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Time of India
13-07-2025
- Sport
- Time of India
Watch: Five wickets in final over! Epic club match ends in dramatic tie in England
(Video grab) Cricket fans witnessed one of the most dramatic finishes in recent memory as Marple CC lost five wickets in the final over, needing just one run to win, and ended up tying the match against Bramhall CC in the Cheshire County Cricket League on Saturday, July 12. In a gripping 2nd XI clash at the Michael Hibbert Cricket Ground, Marple were cruising towards a comfortable win, chasing Bramhall's total of 201. With the score at 201/5 in the final over, the equation was simple: one run to win, five wickets in hand. But what followed was nothing short of extraordinary. Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW! Josh Patel turned hero for Bramhall, taking four wickets in four balls — a stunning hat-trick followed by an lbw — to suddenly reduce Marple to 201/9. His victims included Andrew Wild, Joel Greasley, Edward Skelton, and Ben Bailey. Jasprit Bumrah and Joe Root react to the Dukes ball drama at Lord's | IND vs ENG With two balls remaining, Marple captain James Hirst walked in as the last batter. He tapped his first ball into the off-side and went for the winning run. But Andy Tatton fielded sharply and threw it to wicketkeeper Ed Gray, who completed a clean run-out of non-striker Greg Marsland to tie the game in unbelievable fashion. Only four of the five wickets were captured on video — but the footage, which has since gone viral, captures the chaotic, thrilling nature of grassroots cricket at its best. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like You Won't Believe the Price of These Dubai Apartments Binghatti Developers FZE Get Offer Undo WATCH: Earlier, Bramhall's 201 was built around a gritty 57 from skipper Rishi Kannah. Marple looked in control during their chase thanks to a 119-run stand between Will Darby (73) and James Crisall (54), but Patel's final over heroics turned the game on its head. The tie earned both teams eight points, along with additional batting and bowling bonus points. For real-time updates, scores, and highlights, follow our live coverage of the India vs England Test match here . Catch Manika Batra's inspiring story on Game On, Episode 3. Watch Here!
Daily Mail
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Jason Manford makes plea to local Facebook group to find the Tesla driver who pranged his car
Jason Manford has posted a message on his local Facebook community group looking for the person who pranged his car. A hand-written note was left on his vehicle by an eyewitness, who claimed to have seen a 'black or blue Tesla ' hit his front bumper at 11.23am. However, they did not leave any contact details, and did not reveal if they, or another motorist, was the culprit of the crash. So in a bid to find out their identity, father-of-six Jason, 43, attached a picture of the note on the, We Love Bramhall community Facebook page. The note reads: 'A black/blue Tesla hit your from bumper 11:23AM. Hope this helps!' He also added the caption: 'Thanks to the person who wrote this note today in Bramhall Precinct Car Park. 'I don't want to put this person in our group, or even worse, on my own social media pages. 'So if anyone knows who it is, or it's you, can you please get in touch and pay for the damage you caused.' MailOnline has approached Jason's representatives for comment. Jason's Facebook call out comes days after he launched a stinging attack on 'ridiculous' hotel policy on social media after he was forced to share a room with his friend because it was overbooked. The comedian had arrived in Bournemouth on Saturday night ahead of a show the following evening during his A Manford All Seasons tour. But staff at the Village Hotel told him it had been overbooked for the night - and that because he had arrived so late, his room had been sold to someone else. Jason went on to blast the chain, which has 33 hotels in the UK, explaining in a video that he had no choice but to share a room with his friend Steve. Filming himself walking to the hotel room, he said: 'So we got to our hotel tonight in Bournemouth and it's fully booked. We were like, 'Fine, that's good - well done you!' Jason - who had a show at the Bournemouth Pavillion the following night - then issued a warning to his followers about using the hotel, before calling the chain out directly and reprimanding them as 'naughty'. He said: 'Oh well, these things happen and all that. Worse things happen at sea. But Village Hotel, just beware, if you are booking and it's a busy day in a busy city... 'I mean, we're lucky that [our booking] was two rooms because that fella coming behind us, a doctor as well, and no room for him. He just had to walk out, and like and there's no rooms anywhere in Bournemouth tonight. 'Naughty that, naughty. I've heard of aeroplanes doing it, but I've never known in 25 years of touring, a hotel doing it. That's not on, that is not on.' Panning the camera around to reveal the two single beds in the room, he concluded the video by saying: 'So we've managed to make best of our situation. But that poor doctor, maybe he could sleep on the floor! Anyway, good night.' He captioned the clip: 'What's your minimum expectation when you book a room at @Villagehotelsup? Staff were lovely but policy stinks!' The next day, Manford returned to social media to explain that hotel management had been in touch, and they also asked him to take down his first video. 