From the Peak District to Essex via North Wales, they are images bathed in quality. They show delicately frosted vegetation, autumnal canals, cascading rivers and twisted old trees 

The Japanese practice of ‘forest bathing’ – which involves walking through a forest at a gentle pace for two hours or more – is said to relieve anxiety.

If that’s the case, then starring at these amazing pictures of woodland scenes in England and Wales might get you half way there.

They are all category winners and shortlisted pictures from past Landscape Photographer of the Year competitions.

This year’s contest is now accepting entries, until July 7. And so conversely, for would-be entrants, looking at these pictures might actually raise stress levels, because they show how tough the competition is likely to be.

Either way, they’re captivating.

From the Peak District to Essex via North Wales, they are images bathed in quality. 

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Lizzie Shepherd’s skills are in no doubt. This is her superb shot of Guisecliff, Nidderdale, in North Yorkshire

The Grand Union Canal in Solihull, West Midlands – a belt-and-braces name, but here looking other-worldly

Woodland at Aymestrey, North Herefordshire, takes on an ethereal glow in this image by Rob Scamp

The River Conwy flowing through Fairy Glen, near Betws-y-Coed, North Wales – captured by Paul Bullen

A wonderful pathway in Ashridge, Hertfordshire, called Lady’s Walk, captured by Damian Ward

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The Greek team says the technique enabled women to release eggs and re-start their periods, according to an article published by the Daily Mail.

One woman began menstruating even after a five-year hiatus, New Scientist reports.

‘[The treatment] offers a window of hope that menopausal women will be able to get pregnant using their own genetic material,’ Konstantinos Sfakianoudis, a gynaecologist at the Greek fertility clinic Genesis Athens, told the magazine.

The Greek team say the technique enabled women to release eggs and re-start their periods.

The new technique involves platelet-rich plasma (PRP) – a concentrated mix of substances in the blood that help cells grow – and may stimulate tissue regeneration.

Dr Sfakianoudis and his team found PRP also seems to rejuvenate older ovaries.

When they injected it into the ovaries of menopausal women, they claim it restarted their menstrual cycles, and enabled them to collect and fertilise the eggs that were released.

He told New Scientist: ‘I had a patient whose menopause had established five years ago, at the age of 40.

‘Six months after the team injected PRP into her ovaries, she experienced her first period since menopause.’

To date, his team has collected three eggs from the patient – two which have been successfully fertilised two using her husband’s sperm.

Once there are three, they will be implanted into her womb. Until then, the other two remain on ice.

The technique can be manipulated in other ways, too.

After injecting PRP into the uteruses of six women who had had multiple miscarriages and failed IVF attempts, three became pregnant through IVF – and are now in their second trimester.

If the treatment continues to show promise, it could potentially allow older women and those who have suffered premature menopause to conceive.

‘It is potentially quite exciting,” says Roger Sturmey at Hull York Medical School in the UK. “But it also opens up ethical questions over what the upper age limit of mothers should be.’

If the treatment continues to show promise, it could potentially allow older women and those who have suffered premature menopause to conceive.

Most women are born with an average of two million eggs, but every month, they lose up to 1,500 eggs.

By the time she is 30, the average woman has 70,000 eggs remaining, which drops to 30,000 when she is 35 and 25,000 when she is 37.5.
Figures released last week revealed the fertility rate for women aged 40 and over has risen above that for the under-20s for the first time since 1947.

The report, from the Office for National Statistics for England and Wales, found there were 15.2 live births per 1,000 women aged 40 and over in 2015.

This is compared to 14.5 for those aged under 20.

In 1981, the rate was 4.9 for women aged 40 and over compared to 28.1 for women under 20.

Meanwhile other women experience the agony of premature menopause.

In the UK, the average age of menopause is 51, and comes when a woman’s natural supply of oestrogen dwindles and her ovaries run out of eggs.

But while most women first experience menopause symptoms in their late 40s and early 50s, a lot of women do get them much earlier.

One study estimated that as many as one in 20 women goes through early menopause.

