Boris Johnson appears to have grabbed Slovakia’s apron strings in his never-ending battle wagon to control Covid-19. As he addressed the British nation ahead of mass testing in Liverpool – modelled on Slovakia’s test-the-nation programme – he intimated that there is only the UK and Slovakia doing this. However, it is fair to say that …
To mark the 100th anniversary of the Armistice people from Penkridge, Stafford, covered their Methodist Church, Stafford, in poppies as part of a community arts project. Almost 9,00 poppies cascaded from the church roof. The project tipped its hat to the Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red in 2014 which had 888,246 handmade red ceramic …
UPDATE: Slovakia tested most of the country in two days … From dawn ’til dusk, troops and the medical profession joined forces across Slovakia to go to war on Covid-19. It began on Halloween and spread across Central and Eastern Europe’s weekend of the dead as the rest of world watched. There is no doubt …
The market for the cemetery lamps is estimated to be worth several hundred millions. The numbers of lamps bought are huge. An average grave is covered almost entirely in them through the week of All Saints.
The Czech Republic has brought in a curfew in its battle to curb coronavirus. Health Minister Roman Prymula said measures already in place — closing bars, restaurants, most shops and schools — had failed to bring the infection rate down. Slovakia too is tightening restrictions with shopping times for different age groups, bar and cafe …
As the second wave of coronavirus locks down central Europe fears are growing over pressure on already-strained health staff. Two decades of emigration and historic underfunding are being blamed. Staffing could become even more critical than equipment shortages across the region. Medical staff have been leaving central Europe in their thousands since 2004 when their …
Covid 19 is a runaway train according to Slovak PM Igor Matovič as he mobilises the army to carry out millions of tests and imposes a curfew-style lock-down. “It’s as if we were travelling on a train whose brakes have stopped working,” he said, according to the SITA newswire. “We have to stop the train …
We packed the boot of our ‘Bentley’ with lamps and books and stylish old clothes. It was time to head back to our European ‘heaven’. Things were getting pretty tight out there, the city we now called home was going in to semi-lockdown again. Being back in Britain had been markedd by soaring happiness and …
President Donald Trump has ‘put people’s lives at risk’ with his decision to stage a drive-by outside the hospital where he is being treated for Co vid-19. “Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary Presidential ‘drive-by’ just now has to be quarantined for 14 days. They might get sick. They may die. For …
Our Euro world is on it’s knees with Covid, Brexit, anarchy in the UK, strikes, attempts to muzzle the free Press and as many see it, Government secrets and lies. But while all this goes on Parental Alienation is causing untold harm as it recognises no boarders anywhere in the world. The Preservation Society has …