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Coleen bust-up all write for class

MY FIGHT TO JOIN GUARDS

- By OLIVER PRITCHARD In Mob Simba, Kenya oliver.pritchard@dailystar.co.uk

A POLITICS lecturer is using the feud between WAGs Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy as a guide for students.

Dr Richard Johnson reckons his analysis of the bust-up will show his postgradua­te class how to write the perfect dissertati­on.

Coleen, 33, outed Rebekah, 37, for allegedly selling stories about her to the newspapers.

It came after she blocked all users apart from Rebekah’s account from being able to see her Instagram posts. Then she posted false informatio­n to see if it made its way into the press.

Dr Johnson, of the University of Strathclyd­e, broke the dispute down into a series of headings.

He wrote: “A concise problem: Leaked private stories. Why it matters: Without permission or knowledge. Preliminar­y observatio­ns: Suspicion.”

His analysis closed: “End with most concise and clear conclusion possible on the basis of available data: It’s… Rebekah Vardy’s account.” A WOMAN has her heart set on becoming one of the Army’s first female infantry soldiers.

Francine-Marie Woolf, left, joined the Royal Engineers eight years ago and is currently working as a clerk with the 1st Battalion the Scots Guards in Kenya.

Speaking while taking part in a live fire training mission, the 24-year-old said she plans on becoming one of the first women to complete the infantry’s gruelling 24week selection course.

She said: “I will be one of the first women in the Guards.

“I am just trying to make myself proud and trying something different to show that a 5ft 2in Jewish girl did it.

“There are so many women who could do it and I would be an ambassador for them.”

Last October the Army opened all roles – including frontline ones – to women.

In March, an unnamed woman completed infantry training after several years in the military.

It includes the 16-week Section Commanders Battle Course in Brecon, Powys.

During the course, soldiers must complete an eight-mile march within two hours wearing full combat equipment and carrying a rifle – totalling an extra 25kg.

The second eight weeks consists of a tactical phase, where soldiers learn how to fight as an infantry commander.

This includes leadership, fitness and robustness before a final tactical exercise.

Colonel Paul “Shove” Gilby, the commanding officer of the British Army Training Unit in Kenya, welcomed Ms Woolf’s ambition.

He said: “I see no barriers. They are a Queen’s soldier and the opportunit­ies now are open to anybody who wishes to step forward to seize all the opportunit­ies.

“All doors are open so if individual pushes themselves ward we will embrace them.

“We will help them and we will take them forward and that doesn’t matter colour, creed, background, sexual orientatio­n or gender.

“I see a soldier. They are paid to be soldiers and everything else is irrelevant other than the fact that we should fully embrace them.” that forCpl Sam Kavanaugh from 2nd Battalion Princess of Wales Royal Regiment, left and right. Centre, Soldier checks a mock IED

 ??  ?? ON PATROL: DANGER: Checking an IED
ON PATROL: DANGER: Checking an IED
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CUNNING: Rooney

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