One pub is looking forward to playing a key role in upcoming elections, providing a place for people to not only discuss politics over a pint, but also cast their vote on the premises too. The Milbourne Arms, Carlisle, is set to be transformed into a polling station next week, with voters in the city’s Cathedral and Castle ward being asked to attend the pub in the Shaddongate area to have their say. Although local elections in Cumbria have been rescheduled until May 2022, due to the consultation on proposals for local government reorganisation in the county, elections for the vacant seats on local councils and for the Cumbria Police and Crime Commissioner are due to be held on May 6.
Aborted baby cells and your conscience
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About lives lost
The Urbana Daily Citizen page 1 headline (Feb. 23, 2021) tells us that “US Deaths [from the virus] surpass 500K,” or a fifth of worldwide deaths from the Coronavirus. That figure is therefore 2,500,000, or 2.5 million. This is indeed tragic.
However, there are other leading causes of world deaths: Abortions, 42.3 million; diseases, 13 million; cancer, 8.2 million; smoking, 5 million; HIV/AIDS, 1.7 million. The U.S, alone kills 760,800 unborn babies a year. Thus their deaths outnumber the virus deaths by a third.
Yet annual worldwide deaths (a Worldometer estimate) of 58.6 million does not include unborn babies’ abortion deaths. That is because most health organizations do not recognize them as human beings, though biologists affirm that they are indeed human from the moment of conception. Dianne Irving writes, “scientifically something very radical occurs between the processes of gametogenesis (basic germ cells changing into sperm and eggs) and fertilizati
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Beer and pub sector leaders are pressing the government to give them a reopening date.
The industry is desperate to get back to business after repeated warnings many pubs will not survive.
The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) is asking the government for a clear timeline and a roadmap to recovery .
The government insists that it has a plan for re-opening the economy which it will reveal after 22 February.
The BBPA said trading restrictions and lockdowns knocked sales by 56% - worth £7.8bn - last year.
In the first lockdown in the second quarter of the year, beer sales plummeted by 96%, it said. Even during the summer, which saw the Eat Out to Help Out scheme and a temporary VAT cut on food and soft drinks, pub beer sales fell 27%.
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