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Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield MND stands for motor neurone disease. It is what killed Professor Stephen Hawking and it is what is killing Rob Burrow who, in spite of his short stature,  was a tigerish rugby league player.  He played for England and Great Britain but he spent his entire club career with Leeds RLFC. He is only forty years old but his body and indeed his life are ebbing away because of MND. He can't talk without technical assistance and he is wheelchair bound, requiring hoists for bathing and for getting in and out of bed. He remains in his own home with the support of his angelic wife Lindsey and their three children. One of Rob's teammates at Leeds was the legendary Kevin Sinfield who captained both his club and his country and remains the highest scorer ever in  Superleague history. They were always close friends. Two years ago, realising Rob's dilemma and better understanding what MND does to its victims, Kevin Sinfield was determined to raise a si...

 I studied Akira Kurosawa’s film Ikiru at University soI was intrigued to see how the melancholic Katuzo Ishiguro would recreate it in this much lauded remake. Interestingly the film is set in 1950s as Ikiru was, so from the get go, it had turned the tables on the original which had a great deal to say about the modern Japan. I had been making notes in my head when I was sat with my laptop in the Storyhouse Cafe, sipping a pretentious orange hot chocolate  There are perhaps eighty people in the public space here.  A baby and toddler group has just finished a fairly low key and sweet clap a long to You are my sunshine my only Sunshine as the waitresses weave in and out of the tables mostly filled with people studying or working on line.  Tom Burke  Living as it turned out, is a beautifully crafted and elegant piece of filmmaking which perfectly captures the stuffiness of post war Britain. It centres upon Mr Williams, a tight, self contained w...

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