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Daily Record
2 days ago
- Sport
- Daily Record
Threave Rovers gaffer says draw with Blantyre Victoria was point gained
The Castle Douglas side fought back from 2-0 down to earn a draw on their first appearance in the West of Scotland League's second division. Threave Rovers gaffer Danny Dunglinson reckons Saturday's draw with Blantyre Victoria was a point gained. The Castle Douglas side found themselves 2-0 down inside half an hour after goals from Paul Brennan and Kieran Daw. However, a brace from Ross Irving saw them earn a draw on their first appearance in the West of Scotland League's second division. 'For the first 20 minutes we were pretty poor and they got two goals. After that I thought we were on top and after we got it back to 2-2 we had two sitters we should have scored. 'The reaction was pleasing and half-time came at a good time as it gave us the chance to get in and tell them what we felt they needed to be doing better. 'In the second half we started like a train, we were in their faces and on top of them, and it was much better. 'I think overall a draw was a fair result, they'd have felt hard done by if they'd lost the game and speaking to their manager after the game he had the same assessment 'Last year, we were two goals up on the first day and drew. We felt that set the tone for the whole season, maybe this year the scales have tipped a wee bit. We've shown we had that fight and it could have a positive effect. 'Blantyre are a decent side, they'll take points off lots of teams and they'll be top five or six, if not higher.' Threave are at home again this weekend with Ashfield visiting Meadow Park. They'll be without a number of players, including Dean Brotherston who was sent off late on last weekend. Dunglinson said: 'Ashfield are similar to Blantyre, they came down last year. Last season they were two levels ahead of us so they won't be any mugs. 'We know where they're strong, they've got some really handy players. I think it's an entirely new squad. They got beat 2-0 off Lesmahagow but to me they're favourites for the league so that's no disgrace. 'It'll be tough, we've got a few missing and one suspended. 'We're at home, we want to make Meadow a fortress and pick up as many points as possible. 'We'll set up to win the game and I've confident with the players we've got we'll be more than capable.'
The Sun
17-07-2025
- The Sun
Scots wife left husband covered in blood after savaging his private parts after he refused sex
A WIFE left her hubby covered in blood after grabbing his testicles and twisting them when he denied her sex. Frustrated Sharon Irvine, 55, clawed at partner David's privates as they lay in bed at home in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, leaving him needing stitches. 3 3 The agonising attack saw her admit to assault to severe injury — but the couple are still together. A court heard that she ferociously attacked her husband's testicles after hearing him 'pleasuring himself' instead of having sex with her. She then called cops on herself, telling them: 'There's a lot of blood'. Mr Irvine, whose scrotum was torn open in the horror — was taken to hospital where medics stitched the wound. He refused to give an official statement to police but confirmed his spouse of 14 years had 'grabbed, pulled and twisted' him, Hamilton Sheriff Court heard. Irvine, 55, pleaded guilty to assault to severe injury as her husband watched. They're both absolutely mortified and just want to put it behind them. They're very much still together A source The couple are still together following the bedroom bloodbath at their home in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, in January. Prosecutor Sinead Corrigan said: 'She stated that she had heard him pleasuring himself and that had angered her because he was not engaging in sexual activity with her. "She then grabbed him and caused injury.' Sheriff Kevin McCallum KC told Irvine: 'This is a very unfortunate set of circumstances, highly regrettable, and there is no doubt embarrassment on all sides. Two men hacked XL Bully dogs with meat cleaver & knife in horrific attack in Scots street "But it is quite serious, as whatever went on to cause you to behave in that way, a quite significant injury was caused.' Mr Irvine last night declined to comment and his wife was unavailable. A source said: 'They're both absolutely mortified and just want to put it behind them. They're very much still together.' This is a very unfortunate set of circumstances, highly regrettable, and there is no doubt embarrassment on all sides Sheriff Kevin McCallum KC Sheriff McCallum deferred sentence until next month for background reports and continued Irvine's bail. American John Wayne Bobbitt hit headlines in 1993 after his wife Lorena chopped off his penis and threw it away. It was found, reattached, and he famously went on to star in porn movies.
