During the war Monica Still worked as a nurse at the Victoria Hospital in Lewes Now 73 and single
During the war, Monica Still worked as a nurse at the Victoria Hospital in Lewes Now 73 and single, she lives in Kent. "The start of the war pushed me into deciding whether to be a nurse or go to agricultural college. Soothing fevered brows suddenly seemed far more important than learning to grow cabbages. RUGBY UNION A New Zealand group led by the former All Black coach, John Hart, has unveiled a NZ$60m (£25m) plan to create a "Super Union," according to this morning's New Zealand Herald. The paper said that the Super Union would involve six composite sides from New Zealand and two from Australia, to replace the Super 10 series, which involves South African and Pacific island teams.The scheme would see a weekly round-robin competition and then a finals format in the three months from March next year.Squads of 30 players would be limited by a salary cap, with the competition soaking up about NZ$12m in players' wages each year.The proposal has the backing of New Zealand's pay-TV network Sky Television, whose main shareholders include Time-Warner and the state-owned Television New Zealand.The Herald said Sky would need to link up with an Australian channel to distribute their rugby package and that Channel Seven, which currently has the rights to screen rugby in Australia, would win the major contract. There were a few firm strokes from John Carr before he was lbw trying to play his former Middlesex colleague, Neil Williams, to midwicket.Gatting, meanwhile, had not been looking at ease, showing sluggish footwork and poor timing, and he might have been caught at backward point when on seven. For 24 overs and five balls, his bat made all manner of strange noises before he pulled the last ball before tea to midwicket for four.This transformed him, and after the interval he square-cut, drove and pulled. Weekes made an excellent partner, and played with style and composure to reach his first 50 in the competition and the pair saw Middlesex home Weekes's display won him the gold award..
Jason Pooley may have been a trifle unlucky to have been lbw coming forward and playing no stroke at Ronnie Irani, but in the next over, Mark Ramprakash can have had no complaints when he departed in similar fashion, half-forward to Mark Ilott. The Essex innings ended with an unlikely flourish when Darren Robinson hit 21 off Fraser's last over, but by then it was too late for Essex.Middlesex began their innings badly. They bowled 22 overs between them for 79 runs, and showed that spin can play as important a role as the seam in one-day cricket. Dion Nash was the most expensive of the four seamers, costing 50 runs from his 10 overs.The key bowling, as will often be the case with Middlesex this year, came from the two off-spinners, John Emburey and Weekes. Essex 225-8 Middlesex 228-3 Middlesex win by 7 wicketsAn innings of 93 not out played in two distinct and separate parts by Mike Gatting took Middlesex to a comfortable victory over Essex - their second victory in the qualifying rounds of this year's Benson and Hedges Cup.After batting anxiously through the 25 overs before tea for 24 runs, Gatting began to locate the middle of his bat with a satisfying ease after the interval, and Middlesex won with 4.5 overs to spare. Gatting put on an unbroken 167 with Paul Weekes in 30 overs for the fourth wicket.In spite of some good stroke-play by Paul Prichard, who seems to be thriving on the responsibility of the Essex captaincy, and Nasser Hussain, the possessor of an unusual talent which may remain irritatingly unfulfilled, Essex never looked like reaching a large enough total after being put in to bat.The Middlesex bowling, with Angus Fraser giving them the ideal start when his first seven overs cost only 12 runs, gave little away. Kevin Evans took a competition-best 4 for 19 and Chris Lewis 3 for 11 before an opening stand of 92 between Paul Pollard (52) and Tim Robinson (52) helped Nottinghamshire to a nine-wicket win..
Michael Rae, making his 50th appearance for Ireland, made a fine 73 before he was caught.Minor Counties, dismissed for 70 on Sunday, were bowled out for 114 by Nottinghamshire at Leek. Darren Thomas took 6 for 20 in 47 deliveries as the students were skittled out for 101 in 34.2 overs.Michael Smith's career-best 6 for 39 helped Gloucestershire dismiss Hampshire for 162 at Southampton. A Tony Wright half-century gave Gloucestershire their second win, this time by four wickets.Jamie Hall made 59 and Neil Lenham 49 not out in Sussex's 63-run defeat of Ireland at Hove. But Cullinan, supported by Kim Barnett, gradually took the initiative.Glamorgan made it two wins out of two in the competition when they crushed Combined Universities by 217 runs at Cardiff.David Hemp's 121 off 140 balls helped the home side to their highest total in the competition - 318 for 3. Gold award winner Cullinan hit his century off 110 balls.Had it not been for him, a rejuvenated Scotland side might have pulled off a shock. Cullinan came to the wicket after a stuttering start from his teammates. Both Malcolm Marshall, making his home debut for Scotland, and Ian Stanger, pegged back the Derbyshire openers with some tight bowling.Then Pete Steindl chipped in with the wickets of Adrian Rollins and Chris Adams, both caught behind by David Haggo, in quick succession.
Neil Fairbrother maintained the momentum with a quick 44, despite retiring hurt after being hit on the left thumb. But it was Lloyd who played the decisive knock, in only 73 balls.Elsewhere, Daryll Cullinan's 101 not out dominated Derbyshire's 220 for 6 against Scotland in Glasgow before Devon Malcolm grabbed his second successive four-wicket haul in a 46-run victory. The match aggregate of 630 runs was a Benson and Hedges record - as was Lancashire's total of 318 for a side batting second.Leicestershire were left wondering how the match had slipped away from them. They had looked down and out after Hansie Cronje, their new import from South Africa, had scored 158, the fifth-highest individual contribution during the competition's 24-year history. And with James Whitaker joining him for an equally explosive 88 during a stand of 175, Leicestershire were apparently untouchable.But with the England team-mates, Mike Atherton (71) and John Crawley (89), putting together a stand of 124, Lancashire were always up with the clock. ROUND-UP Graham Lloyd was the hero as Lancashire created Benson and Hedges Cup history at Old Trafford.