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She has been thwarted first by a pandemic, then by the gradual reality of working under Covid restrictions, and recently by mobility concerns.... But when it came to honouring one of Britain’s leading Royal Warrant Holders, nothing was going to stand in the Queen’s way.So keen was she to help Staffordshire craftsmen and women celebrate the Platinum Jubilee in style, she invited them to stage an exhibition in her own drawing room. Wearing her half-moon glasses to inspect a range of hand-decorate

SINGAPORE-The High Court has rejected a woman's claim that her oldest brother had used the issue of her dogs as an excuse to make it" intolerable" for her to live in the house willed to the siblings by their mother.In the latest chapter of a long-running dispute over the house at 61Kovan Road, Ms Rosaline Goh had sued her brother Lian Chyu, 79, and his family to recover$ 71, 083. The sum was the rent she incurred when she lived elsewhere in 2017 and 2018.Ms Goh, 66, claimed that she had to renew

Speaking in the Commons on Monday, Mr Gove revealed his bid to become Prime Minister, while also running Mr Johnson's leadership bid, was like a bomb going off in his hands.... Indeed, the current Housing Secretary said the plot to become Prime Minister in 2016 had been political suicide.... Commenting on the Government's housing reform plans in the Commons, shadow planning minister Ruth Cadbury likened them to Mr Gove's failed leadership bid. She said:" I've not seen him torpedo something so

Wind back the clock 100 years ago and Blackpool was the place to be. From the early 20th century it started to become known as one of the country's fun-filled pleasure destinations where the sun always shone( at least in the summer).A place at once close to home yet far enough away to feel exotic, Blackpool would have once been the closest many got to a foreign holiday in their entire lives. Time hasn't been kind to the town, however.... It stands today as a shadow of its former self, a place r

Open this photo in gallery England's Harry Kane, center, and his teammates celebrate at the end of the Euro 2020 soccer championship semifinal match between England and Denmark on July 7, 2021.... And, despite playing against 10 men for more than half an hour following Ronaldinho’s sending-off, England was left to negotiate another early flight home from a far-flung destination. It’s something of an understatement to say that England has often been its own worst enemy at times.... Naturally, h

And now, he said, “ I miss that feeling of closeness.”[ Don't miss] Review: New McDonald’s Saweetie Meal is a sticky, sweet and complicated process？... It might sound strange to suffer a case of breakup blues over a social arrangement that in many cases was the equivalent of a lifeboat bobbing in stormy seas( and may, of course, return if the spread of the delta variant goes unchecked).... “ They’re taking vacations, but they’re not together....

As temperatures drop in Islamabad with the onset of December, the political thermometer is registering multiple spikes across the scale.... The Punjab government has also jumped into the fight by rolling in a few random punches and saying ECP must utilise EVMs in the local government elections due in the province in the next few months.... Red Zone insiders believe the ECP does not plan to budge from its position that it will not introduce EVMs till it is satisfied that the proper testing of t

Chief Executive David Zaslav revealed his penchant for Hollywood nostalgia two years ago, buying the Beverly Hills home of the late movie producer Robert Evans.... There, Evans green-lit such classics as “ The Godfather ” and “ Chinatown ” and hosted raging parties for the likes of Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty and Ali MacGraw.... Advertisement The marriage combines WarnerMedia’s premium assets, including HBO, CNN, Cartoon Network, TBS, TNT and the Warner Bros. studio, with Discovery’s mainstr

7 at a medical center in Billings, Mont.... Borman, who lived at a retirement community in Billings, died one week after fellow astronaut Ken Mattingly, who helped bring Apollo 13 home following an onboard explosion.Mr.... Borman became an Air Force test pilot of supersonic jet fighters....