The intensity of the game was only magnified by the final whistle and the prospect of sudden-death spot-kicks.

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Thanks to quick action by his wife, a nurse, he did not bleed to death on the spot and is recovering from his wound.

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But that achievement, for all its glory, was just the appetiser as, with the penalty shoot-out entering sudden death, Giggs stepped up to score the decisive spot kick and secure Manchester United's third triumph in European football's premier club competition.

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The penalty score was 4-4 after five spot kicks, so it was down to sudden death.

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The National Trust has promised to look into whether extra signs are needed at a Sussex beauty spot where a walker from Kent fell to her death.

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His comments follow the publication of an interim report into out-of-hours GP care by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), prompted by Mr Gray's death, which found primary care trusts may be failing to spot patient safety issues because of a lack of scrutiny.

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Consultant paediatrician Sabah Al-Zayyat is accused of failing to spot that he was suffering abuse two days before his death.

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It was ruled that his death in 2008 was of natural causes - but midwives had repeatedly missed opportunities to spot and treat a serious infection.

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Police were called in to the hospital after the inquest into Joshua's death in June 2011, which ruled he died of natural causes, but midwives had repeatedly missed opportunities to spot and treat a serious infection.

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