Two goal hero Patrick Bamford says he should have scored four goals in the win over Ipswich at the Riverside.
The Chelsea-loanee showed his class with two well worked solo goals that demanded class and composure.
While he admits he can be happy with scoring two goals for the first time this season , he will also go home and think about the missed chances.
Looking ahead to Derby, Bamford says Boro would rather play against their promotion rivals than teams scrapping against relegation.
We asked our readers to send in their Mother's Day wishes, and we received a total of 3,938 loving messages.
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The mother of a four-year-old boy who was left on a life support machine after being hit by a car has told of his fight for life.
Mum Katrina Verrill has barely left her youngest son’s bedside since the accident that left him on a life support machine.
Nathaniel Verrill suffered horrific head and internal injuries after being hit by a taxi on Cotswold Avenue, Pallister Park, at about 5.20pm on Sunday in an accident that residents said “shook the street”.
Katrina, 35, explained how, in the blink of an eye, her world was turned upside down after Nathaniel noticed an ice cream van park up on his road.
“He’d just had his tea and he kept saying he wanted an ice cream,” she said, “He’d seen the ice cream van - he probably hadn’t seen an ice cream van for months.
“I told him you’ve already had an ice cream. Then a moment later I thought, ‘what’s going on with that front door?’
“I don’t know what happened outside - I didn’t see the accident. I just ran out and I saw him laid on the floor face down. I could see that his ankle had been hurt so I picked him up and turned him around. I just sat on the floor with him and screamed.
“When he heard me scream he tried to take a breath. One of his arms came up and he looked at me - the look in his eyes - it was like he was saying, ‘Mam I’m dying.’”
Within minutes, emergency services had arrived on the scene and Nathaniel was taken straight to hospital. He was put on a life support machine at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Hospital.
Katrina said: “I just can’t believe the state he was in. The injuries to his head are horrific. My poor baby.
“His little body has been smashed into pieces. He has skull fractures, bleeding on the brain, two collapsed lungs, a hole in his stomach, a damaged liver and spleen and his ear was ripped - it’s horrendous.
“When I saw the scar from his chest to his abdomen from where they had to operate on him, I couldn’t handle that.
“I can’t bare to think that my baby went through that. You can see his little eyes scrunch up in pain. He doesn’t deserve it.”
Nathaniel’s condition was described as critical in the days following the accident.
Katrina, also mum to Carlos, 10, Lennox, eight and Rebecca Mary Morrison, 16, could only watch as her youngest little boy fought for his life.
She said: “I can’t believe how strong he is. How hard it was for him to take that first breath. I don’t think he would have taken it if I hadn’t have taken him up.
“But he’s been through a lot. This happening to my baby makes me feel sick. I’m supposed to protect him.
“I was prepared for the worst but I’ve been told he is going to survive, I’m overwhelmed. The hospital staff have been absolutely amazing. They’ve been caring for him around the clock.
“Because of his injuries, I’ve been told he’s going to have brain damage - it’s going to be a case of taking it day by day - but he’s alive.”
Police are still appealing for the driver of the ice cream van to contact them as he may have valuable information on the circumstances leading up to the collision, or even have had CCTV on board which could help.
Police inquiries into the collision are ongoing and anyone with information who has not yet spoken to police is asked to contact PC Amanda Stokes of the Cleveland and Durham Specialist Operations Unit on the non-emergency number 101 quoting event 38489.
Friends of Nathaniel’s family have set up a gofundme page to raise money to help with Nathaniel’s recovery. To donate visit Nathaniel’s Recovery Fund at http://bit.ly/1G7j0jx .
What's better than a parmo?
One cooked by your mum or nana of course!
That's what one little boy from Lakes Primary School says about one of the people he wants to thank this Mother's Day.
The other on-camera messages from the Redcar pupils are just as cute.
Are any of these clips aimed at you?
Aww!
How cute are these Mother's Day messages?
The nursery children from Lakes Primary School speak to their mums on camera, leading to some hilarious comments.
"I like her to paint with me," says one little girl from the Redcar school. Another says the thing she likes best about her mum is when they play together.
Enjoy.
A UKIP parliamentary candidate has been criticised after he made a comment online suggesting wild storms were “God’s reply” to gay marriage laws.
UKIP accused political rivals of “trawling Facebook” attempting to find material that could embarrass Ted Strike in the run up to the general election, as the post was made in 2013.
Mr Strike, who was selected by Nigel Farage’s party to stand in Stockton South, was forced to take down the post after the party launched an internal investigation.
His post reads: “Britain is being battered by storms yet again, not long after the worst storms in over 100 years, whilst I feel for those affected by these “Acts of God”, is it God’s reply to Cameron’s Coalition Government’s un-Godly change in the law on marriage?”
The post was made in 2013 after the same-sex marriage bill was passed in that July.
The first ceremonies were able to take place last year after the law came into force.
UKIP said the party took action and accused political opponents of attempting to find potentially embarrassing by Mr Strike, who has run for the Christian Party in the same constituency in 2010.