'They went, 'No, no, as in like without you'. So me and Steve, obviously [we're] in separate rooms. And then we just discovered that basically if it's fully booked it means that, [you have to share].' The comedian added: 'Okay, don't worry, it is what it is, these things happen - all that b******t! I mean we spent all day together! Oh, well, at least we've got a nice view of the car park.' But the star flatly refused to delete the post, explaining that he wanted to leave it up to warn people about the company's practice and to offer support to the hotel staff that had to face the umbrage of upset customers. He began: 'This is the final word I'll say on this. I know the general manager of the Village Hotel's got in touch with the manager at the Bournemouth one and came and found me and have a word with me and it was very nice to speak to them. 'For people who don't know, I got to the hotel last night and the hotel was overbooked. So it meant because we arrived late - we always arrive late because of the two late shows - our room had been resold to somebody else. 'Now we dealt with it, it was fine, we kept our humour. What can you do, you know what I mean, it's nobody's fault in that building, so me and Steve had a laugh and had a shared room and it was fine.' He went on: 'Now they asked me to take the video down, politely, but I'm not going to because I think it's important that people know that this is happening for one. 'What if it was a wedding or you had kids with you or a million other situations that were much more serious than mine. It's wrong, fundamentally it's wrong.' Manford stressed that the Bournemouth hotel's staff were not to blame for the situation and urged his followers to save their anger for the people at the top making the 'ridiculous policy'. MailOnline has contacted Village Hotels for comment. The Stockport-born funnyman, a father of six, is a popular figure in his local area, and regularly helps out with charity campaigns and community initiatives. He's been spending the past week encouraging youngsters in the area to take up the racket sport padel via his JM Padel Academy. Its goal is making the game accessible to students and potentially fostering future talent. Speaking in December during a padel event in Manchester in collaboration with the LTA, Jason said: 'If padel makes it into the Olympics, be it in 2032 or 2036, that person who plays in Team GB has not picked up a racket yet. They don't know the game exists. 'That is such an exciting thought. I feel like Terminator coming back in time to find John Connor! It could even be one of these kids here.'
Daily Mail
22-06-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Inside the anti-depressant capital of Britain: The miserable northern suburb where one in three people beg their doctor for medication
Beneath a green canopy of trees and a carpet of well-kept lawns, the small town of Brinnington hides its dark secret. The leafy main road, two churches, a post office and an array of shops could at first sight pass for another well-heeled suburb of Stockport, Greater Manchester. But scratch the surface and it becomes easier to understand why this is the depression capital of the country with nearly one in three people (31.7 per cent) begging their doctor for help with the mental health condition in one particular enclave. Other statistics in Brinnington from the 2021 Census weave their own depressing story. The unemployment rate here is 5 per cent, vs 2.9 per cent for England as a whole. And the proportion of long-term sick or disabled people is an astonishing 11.7 per cent - nearly three times the national average of 4.1 per cent. The area's economic woes and the fact that many seemed resigned to their fate - up to 40 per cent of people in Brinnington admit to smoking compared to 4 per cent in more affluent local areas - has led to the most troubling statistic of all. People here will die on average 10 years sooner than those just five miles away in better-off Bramhall. Perhaps surprisingly, in 2023, Which? Magazine named Stockport in the dozen best place to retire in Britain and last year the Sunday Times rated it the best place to live in the North West, following a £1bn town centre regeneration programme. But the town centre is a good 40-minute walk away from Brinnington, or a 10-minute bus journey, for those who can make it. And despite the acres of green space nearby, including the nearby Reddish Vale country park, Brinnington, tucked into a bend of the M60 motorway, seems trapped in a spiral of discontent. One woman told us: 'They are forever moving people here, the homeless, refugees, the unemployed all get dumped here and the rest of us just have to carry on. 'Despite what it looks like, this is still a very working class area and most of the housing used to be council houses. 'The problem is the jobs have gone and there are a lot of people here who no longer know what to do with themselves. We can't seem to move on.' Statistics in Brinnington from the 2021 Census weave a depressing story: the unemployment rate here is 5 per cent, vs 2.9 per cent for England as a whole Phyllis Williamson, 67, who has lived in Brinnington for over 40 years, admits to being surprised at the depression statistics. 'The town looks affluent from the top road but there is a lot of poverty once you start looking around.' she says. 'The council tries to keep the place nice but there are a lot of people with problems in the the town houses and some of the tower blocks we have here. 'You can see it on people's faces. The community spirit is still here but it is not like it was forty years ago when you could knock on anyone's door. 