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Fighting to keep fit for as long as possible. Westway club has been Training Boxers for three decades in scarborough, but this is a new group of fighters facing a different kind of battle. Everyone here has parkinsons. Its a heavyweight opponent, but theyre slowing down its progress through boxing. You start to learn your balance quite early on. You get the coordination and the strength builds up. Of course, once you can do that, you can punch harder. So i think it affects all of those things. And theyre very important because what parkinsons does is take away the ability of the mind to control the body, basically. And so you need to find new ways of doing it. Feet, hands. We havent recreated the wheel, were just doing boxing training. I think its the rhythm. Its got everybody strong, everyones improved. My granddad had had parkinsons, and through my training, through boxing, id seen other clubs and people doing similar things. A ....
but a necessity for the safety and prosperity of the british people in the decades ahead. the police officer accused of the kidnap and murder of sarah everard is due to go on trial in late october. and coming up scotland s first minister nicola sturgeon is to set out a timeline for the easing of lockdown in scotland. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. afterfour weeks in hospital, the duke of edinburgh has been discharged and has returned to windsor castle. prince philip was admitted to king edward vii s hospital in central london on february 16th after feeling unwell. the duke, who s 99, later underwent a successful procedure for a pre existing heart condition at another london hospital. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell reports. shielded by a screen, a patient, evidently in a wheelchair, was brought out from the king edward vii hospital to a waiting vehicle. moments later, the vehicle left with the duke of edinburgh safely aboard, on his way home to wind ....