mark brady

If you want to radically improve access to palliative & end of life care, invest in District Nursing, in Home Care (including overnight), in Care Home nurses, in Family Caregivers, in Hospital/Hospice at Home Teams & Palliative Care nurses and doctors #careaboutcare #itTakesATeam

Everton overspent by £19.5m on a stadium and were docked 10 points. Chelsea made illegal payments to help sign players and got a fine. The Premier League is the most corrupt organisation you will ever come across. Total disgrace.

This morning. One GP practice. One hour. 240 clinical tasks before most people had started work. Four every minute. No political thanks. No headlines. Just a small teamy doing what they do every single day. When these practices close, nothing replaces them. Nothing.

Decades ago, people lined up by the hundreds for vaccines because they had seen the diseases and understood the importance of protection. Ironically, vaccines have been so successful that many today have forgotten the danger they were designed to prevent.

@JPAngel18 @AVFCOfficial UTV!!! 😍

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Best all around game we’ve ever played min 1-90 we was the best

You don't cut out diving unless you give these decisions without the player having to roll around and screaming.

It’s been exhausting seeing some of the officiating v Villa this season. 😮‍💨 #AVFC

Hello @FA_PGMOL

Still not convinced it was a clear and obvious error that warranted a red for Dobson. There is however something that is clear and obvious about Marc Cucurella.

All rivalry and jokes aside, how on earth do you justify this being allowed? Got your arms wrapped around the opposition player? Immediate penalty. it'll soon stop. It's not even like the shirt grabbing going both ways thing, it's just brazen and so easy to give.

lets play a game!!#pl and @FA_PGMOL only deemed one of these four challenges worthy of a penalty! can you guess which one?😁

New Order - The Perfect Kiss This song is pure art! A masterpiece! ✨️

The call no parent ever wants to make...... Reports came in of a two-year-old girl unconscious and not breathing. An emergency ambulance was already on its way, but two firearms officers from Durham Constabulary were just two minutes from the address on routine patrol. PCs Jonathan Deschacht and Rachael Yalcin didn’t hesitate. They pulled up first, grabbed their medical kit from the back of the armed response vehicle and ran inside. The little girl was in cardiac arrest. In moments like that, training takes over. The pair worked side by side, beginning CPR and deploying the defibrillator. Calm, controlled, focused. Within minutes, the little girl regained consciousness and began breathing on her own. Paramedics arrived shortly after to take over her care, and the officers then provided a blue light escort to hospital to ensure she received further treatment as quickly as possible. She is now recovering well and back home with her family. Chief Inspector Sarah Hindmarsh praised the officers’ composure, highlighting that while ambulance crews are ideally first on scene, police are often the closest resource. Specialist firearms teams are trained to an advanced level of first aid, and although they hope never to need it, this incident showed exactly why that training matters. It must have been a terrifying experience for the family. Instead, it became a story of quick thinking, professionalism and two officers who were ready when it counted most. Outstanding work from Durham Constabulary. 💙🫡💙

"Channel 4’s Dirty Business is a clarion call to nationalise the water industry." And that is the bit that terrorises government, the ostrich like refusal to deal with reality, the abused victim, Stockholm syndrome like obsession with not doing anything that might upset the bond markets, the inability to face up to the truth it's time we take the water industry back into public ownership. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Really pleased with the reaction to this, especially from people involved with player care and helping young footballers with the aftershock of being released. But, in my view, it remains an underdeveloped and under covered topic, with football still having some way to go.

