Search for woman after car discovered
POLICE are urgently searching for a missing woman whose car has been found at a Northumberland beach.
Mary Fuller, 63, was last seen at her home in Branxton, near the Scottish Borders, at around 5pm on Saturday. On Sunday afternoon, police found her bronze Mitsubishi Eclipse at Cocklawburn beach in Berwick-Upon-Tweed.
Mary is described as white, of slight build with grey short hair. She was last seen wearing a green fleece waist coat, green trousers and boots. Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 101 quoting reference 1218912. SHOLA Ameobi has thrown his support behind Raheem Sterling and revealed he suffered racist abuse as a player.
The issue of discrimination against black players has once again come to the fore after TV cameras showed Chelsea fans hurling abuse at the Manchester City winger on Saturday.
The Metropolitan Police are investigating allegations one of the men captured on TV cameras racially abused Sterling.
The 24-year-old England international responded by accusing newspapers of fuelling racism against young black players.
Speaking at the opening of a new Bobby Robson Foundation-funded treatment room at the Freeman Hospital, the former Newcastle United striker opened up about his own experiences.
Asked if he endured racist abuse in his time as a professional, he said: “Yeah, it’s something I experienced early on in my career. Obviously we’ve come a long way in terms of trying to deal with this but it’s something that will never go away unfortunately because it’s part of society.”
He added: “I certainly experienced it while playing for England under-21s aboard more than domestically.”
Asked if he was ever racially abused at St James’ Park, he said: “Not while I was playing, no, that’s not something I experienced but I did in other places.”
He praised efforts of anti-racism groups working in the the game but said a wider change in society is needed.
“It’s ignorance that people have and it’s one of those things that we need to continue to work at, making people understand that inclusion is the only way forward. “People from different backgrounds and nationalities, it doesn’t matter where you’re from, we’re all just trying to enjoy the sport, that’s universal. I think the fact that we’re speaking about it again is a shame but it just shows how much we have to do to continue the fight against discrimination.” Sterling appeared to laugh off the incident in the first half of the Stamford Bridge clash when Chelsea fans could be seen leaning over advertising hoardings and shouting at him as he collected the ball nearby. But in an Instagram post on Sunday Sterling accused newspapers of helping to “fuel racism” and “aggressive behaviour”. The Professional Footballers’ Association has back the Man City player, saying the “targeting” he receives in the press “emboldens racist rhetoric”.
Speaking about Sterling, Ameobi said: “It would be easy for him to just react to what’s happened to him which you would understand but the fact he’s used that as platform to actually show what is a wider issue, not just in sport but in culture and people’s day to day lives, it’s very commendable. He’s taken this and used it as a platform to speak out and try and get people to talk and change something that isn’t very nice and hopefully have something positive come out of it.”