Source: www.skysports.com
Woman 'crawled to safety' from railway ledge - Croydon Guardian
Woman 'crawled to safety' from railway ledge
11:37am Wednesday 23rd May 2012 in Wimbledon 
A suicidal woman, who was talked down from a ledge over the railway lines at Wimbledon station, had to crawl to safety while being brought down by firefighters.
Yesterday, at about 3.15pm, trains travelling between Waterloo and Wimbledon were halted after a member of staff raised the alarm.
Firefighters from Wimbledon fire station, who brought the woman to safety using specialist rope line equipment, said the woman had accessed the ledge via a building next to the station.
A spokesman said: “We set up a safety system using our line equipment and we bridged the gap with a ladder to where the casualty was.
“She had jumped across the gap on the walkway, which was about eight to 10 feet wide.
“We estimated it would have been a 30-foot drop down to the railway line.”
After police negotiators talked the woman off the ledge, she had to crawl to safety across the ladder, accompanied by firefighters, who safely led her down to street level.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: “We were called just before 3.30pm to reports of a woman on a ledge at Wimbledon station.
“The woman agreed to come down at 4.50pm.
“She was in her mid-to-late-20s and was taken to a south London hospital where she was being medically assessed.”
All train services through Wimbledon had been stopped for just over an hour until the incident was resolved at 4.20pm.
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Source: www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk
Boris Becker urges Andy Murray to pull out of French Open rather than risk serious injury - Daily Telegraph
Thursday's exhibition is unlikely to push Murray so hard, but the concern must be that this injury has been hanging around for many months. After the Gasquet defeat, he admitted that he had first felt it in December - which suggests that the groin problem that forced him to withdraw from the ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 Arena could have been a related issue.
Murray looked to be back to full fitness for the Australian Open, where the Plexicushion courts suit him better than the sliding movements required by clay. He produced his best performance of the season against Novak Djokovic in the semi-final, eventually losing in five sets.
“Hard courts might seem less forgiving,” says Becker, “but at least you don’t have to rally as much. On clay there is no escape.” And Murray’s results have taken a swift dip since the clay-court season began at Monte Carlo last month, with defeats against Tomas Berdych, Milos Raonic and now Gasquet.
Murray has declined to give any medical details, but his symptoms suggest a disc or nerve problem that is causing his back to lock up - in self-defence, essentially - whenever he has to go through a gruelling match.
While he will probably be able to manage the issue through the early stages of the French Open, he will do well to shift it completely when his schedule over the next six weeks includes two grand slams as well as the AEGON Championships at Queen’s Club.
Assuming that he goes ahead and plays at Roland Garros, it might be a blessing in disguise if he happened to go out in the first week and thus give himself more time to recuperate before Wimbledon.
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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