4 d. ago Female referee attacked and dragged by hair as footballer injured trying to save her

A young female referee has been left "shaken" after she violently attacked during an amateur football match, leaving her with injuries after being dragged by her hair

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7 d. ago Girl, 13, died in ferocious blaze after stairway collapsed during rescue bid

Lily Anne Childs, 13, died after a fire tore through her semi-detached home in Ashford, Kent, just three days after Christmas. Firefighters were injured trying to save her

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1 week ago Are our bodies full of microplastics or not? There’s a way to resolve this debate, and scientists must hurry | Debora MacKenzie

This week’s furore is microplastics researchers’ ozone moment. If they fail, the powerful plastics lobby will step into the breachDebora MacKenzie is a science journalist and author of Stopping the Next Pandemic: How Covid-19 Can Help Us Save HumanityAre we being injured and killed by ubiquitous, teeny-tiny shards of toxic plastic? Or aren’t we? For many months, the Guardian has reported a series of worrying scientific results that our bodies are full of jagged microplastic particles that could be giving us everything from heart attacks to reproductive problems.But on Tuesday, the Guardian revealed that a significant number of scientists think many of these studies showed no such thing. Or maybe they did. The methods are new and riddled with problems, so we can’t always reliably tell.Debora MacKenzie is a science journalist and author of Stopping the Next Pandemic: How Covid-19 Can Help Us Save Humanity Continue reading...

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1 week ago Police commended after rescuing injured passenger from train tracks with seconds to spare

A pair of police officers jumped onto rail tracks to save an injured person from and oncoming train.

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1 week ago Cops leap on to rail tracks to save injured person with train just one minute away

A pair of police officers jumped onto rail tracks to save an injured person just a minute before a train came.

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3 w. ago Tom Cairney earns Fulham a point at Crystal Palace with late leveller

It’s a strange quirk of this fixture that the away side hasn’t lost for the last 10 Premier League matches, and substitute Tom Cairney’s late equaliser ensured that the streak goes on.Only a brilliant save in injury-time from Dean Henderson and a glaring miss from former Crystal Palace player Joachim Andersen denied Fulham all three points after they had fallen behind to Jean-Philippe Mateta’s first goal from open play since 1 November. But Oliver Glasner will still be bitterly disappointed that his side couldn’t end a sequence of six games without a victory in all competitions after running out of steam again in their 31st match of the season. Continue reading...

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