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MID-WEEK SPORT… taking place this week Mon 15 February Premier League West Ham United v Sheffield United Chelsea v Newcastle United

Tue 16 February Champion's League Barcelona v Paris Saint Germain RB Leipzig v Liverpool

Wed 17 February Premier League Burnley v Fulham Everton v Manchester City

Thu 18 February Europa League Real Sociedad v Manchester United RZ Pellets WAC v Tottenham Hotspur Slavia Prague v Leicester City Benfica v Arsenal Royal Antwerp v Rangers

QUIZ…Ed Sheeran 30 this week Here’s one for the Sheerios, Pop megastar Ed Sheeran is 30 this week. Here is a ten question Ed Sheeran round you can add to this week’s quiz.

1 Which of the following is not the title of an Ed Sheeran album? Plus, Minus, Multiply or Divide? MINUS

2 Which fellow redhead and good friend featured in Ed Sheeran’s music video for ‘Lego House’? RUPERT GRINT

3 In the film 'Yesterday' Ed Sheeran recommended that Jack Malik changed the title of 'Hey Jude' to 'Hey... what’? HEY DUDE

4 Felix, Nigel, Lloyd and Cyril are the names of Ed Sheeran’s what? Is it brothers, his pet snakes, his garden gnomes or his guitars? GUITARS

5 Which instrument did Ed Sheeran's 'Galway Girl' play in an Irish band? FIDDLE

6 Ed Sheeran was born in West Yorkshire but brought-up in which county? SUFFOLK

7 Which Scottish singer-songwriter and ex-girlfriend was the subject of the Ed Sheeran song 'Nina'? NINA NESBITT

8 Ed Sheeran collaborated with which singer on her albums 'Red' and 'Reputation'?

9 Ed Sheeran has a tattoo with a spelling mistake. It should read Galway Girl but it actually reads which of the following? Is it Galway Gull, Go away girl, Galway Grill or Calway Curl? GALWAY GRILL

10 How old was Ed Sheeran when he broke his leg in the song 'Castle On The Hill'? SIX WHO’S CELEBRATING? This week’s birthdays

Simon Pegg 51 Ed Sheeran 30 Rebecca Adlington 32 Angel Di Maria 33 Paris Hilton 40 Gary Neville 46 Edinson Cavani 34 John Travolta 67 Ray Winstone 64 Matt Groening 67 Yoko Ono 88 Jimmy Greaves 81 Jane Seymour 70 Seal 58 Ian Brown 58 The Weeknd 31 Smokey Robinson 81 Tony Iommi 73 Ava Max 29 Rihanna 33 Prue Leith 81 Amanda Holden 50 Cindy Crawford 55 Gordon Brown 70 Christopher Eccleston 57 Kevin Keegan 70 June Brown 94 Ali Campbell 62

ONE-LINERS

Here’s a few one-liners I picked up this week.

My friend writes songs about sewing machines. He’s a Singer songwriter, or sew it seams

I'm in hospital with food poisoning, it’s my own fault, l mistook a daffodil bulb for an onion, the doctors said I would be ok and should be out in the spring.

To the person who stole my glasses, I will find you, I have contacts

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

1867 The first ship passed through the Suez Canal. 1901 Winston Churchill made his maiden speech in the House of Commons. 1923 Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. 1950 Walt Disney's animated film 'Cinderella' had its premiere. 1952 'African Queen' starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn was released. 1962 John Glenn became the first US astronaut to orbit the Earth. 1965 John Lennon passed his driving test. 1969 Lulu married Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees. 1971 Michael Parkinson's BBC1 chat show 'Parkinson' had its debut. 1972 Sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceeded those of Ford Model T. 1973 Muhammad Ali beat Joe Bugner. 1977 Kiss played their first gig at Madison Square Garden. 1984 Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won Olympic gold in the ice dance in Sarajevo. 1985 Whitney Houston released her self-titled debut album. 1985 'Eastenders' made its TV debut. 1986 The Soviet Union launched the Mir Space Station. 1998 The Angel of the North, a large-scale steel sculpture was installed at Gateshead. 2002 Westlife had their tenth No.1 with 'World Of Our Own.' 2002 Joan Collins married Percy Gibson at Claridge's Hotel in . 2005 A ban on hunting came into force. 2005 YouTube was launched by a group of college students. 2013 Oscar Pistorius was charged with the murder of Reeva Steenkamp.

THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR Here are a few that made me laugh but didn’t make it on to this week’s quizzes and were left on the cutting room floor.

What do you give an Elephant with diarrhoea? PLENTY OF ROOM

Which blood type causes the most mistakes in hospital? TYPE-O

How do you keep an idiot in suspense?