Adelaide United player Josh Cavallo has come out as gay, becoming the only current male professional footballer in the world to do so.
The 21-year-old wrote on social media that he was “ready to speak about something personal that I’m finally comfortable to talk about in my life”.
“I’m a footballer and I’m gay,” the midfielder said in an accompanying video.
“All I want to do is play football and be treated equally.” More
A plaque has been unveiled commemorating Britain’s first black train driver.
Jamaican-born Wilston Samuel Jackson began maintaining trains shortly after moving to London in 1952, and became a driver 10 years later.
He had a long and successful career on the railway, including driving the famous Flying Scotsman locomotive.
At the unveiling at King’s Cross station, Mr Jackson’s daughter said he “dedicated his life to the railway”.
“He was never late or missed a day, and he was so proud of his work, despite the many challenges he faced,” Polly Jackson said.
“Today was a fitting tribute to his life and career.” More
The first new sickle-cell treatment in 20 years will help keep thousands of people out of hospital over the next three years, NHS England has said.
Sickle-cell disease is incurable and affects 15,000 people in the UK.
And the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence said the hope of reducing health inequalities for black people, who are predominantly affected and often have poorer health to start with, made the drug worth recommending.
It called it “an innovative treatment”. More