Louise Baldock, Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate for Stockton South, said the post showed Mr Strike had “old-fashioned views”.
She added: “He is expressing out-of-date, out-of-touch and homophobic views.
“These are views from the 19th Century and it isn’t the way a modern parliamentarian who represents a diverse community should be speaking.”
James Wharton, the Conservative MP for Stockton South, said he had found Mr Strike to be a “decent person” but said the UKIP candidate should clarify his comment as soon as possible.
“There are many things I disagree with Ted on and this is a clear and unusual example of that,” he said.
“I am not sure why he felt the need to say such a thing but I’ve always found him a decent person when I’ve met him so I hope he is able to clarify his comments and they are not as first appears.”
A UKIP spokesman said the post was from a long time ago.
He said: “After this posting on Christmas Eve 2013, it was investigated internally and the post was taken down.
“It does seem that there are those that spend more time trawling old Facebook posts rather than campaigning for a better Britain, that is a shame.”
The Sunday Sun attempted to contact Mr Strike directly but he did not return our calls or emails.
Charlotte King should have still been pregnant this Mother’s Day, looking forward to the arrival of her twin boys in May.
Instead, she is grieving for Leo, the baby boy she lost seven weeks ago, while spending every moment possible in the high dependency unit of North Tees Hospital with his twin brother, Oska, who is doing everything he can to make his mum feel better.
“He’s putting on weight really well, he has started to breastfeed and graduated from intensive care last week, so I couldn’t ask him to be doing any more,” says the 26-year-old, who also has a three-year-old son, Dax, with partner, Simon Feasey, 29.
It was on New Year’s Day when Charlotte, who lives in Yarm, realised something was wrong.
“I woke up thinking ‘why is the bed wet?’,” she says. “I came into hospital and they found I’d lost all the water around one of the babies. They weren’t identical twins, so they each had their own sack. I was only 21 weeks pregnant and I was terrified.” Doctors told Charlotte she had an infection which had probably caused one of the sacks to rupture.
“They said there was an 80% chance I would go into labour, but I didn’t, so they said we could go home.”
For the next three weeks, Charlotte spent her time resting, drinking water and eating as healthily as she could, while taking her temperature every four hours and coming into hospital for regular tests and scans.
“I’d been really healthy throughout the pregnancy, but I thought if I could just up my game...” Charlotte says. “We had three weeks of scans where both heartbeats were good. Then I had a scan on a Thursday and we found out there was no water around Leo. It was devastating. I kept thinking ‘how is he going to manage?’
“The midwives were trying to be positive, saying some babies can go on like that for weeks, but Leo didn’t. I went into labour on the Sunday.”
Thankfully Charlotte had called Simon, who is a submariner in the Navy and based in Plymouth, to say he needed to come home. “I don’t know what I would have done if we hadn’t been able to go through it together.”
Leo was born on Monday, January 19 at just 24 weeks and three days.
“I think I only pushed three times and there he was,” she says. “He was rushed straight to intensive care.
“There would have been a chance - albeit a very low one - of survival had he had his waters. They did everything they could. He was just too poorly.”
Tragically, Leo lived for just four hours.
“When they said we could come up to see him, that was the first and last time I saw him properly. I got him out of the incubator and he was left with us - me, Simon and my mum. We all got a chance to say goodbye and I held him while he went.
“Everyone here was so respectful of us and of Leo, allowing us to have that time together and have those moments as a family. I’ll always be grateful for that, and for the photos they took for us. At the time, we couldn’t have taken any, we were too distraught. But they knew how treasured those photos would be.”
Still pregnant with Leo’s twin brother, Charlotte was kept in hospital and placed on strict bed rest in the hope that he would stay where he was for as long as possible to give him the best chance.
“They were born at the same time of the evening, four days apart. It was strange being pregnant for those four days,” says Charlotte. “Leo hadn’t made a sound when he came out. Oska gave out an almighty cry when he was born. It was like he was saying: ‘I’m here!’”
Although the family were able to take comfort in the “honeymoon period” for a couple of days after his arrival, it wasn’t long before Oska, who weighed in at just 1lb 15oz, had the first of many fights on his hands. He had an enlarged PDA - a valve in the heart which normally closes when babies are born; he suffered a bleed on the brain, which is common with pre-term babies; and then he got pneumonia.
“We were told he probably wasn’t going to make it,” says Charlotte. “We were at a point when they said the ventilation he had to be on to keep him alive also had a chance of killing him. How on earth do you deal with that?”
Thankfully for Charlotte, Simon, Dax and their wider family, who Charlotte says have been amazing throughout, Oska, who has Leo as a middle name, has come through everything life has thrown at him. “He’s our little fighter,” says Charlotte, who is looking forward to Simon coming home on leave next month.
“He won’t be able to believe how much Oska has come on. Of course there’s still a long way to go and we won’t know the effects of everything he has been through until he comes home and starts to develop, but at the moment, we’re just thankful for every day and for everything which has kept him with us.”
