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BBC News
a day ago
- Health
- BBC News
Hull dad's tribute ride for baby who lived one day
A dad said he would be "forever grateful" to hospital staff who cared for both of his daughters - one of whom died the day after she was Turner's daughter Hope lived for just one day after being born 17 weeks early in March 2021 and lived only one day. Emilee was born 13 weeks early in 2019 and survived. Mr Turner, who is about to cycle 1,000 miles (1,609km) to raise money for Hull's neonatal unit, said the nurses went the extra mile for children on the ward by buying baby clothes, cotton wool and day-to-day items using their own money."Myself and my family are forever grateful for the care that they gave to my children and this is my way of giving back," he said. Weighing 1lb 11oz (764g), Emilee spent 13 weeks in Hull Women and Children's Hospital's neonatal had multiple operations and setbacks but, despite initially going home with a feed tube, the farmer from Hull said his daughter came on "leaps and bounds"."To look at her now you would never know – she's one of the tallest in her class but she used to fit on my hand," the 30-year-old added: "I don't know why - whether it being the care or the people around, I just always knew that she would be fine." Hope - Mr Turner's second child - was born 17 weeks early on 4 March 2021 and weighed 1lb 3oz (539g). After experiencing a collapsed lung and other complications, Hope died the day after she was born."Every week when you're born early matters - 13 weeks to 17 weeks is a dramatic difference," Mr Turner said."I looked on the wall because they had printed photos of the babies that made it through and she would've been the lightest baby to make it through the neonatal."Mr Turner said: "I was just nervous through it all. You never know what to expect and the worst thing for a parent to do is to lose a child."It's in the back of your mind but I'm trying to be strong for Emilee and everybody else in your family but inside I'm a little bit broken and holding it together through it all."Mr Turner described the support he and his partner received from the neonatal unit as "unbelievable"."I spoke to a few nurses who would buy clothes for parents that maybe didn't have it or didn't have enough," he said."Some of the nurses buy the cotton wool and day-to-day things themselves or through donations. That was really eye-opening while we were in there - just the amount of stuff that they do and the nurses themselves." Mr Turner is planning to cycle from Lands End to John O'Groats to honour both of his daughters. "Part of the reason I wanted to do this was to give back and the other part was to see how far I can physically push myself," he taking on a half marathon last year, Mr Turner hopes to run a full marathon and Dragon's Back race - an ultra-running race through the Welsh mountains."I would never have done any of that before. I would have just carried on being a farmer, doing my day-to-day life and never pushed my boundaries."Mr Turner is starting the challenge with two friends - Dan Peacock and Spencer Cooper - on 28 said he hopes the money raised the neonatal unit will help ensure other families receive the same level of care and support his family experienced."I would imagine every single person would know somebody that's had a child either go through the neonatal or have some form of care from the nurses in the neonatal and they really do go the extra mile," he said."There is nothing that they wouldn't do for a mother or father that's in there." 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.
