Christmas

Pubs across the UK could be shut until Christmas

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Pubs across the UK could remain closed until Christmas as the country continues to control the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.   The possible lockdown extension on the popular venues comes after cabinet minister Michael Gove warned that pubs and restaurants in the nation would be ‘among the last’ to see the restrictions placed upon them relaxed. … Read more

Gardening centres could open almost immediately as industry faces £1.6 billion loss

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Britain’s garden centres could reopen almost immediately – with strict social distancing rules – under proposals being considered by Ministers. Businesses have warned that £200 million-worth of seasonal plants will be destroyed if centres are forced to stay closed until June. That would mean an overall loss of £1.6 billion due to the lockdown, so … Read more

Heartbroken family of healthy girl, 16, reveal she died just a week after getting flu

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An Ohio teenager fell ill with flu on Christmas Eve. She died on New Year’s Eve.  In the last several weeks, nearly 40 children have died of the flu as the virus spreads across the US early.  Kaylee Roberts is among the latest children to succumb to the virus.  The 16-year-old had been otherwise healthy … Read more

Mother shares incredible photos of the moment her identical twin daughters were born at 22 weeks

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A North Carolina mother has shared incredible photos of the moment her identical twin daughters became the second most premature babies in the world to survive being born at 22 weeks.  Tracey Hernandez, 33, was out Christmas shopping on December 8, 2019, when she started feeling uncomfortable.  Just hours later, she found herself in a … Read more

Angela Rippon discusses equal pay, staying fit at 75 and how she stays unflappable

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Angela Rippon was responsible for one of the most memorable moments in British television history. It came in the Morecambe & Wise Christmas Special in 1976, when 20 million gawped as she emerged from behind her Nine O’Clock News desk to high-kick round the studio like an autocue Ginger Rogers. Four decades on, give or … Read more

When Coleridge found Wordsworth in bed with the love of his life the poets fell out bitterly

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BOOK OF THE WEEK RADICAL WORDSWORTH     by Jonathan Bate (William Collins, £25, 608 pp) The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge spent Christmas Day 1806 with his close friend William Wordsworth, together with Wordsworth’s wife Mary, her sister Sara Hutchinson and Wordsworth’s own sister, Dorothy. Two days later, Coleridge bolted from the house. Taking refuge in the … Read more