It is usually movie stars and musicians that adorn the sides of buses - but this NHS worker hopes to inspire the next generation of life-savers when she appears on the back of Brown Line 17. Mum-of-two Deborah Spence, 52, of Ollerton, was chosen out of scores of NHS workers to have a Nottingham City Transport bus named after her. Deborah was the overall winner of the Chair Awards which honours the outstanding work of those who go above and beyond to care for patients and staff. She started her career at Mansfield General, and when that closed moved to King's Mill to work in the operating theatre. Since 1998, she has been based at the City Hospital and is now the deputy team leader in urology, dealing mainly with patients suffering with kidney, bladder, prostate or testicular cancer. She even mentors and teaches the operating theatre stars of the future, including her daughter, who came in for work experience and was so inspired is set to follow in her footsteps. Starring up at her face … [Read more...] about NHS worker is the face of Nottingham bus
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POLITICO London Playbook: Letter to the president — Emergency pizza session — Patriotism update
Press play to listen to this article By JACK BLANCHARD Send tips here | Subscribe for free | Listen to Playbook and view in your browser BREAKING THIS MORNING: Theresa May will not be asking the EU for a “long extension,” according to a No. 10 official. The BBC’s Iain Watson has a text from the official, in which they write: “There is a case for giving parliament a bit more time to agree a way forward, but the people of this country have been waiting nearly three years now. They are fed up with parliament’s failure to take a decision and the PM shares their frustration.” Quite. Good Wednesday morning. The EU referendum was 1,000 days ago today. Here’s the Daily Mail front page from the morning after … And here it is today. Funny how things turn out. But cheer up people: It’s the first day of spring. Start your day with some poetry instead. DRIVING THE DAY LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT: Theresa May will today make a formal request to … [Read more...] about POLITICO London Playbook: Letter to the president — Emergency pizza session — Patriotism update
Marathon effort from Histon defender McDonald
Lewis McDonald is hoping Histon have the Eastern Counties League title wrapped up long before the end of the season - as he’s running the London Marathon the following day. The Stutes look good to seal the deal early, Salim Relizani coming off the bench to earn a 1-0 win over Thetford Town on Saturday which puts them ten points clear with two games in hand. Getting the celebrations out of the way early would suit McDonald down to the ground as he limbers up for his first ever marathon, which he’s running to raise money for the Prostate Cancer Research Centre. “It’s after the last game of the season, literally the next day, so hopefully the title will all be done before then, or I may have to ease up on the celebrations a bit,” said the Stutes defender. “Training is going well, but it’s a lot different from football training. The distances are building up now, and I did the Cambridge Half Marathon, but I've never been a long distance runner, … [Read more...] about Marathon effort from Histon defender McDonald
“It’s football, it’s not life or death”: Scratching the surface of Steven Poacher
MARCH 7, 2007. Up in the back of the Gerry Arthurs Stand is a small pocket of green, swallowed up in the maroon sea of St Paul’s Bessbrook. “There were about 3,500 people in Clones that day, about 3,300 of them from Bessbrook. We’d this little pocket of supporters all hemmed off, it was like a scene from Galatasary.” It’s 12 years and a day later as Steven Poacher sits in Finegan’s in the heart of Newry with Friday morning turning to afternoon. In the footballing sense, this was everything. Little St Columban’s, Kilkeel. The year before it closed, there were 148 pupils in it. Bessbrook’s enrolment is almost ten times that. He met Cathal Doyle in town last year. All his former pupil wanted to talk about was the goal that day. Doyle had drifted to full-forward on a set-play routine, taken the ball and popped in Diarmuid Flanagan for the only goal in a one-point win. They’d run it on the training ground time and again. Same way Carlow … [Read more...] about “It’s football, it’s not life or death”: Scratching the surface of Steven Poacher
Sky Sports’ Jeff Stelling in NI scouting missing ahead of charity walk
Sky Sports’ Jeff Stelling was in Belfast yesterday on a scouting mission ahead of a charity walk which he will do in the city in September. The 63-year-old Soccer Saturday presenter was at Windsor Park, one of four football grounds he will visit when he returns to walk a marathon in the Province in aid of Prostate Cancer UK. Jeff has already completed 25 walking marathons for the charity in 2016 and 2017, raising close to £800,000.His next challenge will see him walk four marathons in four days in the four home nations, in Glasgow, Belfast, Cardiff and London, from September 5 to 8.He said: “Believe it or not walking a marathon is harder than running one. You start at eight in the morning and don’t finish until maybe seven at night. You’re on your feet for 11 hours. The repetition on those muscles and joints can be agonising. “The walk in Belfast is a day after you (Northern Ireland) have a friendly at home to Luxembourg and a couple of days before … [Read more...] about Sky Sports’ Jeff Stelling in NI scouting missing ahead of charity walk