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"The money raised will help the family through their devastating loss and will be put into savings to help Connor, which is what Emma would have wanted." … [Read more...] about Covid-hit mum, 38, told husband and five-year-old son she loved them in heartbreaking final call before dying

Maulin told Alpes1 radio: “We have let people travel to many countries, to Dubai, the Maghreb the Caribbean … so why deprive the mountains of tourists? How is it less of a risk to go to Dubai than go to the mountains? These are things we don’t understand. We have worked on a health protocol covering everything and everyone in all the stations. It’s incomprehensible. We have been sacrificed.” … [Read more...] about Blow for French ski resorts as Covid rules hit holiday season

'We have had an allocation of that volume of vaccine but it has not yet arrived with us, it has got to go through the checks that are made by the principle distributor, it has then got to be physically distributed to us as a national allocation, and it has then got to be physically distributed to 1,100 locations around the country. And all of that takes time.' … [Read more...] about Is Britain’s Covid vaccine rollout back on track? UK dishes out 346,000 doses but falls just shy of speed needed to see country jab 14million by mid-February – amid fears lockdown will last until Easter even if the goal is met

In the car, the sexual, physical and verbal abuse began. It continued at Club Atlético – where the women were stripped, handcuffed, hooded and given their numbers, K52 and K53. “Whoever walked past would insult you, or beat you, or throw you to the ground,” Elgueta recalled. They could hear fellow prisoners walking in chains. The Chilean torturers made no attempt to disguise their nationality, and Elgueta and Sonia’s interrogation focused solely on Chile’s exile community in Argentina. The women were taken to the torture room by turns. Beatings, more sexual abuse and electric shocks followed. “They’d say: ‘Now the party can really start.’ Despite all we know and have read, you cannot imagine what human beings are capable of. It was a house of horrors,” Elgueta told me. “When my sister-in-law came out of one session, they had given her such strong electric shocks that she was still trembling.” … [Read more...] about Operation Condor: the cold war conspiracy that terrorised South America

'I think that given time we can improve and speed up our efficiencies in getting seafood to market. Remember, this was the first day at school for everyone, from the catching, to the processing, to the logistics, to the certifying officers, to the border control force and the French border control force. January 4, first day at school for everyone – it was disarray.' … [Read more...] about The SEVEN baffling new forms that seafood firms MUST fill in to send just ONE species of fish to EU… and the 33-point official advice on how to export it