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...Happily this doesn’t incorporate being pummelled and hosed down by dour orderlies in a white-tiled chamber, as per the spartan archetype....
...“We were seeing 130 to 150 new cases a day,” says Wolfgang Hierl, its head, a tall, rangy man who works out of a spartan office festooned with charts of Covid cases. “It was like an avalanche.”...
...“Cuts in the staff and the new Spartan regime has meant prisoners are idle again,” Ms Crook said....
...At Attingham Park, the former seat of the lords of Berwick, visitors can compare a recreation of a sumptuous banquet with the spartan fare consumed “below stairs” by the servants....
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