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(Smokestack Books, £9.99) AT THE very beginning of 2020 Martin Rowson cartoonist, poet and brazen scribe of the end times took a train from Lewisham to Charing Cross. A fortnight later, during an event in London’s Cartoon Museum, he started feeling unwell. “For the next two weeks I was incapable of anything,” he writes at the beginning of Plague Songs, “feeling iller than I had for 50 years.” Though exhibiting telltale symptoms now familiar to many breathlessness, night sweats, aching joints it never crossed his mind that he “could possibly be suffering from the disease in China increasingly dominating the news.” And why would he? Over the following months, as incoming travellers remained untested and the prime minister failed to attend several Cobra meetings on what was swiftly becoming an international public health emergency, the government refused to properly inform us of the dangers of Covid-19 quite the contrary, they were downplayed ....
Hidden Great Orme reservoir will supply Penderyn s Llandudno distillery with water for unique whisky The whisky producer will distil its first whisky next month but there s a long wait to taste it Reservoir inside the Great Orme. Picture by Home Front Museum in Llandudno (Image: Home Front Museum) Sign up to our free newsletter for the top North Wales stories sent straight to your e-mail Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up now! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. ....