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BBC News
5 days ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Gillingham left-back Clark signs new one-year deal
Gillingham left-back Max Clark has signed a new one-year contract with the League Two 29-year-old has made 71 appearances since joining the Gills in 2023, scoring four made 40 league appearances as the club finished 17th last season."I am really pleased to be staying at Gills," he told the club's website, external. "I have very much enjoyed my time here, the fans are absolutely brilliant and I want to be a part of what the club is building."I am looking forward to the season ahead."Clark follows Glenn Morris, Robbie McKenzie and Bradley Dack in extending their deals at Priestfield also signed forward Seb Palmer-Houlden from Bristol City last month.
BBC News
06-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Glenn Morris: Veteran goalkeeper signs new Gillingham contract
Veteran goalkeeper Glenn Morris has signed a new one-year contract to stay at Gillingham for next season. Morris, 41, was voted the Gills' player of the season, having kept 13 clean sheets. In October, he became the oldest man to play for the Kent club, surpassing the record previously held by Andy Hessenthaler. Morris, whose contract was due to expire this summer, said: "I am really pleased. It is nice to get it done early so you can sort of relax over the summer and enjoy the time away." Morris is in his second spell at Gillingham, having had a two-year stint there between 2014 and 2016. He returned on loan from Crawley during the summer of 2022 and was signed on a permanent deal the following January. His career has also involved spells at Southend, Leyton Orient and Aldershot. Manager Gareth Ainsworth said: "He is the model professional who gives everything on a day-to-day basis. "His experience is invaluable and we are very lucky to have him."
Daily Mail
01-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
Couple took a spa trip to save their marriage… what happened next led to one of them losing a leg
A Maryland father is warning travelers of visiting 'dirty spas' after a bone infection from a pedicure led to doctors amputating his leg. Glenn Morris, 54, treated his wife Melissa to a $270 'His and Hers' spa package trip when their relationship was on the rocks in 2017. But during the three-hour long relaxation treatment, they noticed one of Glenn's toes on his left foot had a small cut from the pedicure. Thinking nothing of it, the father-of-four went about his day and returned to hotel. However a day later, he noticed that his second toe had 'swollen up' to the size of his big toe and decided to get it checked at a nearby hospital. To his surprise, doctors told him he had a bone infection' that was beginning to spread and as a result, the bone in his second toe was surgically removed in June 2017. But what was meant to stop the spread of the infection instead led to eight years of 'extreme pain' and ultimately the amputation his left leg below the knee in to order to give him the 'best quality of life' in January 2025. Glenn said: 'That one treatment has completely changed my life. I never thought [a pedicure] would cause what happened. The price of looking good is not worth losing a leg.' Speaking about the trip, which was all going to plan until he suffered the nick, Glenn said: 'While we were there she had one technician on her and one technician on me doing the pedicures and manicures on tables next to each other. 'We left feeling very refreshed.' A bone infection or osteomyelitis is a serious infection that happens when bacteria or fungi infect the bone marrow and can can cause permanent bone loss and necrosis (tissue death) if not immediately treated. The infection usually starts on a wound or surgery site on the skin, enters the bloodstream and then spreads to the bones. Symptoms of osteomyelitis can vary depending on which bone is infected but common signs include fever, bone pain, sweating, chills, skin discoloration and swelling. To treat the condition, doctors usually surgically remove portions of bone that have been infected, which may lead to amputation of certain limbs. This is followed by strong antibiotics or antifungals administered through an IV for at least six weeks to completely kill the infection. Every year, about one in 2,000 Americans end up being diagnosed with osteomyelitis. While studies show that the overall mortality rate for the infection is low, some suggest that one in five people can die if they do not receive proper treatment. Despite his initial June 2017 surgery, the bone infection continued to spread into his other toes and led to the amputation of both his big and third toe in the left foot in 2018 and 2019 respectively. The loss of three of his toes forced the business owner to wear a boot for a year and a half to protect and support his foot. However in October 2024, Glenn ended up at a nearby hospital for a blood infection and in December after his ankle snapped while he was brushing his teeth. As his condition continued to worsen, doctors decided to amputate Glenn's leg on January 28, 2025 and fitted him with a prosthetic leg. He is now able to walk with the prosthetic after going to rehab. The father explained: '[The doctor] told me that amputation would be the best way to come back with the best quality of life I was expected to have. Amputation was the best way to respond. Mentally it was okay for me to go ahead. 'Once I had the amputation most of the pain stopped. I had been in an extreme amount of pain and lived with about a six degree pain over the last eight years. 'I haven't been able to wear a regular shoe on my foot in about two to three years because of swelling so I've had to wear an orthopedic boot. 'Working was pretty hard because I needed to be up on my feet and I hadn't been able to do that on my left side and I haven't been able to walk long distances. 'Grocery shopping has been a chore and I couldn't go to football games because I couldn't take the steps. It's been hard. 'It was a massive relief because I could start over and the quality of life I'm looking to have is within reach. I got a prosthetic leg and have been learning how to walk on it.' Since then, Glenn blames the shop's 'unsanitary' equipment for his ordeal and claims he heard it had affected 28 other people but he never took legal action after the owners fled. He now wants to warn people against using high street nail shops and encourages them to visit a podiatrist instead, a healthcare professional specializing in foot, ankle and lower leg care. Glenn said: 'It had to be from unsanitary utensils or ones that didn't get cleaned properly. I couldn't see it but once the incision cut me the infection went in. 'The [owners] had packed up and left. At that time it was more important for me to save my leg than to pay a lawyer to find them. 'It hurts me to see nail shops so full every week knowing that every time I went to a podiatrist to have them check my feet the officer would say it's full of people who are there because of an infection [from nail shops]. 'He said it's so common and that so many people come in with foot injuries from pedicures, whether they know at the time or not. 'A podiatrist is the best place to get your nails clipped and the safest place. I'd warn people against using places on the high street. 'I look at my life now going forward advocating for other people in my situation so that they can have access to the activities I like to do like golf, swimming, fishing.'
