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A former employee at Rushden said that for several months last summer no butterfly kits were available to perform injections on children or people with fragile veins "so patients were being bruised with larger needles".

The young people, who were admitted between 2017 and 2024, told the programme that nurses quickly resorted to force, including physical restraint and dragging patients down corridors, leaving them bruised and traumatised.

Hearing from him had appeased my bruised ego.

He nursed his bruised ego by suggesting the result was tainted by “millions and millions” of fraudulent ballots — even though there’s zero evidence supporting that claim.

It’s battered and bruised us with unprecedented snow and subzero temperatures across the Midwest, the South and the Northeast.