Yahoo
29-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Jonesboro eyes back-to-back state titles
JONESBORO, Texas (FOX 44) — History wasn't the norm for Jonesboro softball all but two years ago but two years later the Lady Eagles won't settle for anything but even more history as Jonesboro looks to bring home its second-straight state championship on Saturday morning. 'If you told me my freshman year that we were going to be state champs in possible back-to-back years, I probably would've laughed in your face,' Jonesboro senior catcher Emily Turner said. Turner earned 1A State MVP honors, helping the Lady Eagles make history by delivering the school's first state title on the softball field in 2024, taking down Neches, 3-1. Now, an experienced group looks to do it again and are confident they can get it done. 'I feel like everyone was expecting [Jonesboro to make it to state] but it wasn't so easy,' Jonesboro sophomore Ally Thorman said. 'We know what we're doing, we've been here before.' Following the departure of coaching tandem Amanda and Cody LeCroy to Cisco College, Emily Turner's dad, James, stepped up to the challenge of leading the Lady Eagles back to this moment. 'Not very many coaches get this opportunity,' James Turner said. 'I'll definitely cherish it for the rest of my life.' As three Lady Eagles seniors, including Emily, try to leave one last mark on Jonesboro and deliver the second state championship in school history. 'That's the hardest part right now is keeping the emotions together to get through it,' James Turner said. 'We have a job to finish and then hopefully we can all share [the emotions] after the end of it.' Jonesboro will try to defend its state championship from a season ago and bring some more hardware back home against Brookeland on Saturday, May 31st at 10:00 a.m. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
New York Times
22-04-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Arsenal fans protest against club's Visit Rwanda deal with ‘Visit Tottenham' campaign
A group of Arsenal supporters have protested against the club's 'Visit Rwanda' sponsorship and called for the deal to be ended before next season. Gunners For Peace has launched a video mocking the sponsorship, entitled 'Visit Tottenham', the club's local north London rivals. The campaign group will hand out armbands before the men's match against Crystal Palace on Wednesday, with the idea being that supporters will cover the 'Visit Rwanda' label on the sleeves of the club's shirt. There is also a billboard poster outside the Emirates Stadium. Advertisement The Premier League club has been criticised for its association with the tourist board of the east African country, which is led by President Paul Kagame of the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) party, who is an Arsenal fan. The UK government suspended aid to Rwanda in February over its support for the M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 'We want the board to drop the deal in time for next season,' James Turner, a Gunners For Peace spokesperson, told The Athletic. 'Now we're getting regular Champions League football there must be a queue of sponsors ready to take Rwanda's place, and it would send a great message that some things are more important than money. We're in touch with Arsenal fans in Congo who are refusing to wear the shirt until this sponsorship is ended. This campaign is for them. 'The video is an advert for the delights of Tottenham as a tourism destination. The Tottenham stuff is a joke, a way to get other Arsenal fans talking on the terraces and in the pub. Obviously, none of us would accept Tottenham on the shirt, so why Rwanda? Where do we draw the line when it comes to these corporate deals? We know that Arsenal fans think about this stuff, so we're just trying to make it easier for them to engage with us.' .@Arsenal is a great club. We have standards. Which is why Visit Rwanda needs to end. This is the same regime that's funding a brutal militia with thousands of victims in Eastern Congo. We think anything – literally anything – would be better than Visit Rwanda. Even Tottenham — Gunners For Peace (@gunnersforpeace) April 22, 2025 The Human Rights Watch (HRW) World Report in 2023 stated that RPF 'continued to wage a campaign against real and perceived opponents of the government' and that 'over a dozen political opposition members are in prison' and many are 'being prosecuted or have been convicted on spurious grounds'. Kagame was first elected as president of Rwanda in 2010 and was last re-elected to serve his seventh term in 2017 with 98.8 per cent of the vote, according to the Rwandan National Electoral Commission. HRW said the election 'took place in a context of very limited free speech or open political space'. Arsenal's Visit Rwanda shirt sleeve sponsorship for the men's and women's teams began in 2018, initially on a three-year deal which was extended in 2021. As reported in the club's accounts for 2023-24, the sponsorship deal with Visit Rwanda brought in £10million ($13.4m) as part of an overall commercial income of £218.3million. Advertisement Visit Rwanda also holds a deal with Bundesliga club Bayern Munich. Kagame attended the Champions League match between the two clubs at the Emirates Stadium in April 2024. The 67-year-old was at that game having met with then-UK Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to discuss regional security and the UK-Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership, which proposed asylum seekers in the UK to be sent to Rwanda to be processed under their system. The new Labour government said in July, via Prime Minister Keir Starmer, that it would not continue with the plans. Arsenal declined to comment when approached about this article.
