Amanda Vardon-Cardy

@swsportsnews Hi Ros. @CliftonRobbies 3-1 Nottingham Hockey L1s today 🙌🙌🙌 great match to watch!

between now and 11 just taking #timeout to update our fixtures lists (with #postponements) as best as i can...

@swsportsnews @KingIan @CliftonRobbies @BristolSportGT @MemEnglandhokey @uonmhc Ladies 1s drew 1-1 with Loughborough L1s - exciting game to watch.

@KingIan @CliftonRobbies @BristolSportGT @MemEnglandhokey @uonmhc good to hear from you Ian! pity #Clifton #Robbies not tweeted this season... especially with #MHLWest M1s unbeaten etc am still promoting #freetoseehockey as much as one person possibly can... Fixtures southwestsportsnews.com/hockey/fixtures Full Times southwestsportsnews.com/hockey/results #BristolHockey 👍

Of our 14 @CliftonRobbies Adult League teams playing this wkend ⬇️ 11 are v 1st XIs 😲 & 3 v 2nd XIs 👏 Clearly even playing in our 45678s is still playing a very decent standard! 🙌 #Best of #Bristol #Hockey @swsportsnews @BristolSportGT @MemEnglandhokey @uonmhc

@RooneyRachel @MyBodyIsMeBooks 👧

This is Trevor Fisher, an inpatient in @ArthurRankHouse in Cambridgeshire, speaking to @Channel4News this week. I am a palliative care specialist and Trevor’s interview has devastated me. His hospice has just found out that in 6 months, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust will withdraw its £800k funding. This means that 9 of the hospice’s 16 beds will close, denying patients like Trevor the precious end-of-life care they need. In total, 200 people a year in Cambridgeshire will now be forced to die in an overcrowded hospital instead of the hospice environment they so longed for. Some will doubtless end up dying on trolleys in corridors - we witness this far too often, these days & I can tell you, it is barbaric. @CUH_NHS says it has made this “very difficult decision” following a “value for money assessment” - confirming what I have long known as a doctor, that too often, patients with terminal illnesses are treated as second class citizens whose lives simply don’t matter as much as other people's. Yet the real responsibility here lies not with the NHS trust but with the current government, who is forcing the NHS nationwide to cut clinical services in order to meet impossible “efficiency savings” (what weasel words those are). These cuts were necessary, say @CUH_NHS, “in order to maintain core services within a reduced budget” - that is to say, the reduced budget they are now receiving from this government. So this is on you, @wesstreeting, and on you @UKLabour. You've chosen to do this & now patients like Trevor must live - and die - with your choices. I believe that the measure of a civilised country is how well it cares for its most vulnerable members. The difference between politicians and me is that I look the palliative care patients they are failing in the eye. So I will put it to you directly, Mr Streeting. We are still a rich country capable of affording decent, humane palliative care for all. Do you really care so little for dying people that you are happy to fail them on your watch? Thank you @channel4news for covering this story. #palliativecare #hospicecare #NHS

@Liz_ORiordan Wonderful news ❤️❤️❤️

My CT scan was normal I don’t have Stage 4 breast cancer I’m stopping Palbociclib Let’s see what the future holds Thanks for all your support 💛

I see the @EnvAgency are up to their old tricks again. They sit back and allowed, no licensed, three tonnes of uranium to be dumped into the River Ribble. The Ribble by the way, and its estuary, are one of England's most heavily protected sites listed as a site of special scientific interest, a special protection area and a Ramsar site. And the @EnvAgency does what exactly? Err, nothing!

Good luck to @CliftonRobbies L1s today at Surbiton 🙌 @JadeVardonCardy @swsportsnews instagram.com/stories/clifto…

@swsportsnews Congratulations Ros! 🙌🙌🙌🙌

SOUTH WEST SPORTS NEWS IS 17 TODAY Can't believe it but it's true, and not an April Fool's... southwestsportsnews.com/your-sport/387… obviously a special day at SWSN HQ

GOOOOOD MORNING TEAM! #Tuesday #April 1 2025

Great (if stressful) final match of @EnglandHockey Women’s Prem League phase 2. Congrats @CliftonRobbies L1s taking a 2-1 win vs Sutton Coldfield L1s. A battle all the way! A grandfather’s very exciting 89th birthday experience 🤣 @JadeVardonCardy @swsportsnews @AlanCardy857528

WOMENS HOCKEY (another) brilliant result for #Bristol hockey's #Clifton W1s yesterday, winning 2-0 @HolcombeHC to again cement their status as one of the top #womenshockey teams in the country... southwestsportsnews.com/hockey/results… #WHLPrem @CliftonRobbies ♀️🏑 🔵

@swsportsnews Good morning Ros! Thank you and you too - we will not be following on the road but biting our nails from a distance 🤣

@AjVardon good morning! have a great weekend! #hockeySaturday!

