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Rugby’s professional era created a new breed of powerful players so that being tackled in the modern game is ‘like being hit by a truck’, a sports surgeon who treated ex-England hooker Steve Thompson has said. The sport is facing a reckoning as former players reveal the crippling injuries inflicted by a career of fierce collisions. Demands for … Read more
An anti-Trump protester was filmed spitting in the face of a police officer before being tackled to the ground in New York. The woman, who was later identified as Devina Singh, can be seen yelling profanities in the police officer’s face while failing to social distance or wear a mask. ‘F**k you, fascist!’ the 24-year-old shouts … Read more
SAS Australia’s Shayna Jack looks pensive as she is seen for the first time since being brutally tackled by fellow recruit Nick ‘Honey Badger’ Cummins By Monique Friedlander For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:50 GMT, 25 October 2020 | Updated: 02:01 GMT, 25 October 2020 Audiences winced as Shaynna Jack was crushed by Nick ‘Honey … Read more
The wife of a man who was killed in the Christchurch mosque attacks has recalled watching her husband tackle the shooter in the harrowing livestream he posted to Facebook. Ambreen Naeem couldn’t see her husband Naeem Rashid’s name on the injured list at the hospital after 51 Muslims were killed in Brenton Tarrant’s meticulously-planned gun rampage at … Read more
At the end of a foreign tour it is a not uncommon practice for the members of the family who have carried out the mission to pay a courtesy visit to Windsor Castle or Buckingham Palace to report back to the Queen. Her Majesty is 99 per cent certain to have visited those territories herself … Read more
Britain could have avoided thousands of coronavirus deaths in the first wave of the crisis if it took Cuba’s approach, a public health expert has claimed. Fewer than 100 people have been killed by Covid-19 on the Caribbean archipelago, which is famed for being a communist state. An expert has said the country’s success has … Read more
Do you know an NHS health hero? The Daily Mail is asking you to nominate special people in the healthcare sector who’ve made a real difference to you or to a loved one. Seven finalists will be honoured with an all-expenses-paid trip to London to attend the Health Hero Awards. The winner will also receive … Read more
The hero police officer who rugby tackled the Reading terror suspect was a rookie and had only been in the job for 14 months. The father-of-two was able to pin 25-year-old Khairi Saadallah to the ground, as he tried to flee the scene of the attack in Forbury Gardens, Reading, at around 7pm on Saturday. Saadallah, a Libyan … Read more
Priti Patel hailed ‘hero’ emergency services who tackled the Reading attacker today after she visited the scene. The Home Secretary said those who stepped in to try to stop the bloodshed and treat the injured were ‘the very best of us’. She also vowed ‘swift justice’ and insisted it was important to ‘learn the lessons’ of … Read more
Priti Patel hailed ‘hero’ emergency services who tackled the Reading attacker today after she visited the scene. The Home Secretary said those who stepped in to try to stop the bloodshed and treat the injured were ‘the very best of us’. She also vowed ‘swift justice’ and insisted it was important to ‘learn the lessons’ of … Read more