First female snooker 147
Stranger drives breakdown couple 200 miles in dash to dying mother’s bedside
FEAT Nutcharut clears table A TEENAGE student is believed to be the first woman to score a maximum 147 break in snooker.
Cameras showed icecool Nutcharut Wongharuthai, 19, clearing the table then jumping up and down in celebration.
She said: “It felt excellent and I’m still feeling really good about it. I hope there will be many more.”
World Women’s Snooker said it appeared her feat in Bangkok was the first maximum by a woman. Dean did not hesitate to help Sharleen and Ron helped by Dean RON GILLIES ON GOOD SAMARITAN DEAN MOORE
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A GOOD Samaritan made a 400mile round trip to take a stranger to see her dying mum after stopping to help at a roadside breakdown.
Kind-hearted Dean Moore, 40, stopped for Sharleen Gillies and husband Ron after they had a minor accident while driving to be with Sharleen’s mum Shirley in her final moments.
The couple knew Shirley, 81, did not have long to live and were horrified when insurers said they might have to wait three hours to be taken to a train station to continue their journey.
When dad-of-one Dean heard that, he insisted on driving them himself.
Sharleen, 57, and Ron, 76, had already driven 130 miles from their home in Edinburgh when they broke down on the A19 in Stockton-on-Tees, Co Durham – but still had 200 miles to go to reach Shirley in Leverington, Cambs.
That did not deter Dean – and he would not even accept payment for the seven-hour round trip.
The Nissan worker, of North Ormesby, Teesside, said: “The thing that needed to be sorted was to get to Cambridge. It’s the last time they’d see the mam. I was just trying to be a decent human because so many people drove past.”
His selfless act meant Sharleen was able to hold her mother’s hand one last time as she lost her battle with cancer.
Ron, a retired company treasurer, said: “Words cannot express our gratitude. Given world events in 2019, it puts life into perspective. My mother-in-law died the next morning. I’m not sure we would have seen her [without Dean’s help].”
Given world events this year it really puts things in perspective