The Guardian
07-03-2025
- General
- The Guardian
‘Our moral responsibility': Australia's beef industry under pressure over deforestation as election looms
Beef farmer Glenn Morris only had to look up to know the world was changing. During a heatwave in 1998, Morris stood on a cattle property in the New South Wales Hunter Valley and saw the trees cowering. 'At that point it was the hottest year on record and I was watching mature gum trees just get scorched by the hot winds,' he says. That moment spurred him into action: he got his master's degree in sustainable agriculture to better understand land management and its relationship with the climate. He oversees two cattle properties in northwest NSW, where he plants and maintains trees, uses biological soil inputs and carefully grazes stock to rest paddocks and generate compost. Sign up to receive Guardian Australia's fortnightly Rural Network email newsletter With thousands of hectares under his watch, Morris is an environmentalist who considers himself lucky to be able to create change on the land. 'If we don't wake up and start looking after these ecosystems we're in so much trouble,' he says. 'It's our moral responsibility to do what we can.' Farm land management is shaping up to be an election issue in rural Australia, as pressure continues to mount on the beef industry over deforestation. It was the subject of several debates at Senate estimates hearings last month, when senior public servants were quizzed about talks with the European Union over new deforestation rules. From the end of 2025 exporters will need to prove products sold in the EU have not come from land that has been deforested since December 2020. The regulation, which aims to cut carbon emissions, says the main driver of deforestation is the expansion of agricultural land, mostly linked to cattle farming, but also timber and cocoa. The Albanese government has made a submission to the EU that Australia should be considered a country at low risk of deforestation. Officials from the agriculture department told estimates Australia was ranked second for net increases in forest area by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation. They added that Australia's forest coverage was 'extensive and expanding', increasing by an average of 446,000 hectares per year between 2010 and 2020. There were 1.74 million hectares cleared in the five years to 2021 but 1.24 million hectares of regrowth and further expansion, the Australian Bureau of Agriculture Resource Economics and Sciences executive director, Jared Greenville, told the hearings. But he stopped short of giving a definitive answer to a suggestion from a Liberal senator that Australia does not experience deforestation. 'I would say that there are areas of clearing and areas of regrowth. To put that in a net sense, we certainly are increasing our forest area,' Greenville said. Scientists and conservationists argue net figures on deforestation are misleading. The clearing of old growth forests, for example, and re-planting seedlings are not equivalent ecological activities, climate scientist Prof Brendan Mackey says. 'It's an accounting sleight of hand, it's like a magician's trick,' says Mackey, the director of the climate action beacon at Griffith University. 'We need gross accounting and additional information about what's been lost and the regenerational planting that's happened.' NSW government data released in 2024 showed agriculture was the leading driver of land-clearing in the state, followed by infrastructure and native forest logging. The data showed that 45,000 hectares of land was cleared in 2022, pushing the five-year tally above 420,000 hectares, or more than one-and-a-half times the size of the ACT. The Australian Conservation Foundation stresses it is a minority of farmers responsible for deforestation but its investigations have shown those who clear land are doing so on a large scale. 'We can see support from most farmers,' says Nathaniel Pelle, ACF's business and nature lead. 'We can hopefully drive practise change on the small minority of farmers still bulldozing the bush.' This closer focus on deforestation is also coming from Australian consumers. Supermarket giant Coles recently announced it had submitted a no-deforestation commitment to the Science Based Targets Initiative for validation. It had been the last store standing after Woolworths and Aldi announced deforestation-free targets in 2024. Cattle Australia, which represents 52,000 grass-fed cattle producers, has long contended that the nation's farmers abide by some of the strictest vegetation management laws in the world. The grass-fed industry covers half of Australia's land mass, grazing across more than 350 million hectares. The Cattle Australia chief executive, Chris Parker, says there are 136 pieces of legislation covering the protection of that landscape. 'You only get healthy Australian beef off healthy country,' he says. 'There is no incentive for producers to be damaging their country and damaging the biodiversity because, if you damage the country, you're not going to get productive, healthy cattle.' The farming organisation's definition of deforestation is illegal land=clearing, along with trees that exceed height and coverage thresholds of forests. That definition differs from international environmental standards. Parker says the cattle industry is a 'broad church' with a place for everyone, though agriculture needs to be able to set minimum assurances for supply chains and consumers. Morris – who once rode his horse Hombre over the Sydney Harbour Bridge to protest against land-clearing – takes up a particular position in that broad church. 'I'm a farmer ... there's things I can do, but every person is making a difference with their purchasing decisions,' he says. 'We want to pay at the supermarket or the butcher shop ... knowing that that beef has looked after the landscape.' Sign up for the Rural Network email newsletter
