Etiqueta: Start
A new start after 60: I became a priest at 63 – after 44 years as a soldier and a teacher
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A 66, Diana Johnson has just embarked on her third career. She has moved to a different part of the country and become a priest with her own parish. The “thread” that brought her to this point runs right back to her ...
Jadon Sancho’s station uncertain in shadow of Ronaldo’s shining start
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One of Borussia Dortmund’s English prodigies scored in the Champions League this week. It wasn’t Jadon Sancho. One of Manchester United’s summer signings struck on his first appearances in the Premier League and in Eu...
England pick apart North Macedonia to give Sarina Wiegman perfect start
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England’s World Cup 2023 qualifying campaign and the manager Sarina Wiegman’s tenure began ruthlessly as the Lionesses put eight past an exhausted North Macedonia at St Mary’s. Back in front of fans for the first time...
A new start after 60: ‘I was fired at 64 – so I faced my fears and started my first company’
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When Paul Tasner was 64, he was called to a meeting with the chief executive of Method cleaning products where he worked as senior director of operations – only to find that the meeting was an exit interview. It was s...
Romelu Lukaku gets champions Chelsea off to perfect start against Zenit
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Romelu Lukaku had been the subject of suffocating attention from a well-organised and robust Zenit St Petersburg central defensive three. Everywhere he turned, it felt as though a door was slammed in his face and, como ...
Small beginnings: 10 ways to get your business off to a good start
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Maybe the pandemic made you reassess your lifestyle and work, or maybe you already had considered going it alone and have been waiting to take the plunge. De todas formas, if you have decided to start your own business you...
A new start after 60: ‘I pitied women who travelled alone – then I tried it and found true joy’
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The Christmas after her husband died, Charlotte Simpson went on holiday with her daughter. In their tour group to Morocco were two women who travelled alone. “I felt sorry for them,” Simpson says, risa. “It seemed...
Gareth Bale hopes fresh start at Real Madrid proves boost for Wales
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Gareth Bale said he was reaping the rewards of a better environment at Real Madrid after featuring prominently under Carlo Ancelotti in the buildup to Wales’s World Cup qualifiers. Wales play Belarus in Russia on Sund...
A new start after 60: ‘Exercise is my lifeblood – so I decided to run my first marathon at 74’
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Rajinder Singh was five when he learned to run. While his father hand-cut the grass to feed their buffalo, in the village of Devidaspura in Punjab, Singh sat on a nice clean sheet, so the ants didn’t bite, and watched...
China’s children start first day schooled in ‘Xi Jinping thought’
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Chinese pupils returned to school with new textbooks peppered with “Xi Jinping thought”, as the Communist party aims to extend his personality cult to children as young as seven and rear a new generation of patriots. ...
Son Heung-min downs Watford and maintains Tottenham’s perfect start
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Nine points; three clean sheets; Harry Kane staying put; top of the table. Had you offered that a fortnight ago to the 60,000 supporters streaming through the turnstiles on Sunday, they would have snapped your hand of...
A new start after 60: ‘I always dreamed of being a writer – and published my first novel at 70’
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When Anne Youngson’s agent told her a publisher had made an offer for her first novel, she was worried. "Dije: ‘Don’t they want to meet me?’ I was convinced that when they discovered how old I was, their whole attit...
Afganistán podría empezar a quedarse sin alimentos en septiembre, ONU advierte
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Las agencias de la ONU advirtieron sobre la escasez de alimentos en Afganistán ya en septiembre sin financiación de ayuda urgente., a medida que surgieron suministros de primeros auxilios, incluyendo equipo quirúrgico y kits de desnutrición severa, se atascaron debido a ....
Labour of love: a Victorian workhouse gets a fresh start
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As Victorian workhouses go, St Clement’s in Bow, east London, is unexpectedly beautiful. A grand ode to Italianate architecture, the building, which was also a former psychiatric hospital, is relishing its newfound re...
The start of the Tokyo Paralympics gives feeling something special is happening
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There’s still something inside me that knows it’s a Games year. Even though I last competed at the 2004 Paralympics in Athens, it’s almost like my body has become attuned to being ready. You wake up and there’s this f...
A new start after 60: ‘I became a trapeze artist at 65’
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When Nikki Kenward was 30, she thought it was time to stop dancing. As a single parent, performance schedules were unforgiving. Y, besides, that was the age at which dancers tended to retire. Ahora, a 67, she has tak...