'Now you would have to walk a long way before you would find a door you would be comfortable knocking on.' The 11-storey tower blocks - there are seven barely seen from the main road but which dominate the landscape further back into town - are home to an array of people including those with disabilities. One of the blocks, Conway Towers, is home to a lot of young families, some of whom are struggling to get by. One woman who came outside, pushing her pram to the local shops, told us: 'I have got four kids and a partner who has mental health problems but we are stuck in this high rise. 'I have been here eight years and it seems as if I will be here forever. It looks like there is nowhere else to go.' She was heading for the 1960s-style shop precinct just off the main Brinnington Road, where stands the local library, some council offices, a small supermarket and a chemists. Behind them there is a barbers, a bookies and a booze shop while up the road stands a B&M store and a post office opposite next to the bus stop. Yards away, outside St Luke Church, three middle-aged women stand talking while smoking a joint, leaving the pungent smell of weed hanging in the air. Six years ago, when Brinnington first began to appear near the top of the 'depression stats', a local GP, Dr James Higgins, now Primary Care Network clinical director for the area, examined his caseload for The Guardian. He looked back on every consultation in the previous six weeks. Of the 123 adult patients he saw, 24 per cent were actively asking for help with depression, a further 28 per cent were already being treated for the condition and 16 per cent had previously had it. 'Only 31 per cent had never been depressed,' he said, admitting slight surprise at his own findings -- and that was before the pandemic hit. Nearly half of all homes in Brinnington are social housing, with 68 per cent of people paying rent to either a private or public landlord. A total of 45 per cent of people live alone, compared with 30 per cent nationally. Dr Dalia Tsimpida, lecturer in gerontology at the University of Southampton, has investigated what makes some neighbourhoods mental health hotspots. She said: 'Deprivation is a key driver, accounting for up to 39 per cent of recorded depression levels across England, although this varies dramatically by location.' Her research has identified a previously overlooked factor: noise pollution, which will certainly be a factor for some in Drinnington with the non-stop din from the M60 barely a stone's throw from many homes. More noise pollution comes from rowdy teenagers screeching around on motorbikes, as well as the cars, buses, lorries and trains that fill the environment with a cacophony of sounds. But worst of all, by far, are the planes that pass overhead every minute, landing and taking off from nearby Manchester Airport. Locals, however, say they don't take it seriously. Several told us: 'You get used to it. It's just white noise.' But areas with transportation noise exceeding 55 decibels on average in a 24-hour period show much stronger links between health deprivation, disability, and depression. 'Environmental stressors play a crucial but underappreciated role,' said Dr Tsimpida. 'While transportation noise doesn't directly cause depression, it significantly amplifies the impact of other risk factors.' She added: 'Living in a depression hotspot exposes people to what may be "contagion effects" - both social and environmental. 'We observed that mental health challenges may spread through communities through mechanisms like social isolation, reduced community resources, environmental degradation, and normalised hopelessness.' Recently, Stockport Council has trialled a new approach to help those residents 'feeling low, lonely, or in need of a lifestyle change.' The non-medical 'Wellbeing Prescription' relies on exercise and activity instead of drugs and has been run in partnership with Life Leisure, Age UK Stockport, Viaduct Care CIC, and local GP surgeries in Brinnington and Bramhall. But locals complain that the problem is that some people do not look after the town. One woman said: 'We have a street cleaner who comes here three times a week and takes between 30-50 bags of rubbish off the streets on every visit. 'He has told me his bags are full of things like hypodermic needles, dog dirt, babies' nappies and lots of stuff people should be disposing of themselves. 'They just walk out of the door and throw stuff on the ground and leave it to the street then, as soon as he is gone, they will throw out some more.' Among the haul that could be seen last week was a Morrisons supermarket trolley amid a pile of filled rubbish bags. Another man. who asked not to be named said local contractors had learnt to be cautious when working on people's homes in Brinnington. 'One builder thought his compressor had packed in during a job but when he went outside he saw it had been unplugged and a couple of lads were carrying it down the road! They dropped it and ran when he shouted at them.' Brinnington's sense of community is not helped by the fact that it has lost all four of its pubs leaving just two Labour and Conservative clubs as its only watering holes. Consigned to history - and leaving the community poorer for it - are the Horsefield Arms, The Farmers Arms, the Jack and Jill and the Cheshire Cat. But for all its problems, Brinnington railway station stands testament to the area's indomitable spirit. Winner of the best-kept station award in 2023, its front hall is covered in racks of clothing and hats and stacks of books, dvds and trinkets of every description. Everything on show is free for anyone to take. Station master Stewart Hall, 43, said: 'We get up to 200 people down here a day and they take what they need. Some people just come down here for a chat, to pass the time and feel better.
