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BBC News
17-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'I wish we could just carry on'
Derby County would rather not have the international break, according to Marcus forward scored twice, including a late winner, in the Rams 3-2 victory at Plymouth Argyle on Saturday as they recorded a third successive Championship victory."I wish we could carry on the way things are going and play another game on Tuesday" Harness told BBC Radio Derby."We'll get a lot of good work done on the training pitch and be even stronger for it."Derby have moved to within one point of safety in the table but do not play another league game until 2 April when they host Preston North End."We've worked so hard the last few weeks and to get three wins in a week is huge in this league, and hopefully we can continue it after the break," he added.
BBC News
02-03-2025
- General
- BBC News
'I left teaching to become an embalmer - and I love it'
A former PE teacher has swapped the sports hall for the chapel of rest as he embarks on a new career as an Redhead, from Ripley in Derbyshire, is currently retraining with Nottingham-based A.W. Lymn to become a qualified embalmer, with his two-year external examinations set to start in 46-year-old said the caring skills he learned from 22 years in education transferred well to the funeral leaving teaching "was one of the hardest decisions I've ever made", he said he was enjoying his new lease of life. "I'd always really enjoyed the pastoral element of my role as a teacher, but it was starting to feel like the job was all about achieving results, with every pupil's worth based on their academic achievements," he told BBC Radio Derby."I left teaching without having another job lined up, so I thought about what skills I have from teaching into a new one. Mr Redhead said he used a skills matrix map, which uses a person's skills and proficiency levels from previous jobs and matches those skills with new said the skills matrix gave him "lots of ideas" but social media posts about working in the funeral business kept appearing up on his phone, which helped him choose his new career."After getting results from my skills matrix, I went to a jobs fayre and it went from there," he is the process of preserving a body after death ahead of their funeral."Starting a second career can be scary, but ultimately when you break it down, both teaching and embalming are about care," he said. "Whether you're caring for a child in a secondary school, an elderly person in a care home or the deceased and their family."If you've got the skills inside you and that empathy for people, it's not that much different at all.""It's a hard job emotionally, but so is teaching. It can be quite challenging but I absolutely love my job and I'm learning again which is nice, I love learning new things." 'Seamless transition' Mr Redhead said he had never seen a dead body until the first day on his new job."It was really unusual", he said. "When you think about death, you think about your family members but I don't know who these people, what they sounded like or what they did for a job."I care about them but I don't know anything about them, which means I am able to seperate myself from them whilst still caring for them and making sure I do my job properly."Once his training is complete, Mr Redhead will become a member of the British Institute of said he is confident the career change will not prove to be a dead end."No two days in the mortuary are the same and I feel so fortunate that now, I look forward to going to work at the start of the week," he Lymn Rose, managing director of the family-run funeral firm, said professional embalmers carried out "vital" work."We're thrilled that John has been able to make such a seamless transition into the profession," he said.
BBC News
28-01-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Derby must change style of play to survive
Former Derby County striker Malcolm Christie has said the Rams must change the way they play if they are to get out of relegation was speaking following the 2-1 defeat at Cardiff City on Saturday, his old club's sixth successive Championship defeat."Its something that I've said - I'm not just jumping on the bandwagon because we're not getting the results. It has felt a little bit predictable," Christie told BBC Radio Derby."I've said it for so long about this Rams team - they have to be so much better in possession with a slightly different style of play."Having started every league game he has been available for this season, Jerry Yates - who has scored six league goals - was also called into question by Christie."Direct from crosses, Jerry Yates has scored one goal direct, and that was a deflected cross," the 45-year-old said."Why were we playing that way, being so one-dimensional, when you have Jerry Yates as your number nine?"That is my big bugbear and that's why I wanted to see a different style of play and a different way that we approach games with the creativity that we have - playing through central areas rather than playing out wide because it hasn't worked."I saw some signs on Saturday that playing two up front with [Lars-Jorgen] Salvesen up there could be better."
