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A FOOTBALL supporter received a surprise visit from a sporting hero when he dropped in to say ‘hello’ after hearing she was a fan. Middlesbrough manager Neil Warnock made special trip to Appleton Wiske when he learned Yvonne Hills, who works at the local store and Post Office, had said she would like to meet him. The Boro boss confided in journalists that he had recently found himself in a picturesque North Yorkshire parish he did not know when he got lost while out cycling. Scott Wilson, the Northern Echo’s Chief Sports Writer, recognised it as Appleton Wiske as he lives there and told him next time he should visit the local shop.
The NRL says yes. The Premierâs office says no. Nobody is saying anything publicly, and if they are theyâre doing a very good job of not answering the question.
Either way, no matter which way itâs spun, the decision from Berejiklian on Sunday to kill any thought of Fuller joining the commission is an extraordinary embarrassment for the NRL and chairman Peter Vâlandys.
Just hours after the story broke last Thursday morning about Vâlandys approaching Fuller to come onto the board, the NRL was backgrounding reporters that Berejiklian had given her tacit approval.
When I interviewed Fuller at lunchtime that day, he left me with the impression the job was his to take if he wanted it, although admitted there was a âprocessâ that needed to be completed over the next â48 hoursâ.
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If you have the slightest curiosity about the millions of species with which we share the planet, Simon Barnes’s delightful new book will satisfy and whet it in equal measure. Picking out a hundred from these millions (a selection that ranges from gorillas to earthworms), Barnes provides a crisp, evocative history of each creature – and even better, of humanity’s relationship to it: real and symbolic.
Lions, for instance, have been part of human life from the dawn of our species, he writes, drawing evocatively on a pair of footprints from Tanzania’s Laetoli Gorge, possibly made by some adult hominid parent escorting a child to safety some 3.6 million years ago.