Olympic gold medallist Kathleen Dawson says she is determined to shake off an injury-hit three years and make the Paris Games this summer.Dawson, 26, was part of the mixed 4x100m medley relay team that stormed to gold in Tokyo three years ago.Since then the Scot has had to recover from sciatica caused by a bulging…
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Image source, Getty ImagesBy Nick TriggleHealth correspondentPublic satisfaction with the NHS has dropped again, setting a new low recorded by the long-running British Social Attitudes survey.Just 24% said they were satisfied with the NHS in 2023, with waiting times and staff shortages the biggest concerns.That is five percentage points down on last year and a…
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Image source, World Gold CouncilImage caption, India has thousands of workshops which melt down goldRefining gold has a long history in the family of Satish Pratap Salunke.Following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, he and his business collect scrap gold from jewellers, melt it down and sell it back to the jewellers in…
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Image caption, Queen Camilla with the winners and celebrity readers at a presentation for the BBC’s 500 Words competitionQueen Camilla has praised a group of young prize-winning writers for their talents as she announced the winners of the BBC’s 500 Words competition.The contest had been on hiatus for three years and 44,000 entries were sent…
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Climbing is still relatively new to the Olympic Games, but one teenager hopes to be the first to bring home the gold for Team GB this summer in Paris.Toby Roberts, 18, from Elstead, Surrey, has been training at the Parthian Climbing Centre in Wandsworth, south-west London, on The Titan, an exact replica of the bouldering…
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Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Adidas has supplied the kit for the German national team for more than 70 yearsBy Tom EspinerBusiness reporter, BBC NewsThe German Football Association’s (DFB) decision to switch the supplier of the national team’s kit away from Adidas has been blasted by politicians.The contract will pass from the German company to…
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Image source, Phoebe LenderyouImage caption, Phoebe was contacted by more than 100 swimmers after speaking out about her bulimia ordealBy Rebecca WoodsBBC News, EnglandThe first swimmer to speak publicly about abusive practices in the sport said she was proud of the “brave” athletes who had shared their stories to change a culture of fear.Phoebe Lenderyou…
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New episode of true craigslist horror stories. A Kansas City family bought a house on Craigslist and were asked to wire the money to pay for it. The person selling the house told them the front door was unlocked, and they could just go in, and then sent a text message telling them to change
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A secretive US Army unit was honoured on Thursday, 80 years after their special effects saved tens of thousands of lives during World War Two. The group received the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest honour from the US Congress. The BBC spoke to surviving veterans and their families to hear how these artists contributed to…
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When an eight-year-old Toby Roberts joined an after-school rock climbing club, never in his wildest dreams could he imagine it would lead to the opportunity to win an Olympic gold medal.Ten years on he will have the chance to do just that as Great Britain’s first male Olympic sport climber this summer.Roberts secured his place…
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