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...My daughter wants to be the girl, Mabel – but Madame B steals the show for me....
...Last week, Katherine Tai, US trade representative, was given an even tougher time in a hearing on Capitol Hill....
...But he, too, is a smooth operator, creating a new power coalition with Katherine Clark of Massachusetts and California congressman Pete Aguilar (who helped him win support for his position) that is capable...
...decapitation feel uneasily close to mind when looking at a portrait of Anne Boleyn, painted by an unknown artist in the 16th century, wearing a strikingly modern pearl choker adorned with a dangling letter “B”...
...UK, with 483 of those cases identified within Bolton and Blackburn....
...“Lots of dads do that for their little girls, it’s just a scale of how much you can spend,” says The Vault Nantucket’s owner, Katherine Jetter....
...A surge in UK cases of the B.1.617.2 variant, first identified in India, is forcing the government to rethink its vaccination plans....
...Fast growth in cases of the B.1.617.2 variant in several locations across England, including Bolton and Blackburn with Darwen, has cast doubt on whether the government can stick to its plan to lift all coronavirus...
...announced that cases of the variant first identified in India had risen to 2,323, up 76 per cent since Thursday, and that 86 local authorities had reported more than five cases of the strain, known as B....
...It has also introduced increased vaccinations in B.1.617.2 hotspots such as Bolton and Blackburn with Darwen....
...At Amberley air force base, he greeted a B-2 stealth bomber that had flown from the US in a move that was partly aimed at reminding China about the potency of American military force....
...The UK health secretary on Wednesday said that surge testing and increased vaccinations will be offered to residents in potential Covid-19 hotspots in England in an attempt to contain the B.1.617.2 variant...
...Matt Hancock said the number of cases of the variant had increased to 2,967, adding that within the two areas reporting the highest number of cases — Bolton and Blackburn — about 26,000 vaccinations had...
...On Thursday, local public health officials in Blackburn decided to make vaccinations available to anyone over the age of 18 in three wards where the variant had spread....
...Boris Johnson is hoping that the start of England’s school half-term today and a booster jab advertising blitz will damp a clamour to deploy Covid-19 “Plan B”....
...Cases of the B.1.617.2 variant are mainly focused in hotspots such as Bolton, Blackburn with Darwen, and Bedford, although most parts of the country now have small numbers of cases, said Public Health England...
...With 483 cases reported in the worst hotspots of Bolton and Blackburn with Darwen in Lancashire, north-west England, Hancock said the variant represented the latest challenge in the “race between the virus...
...Cases are clustered around Bolton, Blackburn with Darwen, Bedford and London and some parts of the Midlands, where the number of cases associated with other strains has continued to fall....
...The variant properly known as B.1.617.2 undoubtedly carries risks....
...Hopson said areas which had been the first to see rises, such as Bolton and Blackburn, had reported that they were “now beginning to see the community infection rates start to peak and plateau.”...
...The coronavirus variant first identified in India — known as B.1.617.2 — has taken a grip on Bolton, nearby Blackburn and the town of Bedford near London....
...EG Group, which was built up over two decades by the Blackburn-based brothers, grew rapidly with debt-funded acquisitions after an investment from TDR in 2014 and has 395 filling stations in the UK....
...Still, credit rating agencies rank Asda below investment-grade: it carries a double-B rating, putting it in the upper echelons of the junk bond market....
...Katherine? Over to you. Katherine, the worried worker: Gosh, how do I top that? This year has been a challenging time for me. My baseline is existential dread and a clawing sense of panic....
...Extra resources are being deployed there and in Blackburn with Darwen to try to bring infection rates under control....
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