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BBC News
2 days ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Swansea City v Crawley Town
Update: Date: 38' Title: Post Content: Foul by Charlie Barker (Crawley Town). Update: Date: 37' Title: Post Content: Offside, Swansea City. Zan Vipotnik is caught offside. Update: Date: 36' Title: Post Content: Corner,Swansea City. Conceded by Charlie Barker. Update: Date: 35' Title: Post Content: Foul by Cameron Burgess (Swansea City). Update: Date: 35' Title: Post Content: Harvey Davies (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Update: Date: 35' Title: Post Content: Corner,Swansea City. Conceded by Ade Adeyemo. Update: Date: 33' Title: Post Content: Attempt blocked. Joy Mukena (Crawley Town) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Charlie Barker with a cross. Update: Date: 31' Title: Post Content: Delay over. They are ready to continue. Update: Date: 30' Title: Post Content: Delay in match because of an injury Melker Widell (Swansea City). Update: Date: 30' Title: Post Content: Delay in match because of an injury Kabongo Tshimanga (Crawley Town). Update: Date: 29' Title: Post Content: Attempt missed. Max Anderson (Crawley Town) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Kabongo Tshimanga. Update: Date: 29' Title: Post Content: Attempt blocked. Kabongo Tshimanga (Crawley Town) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ade Adeyemo. Update: Date: 28' Title: Post Content: Foul by Cameron Burgess (Swansea City). Update: Date: 28' Title: Post Content: Harvey Davies (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Update: Date: 28' Title: Post Content: Corner,Swansea City. Conceded by Charlie Barker. Update: Date: 26' Title: Post Content: Foul by Kaelan Casey (Swansea City). Update: Date: 26' Title: Post Content: Josh Flint (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Update: Date: 26' Title: Post Content: Attempt blocked. Kaelan Casey (Swansea City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Cameron Burgess. Update: Date: 25' Title: Post Content: Attempt blocked. Kaelan Casey (Swansea City) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ethan Galbraith with a cross. Update: Date: 25' Title: Post Content: Corner,Swansea City. Conceded by Ade Adeyemo.
BBC News
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Oldest work experience student yet fulfils his railway dream
A lifelong railway enthusiast has seen his dream come true with a ride in the cab of a train at the age of Barker, who lives near Goole, East Yorkshire, wanted to be a train driver when he was younger, but he ended up taking a different after a member of the team at rail operator Lumo heard about his passion when their paths crossed during a recent journey, Mr Barker enjoyed some belated work experience."I didn't realise this could happen to me," he said. Mr Barker was born in a house next to Doncaster railway station, and he remembers trainspotting there."I remember sitting on a lady's garden wall in the next street overlooking the goods yard and watching the trains go by," he 1951, when he was 15, he followed his uncle by going to work on the became a messenger boy at the goods yard and he went out on his bicycle to pick up and deliver goods around the he turned 16, he became an engine cleaner, and he rose through the Mr Barker said the Beeching Cuts of the 1960s halted his dream of becoming a train driver, and with a family to support he switched to a career in the power industry. He always missed being around trains, and after his wife died in 2021 he began to increase his trips on the was on a recent trip home from Edinburgh that he met Rachel Firth, customer experience and innovation manager at train operator Lumo, who he told about his railway Firth arranged for Mr Barker to step into the cab, decades after his original career path had gone in a different enjoyed a first-class journey with Hull Trains from Selby to London King's Cross before enjoying the ride of a lifetime in the cab of an electric Lumo train from London to Newcastle. "It brought back a lot of memories because I used to go down there when I was a fireman on on the railway," he Barker described the experience as "unbelievable" and said his friends waved at him from a platform at Darlington with 90 added that he would "treasure" the experience and it was something he would not Firth said: "Charlie's passion and background were truly inspiring. We often talk about careers on the railway beginning young, but why shouldn't they also come full circle later in life?"We were delighted to make him our oldest work experience recruit yet." Listen to highlights from Hull and East Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here. Download the BBC News app from the App Store for iPhone and iPad or Google Play for Android devices
