4 d. ago Mariona Caldentey: ‘One day we’ll realise what we achieved, all we did for change to come’

Arsenal’s Spanish forward on fighting to win support for women’s football, leaving a successful Barcelona team and the stress of winning the World CupWhen Mariona Caldentey was a student, reading sports science at university, she could see the Camp Nou scoreboard from her bedroom window on the top floor of 63 Travessera de les Corts. On the nights when she and her flatmates didn’t stroll across to the stadium, they would hear goals before they saw them on TV. They played too, becoming league champions, but never imagined themselves over there. “Our reality was Astroturf pitches with no stands,” she recalls.Yet in April 2022, eight years on, 91,648 people came to watch them, breaking Barcelona’s own world record set a fortnight before. “It all happened so quick; one day we’ll realise what we achieved, all we did for change to come,” she says. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Inside the UK lodge where tigers sleep by your bedroom window

Laura Sharman spends the night at the Tiger Lodge at Port Lympne Reserve where she soaks in the outdoor bath waiting for Siberian tiger Mischa to appear.

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3 w. ago Marquess of Ailesbury, 98, who died after falling out of his bedroom window onto a patio at his west London home took his own life, coroner rules

Michael Brudenell-Bruce, 98, was found on the patio at his west London home on May 12 last year.

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3 w. ago Marquess of Ailesbury, 98, who died after falling out of his bedroom window onto a patio at his west London ho

Marquess of Ailesbury, 98, who died after falling out of his bedroom window onto a patio at his west London ho  Daily Mail

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3 w. ago Marquess of Ailesbury could have 'been taken advantage of by family members' before falling to his death from bedroom window, inquest told

His grandson Viscount Tom Savernake said he was 'concerned that family members were taking advantage' of his grandfather in the final years of his life.

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3 w. ago Marquess of Ailesbury had belts wrapped around his arms when he mysteriously fell from his bedroom window, inquest hears

The 98-year-old - also known as Michael Brudenell-Bruce - was found bleeding from the head on the patio of his west London home on May 12 last year.

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3 w. ago Russian Olympian dies after falling out of a window as widow claims 'it was an accident'

Buyvasar Saitiev was a three-time Russian Olympic champion, and was found dead after reporterdly falling out of his bedroom window in Moscow, Russia at the age of 50

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