Daily Mail
09-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Urgent appeal for a stowaway cat which travelled 400 miles to Scotland to be reunited with her owners
An urgent appeal is underway to find the owners of a cat found in the engine of a minibus after a 400-mile journey from England. The pet jumped out of the vehicle at the Park of Hamilton depot in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, yesterday (Wed) following a trip from South Mimms, in Hertfordshire, via Staffordshire and Lancashire. She has been handed over to the charity Cats Protection's centre where a vet checked her over. The cat, named Scout by volunteers, is thought to be around a year old. Although dirty from its adventure the moggy has escaped her ordeal otherwise unharmed. The charity is now desperately trying to find her owners to return her home. Deputy centre manager Rachael Ward said: 'The first thing Scout did was eat an entire pouch of food in one go before settling down for a two-hour nap - clearly thankful for some safety and absolutely exhausted. 'She is underweight but otherwise in good body condition, just very dirty from her travels. Surprisingly, and thankfully, she is completed uninjured after her ordeal. 'Scout is a domestic shorthair, white and tortoiseshell in colour, with quite distinctive markings. We're hopeful that with enough attention, her owner will recognise her. 'Sadly, Scout is not microchipped. We would be so, so grateful if people could share her story. It would be a miracle to reunite her with her owner.' Ms Ward added that photographic evidence would be needed to reclaim Scout.
The Guardian
03-07-2025
- Health
- The Guardian
‘Delay is catastrophic': how instant antibiotics could save thousands of African children in comas
For the hundreds of children who arrive every day at hospitals in parts of Africa unconscious and unresponsive, their survival chances have remained unchanged for nearly 50 years. But new research is raising hopes that swift treatment with antibiotics could improve those chances. Despite huge strides in healthcare and vaccination rates for children in sub Saharan Africa, the odds remain stacked against those who become so ill they fall into a coma. Depending on the cause, between 17% and 45% are expected to die. Many more will be left with disabilities. 'It can become depressing,' says Dr Alice Muiruri-Liomba, who works in Blantyre, Malawi. Researchers have discovered that giving antibiotics as soon as a child arrives at hospital could save tens of thousands of lives a year – and getting them to specialist care quickly could also reduce deaths and long-term disability. Analysis based on multiple studies and published in the Lancet Global Health shows that most of the children who go into a coma have a severe complication of malaria, called cerebral malaria. The second most common identified cause is bacterial meningitis. A second study by the same team, focusing on Queen Elizabeth hospital in Blantyre, found that one in four children hospitalised in a coma with malaria had an additional bacterial infection. 'Too often, malaria parasites found in the blood of a sick African child stop medical staff looking for and treating additional bacterial infections,' says Dr Stephen Ray of the Oxford Vaccine Group, the study's principal investigator. 'You treat the malarial parasites as the cause of the coma, and then actually that becomes a risk factor for dying from a bacterial underlying infection that has been untreated … we need to just make sure everyone that comes in with febrile coma gets antibiotics, as well as antimalarials.' Making that standard practice could change how 2.3 million children a year in Africa are treated and save more than 20,000 lives, Ray says. Data is patchy, but studies and doctors' observations suggest non-traumatic coma is much more common among children in sub-Saharan Africa, and parts of Asia, than it is in the global north. 'A child comes in, unfortunately, quite a lot later down the line than they would in a UK setting,' says Ray. That can mean 'at up to a day, or over a day, of full, deep coma. Completely unconscious, unable to communicate, completely disoriented, with a very high fever.' Those symptoms would prompt a UK ambulance 'within minutes'. In Malawi, it can take days. 'That delay is catastrophic – we showed with brain scans, by the time they get to you, they've actually got quite a lot of neurological complications: brain swelling, brain injury,' says Ray. Muiruri-Liomba says transport is a major barrier for many families. 'We have cases where you have a mother carrying a convulsing child on her back the whole night, walking to a health facility. Then they get there, and in this health facility you don't have ambulances … so these mothers are forced to go and source their own transport to a bigger hospital.' Muiruri-Liomba treats children at Queen Elizabeth central hospital – which is relatively well resourced, boasting the country's only portable MRI scanner and fully working research laboratories. District hospitals can be poorly equipped with medicines in short supply and laboratory facilities basic. Children will usually have been first treated at home, then at a clinic and a district hospital before they finally reach Queen Elizabeth, Muiruri-Liomba says. 'We only take patients to the hospital once they complicate – and what that tells me is that they don't understand the danger of what malaria is capable of doing, or what a febrile illness leading to seizures and coma is capable of doing.' Muiruri-Liomba wants to raise awareness of the consequences of delaying care – both in the community and among health professionals and policymakers. 'Those children who present late are likely to have a bad outcome,' she stresses, which could be death or brain damage, probably caused by seizures that have not been managed at an earlier stage. Dr Tarun Dua, who leads the Brain Health Unit at the World Health Organization (WHO), agrees that 'systemic challenges or barriers that we see in access to care and delivery' is a key driver of the problem. 'In many of the countries in Africa, there is only one child neurologist per 4 million population,' she says. 'If you think about where neuroimaging is available, it is in the capital or a couple of cities. There is a big rural/urban divide.' WHO guidelines on meningitis care, updated in April, say children who may have acute meningitis 'need to start empiric antibiotics' even before any diagnostic test. This will, says Dua, include any child presenting at hospital in a coma. 'Our task is, how do we get countries to implement those guidelines?' The WHO is encouraging countries to update their guidance. And Dua is hopeful of technological advances. Low-cost brain scans and better bedside tests are in development. 'Things are moving,' she says. 'But I think accelerated action is important.'
