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Typesetters in the composing room of the Guardian’s offices in Cross Street, Manchester, in 1921. Photograph: Unknown/The Guardian
Typesetters in the composing room of the Guardian’s offices in Cross Street, Manchester, in 1921. Photograph: Unknown/The Guardian
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Fri 21 May 2021 11.42 EDT
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Interesting letter (20 May) from Dr Helga Rhein, mentioning that Finland has for some time fortified food with vitamin D, “so that the average Finn has double the vitamin D blood level of the average Scot”. In fact Finland, a country not famous for its sunshine, is the country in Europe with the fewest cases of Covid infection, at 1,636 cases per 100,000. Coincidence? Or is vitamin D too inexpensive to interest big pharma?
Tory sleaze is the logical extension of business practices where everyone is âat itâ
Labour activists highlight Tory sleaze and cronyism outside Downing Street, London. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA
Labour activists highlight Tory sleaze and cronyism outside Downing Street, London. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA
Sun 25 Apr 2021 01.00 EDT
Bernard Jenkin spectacularly misses the point: âThere is nothing wrong with a private citizen wanting to make moneyâ is simply not true until you add the word âfairlyâ or âhonestlyâ (âThe line between public service and private gain is shamefully blurredâ, Comment). We applaud and aspire to honest endeavour, invention, flexibility, hard work and a genuine commitment to customersâ and employeesâ wellbeing, but you canât say there is nothing wrong with wanting to make money by cheating people or selling them goods that we know will hurt them or simply offer very little for a high pri
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Town Manager William Keegan updated the Board of Selectmen at its meeting on the state of COVID-19 in town. According to Keegan, the numbers in town have dropped significantly. (Dan Libon/Patch)
FOXBOROUGH, MA Massachusetts is still seeing over a 1,000 new coronavirus cases per day, but those numbers have been on a sharp decline over the last few weeks throughout much of the state, including in Foxborough.
Town Manager William Keegan updated the Board of Selectmen at its meeting on the state of COVID-19 in town. According to Keegan, the numbers in town have dropped significantly.
As of last Tuesday, there were 37 active cases in town, a huge improvement from just a few weeks ago when Foxborough had almost 200 active cases. Keegan said none of the active cases had required hospitalization, and since the start of the pandemic, the town has seen two deaths,
Godfrey Hodgson, who has died at the age of 86, was one of the most distinguished journalists of his generation. After an impressive early academic career – Magdalen College, Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania – plus some reporting experience on the Times, he joined the Observer in 1960, and was soon recruited to be one of the proprietor/editor David Astor’s team to increase foreign coverage. Becoming the paper’s Washington correspondent.