College Hospital waiting four days for a bed as it reaches 96.4% bed capacity – the second highest in  Southwark News

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6 hours ago In Attendance: Paying Attention in a Fragile World review – visions of mortality abound

Fitzrovia Chapel, LondonIn a former hospital chapel replete with its own stories, works by Paula Rego, Phyllida Barlow and others resonate in their exquisitely contemplative surroundingsThe Fitzrovia Chapel is a miniature cathedral in the heart of London – a tiny vault of marble, stained glass and gold conceived on the most human of scales. Old photographs show congregations of barely more than 50. It is possible to walk from one end to the other in fewer than a dozen steps, but along the way are glimmering mosaics, glowing stars and some of the most moving words I have ever read in a church.This chapel, where King Charles recorded his recent Christmas message, is all that remains of the old Middlesex hospital in the heart of London. A neo-gothic building of dark red brick, it once nestled inside this venerable teaching hospital, founded in 1745. Now it stands alone, and fully visible, dwarfed instead by the high-rise apartments and luxury shops of the Pearson Square complex that re...

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5 hours ago Max George made difficult decision in hospital after thinking he was ‘going to die’

Singer said he was ‘30 years younger’ than other patients on the heart ward

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27 hours ago Carrie Johnson reveals health battle after week in hospital with flu and pneumonia

Ms Johnson praised NHS staff for their care and revealed she has now left the Oxford hospital

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7 hours ago ‘It’s an enormous emergency’: the doctor saving Sudan’s most vulnerable

MSF medical teams provide vital care in the war-torn country where pregnant women, new mothers and newborns are dying needlessly at alarming ratesDonate to our charity appeal hereIn Sudan, where a war that has caused the world’s biggest humanitarian disaster is in its second year, Dr Javid Abdelmoneim has his own daily struggles, trying to save lives in a place where the health system has all but collapsed.Rockets and bullets have an immediate effect on people caught in the crossfire, but the wider consequences of war are wreaking havoc on the population’s health. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago Lost and found: a mother and daughter on surviving teenage mental breakdown in the social media age

In an extract from their unflinching memoir, Christie Watson and daughter Rowan Egberongbe recall the post-Covid psychological collapse that fractured their bond, and how social media was both the hero and villain of the hour “Can you collect Rowan, please? It’s pastoral care at the school. We’re just a bit worried about her ... She seems manic.’ Continue reading...

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28 hours ago GPs defying NHS to prescribe baby formula, shampoo and toothpaste to struggling patients

NHS guidance states over-the-counter products should not be prescribed, doctors can use their discretion to overrule

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8 hours ago ‘I like to break the rules’: Björk on comedy, darkness and the most flamboyant tour of her career

The musician describes herself as many things: artist, introvert, activist, Scorpio, matriarch, punk, joker, optimist We step inside the multiverse of the incomparable BjörkBjörk is in Paris, and her laptop camera isn’t working. The laptop is eight years old, she explains, and she doesn’t want to replace it, for environmental reasons. “But let’s just say I haven’t exactly been crying about the fact that it doesn’t work.” She is a black square on my computer screen, which feels quite un-Björk-like, somehow, and yet also very Björk-like, too. Even without the visuals, she is instantly familiar. She jokes, she teases, her answers unravel slowly as she weighs up every side of a response, pin-balling between as many angles as she can find.She says she has always felt a bit weird about video calls anyway. “Even when they started, I would find more distance in talking to loved ones, because it’s sort of fake. You see people, but it’s not real. You’re not getting the presence. So maybe it’s...

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6 hours ago The Wanted's Max George 'wrote a will' as he prepared for death in hospital bed

The Wanted star Max George has spoken for the first time about his "terrifying" health ordeal - as he feared he would die before an operation to fit a pacemaker

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30 hours ago HMPV: Health expert's verdict on whether virus from China could trigger global pandemic

A surge in cases of HMPV (human metapneumovirus) has raised fears of another Covid-19 style pandemic after harrowing images in China show children in hospital beds needing urgent treatment

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9 hours ago Note to No 10: one speed doesn’t fit all when it comes to online safety | John Naughton

Legislation to protect children in the digital realm is essential. But if it results in the loss of small cycling and cancer-care forums, something’s gone wrongLondon Fixed Gear and Single-Speed (LFGSS) is an admirable online community of fixed-gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London. Sadly, this columnist does not qualify for membership: he doesn’t reside in (or near) the metropolis, and he requires a number of gears to tackle even the gentlest of inclines – and therefore admires hardier cyclists who disdain the assistance of Sturmey-Archer or Campagnolo hardware.There is, however, bad news on the horizon. After Sunday 16 March, LFGSS will be no more. Dee Kitchen, the software wizard (and cyclist) who is the core developer of Microcosm, a platform for running non-commercial, non-profit, privacy-sensitive, accessible online forums such as LFGSS, has announced that on that date he will “delete the virtual servers hosting LFGSS and other communities, and effectively immedi...

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6 hours ago 'I've been left bedridden battling a rare condition after my daughter came home with a nursery bug'

She was originally incorrectly diagnosed with ME

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31 hours ago Medical expert verdict on mandatory face masks in UK over 'mystery' Chinese HMPV virus

EXCLUSIVE: The human metapneumovirus (HMPV) has caused concern as the NHS creaks under the pressure of a 'quad-demic', with shocking footage from Chinese hospitals circulating online

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10 hours ago John Swinney 'wants to be First Minister until 2031' as he makes clear 'caretaker' status is over

The SNP leader has opened up on his ambitions, and also talked for the first time about a heart scare in the back of a ministerial car that inspired him to take up running.

