Stoke City manager Tony Pulis says he will try to make the preparation for the FA Cup final against Manchester City as normal as possible.

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Pulis hopes for quiet preparation

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Preparation for the Masters is a serious pursuit, not to be messed with. Dinner menus are planned, hours of sleep are parsed, the minutes leading up to tee times carefully accounted for. Unless, of course, you are 21. Then, perhaps, the night before the Masters consists of a trip to the mall with some buddies in pursuit of a football — American variety, in this case — so that those hours might be wiled away learning to throw a spiral.

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Shadow health secretary John Healey has accused ministers of a “serious misjudgement” over their preparation for the current outbreak of flu, which has killed 50 people in England.

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Ministers accused of mishandling flu outbreak