Gjert had no background in athletics, but the former logistics manager poured himself into constructing a gruelling high-mileage programme to turn his seven children into a family band of elite middle-distance contenders. Gjert’s public advice to Jakob after that 1500m gold in Berlin was to celebrate with a glass of warm milk and head straight...
Gjert Ingebrigtsen, the father and former trainer of Norwegian star Jakob Ingebrigtsen, has been cleared of abusing the two-time Olympic champion. In the climax of a trial that has gripped Norway, the court announced that there was insufficient evidence of Jakob’s claims that his father had overseen a childhood of fear and intimidation marked by...
Emily Johnson BBC News, Yorkshire YappApp Firefighters were called to Russell Close, in Heckmondwike, on Sunday A nine-year-old girl and her father have died, and an 11-year-old girl is in a critical condition, following a house fire in West Yorkshire. Emergency services were called to an ongoing fire in Russell Close, Heckmondwike, shortly after 06:10...
I see it every day. Feminist advice for the current regime. Don’t, under any circumstances, have children right now. No matter how the regime tries to bribe you, no matter the social pressure, no matter what the vice president says, no children. I have no argument against this, it’s perfectly sound advice. With patriarchal fascism...
Manchester United midfielder Ella Toone speaks about the death of her father, and how England team-mate and lifelong friend Alessia Russo supported her throughout. READ MORE: ‘I don’t think I grieved, I don’t think I thought it was real’ Season Two of the Tooney and Russo Show drops on BBC Sounds on Friday 30 May,...
Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley BBC News, west of England Richard Mansell said he was “immensely proud” of his daughter for making the team A 16-year-old girl and her dad have made history after becoming the first father-daughter duo to play for their football club. Richard Mansell, 39, plays for Gloucester City AFC’s men’s senior team, having made...
Getty Images Dr Alaa al-Najjar (2nd L) at her husband’s bedside in Nasser hospital The husband of a Palestinian doctor in Gaza whose children were killed in an Israeli strike on Friday remains in critical condition, according to the hospital treating him. Hamdi al-Najjar’s “life remains in danger”, Dr Milena Angelova-Chee, a Bulgarian doctor working...
French police have rescued the father of a cryptocurrency millionaire who had been kidnapped and held for ransom in a Paris suburb. The unnamed man was attacked in broad daylight in central Paris on Thursday. He was bundled into a delivery van by four men wearing balaclavas, police sources told Le Figaro newspaper. French media...
Milwaukee Bucks power forward Giannis Antetokounmpo criticised Tyrese Haliburton’s “disrespectful” father after the pair were involved in a heated exchange following the Indiana Pacers’ series-clinching win. The Pacers booked their spot in the NBA play-off semi-finals with a 119-118 win against the Bucks. Haliburton hit the go-ahead lay-up with 1.3 seconds left on the clock...
The dad of a 14-year-old boy killed in a crash on the M6 has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving. Ryan Liam Morgan, from Morecambe, was killed on 20 April after the Peugeot van in which he was a passenger left the carriageway between junctions 34 and 33 southbound and crashed into a...
Santiago Vanegas BBC News Mundo José Ignacio Bergoglio José Ignacio with his uncle, Jorge Mario To his family, Pope Francis was simply “Jorge Mario” – even during the 12 years that he was pontiff. “When Jorge decided to accept the papacy, he understood his life as he knew it would change forever, and so did...
Austin Metcalf is the teenager who was stabbed in the heart and killed on April 2 at a track meet in Frisco, Texas. The person who stabbed him (and confessed to doing so not long afterwards) is another teen named Karmelo Anthony. Anthony has been charged with first degree murder but was released over the...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation The fragile Gaza ceasefire, which served as a lifeline for Gaza’s health care sector, lasted less than two months before it collapsed under a barrage of Israeli airstrikes. In March, Israel resumed its war on hospitals, with its first strikes targeting the intensive care...
Jake Wallace BBC News, South West Duncan and Alaska Rudall The pair had no previous marathon running experience before taking on the challenge A man and his daughter have raised more than £16,000 for a chemotherapy unit in Devon after his wife received “exceptional care” during her cancer treatment. Duncan Rudall fundraised alongside his daughter...
The ashes of a father which were lost in the post whilst being sent from the US to the UK have been found again. Lisa Barrett, 63, said her sister in Mississippi posted a sample of their dad’s ashes to her home in Doncaster because she had been unable to attend his funeral. The parcel...