The Guardian
03-07-2025
- Health
- The Guardian
‘Delay is catastrophic': how instant antibiotics could save thousands of African children in comas
For the hundreds of children who arrive every day at hospitals in parts of Africa unconscious and unresponsive, their survival chances have remained unchanged for nearly 50 years. But new research is raising hopes that swift treatment with antibiotics could improve those chances. Despite huge strides in healthcare and vaccination rates for children in sub Saharan Africa, the odds remain stacked against those who become so ill they fall into a coma. Depending on the cause, between 17% and 45% are expected to die. Many more will be left with disabilities. 'It can become depressing,' says Dr Alice Muiruri-Liomba, who works in Blantyre, Malawi. Researchers have discovered that giving antibiotics as soon as a child arrives at hospital could save tens of thousands of lives a year – and getting them to specialist care quickly could also reduce deaths and long-term disability. Analysis based on multiple studies and published in the Lancet Global Health shows that most of the children who go into a coma have a severe complication of malaria, called cerebral malaria. The second most common identified cause is bacterial meningitis. A second study by the same team, focusing on Queen Elizabeth hospital in Blantyre, found that one in four children hospitalised in a coma with malaria had an additional bacterial infection. 'Too often, malaria parasites found in the blood of a sick African child stop medical staff looking for and treating additional bacterial infections,' says Dr Stephen Ray of the Oxford Vaccine Group, the study's principal investigator. 'You treat the malarial parasites as the cause of the coma, and then actually that becomes a risk factor for dying from a bacterial underlying infection that has been untreated … we need to just make sure everyone that comes in with febrile coma gets antibiotics, as well as antimalarials.' Making that standard practice could change how 2.3 million children a year in Africa are treated and save more than 20,000 lives, Ray says. Data is patchy, but studies and doctors' observations suggest non-traumatic coma is much more common among children in sub-Saharan Africa, and parts of Asia, than it is in the global north. 'A child comes in, unfortunately, quite a lot later down the line than they would in a UK setting,' says Ray. That can mean 'at up to a day, or over a day, of full, deep coma. Completely unconscious, unable to communicate, completely disoriented, with a very high fever.' Those symptoms would prompt a UK ambulance 'within minutes'. In Malawi, it can take days. 'That delay is catastrophic – we showed with brain scans, by the time they get to you, they've actually got quite a lot of neurological complications: brain swelling, brain injury,' says Ray. Muiruri-Liomba says transport is a major barrier for many families. 'We have cases where you have a mother carrying a convulsing child on her back the whole night, walking to a health facility. Then they get there, and in this health facility you don't have ambulances … so these mothers are forced to go and source their own transport to a bigger hospital.' Muiruri-Liomba treats children at Queen Elizabeth central hospital – which is relatively well resourced, boasting the country's only portable MRI scanner and fully working research laboratories. District hospitals can be poorly equipped with medicines in short supply and laboratory facilities basic. Children will usually have been first treated at home, then at a clinic and a district hospital before they finally reach Queen Elizabeth, Muiruri-Liomba says. 'We only take patients to the hospital once they complicate – and what that tells me is that they don't understand the danger of what malaria is capable of doing, or what a febrile illness leading to seizures and coma is capable of doing.' Muiruri-Liomba wants to raise awareness of the consequences of delaying care – both in the community and among health professionals and policymakers. 'Those children who present late are likely to have a bad outcome,' she stresses, which could be death or brain damage, probably caused by seizures that have not been managed at an earlier stage. Dr Tarun Dua, who leads the Brain Health Unit at the World Health Organization (WHO), agrees that 'systemic challenges or barriers that we see in access to care and delivery' is a key driver of the problem. 'In many of the countries in Africa, there is only one child neurologist per 4 million population,' she says. 'If you think about where neuroimaging is available, it is in the capital or a couple of cities. There is a big rural/urban divide.' WHO guidelines on meningitis care, updated in April, say children who may have acute meningitis 'need to start empiric antibiotics' even before any diagnostic test. This will, says Dua, include any child presenting at hospital in a coma. 'Our task is, how do we get countries to implement those guidelines?' The WHO is encouraging countries to update their guidance. And Dua is hopeful of technological advances. Low-cost brain scans and better bedside tests are in development. 'Things are moving,' she says. 'But I think accelerated action is important.'
