Jantje Huggins on her family s farm in the Netherlands in her youth
- Credit: Kingsley Healthcare
When war arrived, her older brother and other teenage boys were sent to labour camps in Germany.
“My older sister and I were ordered to make German uniforms. We both refused and were held overnight, she recalled.
VE Day anniversary celebrations at Spring Lodge care home in Woolverstone, near Ipswich
- Credit: Kingsley Healthcare
“We were allowed home in the morning, to mother’s great joy. She was afraid we had also been sent to Germany.”
Mrs Huggins remembers her sadness at seeing Jewish shop owners rounded up and sent to concentration camps.
China is now the world s biggest market for Cuban cigars May 06, 2021, 05:42 PM
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Cohiba is a brand of premium cigar produced in Cuba for Habanos S.A., the Cuban state-owned tobacco company.
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China has become the world s biggest market for Cuban cigars, overtaking Spain.
Sales in China have grown more than 50% in the past 6 years, Cuba s state cigar company, Habanos, said this week.
A box of hand-rolled Cuban cigars - considered the best in the world - can cost thousands of rands.
China has overtaken Spain to become the world s biggest market for pricey Cuban cigars, according to Habanos, Cuba s state-owned cigar company.
Jantje Huggins on her family s farm in the Netherlands in her youth
- Credit: Kingsley Healthcare
When war arrived, her older brother and other teenage boys were sent to labour camps in Germany.
“My older sister and I were ordered to make German uniforms. We both refused and were held overnight, she recalled.
VE Day anniversary celebrations at Spring Lodge care home in Woolverstone, near Ipswich
- Credit: Kingsley Healthcare
“We were allowed home in the morning, to mother’s great joy. She was afraid we had also been sent to Germany.”
Mrs Huggins remembers her sadness at seeing Jewish shop owners rounded up and sent to concentration camps.
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If this music thing doesn’t work out, Dave Grohl might have a future as a filmmaker.
I loved “Sound City,” the documentary Grohl directed in 2013 about the recording studio where everyone from Fleetwood Mac to Tom Petty to Nirvana recorded iconic albums, and the Neve soundboard used during those sessions.
The latest documentary from the Warren native, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Foo Fighters frontman is “What Drives Us,” a look at life on the road as a musician.
This isn’t a story of private jets and the tricked-out tour buses used by musicians of Grohl’s stature. Grohl focuses on the formative period of his career and those he interviews, when a band piled too much gear and too many people into a too-small van that became the musicians’ living space whenever they weren’t on stage.
He said shipping delays were continuing to cause trouble for imported goods. “It’s been constant for the last 12 months, ever since Covid started,” he said. “From Europe, it was six weeks on a good day. Now, it’s fairly common to take three months,” he said. He said there tended to be seasonal demand for champagne, egged on by special events such as Mother’s Day (this Sunday) or Valentine’s Day. The ongoing unpredictability of global shipping meant it was difficult to have stock arrive at the right time, he said.
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Moet Chandon champagne is in short supply.