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Thomas Cook boss implies visitors to Wales face disadvantage during GMB staycation debate
Alan French urged Good Morning Britain viewers to book a holiday abroad this summer instead of travelling to the Costa del Cymru
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Loss, shame and love: How the AIDS epidemic affected Liverpool
From attending funerals every week to creating a model to fight back against the disease, this is the story of the AIDS epidemic in Liverpool
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It was described as a “death sentence”.
Again and again, those who spoke to the Liverpool ECHO described the disease, which had taken friends and loved ones, as a “death sentence.”
Once people caught it, it not only meant death but also being treated as an outcast by society.
The AIDS epidemic in the 1980s stole a generation of mostly young men from the country, and from Liverpool.