3 d. ago Paula Radcliffe reveals symptoms she ignored before daughter’s cancer diagnosis

Marathon runner said it was ‘easy’ to overlook the warning signs

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4 d. ago Paula Radcliffe reveals cancer symptoms she ignored before daughter’s diagnosis

Marathon runner said she ‘easily’ overlooked the symptoms

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4 d. ago Paula Radcliffe says she ‘dismissed’ teen daughter’s cancer warning signs

Marathon runner said she ‘easily’ overlooked the symptoms

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1 week ago Store owner on shoplifting hell of terrifying knife threats and thefts

A store owner says he fears for the safety of his staff as shoplifting reaches record levels in Scotland

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2 w. ago JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Critical illness cover saved marathon runner Ryan

The Royal London policy was set up to financially protect the family if Ryan suffered a serious illness such a heart attack, cancer or stroke.

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2 w. ago Will the heatwave reach Scotland as Met Office issues yellow heat warnings

Warm air has been boosted by weather conditions from Europe but will Scotland feature in the UK heatwave?

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2 w. ago Woman secretly enters her husband in a marathon after he bragged he could run one with NO preparation

Logan Godspeed's wife Maisie thought it would be funny to see him put his money where his mouth is after he boasted about completing the gruelling event without training.

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3 w. ago Scots mum who learned to walk again after horror crash back running marathons

Fiona McAllister went through the windscreen of the car she was a passenger in, and was in hospital for over a year.

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3 w. ago Tories ‘got it wrong’ when they backed 2045 net zero target, Findlay says

The Scottish Conservatives had previoulsy supported the target of Scotland reaching net zero by 2045, but will now seek to ‘scrap’ it.

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3 w. ago Need for speed: how sport’s risk takers recognise deadly danger and do it anyway | Emma John

In a stable and affluent society, it is possible to declare that ‘life is for living’ through pursuits that shorten your odds of dyingLast year I visited St Moritz’s infamous Cresta Run. You know the one – the vertiginous skeleton course that has killed a number of its participants and maimed many more. I was with a group of friends who were attempting it for the first time, and who quickly became addicted to the adrenaline fix. I stubbornly refused to even contemplate it.It’s not just that my mates are braver than me – they are – but they’re all decent athletes, cricketers, hockey players, marathon runners and Channel swimmers. They have rapid reflexes and hand-eye coordination: I barely have a sense of where my arms and legs end. There are endless ways to hurt yourself on a crushingly heavy toboggan with razor-sharp runners that’s hurtling at 50mph between sheer walls of solid ice, and if anyone was going to slice off a finger or break their head landing upside down, it was me. Co...

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3 w. ago Retired banker reaches Scotland after running 50 marathons along the coast

Steve James has reached Scotland which marks the quarter-point of his goal to run 200 marathons in 200 days.

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4 w. ago Swansea Half Marathon best pictures as thousands of runners tackle 13.1

Runners from across Wales descended on Swansea on Sunday

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