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7 hours ago Carer 'assumed' vulnerable man who choked to death eating a sandwich was sleeping

Craig Spiby had a rare disorder that made him susceptible to choking and should have been monitored while eating

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10 hours ago Backers of trans row nurse complain “lip service” is being paid to keeping women

“They pay ­lip-service to the idea of women only spaces but, in practice, set the demands of a group of men over the safety, dignity, and privacy of their female staff.”

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7 hours ago Pep Guardiola's secret 'inner anguish' after Kyle Walker drops Man City bombshell

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has revealed that veteran defender Kyle Walker wants to move on and see out his career abroad, with a January transfer now on the cards

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11 hours ago I cried all night over Man United star's collapsed move to Real Madrid

Some athletes experience sliding doors moments during their careers that only become clear in hindsight, and one Real Madrid icon had a close shave by dodging a move to Manchester United

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8 hours ago A Second Act by Dr Matt Morgan review – what nearly dying can teach us about living

In this sequel to his bestseller, Critical, the intensive care doctor draws lessons on the joys of a ‘second life’ from the experiences of patients who have flatlined and been revived“We have two lives,” Dr Matt Morgan writes, before clarifying: “The second begins when you realise you have [only] one.” Sometimes, as the case studies in this book detail, this realisation comes more suddenly and profoundly than most of us can imagine. For more than 20 years, Morgan has been a specialist doctor in intensive care, labouring at the extreme margins of life. Just occasionally, in his day-to-day education in human mortality, he has witnessed what might, in other traditions, be thought of as supernatural events: people whose vital signs have flatlined, but who have returned to tell the tale. The stories in this book – a sequel to his bestselling Critical – are his accounts of those impossible second acts, and his reflections on what we can learn from those lucky few who have experienced both...

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13 hours ago Comedian Sara Pascoe reveals she is 'glad I gave birth at 40' after witnessing her mother's sacrifices as a young parent

Sara Pascoe revealed that she's glad she waited until she was 40 to have children, after seeing her mother miss out on the carefree experiences of young adulthood. 

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12 hours ago Ukraine war briefing: Ukraine ‘captures two North Korean soldiers in Russia’

Pair being interrogated in Kyiv, with intelligence agency SBU saying one had fake Russian military ID; Russia claims control of village near PokrovskSee all our Ukraine coverageUkraine said it was interrogating two North Korean soldiers after capturing the pair in Russia’s Kursk region – the first time it has announced the capture of North Korean soldiers alive since their entry into the war last year. The president, Volodymyr Zelensyy, said on X on Saturday the soldiers were captured by Ukraine’s special forces and were being interrogated by the SBU domestic intelligence agency in Kyiv. The SBU released a video showing the two men in hospital bunks, one with bandaged hands and the other with a bandaged jaw. It said their questioning was being done in Korean with the help of South Korea’s NIS intelligence agency. Neither Russia nor North Korea immediately reacted to the announcement.The SBU said the two captured North Korean men had told interrogators they were experienced army sold...

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17 hours ago Man Utd's Class of 92 sent stark reminder as Man City show their dominance

Manchester United's Class of 92 often had it their own way during their playing careers, but with some in attendance - and other notable in their absence - they watched Salford get thrashed

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14 hours ago Max George reveals he made a heartbreaking decision while in hospital for emergency heart operation after fearing he'd die

Max George has revealed he made the heartbreaking decision to write a will after fearing he'd die while in hospital for an emergency heart operation.

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18 hours ago Pep Guardiola reveals Kyle Walker has asked to leave Man City in January

The 34-year-old wants to move abroad for the final stages of his career

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15 hours ago Naomi Watts says she was told revealing that she'd hit the menopause at 36 would end her Hollywood career

Now, aged 56, British-born actress Naomi Watts has spoken of her experiences of menopause in a new book aimed at challenging the stigma older women face in Hollywood.

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20 hours ago Boris Johnson's wife Carrie hospitalised with pneumonia and is struggling to recover

Boris Johnson's wife Carrie Johnson has revealed she spent nearly a week in hospital with flu and pneumonia and is still battling to recover from the illness which left her 'horribly ill'.

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17 hours ago Max George wrote a will from his hospital bed as he feared he would die within hours

The Wanted singer Max George revealed he made a few preparations while staying in hospital. The star underwent surgery to have a pacemaker fitted

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21 hours ago My labia were causing me discomfort so I had them reduced. When I woke the surgeon casually said 'I tightened you up a bit too': In world

The actress, 59, has spent most of her career as a sex object. She tells Sophia Money-Coutts how she's finally living life on her own terms.

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20 hours ago 'I vomited lumps of flesh after my weight loss surgery – it nearly killed me'

A mum-of-one endured a terrifying ordeal following weight loss surgery that left her hospitalised for months, after surgeons admitted they had removed too much of her stomach

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23 hours ago Carrie Johnson shares 'horrible' health battle after spending a week in hospital

The wife of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson praised NHS staff, saying she was "horribly, horribly ill" for three weeks - and still hasn't fully recovered

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21 hours ago Teenager seriously injured in Scots street by masked attackers on scooters

The 18-year-old victim was taken to hospital where his injuries are described as serious.

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