WOMENS HOCKEY another important Premier Division win for #Bristol's @CliftonRobbies yesterday southwestsportsnews.com/hockey/results… #womenshockey #WHLPrem

@sharrond62 We did this and it’s amazing! ❤️❤️❤️

Swimming between two tectonic plates - Iceland. Anyone fancy this?

@MissZesty_ @Wessex_Internet Same in Wheathill.

@Wessex_Internet Hi, we have no internet in the Somerset area. Are you aware of this issue? #internet #wessexinternet #outage

WOMENS HOCKEY Tomorrow's top free-to-see national & #regional #womenshockey fixtures today... southwestsportsnews.com/hockey/fixture… #SWwomenshockey #WestHockey #SouthHockey ♀️🏑

@Liz_ORiordan Liz, you are amazing and you have helped me so much to cope with my lobular breast cancer and recovery. You’ve done it in such an uplifting way. An inspirational person ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Sometimes I need to remind myself how far I have come This was a few years ago. I trained hard to prove I could strong. I hated how I looked after my first local recurrence and a second round of radiotherapy. I could pose for a photographer but I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror It’s #lobularbreastcancerawarenessday My first cancer was mixed ductal and lobular Both recurrences were lobular It behaves differently and it spreads differently We know so little about it because most trials don’t collect the data There are maybe 1 or 2 trials for metastatic cancer patients compared to the masses for ductal cancer So grateful we have @lobbccanada @LobularBCUK @LobularIreland @ELBCAdvocates @LobularBCA @@lobularbreastcanceralliance helping to raise awareness and push for more research and better treatments so women and men like me can keep living. Keep believing. As @SportsOrla said on my Instagram Live tonight, I am amazing enough x That’s all. No cheesy call to action or an ask to save or share. I just need to see this on my grid to remind me of the strong woman underneath the jumble of emotions.

@Liz_ORiordan Thank you Liz ❤️❤️❤️

⚠️ Trigger Warning: This caption contains references to self-harm. These photos were taken just hours apart. Mental illness can be invisible. When my friends thought I was at my happiest, I was often on the brink of despair, crippled with depression from my twenties. I’ve been suicidal twice - both times as a consultant surgeon Lonely, overwhelmed and scared to admit what I was feeling. I hid it from friends, colleagues and HR for twenty years. I was embarrassed and ashamed that I didn't want to live. I talked about my mental health for the first time in my memoir 'Under The Knife' because I no longer worked as a doctor and I didn't need to worry about what my patients might say if they found out. stayingsafe.net helped me create a safety plan and got me through the crisis points until I could get proper help. As a breast cancer patient I found myself overwhelmed with gut-wrenching anxiety, scanxiety, fear of recurrence, survivor's guilt. Why had no-one told me this was part of the collateral damage? If this is you, ask your breast care nurse if your local cancer centre provides free counselling. I've had it twice and it saved my life. Talk to your GP. I take proudly Citalopram to keep my brain more or less on the straight and narrow I am no longer ashamed of having a mental illness. I now know that it is not my fault. Mental health awareness is not just a wave of quotes. Mental health awareness is brutal and not-so-easy on the eye. World Mental Health Day 2024 is for yesterday, today, and every day to come. ❤️ You matter. Someone cares Call the Samaritans 24hour helpline 116 123 @AlysColeKing #WorldMentalHealthDay2024

The sun shone on @ExeterUniHC ladies today. A 4-1 win against Harleston Magpies L1s. Great match to watch 🙌 @swsportsnews

Metastatic breast cancer has been relabelled as ‘MODERATELY Severe’ meaning life-extending drugs are now too expensive for people who aren’t in Scotland according to @NICEComms Metastatic breast cancer KILLS every one who has it. It is INCURABLE. How is that only moderately severe? One day my own life could be cut short be sure NICE has enforced a postcode lottery. Do we all need to move to Scotland to get extra months of life? @BreastCancerNow

@katonahprod @neilmustard Thank you so much. A 50th birthday present from a lovely friend - perfect size 🤣

@katonahprod one for you :)