If a woman is under 40, it’s called premature menopause; for those between 40 and 45, it’s referred to as early-onset menopause.

HOW THE TECHNIQUE WORKS 

The new treatment pioneered by the Greek scientists involves platelet-rich plasma (PRP).

This is a concentrated mix of substances in the blood that help cells grow – and may stimulate tissue regeneration.

Dr Sfakianoudis and his team found PRP also seems to rejuvenate older ovaries.

When they injected PRP into the ovaries of menopausal women, the claim it restarted their menstrual cycles, and enabled them to collect and fertilise the eggs that were released.

He told New Scientist: ‘I had a patient whose menopause had established five years ago, at the age of 40. Six months after the team injected PRP into her ovaries, she experienced her first period since menopause.’

To date, his team has collected three eggs from the patient – two which have been successfully fertilised two using her husband’s sperm.

Figures released last week revealed the fertility rate for women aged 40 and over has risen above that for the under-20s for the first time since 1947.

The report, from the Office for National Statistics for England and Wales, found there were 15.2 live births per 1,000 women aged 40 and over in 2015.

This is compared to 14.5 for those aged under 20.

In 1981, the rate was 4.9 for women aged 40 and over compared to 28.1 for women under 20.

Meanwhile other women experience the agony of premature menopause.

In the UK, the average age of menopause is 51, and comes when a woman’s natural supply of oestrogen dwindles and her ovaries run out of eggs.

But while most women first experience menopause symptoms in their late 40s and early 50s, a lot of women do get them much earlier.

One study estimated that as many as one in 20 women goes through early menopause.

If a woman is under 40, it’s called premature menopause; for those between 40 and 45, it’s referred to as early-onset menopause.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3699710/Scientists-REVERSE-menopause-Women-d-not-period-five-years-menstuating-ovaries-rejuvenated.html#v-4193649519001

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The 90 minutes ended with both the teams level on 1-1, Lewandowski scoring in the 2nd minute for the Polish and Renato Sanches equalising for the Portuguese in the 33^rd minute.

The game was even level after extra time and it had to be settled in a penalty shoot-out.

Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo led the team in the penalties as Rui Patricio saved Jakub Blaszczykowski’s shot and Ricardo Quaresma scored the deciding penalty for Portugal to give his team a 5-3 win.

The star man was not the usual suspect-Cristiano Ronaldo but rather 18-year-old Renato Sanches who was starting his first game for Portugal.

Sanches scored with a spectacular shot from distance to cancel out Robert Lewandowski‘s early goal for Poland, and then converted his penalty in the shoot-out.

Renato Sanches (R) celebrates after s coring against Poland at Euro 2016.Source AFP

Portugal coach Fernando Santos was pleased by the performance of the teenager stressing that Sanches’ task was to change things.

“Things weren’t going our way and I called Renato to change something. and we were lucky enough to have him score,” Santos said.

“He played a great game. He is still growing and has a lot to offer. He will be a better player in the future.” He added.

Sanches became the youngest player to score in a knockout round at the continental competition at 18 years and 316 days old.

Portugal reached the semifinals of the football tournament without winning any of their matches in regular time while Poland saw their luck of winning a penalty shoot-out in the round-of-16 run out.

Portugal will play the winner between Belgium or Wales in Lyon on July 6.

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Congrats to @AussieDiamonds! 3rd Netball World Cup, beating NZ in front of a record crowd! @netballworldcup pic.twitter.com/JpDYwMFJLf

— ConsuladoEspañaMelb (@ConsuladoEspMel) August 16, 2015

The Silver Ferns had come into the final unbeaten after a shock win over Australia in the group stages, but a nine-goal deficit from the first quarter left New Zealand unable to catch the Commonwealth champions.

Australian goal attack Natalie Medhurst stressed how it was their plan to hit New Zealand hard and exert pressure from start to win the game;

“We really wanted to set it up in that first quarter and intensity was what we addressed. We really needed to hit them hard and really put that pressure on them from the start,” said Medhurst.

