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Rate, comment and share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email. Today on the Podcast; Manchester City were absolutely dominant in Copenhagen, cementing their status as favorites to win the Champions League again. Elsewhere, Real Madrid tried their luck at RB Leipzig in the absence of key players, leaving the home side feeling as though they could get something out of the game. ALSO: Mansfield have scored nine goals in League Two, while Hull City’s Jaden Philogene was undoubtedly denied his best goal of the season. Photo: Nigel Keene/ProSports/REX/Shutterstock…

My husband and I have been together for 23 years, and it is definitely the regular little things that keep us reminded of each other’s affection. I am usually up first, and always take him a coffee in bed; at night, I always go into the bathroom and find my toothpaste on my toothbrush. When we walk to our local cinema, I notice that he stands back to let me go first where the footpath narrows and he always deseeds the tomatoes because he knows I prefer them that way. Samantha Briggs, project manager, SomersetBefore we became a couple, I…

Hundreds of NHS frontline staff are still treating patients despite being investigated for alleged “industrial scale” qualifications fraud.More than 700 nursing staff have been embroiled in a potential scandal which the former president of the Royal College of Nursing says could put NHS patients at risk.The scam allegedly involves agents posing as nurses and taking key tests in Nigeria that they must pass to register and be allowed to work in the UK.”It is very, very worrying if… there is an organization involved in fraud that enables nurse practitioners to bypass these tests, or they use agents to carry out…

Opening summaryGood morning and welcome to the Ukraine live blog. We start with news that Ukrainian armed forces have destroyed the large Russian landing ship Tsezar Kunikov off occupied Crimea in the Black Sea, the Ukrainian military said on Wednesday.“The Ukrainian Armed Forces, together with the Defence Ministry’s intelligence unit, destroyed the large landing ship Tsezar Kunikov. It was in Ukrainian territorial waters near Alupka at the time of the hit,” the military said on the Telegram messaging app.Ukrainska Pravda, a major Ukrainian media outlet, published several videos showing a column of smoke over the sea off the southern coast…

LLast week, a 16-year-old Utah school basketball player was subjected to threats and online abuse and was forced into police protection. A member of the state’s Board of Education posted a photo on Instagram casting doubt on her gender, and these days, in the smoky tire fire of the internet, that’s all you really need to destroy someone.”She cut her hair short because she felt comfortable,” the girl’s parents told local news. “Her clothes were a little baggy. She went to the gym a lot, so she had muscles. It breaks our hearts that we need to have this conversation…

The trouble with romantic betrayal – apart from the obvious pain – is that it is the salacious lifeblood of everything from tabloid headlines and box sets to true crime podcasts. Because of this, there is a tendency to view it in highly dramatic terms. That is fine when we are snuggled up on the sofa watching other people’s heartbreak at a distance, but less helpful when it arrives closer to home.“He’s a cheater,” gossiped one friend recently about a mutual acquaintance’s partner. “She needs to throw him out and change the locks.” Well, maybe. But the man in question…

FCarla Dejonghe has spent much of the past decade highlighting the ways in which single people are often disadvantaged, whether through higher household expenses or the assumption that they can spend their evenings and weekends Work.In recent weeks, however, a Belgian lawmaker has taken the matter into her own hands, transforming her municipality into the first in the country and perhaps Europe to have policymakers consider the impact of their actions on people living alone.”This is a milestone,” said de Jonge, whose municipality of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre is located on the outskirts of Brussels. “This is the first time a council has…

An elderly man has died from Alaskapox, the first known fatality from the recently discovered virus, Alaskan state health officials have said.The man, who lived in the remote Kenai Peninsula, was hospitalised in November last year and died in late January, according to a bulletin issued last week by public health officials.The man was undergoing cancer treatment and had a suppressed immune system because of the drugs, which may have contributed to the severity of his illness, the bulletin said. It described him as elderly but didn’t provide his age.Alaskapox, also known as AKPV, is related to smallpox, cowpox and…

A member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has been arrested and charged with obtaining police records and passing messages to the Rwandan government.The federal police force said on Tuesday its Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (Inset) arrested Constable Eli Ndatuje, who is based in Alberta.Ndatuje was charged with breach of trust, unauthorized use of a computer and breach of trust over protected information, allegedly breaching the country’s Information Security Act.He is due to appear in Calgary court on March 11. He was released but ordered to surrender his passport, stay in the province and be fingerprinted.According to court…

She was once pictured wearing a hazmat suit and a $3,000 lamb’s wool Burberry scarf at an airport, so Naomi Campbell’s affinity for looking great while remaining germ-free is no secret.But now her debut collection for the fashion brand Boss features items with an antibacterial finish, a tongue-in-cheek nod to Campbell’s germophobia.The supermodel has teamed up with the German business on a 40-piece clothing collection, starting from £60 and going up to £745, that spans everything from suiting to sweatpants inspired by Campbell’s “fast-paced lifestyle”.“These are the kinds of pieces that reflect my own lifestyle,” Campbell said in an exclusive…