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BBCNEWS BBC News October 15, 2021 09:50:00

in good spirits and on the mend in an intensive care unit. mr clinton had major heart surgery in 2004, but there's no suggestion his current condition is related to that. italy's national airline for the past 70 years, alitalia, has operated its final service before being replaced by a smaller successor. a domestic flight between rome and sardinia brought an end to the company that on several occasions only survived through huge bailouts from the italian taxpayer and private investors. the new national carrier, known as ita, will inherit part of alitalia's fleet, many of its airport slots, and part of its workforce. of course, the pandemic has been the biggest shock that aviation has ever seen, both the deepest and longest crisis faced by airlines, globally. there have been a number of failures but that aside, alitalia is a very particular case. it has had structural losses for many, many years, with only very fleeting and occasional profitability, and a long history of backwards and forwards excessive political involvement. a monument to pay tribute to the windrush migrants, who arrived in britain after the second world war, will be designed by artist basil watson. the statue at london waterloo station, will be of a man, a woman and a child climbing a mountain of suitcases hand—in—hand. it's been backed by £1 million of government funding and will be unveiled next year on windrush day,

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