SATURDAY PUZZLE — Shiver me timbers, right? That’s what I thought when I skimmed through the entire set of across clues to this grid and came up with a big fat goose egg. An unfilled grid like this one yawns especially widely, because there are 116 open squares (empty boxes …
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SIR – The Health Security Agency UK tells us some two million lateral flow and PCR tests are performed each day and just under 200,000 of these are positive for Covid. That’s 10 per cent of the tests undertaken. Of people with positive tests, 2,200 (1.1 per cent) go to …
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The 22-page book by TidalWave Comics will share how Starr ‘overcame life-threatening illnesses during childhood’ and became ‘one of the best drummers of all time’ The life of former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr is being chronicled in a new comic book as part of TidalWave Comics’ “Orbit” series that celebrates …
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A PCR test should be taken if you have Covid symptoms, or if you have been in contact with someone who has tested positive As Covid-19 case numbers continue to rise across the UK, the government is urging people to keep testing regularly to avoid any further spread. Daily lateral …
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Delays leave some Perth residents without mail since before Christmas CalendarAn icon of a desk calendar.CancelAn icon of a circle with a diagonal line across.CaretAn icon of a block arrow pointing to the right.EmailAn icon of a paper envelope.FacebookAn icon of the Facebook “f” mark.GoogleAn icon of the Google “G” …
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A County Antrim man has praised the Northern Ireland postal system after he received a letter despite missing one important detail – his address. A Twitter user named Fergal Lynn got a surprise during the week when a letter landed on his doorstep and instead of his address being on …
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A man has shared his amazement online after a letter was delivered which he explained was like “seeing my life on an envelope”. Feargal Lynn, a musician from Co Antrim, was surprised when a small envelope was popped through his letterbox with ten lines of text on it, rather than …
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According to BBC News, the HMS Northumberland was on patrol in the North Atlantic and had been tracking the submarine. It then managed to hit the ship’s sonar, which is a piece of equipment which was trailing hundreds of metres behind it. This incident occurred in late 2020, and was …
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DAYTON — Premier Health has joined with other major hospital networks in the region and will postpone all elective surgeries that require overnight hospitalizations starting Monday. >>RELATED: Kettering Health pauses elective surgeries due to COVID hospitalizations, ‘strain’ on health systems “Effective Monday, Jan. 10, Premier Health will postpone any non-essential …
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There are tales of poltergeists, the paranormal and plain unusual. And falling firmly into the latter category is the ‘glue-sniffing snails of Gower’. The peculiar story of the shelled gastropods features in the latest series of Kiri’s TV Flashback, due to broadcast on BBC One Wales on Friday, January 7. …
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