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'Much-loved' mother-of-three, 27, dies in unexplained circumstances to leave her family 'heartbroken'
2 weeks, 6 days ago

'Much-loved' mother-of-three, 27, dies in unexplained circumstances to leave her family 'heartbroken'

Daily Mail  

A 'much-loved' mother-of-three tragically passed away under mysterious circumstances leaving her family 'heartbroken'. Bethany Wooldridge, aged 27, died eight days before Christmas leaving behind three 'devastated' young children and her husband. Her husband Josh Wooldridge and their children Tommy, four, Lylah, seven, and Alyssia, 10, had just moved into their 'dream home' in Worfield, near Bridgnorth, in Shropshire, in January. …

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How one nonprofit is helping young soccer players change their lives
3 weeks, 2 days ago

How one nonprofit is helping young soccer players change their lives

LA Times  

Adversity was on the schedule every week for the South Los Angeles Legends, a soccer team of 11- and 12-year-old girls, many of whom were growing up in underserved communities. “It definitely gave me confidence,” said Ameerah Kolleff, 17, an honor student who also plays soccer at the academically challenging Girls Academic Leadership Academy, the only public all-girls STEM school …

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Braxton, Marshall beat Louisiana-Lafayette 31-3, win Sun Belt Conference title
1 month, 1 week ago

Braxton, Marshall beat Louisiana-Lafayette 31-3, win Sun Belt Conference title

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! — Braylon Braxton threw two touchdown passes and Jordan Houston had 117 yards rushing, including a 9-yard TD, on 17 carries to help Marshall beat Louisiana-Lafayette 31-3 on Saturday night and win the Thundering Herd’s first Sun Belt Conference Championship. Marshall, which joined the Sun Belt …

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Macron’s Lonely Mission to Save Europe
3 months, 1 week ago

Macron’s Lonely Mission to Save Europe

Bloomberg  

Fresh from a panel discussion with Emmanuel Macron at the Berlin Global Dialogue, Bloomberg Senior Executive Editor Stephanie Flanders reflects on their conversation in the latest episode of Voternomics, and what appears to be the French president’s uphill battle to save an increasingly uncompetitive Europe. Flanders, along with fellow hosts Allegra Stratton and Adrian Wooldridge, breaks down Macron’s defense of …

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Chatbot users should not share private information with software, expert warns
1 year ago

Chatbot users should not share private information with software, expert warns

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The technology is basically designed to try to tell …

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Australia's gender pay gap narrows to 21.7pc ahead of public business disclosure laws coming into effect
1 year, 1 month ago

Australia's gender pay gap narrows to 21.7pc ahead of public business disclosure laws coming into effect

ABC  

The national gender pay gap has fallen to a new low of 21.7 per cent, and the impending public revelation early next year of the gaps at every business employing more than 100 people — a definition that covers nearly 5 million workers — will likely push it lower still. Key points: The average total national gender pay gap has …

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Squash faces ‘formidable’ competition from cricket in race for Olympic berth: WSF president Wooldridge
1 year, 7 months ago

Squash faces ‘formidable’ competition from cricket in race for Olympic berth: WSF president Wooldridge

The Hindu  

Squash and its Olympic dream are perhaps a tale as old as time. Speaking on the sidelines of the Squash World Cup in Chennai, Zena Wooldridge, the current president of the World Squash Federation, says, “Squash has not done anything wrong to not get the go ahead. I think we had some of the best bids and presentations.” Wooldridge hopes …

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Man who has been a naturist for 75 years insists it’s ‘not about sex at all’
1 year, 10 months ago

Man who has been a naturist for 75 years insists it’s ‘not about sex at all’

The Independent  

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How Aspen Medical got 'paid access' to politicians before it made more than $1 billion in the pandemic
2 years, 8 months ago

How Aspen Medical got 'paid access' to politicians before it made more than $1 billion in the pandemic

ABC  

The former chairman and co-founder of Aspen Medical has revealed how the company obtained access to senior ranks of the Coalition government by participating in political fundraising and appointing a former Liberal cabinet minister to its board. Andrew Walker – who quit Aspen in 2019 and is now involved in litigation with the company's owner – has told Four Corners …

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Paid parental leave should be extended to both caregivers, according to the experts. Hugh couldn't agree more
2 years, 9 months ago

Paid parental leave should be extended to both caregivers, according to the experts. Hugh couldn't agree more

ABC  

Hugh Sinclair is Rupert and toddler Henrietta's dad. "What we've found from our census of Australian workplaces is that about 60 per cent of employers are offering paid parental leave, and … 91 per cent are offering it equally to men and women," Ms Wooldridge says. "That's why we advocate that paid parental leave should be offered in a gender …

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Organic producers create permaculture paradise with purpose-built community
5 years, 6 months ago

Organic producers create permaculture paradise with purpose-built community

ABC  

Father-and-son winemakers, Richard and Sam Statham, have built a permaculture paradise to share the burdens of managing a property. Key points: Twenty-two people, on a dozen plots, live on the 140-hectare farm near Canowindra Rivers Road Organic Farms is a hybrid between a farming community and a strata title scheme The farm operates on organic principles, producing wine grapes, sheep, …

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Why does the Victorian Liberal-National Coalition remain opposed to supervised injecting facilities?
6 years, 1 month ago

Why does the Victorian Liberal-National Coalition remain opposed to supervised injecting facilities?

ABC  

Over the past twenty years, the Victorian Liberal-National Party Coalition has consistently opposed the introduction of a supervised injecting facility for illicit drug users in Victoria. The inquiry report found that a facility could improve the health of injecting drug users, reduce drug-related harm in the community including demand on ambulance services, and seemed to enjoy public support. Albeit Liberal …

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AP: Lawmakers buy industry fix to protect schools from guns
6 years, 3 months ago

AP: Lawmakers buy industry fix to protect schools from guns

Associated Press  

Security companies spent years pushing schools to buy more products — from “ballistic attack-resistant” doors to smoke cannons that spew haze from ceilings to confuse a shooter. The campus had become known as the “Safest School in America” after the $500,000 retrofit that Wooldridge helped install for his step-father’s firm, NetTalon Security Systems. “I don’t think I need research,” he …

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AP: Firms sell school ‘hardening’ as mass shooting solution
6 years, 3 months ago

AP: Firms sell school ‘hardening’ as mass shooting solution

Associated Press  

Security companies spent years pushing schools to buy more products — from “ballistic attack-resistant” doors to smoke cannons that spew haze from ceilings to confuse a shooter. “Any company can claim anything they want.” Several years ago, Wooldridge helped his step-father’s firm, NetTalon Security Systems, install a $500,000 system that included smoke cannons at an Indiana school. The horror of …

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