Parts of the beautiful Peak District are to feature on a special set of British stamps, it has been announced. The Royal Mail has revealed the first Special Stamps to be released for sale in 2021 will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Britain’s first National Parks. And one …
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Boris Johnson’s new Brexit trade agreement means Britain and the EU will have a ‘special relationship’ and ‘ugly’ politics will end, Michael Gove has said. The Cabinet minister said the deal allows for a ‘new pattern of friendly co-operation’ between the two ‘sovereign equals’. He added that he hoped the …
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Millions more people across the UK have been placed under tighter coronavirus restrictions from today. Another six million in England have been placed in Tier 4, while Scotland and Northern Ireland have also imposed harsher measures on their citizens on Boxing Day. The Tier 4 restrictions – effectively a regional …
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The Demerara sailed from Liverpool on August 15, 1918 and docked in Recife on September 9. The editors of the Rio de Janeiro newspaper Gazeta de Notícias (1875-1942) were not exaggerating when they said, in the September 16, 1918 edition, that the Demerara made a “bad trip”. When he set …
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M illions more are spending their first day living under tougher coronavirus restrictions as Tier 4 comes into force in areas of the south and south east of England. The Government said a further 570 died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus as of Christmas Day, while …
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Millions of people will move into Tier 4 today after those already under the tightest coronavirus restrictions celebrated a Covid Christmas any way they could. Sussex, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire will move into Tier 4, created in response to a variant of Covid-19 discovered in the UK, from Saturday. …
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T he UK recorded 210 more Covid-19 deaths on Saturday. This is down from 570 the day before while cases rose 1,968 to 34,693, the government said, citing partial data. The latest R number is estimated at 1.1 to 1.3, the government said. The UK has recorded a death toll …
Read More »The questions 1 Which 94-year-old took under five hours to reach a million followers on Instagram?2 Which Welsh town was overrun by Kashmiri goats in March?3 Who announced a “Spring 2020 transition”?4 Which fortification was built in the 12th century by Bernard I de Balliol on the banks of the …
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Notorious British traitor George Blake has died aged 98 half a century after he claimed to have betrayed 600 agents to the Russians as a double agent during the Cold War, Russian foreign intelligence announced today. The 98-year-old spy had been living in Moscow since he escaped from Wormwood Scrubs …
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Even without the pandemic turning the world on its head in 2020, fast courier services are quickly becoming popular for a generation that has become accustomed to instant gratification. In fact, research shows that around 19% of UK-based millennials expect delivery of online purchases to be made within 24 hours …
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