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A woman has been left with memory loss and seizures and has to take 18 tablets a day after a tick bite on a Greek holiday left her in a coma for nearly six weeks.Victoria Stellas, from Anglesey, had flu-like symptoms while on the island of Syros in 2019, then – once back home – started having night seizures.She went to hospital but “no-one knew what was wrong” so had an MRI scan and was flown by helicopter to Liverpool’s Walton Centre, external, where she was put in an induced coma for 42 days.From there Victoria was diagnosed with tick-borne…
European football’s 55 member associations, Uefa, voted on Thursday to boycott World Cups if the plans went ahead.Fifa’s chief operating officer Kevin Lamour said the governing body’s own administration had been “deceived” about the project.Carlos Cordeiro – Infantino’s senior adviser on global strategy and governance – resigned over the mater, saying the proposal was “a bad deal for football” and would “mortgage football’s future”.That came after two other major confederations spoke out against the plans.Concacaf, which governs football in North, Central America and the Caribbean – and hosted this summer’s World Cup – said its members “rejected” the proposal, with…
A controlling and abusive husband who stabbed his wife 40 times after she told him she wanted a divorce has been jailed for life.Syed Rafay Ahmad, 45, attacked Anam Rafay, 36, with a kitchen knife in their home in Lulworth Gardens in the Wythenshawe area of Manchester on the morning of 27 January.He then sent a message to his family’s WhatsApp group, as well as to Anam’s father, saying: “I have killed my wife.”Ahmad, who denied murder but dramatically changed his plea at Manchester Crown Court after three days of giving evidence, has been jailed for a minimum of 27…
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Labour’s Bev Craig will succeed Andy Burnham as the new Mayor of Greater Manchester.After no candidate secured outright victory in the first round by winning more than half of the vote, Craig beat Reform UK’s Sian Astley by 309,525 to 157,178 after second-preference votes were added. The by-election for a new mayor was called after Burnham was elected as MP for Makerfield in Greater Manchester in June, paving the way for him to become Prime Minister earlier this month.As well as having led Manchester City Council since 2021, Craig is Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s deputy mayor for economy, business and…
AC Milan make Ethan Nwaneri contact, Inter Milan increase Curtis Jones bid and Cristian Romero explores Spanish move.AC Milan have been in contact with Arsenal over a potential deal for English winger Ethan Nwaneri, 19. (Corriere dello Sport – in Italian), externalInter Milan are willing to pay £30m for England midfielder Curtis Jones, but Liverpool value the 25 year-old at £35m. (Mail), externalInter Milan’s move for Tottenham’s Cristian Romero has stalled over his personal terms and the Argentina defender’s representatives are now exploring a move to Spain, with Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid all interested in the 28-year-old. (Teamtalk),…
Labour’s Bev Craig has won the election to succeed Andy Burnham as Mayor of Greater Manchester.Ms Craig wins the seat by a margin of 152,147 over Reform UK’s Sian Astley after a count which took nearly 24 hours.The first mayoral election under the supplementary vote (SV) system after reforms earlier this year and the first test of Mr Burnham’s premiership.Turnout for the by-election was the lowest ever – just 25.14 per cent – with 538,659 votes cast from an electorate of 2,142,779.Under SV, voters mark their ballot papers with a first and second choice. If any candidate wins more than…
The prime minister can wax lyrical about this system all he likes, but devolution means he only oversees this area of policy in England.And the Scottish government doesn’t want to shake up councils north of the border.This week Burnham announced plans to give English mayors a share of income tax revenue for the first time.Responding to this move, the SNP MSP David Linden told Scotland News that another level of elected politician in Scotland would not “be warmly received” by his constituents.”We do believe in giving powers to local people, but I certainly remain to be convinced that giving someone…
Britain’s only all-female chess team have slammed the “extremely disappointing” requirement to add a man to their squad to comply with league regulations after earning promotion to the top tier of the game.She Plays to Win Lionesses A Team, who secured their place in the Four Nations Chess League’s first division, have run into a gender diversity requirement that mandates every team include at least one player of each sex on its roster. Ironically, the rule was originally introduced to encourage greater female representation in the sport, yet it now forces the only all-female side in the UK to accommodate…
Leigh head coach Adrian Lam told Radio Merseyside:”There were three tries from poor skill and a fourth one where we fell asleep at the wheel. It’s not a whole team issue, it’s just three or four moments that really hurt us.”It was individuals that didn’t nail skill at really big moments for us.”I’m not going to get angry at the team. For 40 minutes I thought we were unbelievably good. I think we’re very close to being very, very good and I’ll hold onto that fact.”I thought we dominated in most areas in that first half; we just have to…