Australia now holds the Big Two titles, the Commonwealth Games and World Cup, concurrently, for the first time since 1998/99. Australia Coach Lisa Alexander has been reappointed for another four years after guiding the Australian diamonds to the 2015 Netball world cup trophy.

New Zealand coach Wai Taumaunu had earlier indicated that a World Cup final is totally different from a Test match because you can’t wake up the next day and play it all over again. Taumaunu though failed to guide the Silver Ferns to the victory and will have to wait for the Liverpool 2019 Netball World cup.

Meanwhile England beat Jamaica 66-44 to take bronze as they finished third in the Netball World Cup.

Wales ended the competition in seventh after winning their play-off 64-41 against Uganda to claim their best finish at a World Cup since 1991 – when it was also hosted in Sydney.

Scotland ended the tournament 12th after losing their 11th-place play-off 51-41 against Fiji.

South Africa narrowly beat Malawi 48-46 to secure fifth spot, while Trinidad and Tobago ended ninth after beating Samoa 64-51.

Meanwhile Barbados ended 13th with a 53-38 win over Zambia and Sri Lanka finished last after losing 59-32 to Singapore.

Read more at ncw2015

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she cranes player in action against wales during the final group D game at the AllPhones Arena.

The She Cranes put up an exciting performance today against Wales at the on-going Netball World cup in Australia though it was not enough to earn them a win.

The match was a highly contested one with the She cranes eventually losing out on 49-47 in the dying seconds of the game.

Both sides were undefeated from their earlier two group D games with the she cranes having collected an incredible 74-38 points in the victory against Zambia on day one and 61-40 over Fiji in the later fixture as Wales recorded victories against the same opposition.

It was a thrilling game with end to end action with Uganda recording 85% shooting success rate while wales bettered it with 88% success rate.

The She Cranes still qualifies to the last eight ahead of Fiji and Zambia who finished with two and no point after three games respectively.

Uganda will play in group E alongside New Zealand, Malawi and the runners up in group B where the winner will proceed to play the second in group F that contains Australia, England, South Africa and group D leaders, Wales.

She cranes starting lineup;

Proscovia Peace, Racheal Nanyonga, Halima Nakachwa, Ruth Meeme, Jesca Achan, Stella Oyella,

Subs; Alice Nanteza, Lilian Ajio, Betty Namukasa, Florence Nanyonga, Florence Amono, Harriet Apako

Full Time: UGA 47 – @WelshNetball 49. Shooting: UGA 47/55 (85%) – @WelshNetball 49/56 (88%) #NWC2015 #UGAvWAL

— Netball World Cup (@netballworldcup) August 10, 2015

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The Albicelestes move up from third place and replace Germany for the top spot, the first time in seven years.

Argentina have had steady improvements finishing as runners up in the just concluded Copa America tournament.

Argentina’s Lionel Messi, Carlos Tevez, Gonzalo Higuain and Angel Di Maria react during the Copa America

Meanwhile the new Copa America winners Chile have moved up eight positions, only just missing out on a top-ten ranking at number 11.

New entries in the top ten are Romania (8th, up 4), England (9th, up 6) and Wales (12^th, up to 10^th).

The rankings have been done due to the many matches that have been played: with 26 Copa América matches, 99 qualifying matches for the World Cup or continental tournaments and 88 friendlies with last year’s World Cup matches loosing value.

African Champions, Cote D’Ivoire climbed up from third to second while Algeria still maintained top spot.

2015 AFCON runners up, Ghana climbed from fifth to third, just as Tunisia dropped two places to fourth.

Equatorial Guinea records the biggest move, climbing 69 places from a previous 118 to 49 place and Uganda is now ranked 73 in the world.

full list of men rankings

World champions USA back on top

The USA have reclaimed pole position in the FIFA/Coca-Cola Women’s World Ranking demoting Germany to second place by some distance.

The two heavyweights played each other in the semi-finals in Montreal, with the Americans coming out on top.

full list of women rankings

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