内容摘要：He also added that a decline in city-centre spending had not been matched by a similar increase for high streets outside urban centres.

He also added that a decline in city-centre spending had not been matched by a similar increase for high streets outside urban centres.

In contrast to the boy making the headlines in the UK, who claimed Ghana's education system was not up to standard, I found it to be exacting.I was considered academically gifted in the UK, despite my troublesome ways, but actually found it tough going in Ghana. Students my age were far ahead in subjects like maths and science.

The rigour of the Ghanaian system pushed me to study harder than I ever had in London.The result? I earned five GCSEs with grades C and above - something that once seemed impossible.Beyond academic achievements, Ghanaian society instilled values that have stayed with me for life.

Respect for elders was non-negotiable. Throughout the neighbourhoods I lived in, you greeted those older than you, regardless of whether or not you knew them.Ghana did not just make me more disciplined and respectful - it made me fearless.

Football played a huge part in that transformation. I played in the parks, which were often hard red clay with loose pebbles and stones, with two square goalposts fashioned out of wood and string.

It was a far cry from the neatly maintained pitches in England, but it toughened me up in ways I could not have imagined - and it is no wonder some of the greatest footballers seen in the English Premier League have come from West Africa.She added Lexi was "shaken in a way that was rough, unnecessary, violent and caused her brain to start bleeding".

"The prosecution don't suggest that either Melissa Wilband or Jack Wheeler intended to kill Lexi or wanted to cause her serious harm," she told the court.Ms Osborne said it would have been clear to the person inflicting the injuries to Lexi that "some harm would be caused by their actions", and there was evidence that the incident "was not the first time Lexi had been shaken".

Ms Wilband and Mr Wheeler had been in a relationship for about three years but separated for several months when she became pregnant with another man in early 2019.In court on Tuesday, they were described as "regular cocaine users" and that Ms Wilband told Mr Wheeler throughout the pregnancy that he was the biological father, despite knowing this not to be the case, Ms Osborne said.