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Clara Bullock & Nicky PriceBBC News, GloucestershireManpreet PinderManpreet Pinder volunteers as a breastfeeding peer supporter Two mums who struggled to breastfed their babies have said they would have struggled without the help of a peer support group.Manpreet Pinder, who has since trained as a volunteer breastfeeding peer supporter, and her sister, Suki, said without the group they would not have learned how to breastfeed.Ms Pinder, who had her son in 2020, said she found it difficult to breastfeed at first. “Though I loved him from the moment he came into this world, it was really tough,” she said.Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Support…

Sometimes it’s the weirdest combinations that go best together: bacon and ice-cream, pilchards and custard, erm … Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary. But surely no one has thought of putting Silent Hill and Fifa 98 together before now.Billed as “the world’s first online survival horror football game,” Fear FA 98 (pronounced Fear-fa, like Fifa) has you pulling out knives, rusty scissors and syringes, summoning demons and using decapitated heads as the ball, in moves that make the likes of Diego “handball” Maradona and Luis “bitey” Suárez look like angelic stalwarts of the Fifa fair play guide.The bowels of the world…

France’s most devastating wildfire in decades remains active despite being brought under control, officials announced, as firefighting efforts continue with hundreds of personnel.The massive blaze in Aude has scorched more than 17,000 hectares (42,000 acres) – an area larger than Paris – killing one person, injuring another 13 and destroying numerous homes.Approximately 2,000 firefighters remain deployed to combat the flames, which were declared under control on Thursday night.“The fire will not be declared extinguished for several days,” said Christian Pouget, Aude’s prefect. “There is still a lot of work to be done.”Officials have restricted access to the devastated forests until…

When LeBron James signed with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2018, it had been five years since the franchise’s last NBA postseason appearance, a drought as antithetical as it gets for a team that before that dry spell had missed the playoffs only five times in its 65-year existence.Now, five years removed from its most recent NBA championship — when James was named Finals MVP and lifted L.A. over the Miami Heat in six games — Luka Doncic signed a three-year, $165 million maximum contract extension on Saturday. Whereas James was tasked with restoring respectability to the league’s glamour outfit,…

The announcement marks the latest restriction imposed by the Trump administration on travellers from Africa.The United States has announced a pause on all routine visa applications for citizens of Zimbabwe.The State Department said in a statement on Thursday that the US embassy in Zimbabwe would pause all routine visa services starting from Friday “while we address concerns with the Government of Zimbabwe”.The embassy described the measure as temporary and part of the Trump administration’s efforts to “prevent visa overstay and misuse”.Most diplomatic and official visas would be exempt from the pause, the US said.The US has enforced new travel restrictions…

“The heat keeps rising. People grow distant, in curious kinds of solitude. This is where Jonah (28) provides comfort for strangers. But when he finds himself in the role of the father for 9-year-old Nika, his life starts to unravel.” Welcome to the world of Don’t Let the Sun, the first fiction feature from Swiss documentary filmmaker Jacqueline Zünd (Where We Belong, Almost There, Goodnight Nobody), a cinematic contemplation of how external factors, namely climate change, could affect and shape our inner worlds. Written by Zünd and Arne Kohlweyer, with Nikolai von Graevenitz as cinematographer, the movie stars Levan Gelbakhiani…

Tanzanians are mourning veteran politician and former Speaker of Parliament Job Ndugai, who became the first to resign from the role after a public fallout with the president.Ndugai, who has served as an MP for the past 25 years, died in Dodoma, Tanzania’s capital, on Wednesday at the age of 62, Speaker Tulia Ackson announced.The cause of death was not given, although local media reported he had been undergoing treatment at a hospital in the city.In a statement, President Samia Suluhu Hassan has said she “received with sorrow” the news of Ndugai’s death, and has sent condolences to his family…

  Gauteng Health Assures Medicine Availability The Gauteng Health Department has assured that public health facilities in the province continue to have consistent access to medicines, despite global supply challenges, reports EWN. This comes after the Democratic Alliance raised concerns about delays at the medical supply depot, claiming patients were waiting long periods for prescriptions. The department dismissed the claims as misleading and said no facility has reported ongoing shortages. Spokesperson Motalatale Modiba said that Gauteng leads the country in medicine availability, with hospitals averaging 95% for all formulary medicines and 98% for essential ones. Four in Meyiwa Murder Trial…

A sex toy was thrown onto the court in the closing seconds of the Atlanta Dream’s 86-65 victory over the Chicago Sky on Thursday night, the latest such incident at a WNBA game.Sex toys also were thrown on court during games in Atlanta on 29 July Chicago on Friday and Los Angeles on Tuesday. Police said a second toy was thrown at the game in Atlanta, but it’s unclear if that one reached the court.A man was arrested Saturday in College Park, Georgia, after he was accused of throwing a sex toy onto the court during the Dream’s 29 July…

As a certified sleep science coach and mattress tester of five years, I’m no stranger to soothing noises being part of many people’s sleep hygiene arsenal. For some, the perfect soundtrack might be white noise. For others, it could be a different color entirely—sometimes streamed on their phone, but often courtesy of a sound machine. If your sound machine or app offers a variety of different colored sounds, how might you know what they mean, or which might be best for your brain?How Noise Is “Color-Coded”Let’s get our Sheldon Cooper on for a minute and establish why certain noises are…