Telegraph
22-04-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
Arsenal fans launch ‘Visit Tottenham' campaign in protest at Rwanda deal
A group of Arsenal supporters have launched a campaign against the club's sponsorship deal with Visit Rwanda, calling for the deal to be scrapped ahead of next season. As part of the campaign, Gunners For Peace have unveiled a 'Visit Tottenham' satirical billboard outside the Emirates Stadium. The group has said that Arsenal supporters would rather 'Visit Tottenham' than to continue to endorse the Rwandan regime. The Rwanda Development Board, a government department, has been an Arsenal partner since 2018 and also has similar sponsorship agreements with Bayern Munich and Paris St-Germain. Paul Kagame, the Rwandan president, is an Arsenal fan. Arsenal's deal with Visit Rwanda has come under increasing scrutiny in recent months due to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In February, the UK Government suspended aid to Rwanda over its support for the M23 rebel group in the area. Arsenal's sponsorship agreement with Visit Rwanda is understood to cover the remainder of this campaign and next season, at least. Gunners For Peace have cited a recent poll of almost 300 Arsenal supporters which found that 58 per cent of fans were in favour of the club ending its deal with Visit Rwanda. Of the polled supporters, 25 per cent opposed ending the deal and 20 per cent said they did not know. As part of their protest, the group will be handing out armbands so fans can cover up the Visit Rwanda branding on their shirts during Arsenal's match against Crystal Palace on Wednesday night. Alongside the 'Visit Tottenham' billboard, Gunners For Peace have also produced a satirical tourist video for Tottenham, the home of fierce rivals Tottenham Hotspur. 'Visit Tottenham is a joke with a serious punchline,' said James Turner of the Gunners For Peace supporter group. 'It's hard to think of a worse sponsor than Visit Rwanda, and together with many other Arsenal fans we are calling on the club to drop them.' On their website, the Gunners For Peace group added: 'Arsenal is a great club. We have standards. Which is why Visit Rwanda needs to end. 'This is the same regime that's funding a brutal militia committing atrocities against thousands of innocent victims in Eastern Congo. 'We don't want our club to sell its soul to the highest bidder. And we certainly don't want to wear it on our sleeves. We think anything – literally anything – would be better than Visit Rwanda.'
Yahoo
22-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Arsenal fans launch ‘Visit Tottenham' campaign in protest at Rwanda deal
A group of Arsenal supporters have launched a campaign against the club's sponsorship deal with Visit Rwanda, calling for the deal to be scrapped ahead of next season. As part of the campaign, Gunners For Peace have unveiled a 'Visit Tottenham' satirical billboard outside the Emirates Stadium. The group has said that Arsenal supporters would rather 'Visit Tottenham' than to continue to endorse the Rwandan regime. The Rwanda Development Board, a government department, has been an Arsenal partner since 2018 and also has similar sponsorship agreements with Bayern Munich and Paris St-Germain. Paul Kagame, the Rwandan president, is an Arsenal fan. Arsenal's deal with Visit Rwanda has come under increasing scrutiny in recent months due to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In February, the UK government suspended aid to Rwanda over its support for the M23 rebel group in the area. Arsenal's sponsorship agreement with Visit Rwanda is understood to cover the remainder of this campaign and next season, at least. Gunners For Peace have cited a recent poll of almost 300 Arsenal supporters which found that 58 per cent of fans were in favour of the club ending its deal with Visit Rwanda. Of the polled supporters, 25 per cent opposed ending the deal and 20 per cent said they did not know. As part of their protest, the group will be handing out armbands so fans can cover up the Visit Rwanda branding on their shirts during Arsenal's match against Crystal Palace on Wednesday night. Alongside the 'Visit Tottenham' billboard, Gunners For Peace have also produced a satirical tourist video for Tottenham, the home of fierce rivals Tottenham Hotspur. 'Visit Tottenham is a joke with a serious punchline,' said James Turner of the Gunners For Peace supporter group. 'It's hard to think of a worse sponsor than Visit Rwanda, and together with many other Arsenal fans we are calling on the club to drop them.' On their website, the Gunners For Peace group added: 'Arsenal is a great club. We have standards. Which is why Visit Rwanda needs to end. 'This is the same regime that's funding a brutal militia committing atrocities against thousands of innocent victims in Eastern Congo. 'We don't want our club to sell its soul to the highest bidder. And we certainly don't want to wear it on our sleeves. We think anything - literally anything - would be better than Visit Rwanda.' Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