In 1943, Paris - a woman sits in a Gestapo interrogation room, her feet bleeding, her body broken. The officers across from her know she's holding secrets. Names of British agents. Locations of resistance safe houses. Intelligence that could dismantle entire networks across France. They've already started the torture. Her toenails are being removed, one at a time. Soon they'll use heated irons on her back. They'll lock her in darkness for weeks. They'll promise her life in exchange for just one name. She's a 30-year-old mother of three. Not a soldier. Not a spy by training. Just a French-born housewife who was living quietly in England until Hitler's armies swallowed her homeland. That's when Odette Sansom made a choice that most of us will never have to make. She left her three daughters behind and volunteered for Britain's Special Operations Executive, the shadow organization built to sabotage Nazi operations from within. The SOE didn't want career military. They wanted people who could disappear into occupied territory. People who spoke native French. People willing to accept that capture likely meant torture and execution. Odette knew the odds. She volunteered anyway. By 1942, she was operating in occupied France under the codename "Lise," coordinating resistance cells, organizing sabotage, funneling intelligence back to London. She worked alongside Captain Peter Churchill, building networks that struck at German supply lines and communications. For months, they were ghosts. Then a collaborator sold them out. Now she's in this room. In this chair. Facing men who have perfected the art of breaking human beings. And here's what they don't understand: Odette Sansom has already decided she won't break. Not for pain. Not for promises. Not even to save her own life. Because she knows that every name she gives means another agent tortured. Another resistance fighter executed. Another family destroyed. So she gives them nothing. Through months of interrogation. Through agony most of us can't fathom. Through solitary confinement and death threats. Nothing. The Gestapo eventually realizes they can't break her. They send her to Ravensbrück concentration camp, condemned under "Night and Fog" protocol, prisoners meant to vanish without trace. She survives more than a year there by convincing the commandant she's related to Winston Churchill. It's a complete lie, but it keeps her alive. When Allied forces arrive in 1945, that same commandant tries using her as a bargaining chip. The moment they reach American lines, Odette identifies him as a war criminal. He's arrested on the spot. Britain awarded her the George Cross, the highest civilian honor for courage. The citation was clear: for refusing to betray her comrades despite torture that would break nearly anyone. Then in 1951, someone stole the medal from her home. Months later, it arrived in the mail with an anonymous note. The thief had researched what it represented and couldn't live with keeping it. Even criminals recognized what that medal meant. Odette Sansom Hallowes lived to 82, spending decades honoring fallen comrades and embodying quiet strength. She always insisted she'd simply done what anyone should do. But that's not true. What she did was extraordinary. She proved that the most powerful resistance to tyranny isn't violence. It's the absolute refusal to break, no matter the cost. 📷© Imperial War Museums (Restored & Colorized) © Daughters of Time #drthehistories

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Tamworth FC submit 2024/25 accounts. On the back of a televised FA Cup match at home to Tottenham the club made almost £250k profit and went from being overdrawn to having £100k in the bank.

She ate lunch alone for 730 days straight. What this 16-year-old built from that pain now protects millions of kids worldwide. Seventh grade. Natalie Hampton carried her tray through a packed cafeteria and felt it — that specific, suffocating dread of not knowing where to go. She'd already learned what happened when you approached the wrong table. The silence. The turned backs. The whispered laughter that followed you all the way to the empty table by the wall. The one everyone could see. The one that said: nobody wants her. For two full years — 730 consecutive lunches — that table was hers. Alone. The bullying went further than whispers. She was shoved into lockers. Four physical attacks in two weeks. She came home with scratches and bruises. When she finally reported it, school administrators sent her to counseling — to find out what she was doing wrong. The isolation grew so heavy she was hospitalized for anxiety. Then ninth grade came. A new school. And almost overnight — everything changed. Students welcomed her. She made friends within weeks. She finally knew what safe felt like. But she couldn't stop thinking about the kids still sitting at the wall table. Right now. Today. She remembered what she'd needed most during all those lunches. Not a teacher. Not a pamphlet. Just one person saying: "You can sit with us." So at 16 — with zero coding experience and "a lot of enthusiasm," as she put it — Natalie built exactly that. She called it Sit With Us. The idea was simple and genius: students sign up as "ambassadors," keeping their table open. Other kids privately browse available tables on their phones before ever walking into the cafeteria — and show up knowing they're already welcome. No public rejection. No moment of judgment. Just a guaranteed seat. Within 7 days of launching: 10,000 downloads. Then the world found her. NPR. The Washington Post. CBS News. Messages from Morocco, Australia, the Philippines, France — kids who'd been eating alone for years, finally finding a place to belong. Sit With Us now operates in 30 countries. "Even if it helps one person," Natalie said quietly, "it was worth building." She turned 730 lunches of loneliness into a lifeline for millions. That's not just survival. That's transformation.