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Spain made history in last night’s Euro 2012 final, becoming the first side to win three successive major international tournaments with a 4-0 win over Italy in Kiev. Italy were outclassed from start...
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Jeev Milkha Singh won the Scottish Open yesterday evening in a playoff with Francesco Molinari. Singh, ranked 192 in the world, took the last remaining qualifier place at next weekend’s Open after...
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Bradley Wiggins became the first Briton to win the Tour de France in it’s 109–year history. He finished three minutes and 21 seconds ahead of teammate and compatriot Chris Froome as Mark Cavendish won...
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Sir Steve Redgrave passed the Olympic flame on to a group of young athletes to light the cauldron in the Olympic Stadium and signal the start of the 2012 Olympic Games on Friday evening. Team GB have...
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Usain Bolt cemented his place as the greatest sprinter of all time as he successfully defended his 100m title. Bolt posted an Olympic record time of 9.63 to beat countryman Yohan Blake and American...
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The flame was extinguished on the Olympic Games for another four years on Sunday night, but not before Team GB took their gold medal haul to 29, the most since London hosted the Games in 1908. Mo Farah...
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After a wholesome fortnight of Olympic sport, the juggernaut that is Premier League football rolled back into town as if it had never been away with the start of the 2012/13 season. Yesterday champions...
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Liverpool recovered from last weekend’s opening day defeat to West Brom to draw 2-2 with champions Manchester City at Anfield, despite gifting their opponents both of their goals. Martin Skrtel, who...
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Great Britain sit second in the Paralympics medals table with 15 gold medals after the first four days of competition. Britain’s David Weir wrapped up the weekend’s action, surging down the final...
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Standing Alongside Our Brothers
It is often easy to stand alongside our brothers at a football match, or at the bar, or on a healthy hike. These are good “blokey” things to do. They feed our sense of worth, appeal to our desire to...
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Do I need an ambulance?
I must have rolled over in bed and the pain had woken me. Whichever way I moved the pain was so intense that I fully expected to need to go to hospital, with the added indignity of needing to be...
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Life
As you get nearer to a race you start ramping up the miles and getting into the longer runs …. . It’s always at this stage that I get worried about getting a slight niggle, or something that could get...
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Help for fathers
This week, ‘Beat’ launched an online support group for fathers of people with eating disorders. The struggle of seeing someone you love in turmoil and being unable to fix it for them – it’s an...
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Ask for help
It was fairly early on in my Royal Naval career, my first complement job as a Petty Officer, Weapons Engineer. I was on a type 42 Destroyer, and I was the maintainer for the main computer system that...
View ArticleMental Health Awareness Week 2018
Maybe you saw this in the news or even went and had a look for yourself, but earlier this year ITV HQ supported a charity called CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) by having an art installation...
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Do we ever stop and think? Put ourselves in the shoes of another? That’s what we’re told we should be doing, after all shouldn’t we be aware of just what it means to be aware of mental illness? My path...
View ArticleWallow
It is really easy to wallow, and I don’t just mean in a nice, deep, hot bath with a Lush bath bomb (other brands are available, but Lush are definitely best), a decent pint and a book. I mean in...
View ArticleI love
I’m a quarter Scottish. You never know, in these days of Brexit uncertainty, and political absurdity, that might come in useful. I remember going to visit my grandparents in Aberdeen as a child, and...
View ArticleYour resources are in your relationship!
Recently I came across a wonderful story about two whales that had become trapped whilst swimming near to the Alaskan shore – they were surrounded by ice and freezing weather and unable to escape to...
View ArticleWords, Words, Words
Back in March the Royal family was stunned by words which caused them much anxiety. Relationships have at best been strained and the Queen has used some words to bring about healing and hopefully...
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