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‘Be kind’: Danny Cipriani leads his Gloucester teammates in a touching tribute to Caroline Flack

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Rugby player Danny Cipriani and his Gloucester teammates are paying tribute to Caroline Flack at their Gallagher Premiership match. The sports star, who has said he is ‘grieving hard’ following the death of his ex-partner, has joined his teammates for Friday’s home game against the Sale Sharks. Their shirts are emblazoned with the words ‘be … Read more

Pope cancels event due to ‘illness’ after touching hands and kissing heads at Vatican

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Pope Francis has been forced to cancel a planned Mass in Rome with other clergy after suffering a ‘slight illness’.  The Vatican said the 83-year-old pontiff had a ‘slight indisposition’ that meant he did not attend an event at the St John Lateran basilica in Rome on Thursday morning. A spokesman said Francis would continue with … Read more

Earl of Sandwich’s touching memoirs as he chronicles his father’s decline into Alzheimer’s disease

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MEMOIR Mapperton Moments  by John Montagu (Skyscraper £10, 224 pp) Leaking house, leaking pond, leaking puppy, leaking father… these touching diaries of John Montagu (now the 11th Earl of Sandwich), chronicling his father’s slow decline into Alzheimer’s disease and death over eight years, have them all, in dripping abundance. Drip, drip, drip. It’s January 1987 … Read more

Touching moment a little girl, 4, with cerebral palsy takes her first steps

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Touching moment a little girl, 4, with cerebral palsy takes her first steps after her single mother spent a year teaching her how to walk Kinley Jones, four, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was diagnosed at age two with cerebral palsy The disability affects motor skills and some sufferers are unable to walk But her determined mother, … Read more