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Owen Farrell’s family life – meet his private wife and incredibly famous family

Owen Farrell’s family life – meet his private wife and incredibly famous family

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Owen Farrell will no doubt be cheering on the England Rugby squad as they take on South Africa on Saturday. Despite having previously captained the team, the 31-year-old is unable to play in the squad due to his signing with French club Racing 92. Owen is a legend in the England squad, having previously captained the team and he currently ranks as the highest point scorer in their history. It’s no surprise that the sportsman was able to claim these accolades, as the father-of-two has quite the sporting pedigree with many members of his family having been active in the game. You may also likeWATCH: Relive the time the Princess of Wales showed off her rugby skills Although he’s one of England’s most recognisable players, the star shies away from the public sphere, preferring to keep most of his personal life out of the spotlight, including his wife Georgie Lyon and their two children. Here’s all you need to know about Owen’s family life… Wife Georgie and children Owen married his wife Georgie in July 2018, with …

The students protesting in Dublin are on the right side of history – and they know it | Owen Jones

The students protesting in Dublin are on the right side of history – and they know it | Owen Jones

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Who tends to get the big foreign policy calls right: student protesters, or their detractors? Answering this question, it turns out, is useful if you don’t want to end up judged poorly by history. Student protesters were vilified when they stood against the Vietnam war, yet now, who would have wanted to be on the side that denigrated them variously as naive, dupes and extremists? How should we look back at the students suspended after walking out of lessons in protest at the impending war in Iraq in 2003? Today we might say they come off looking pretty good, having had far more foresight than the seasoned politicians and ageing media commentators who cheered that particular cataclysm on back then. That legacy loomed large on Wednesday in a courtyard at Trinity College Dublin, filled with students waving Palestinian flags alongside the Irish tricolour, as the triumphant student union president, László Molnárfi, told them their protests would succeed in Ireland, the US and across the world “because our cause is right”. The students were jubilant, because …

Meet Rob Owen: overweight, millionaire gambler and sport’s unlikeliest coach | Squash

Meet Rob Owen: overweight, millionaire gambler and sport’s unlikeliest coach | Squash

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Rob Owen’s wife, Alison, sits down in the kitchen and succinctly reflects on 25 years of marriage, oblivious to the TV behind her silently showing endless horse racing replays. “Stressful,” she concludes, before laughing at the acerbity of her summary. A rare hush has briefly descended while the indefatigable Owen has his picture taken in a neighbouring room, where he can faintly be heard amiably discussing which props to include in each shot. Alarmingly forthright when he deems it necessary, Owen is also unceasingly hospitable, mystified by the photographer continually declining the offer of a hot drink in exchange for his troubles. Few houses better reflect their occupant than the one cultivated by Owen, the gregarious yet rebellious professional gambler unexpectedly tasked with resurrecting England’s squash glory for the sport’s Olympic debut in four years’ time: a beautiful West Midlands home from which he has made his millions, routinely locking himself away for 12-hour stints betting on sporting action from Wincanton, Wentworth or the Wankhede Stadium. Rob and his Tardis at his home in the …

What To Do If You’re Sick And Tired Of Having Failed Relationships | Andrea Owen

What To Do If You’re Sick And Tired Of Having Failed Relationships | Andrea Owen

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I was lying in a heap on my bedroom floor, crying my eyes out. I had just found out my boyfriend had lied to me, cheated on me, conned me out of thousands of dollars, and then dumped me. Right before that, I had been through a horrible divorce in which my husband had also lied and cheated on me. Over and over again, I wondered why I was having this pattern. Why did I end up in these relationships that were essentially the same? I asked my therapist, “Am I just destined for this? Does anyone live happily ever after? Why doesn’t the relationship advice I read tell me what to do?” After I peeled myself off the ground that day, I made an important decision: To take a good, hard look at my life, my patterns, and what I was responsible for. RELATED: How Your Failed Relationship Is Actually A Good Thing Here’s what to do if you’re sick and tired of having failed relationships: 1. Think about how you feel about yourself …

Natalie Elphicke is a hard-right Tory. Her defection sums up Labour’s contempt for progressive voters | Owen Jones

Natalie Elphicke is a hard-right Tory. Her defection sums up Labour’s contempt for progressive voters | Owen Jones

