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Ministers are to unveil a legislative programme today aimed at the Conservative governmentâs new electoral strongholds in northern England and the Midlands. The Queenâs speech will focus on adult education and home ownership and feature proposals for mandatory voter ID, which have been likened to Republican-style voter suppression in the US. Usually the Queen delivers the speech to a crammed House of Lords but this time the chamber will be restricted to 74 Covid-tested people.
Longtime business pals take on Loughborough pub as lockdown eases We want to provide a safe place for people to come to
From left: Ian Smith and John Cooper, who have taken on the Bell Foundry, in Loughborough
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A business duo who have worked together for more than 20 years have taken on their first pub, in Loughborough.
05. April 2021
UK - Grayson Perry is casting a bell to ring at the end of the Covid-19 pandemic
As future of London s historic Whitechapel foundry hangs in the balance, artist’s bell will be made elsewhere
The Turner prizewinning artist and national treasure Grayson Perry plans to make a bell to mark the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, which should be ready to ring out the coronavirus crisis in late 2021. “The bell we want to create for Grayson will be approximately 40 inches in diameter and weigh about a ton, so it’ll be about the same size as one of the quarter bells in Big Ben,” says Adam Lowe, the founder of Factum Foundation leaders in the field of digital heritage preservation which is driving the project.