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Remarkable Women: Katherine Bramhall
Hanover, NH (ABC22 FOX44) – Katherine Bramhall gave birth to her first daughter under the care of midwives. At the time, it was a financial decision. 'We were pretty poor,' Bramhall recalls, 'and midwives were affordable.' Struggling to understand the public healthcare system, she felt lost and frustrated with the lack of resources available. That all changed when she met midwives Trudy Cox and Winnie Thomas. 'They saved my life.' Under their guidance, Bramhall finally saw what true health and care looked like for the perinatal time. 'I used to sit in the rocking chair next to the desk for the first half hour and I was just encouraged to talk, and they just listened,' Bramhall says. The birth of her second daughter looked a bit more traditional. 'We had insurance at the time, I went with an OB – it was a really different experience. What it gave me was a really good perspective on the value of this type of care.' Since then, Bramhall has dedicated her life to supporting women during the most transitional and transformational period of their lives. She received her degree from a nationally accredited midwifery school and has been performing out-of-hospital births in Vermont and at her New Hampshire based birthing clinic. 'In as much as I grew up in a time when women didn't have a voice, I knew I didn't want my daughters to have that same group of options that weren't there.' Statistically, 85% of women with a healthy, normal, full term pregnancy are good candidates for an out-of-hospital birth with midwives. 'Midwives do full prenatal care with the same schedule of care you'd get anywhere else,' Bramhall explains,' the only difference is there's shared decision making – actual shared decision making.' But Bramhall says her work goes so much deeper than just preparing for delivery. 'In this model of care, women come in with so many questions. In an out-of-hospital birth setting, what a provider has is the luxury of time.' She takes the client's ethics, culture, challenges, and hopes – integrating them into the course of their care before, during, and after childbirth. To date, Bramhall has helped deliver over 900 babies. She's even gone on to publish a book titled 'Transformation Through Childbirth'. 'What are the things you want to know about? What's the standard of care? What are the tests…so that at the end when they're holding that little baby – wherever and however they are – they know what just happened mattered, because that is where hope is born.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
13-03-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Doctor shortage across WA causing appointment delays
A study from the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) says the United States could be tens of thousands of doctors short over the next ten years. The shortage could impact already growing wait times and delays in patient appointments. Here in Washington, we are seeing the impacts. John Bramhall is an anesthesiologist at Harborview Hospital, the President of the Washington State Medical Association, and a professor at the University of Washington. 'There is a shortage of physicians nationally, in Washington state,' Bramhall told KIRO 7. He said this has been an ongoing problem for at least five years. 'We hear it all the time, not only from patients but also from clinicians,' Bramhall said. It's an issue that is expected to get worse. The AAMC projects a need for up to 86,000 doctors by 2036. He tells us the COVID-19 pandemic, retirements, an aging population, not enough medical school placements, higher demand, and available Medicaid funding are contributing to the delays. 'They find it takes months, not weeks but months, if at all to get connected with an appropriate physician,' Bramhall said. We spoke with local hospitals to see if they are stretched thin. Virginia Mason and Providence Swedish Hospital told KIRO 7 they are feeling the impacts and are looking to fill many positions. Bramhall said Harborview and University of Washington medical groups could use more staff members but aren't under water. Cassie Sauer, CEO of the Washington State Hospital Association, told us rural clinics are hurting the most, and that is creating bigger issues. 'If someone says I have been having this pain or issue, then if it lingers for six months, it can worsen, and you miss a chance for early intervention. It definitely has impacts on people's health,' Sauer said. All of the people in this story said that even as medical professionals, they are waiting months for appointments too, telling us this shortage can't and won't be fixed quickly. Kristy Carrington with Providence Swedish said working on using new technology to help offload paperwork and filter through messages for the doctors will help with burnout rates and appointment delays. 'Recruitment and retention is big here,' she said. She told KIRO 7 that securing funding and positions available and thinking about new ways to provide care will start to shift the shortage issue.