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Siri, show me a hollow victory. It is easy to imagine the glee felt by Keir Starmer’s advisers when Natalie Elphicke MP let them know she was minded to defect from the Tories to Labour. After all, nobody can accuse Dover’s parliamentary representative of being a Tory wet. If she hasn’t passed over your radar before, and you’re trying to place her politically, the better-known Jacob Rees-Mogg or Priti Patel would not be unfair comparisons. If Elphicke – Elphicke! – wants a spot in Labour’s tent, then nobody can accuse Starmer of harbouring some secret lefty agenda! Yes, the received wisdom would be that a political party welcoming defections from its chief rival has a strong hand. It shows the game is truly up for its opponents. It should, in fact, be seen as a weakness in a democracy, where the difference between two main political parties has become so narrow that its representatives can glide between the two. But even if you disagree with that, Elphicke’s defection is in a completely different category. This …

Natalie Elphicke is a hard-right Tory. Her defection sums up Labour’s contempt for progressive voters | Owen Jones

Natalie Elphicke is a hard-right Tory. Her defection sums up Labour’s contempt for progressive voters | Owen Jones

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Siri, show me a hollow victory. It is easy to imagine the glee felt by Keir Starmer’s advisers when Natalie Elphicke MP let them know she was minded to defect from the Tories to Labour. After all, nobody can accuse Dover’s parliamentary representative of being a Tory wet. If she hasn’t passed over your radar before, and you’re trying to place her politically, the better-known Jacob Rees-Mogg or Priti Patel would not be unfair comparisons. If Elphicke – Elphicke! – wants a spot in Labour’s tent, then nobody can accuse Starmer of harbouring some secret lefty agenda! Yes, the received wisdom would be that a political party welcoming defections from its chief rival has a strong hand. It shows the game is truly up for its opponents. It should, in fact, be seen as a weakness in a democracy, where the difference between two main political parties has become so narrow that its representatives can glide between the two. But even if you disagree with that, Elphicke’s defection is in a completely different category. This …

Reuben Owen admits he’s ‘been incredibly skint’ and shares ‘expectations’ at Ravenseat

Reuben Owen admits he’s ‘been incredibly skint’ and shares ‘expectations’ at Ravenseat

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Reuben Owen opened up about his struggles with working life as he admitted he had been ‘skint a lot’ on his new Channel 5 show. The second episode of his programme Life in the Dales also saw Reuben discuss his life growing up on Ravenseat farm with his parents Amanda and Clive. He revealed they had ‘expected’ their kids to do ‘plenty of work’ as he showed viewers where his work ethic had come from. As he plans to expand his bigger fleet, Reuben candidly told viewers: “It’s been hard for me to start my own business, been incredibly skint a lot of times. “We have breakdowns now it costs me five and a bit thousand quid. If that had been when I started that would have been the end of it. Read more Reuben Owen’s girlfriend Sarah shares plans for new career away from his business He added: “It’s not a walk in the park and it still isn’t a walk in the park. But I love doing it.” He continued: “When I was …

Oxfordshire’s Owen Mumford targets net zero by 2045 with independent approval

Oxfordshire’s Owen Mumford targets net zero by 2045 with independent approval

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The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has approved the near-team emissions reduction targets of medical manufacturer Owen Mumford. The Oxfordshire firm has committed to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the value chain by 2045. It’s also pledged to reduce absolute scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG emissions 42 per cent by 2030, starting from the 2022 financial year. Scope 1 encompasses direct GHG emissions from sources either owned or controlled by an organisation. Scope 2 includes indirect GHG emissions from the generation of electricity, heat, or steam purchased and consumed by an organisation. Scope 3 stretches to all other indirect GHG emissions throughout the value chain, including the transportation of goods, extraction and production of purchased goods and materials. Downstream, this also accounts for the use and disposal of products sold by an organisation. Achieving net zero emissions by 2045 will put Owen Mumford five years ahead of the UK government’s 2050 target. As a manufacturer and distributor of mostly single-use medical devices, the company has taken a holistic approach to sustainability. …

Never mind stop the boats: Sunak is using fear to build a life raft for himself. But the people will stop him | Owen Jones

Never mind stop the boats: Sunak is using fear to build a life raft for himself. But the people will stop him | Owen Jones

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Laws that are unjust will inevitably be broken. Here is a basic reading of our history, and indeed how numerous rights and freedoms were secured in the first place. Ruled as we are by a desperate man lacking a moral compass, our sinking government has brought forward plans to detain asylum seekers across the UK in preparation for their deportation to Rwanda. After both the European court of human rights and the supreme court declared the government’s scheme unlawful – not least because Paul Kagame’s authoritarian regime could plausibly deport them to the country from which they fled – the government railroaded through legislation, absurdly declaring Rwanda to be safe. Here is the very definition of a law to be disrespected: one drawn up to override the courts and thus the separation of powers, to turn a lie into a legal fact, in support of an unworkable and immoral scheme that imposes pain on the traumatised purely to bolster a prime minister’s imploding administration. Civil disobedience will take many forms. Asylum seekers will simply avoid …