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Victoria Beckham pulled out of the furlough scheme to save her image, says CAROLE MALONE



POSH still doesn't get it. Two weeks ago, when she announced she was furloughing 30 staff at her ailing fashion label, there was a public outcry.




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They tried every dirty trick in the book to overturn a public vote, says ARRON BANKS



AROUND 18 months ago I found myself interviewed by two officers from the National Crime Agency in Bridewell police station in Bristol.




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Our bond with the NHS is unbreakable, says MATT HANCOCK



IN THIS national battle against coronavirus we are fortunate to have our NHS. While most of us are safe at home, 1½ million NHS colleagues go out to help others. I am so proud of each and every one of them on the frontline of this fight.




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The good side of COVID-19: Crises can herald huge leaps in knowledge, says STEPHEN POLLARD



Yesterday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told an international video conference that we face a battle of "humanity against the virus". How right that is - and the battle has started. According to Professor Nicholas Hart, one of the doctors who saved Mr Johnson's life, "COVID-19 is this generation's polio."




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Over-70s are wise enough to make up their own minds, says TIM NEWARK



OSCAR-WINNER Dame Judi Dench at 85 becoming the oldest cover star of Vogue this month highlights how older generations are still making valuable contributions to our national life-and should not be locked behind closed doors.




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VE Day reminds us we've faced bigger threats than coronavirus, says ROSS CLARK



IT IS impossible to watch footage of the VE Day celebrations in 1945 and not be swept up by the sheer joy of it all - people clambering up lampposts, doing the Lambeth Walk and jumping in the fountains in Trafalgar Square.




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Professor Lockdown confounded science, says CAROLE MALONE



WHY was it the fact that Professor Neil Ferguson couldn't keep it in his pants heralded his sacking not his disastrous doomsday projections that forced this country into a financially crippling lockdown?




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COVID-19 updates: Washington County counts 9 new cases Monday; state says spread is slowing

Health officials counted nine new cases of COVID-19 in southwest Utah, although the Utah epidemiologist says infection rates are in decline.

       




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Silver Reef Brewery adjusts production, provides sanitizer to St. George community

Silver Reef Brewery adjusts production, provides sanitizer to St. George community

       




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Local saddlemaker discusses the iconic western saddle and what it takes to build it right

Saddlemaker Steve Hafen talks about what it takes to build a saddle to last generations, and how family and hard work are key components in his life.

       




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EU’s super-Eurocrat Barnier is deluded – this is how to beat him, says FREDERICK FORSYTH



WE ARE told at every hand that dire misfortune will fall upon us if we do not capitulate to the Eurocrats and continue to make every trading concession needed by EU membership. Perhaps these ladies and gentlemen, oxygen-starved in their Brussels penthouses, could be apprised of some basic facts of life.




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How meddling officials were to blame for floods, says FREDERICK FORSYTH



No secret that this country has been experiencing rainfall of biblical proportions and that this has caused very widespread flooding of roads and towns, with consequent misery for everyone affected, many of whom are not even insured.




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This simple plan would save the best of the BBC, says FREDERICK FORSYTH



Both major parties complain about the BBC. They always have and they always will. On the one hand, they both demand impartiality - which means criticism where it is justified - and then complain bitterly when they are criticised.




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We were born free but Britons are now in chains, says FREDERICK FORSYTH



For decades, even centuries, we British have prided ourselves on being the free-est people in the world, subject only to the laws passed by our democratically elected parliament. But can we really go on preaching what has now become a canard?




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We’ll survive this because official pessimism is always wrong, says FREDERICK FORSYTH



IN A long lifetime I have never seen our old country in such a comprehensive mess. Health issues apart, our entire economy is being systematically dismantled. The damage being done will take a minimum 10 years to repair and parts of it will never return.




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Is virus really as bad as we are being told? says FREDERICK FORSYTH



THE GREAT majority of us like it when the things we are being told actually make sense. I certainly do. So when the scary bulletins and instructions pouring out of government do not do that, I experience "red light" syndrome.




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Why is the Government trusting the word of this ‘genius’, says FREDERICK FORSYTH



AMONG the many foolish vanities to which Mankind subscribes is the belief he can foretell the future. He has been trying since time immemorial. First there were chicken entrails, then animal bones, progressing to the stars, palms, crystal balls, tarot cards and tea leaves. All methods were consistent to 90 per cent - they were all bunkum and remain so. Now overtaking them all is the pseudo-scientist/boffin.




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The first mistake was to underestimate the coronavirus crisis, says FREDERICK FORSYTH



THERE is a fact of life that permits no rebuttal.




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Lockdown is doing more harm than good, says FREDERICK FORSYTH



THERE seems to be a growing mood in public and media to the effect that lockdown has now gone on too long and is probably doing more harm than good. I wholly agree.




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The coronavirus crisis is not the Tories' finest hour, says FREDERICK FORSYTH



THERE is a steadily growing groundswell of opinion in this country that refuses to diminish or be silenced. I hope I may claim to have been a pioneer.




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We are in the dark days of Civil Service disobedience, says ANN WIDDECOMBE



O TEMPORA! O mores! One of the most senior figures in the Civil Service, Sir Philip Rutnam, calls a press conference to denounce his Minister, in this case the Home Secretary herself. How times have changed from when civil servants were anonymous and Ministers took the flak when things went wrong.




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Don’t play politics with prosecutions says ANN WIDDECOMBE



IT IS TIME that political interference with the police and the CPS ceased. One might have thought that after the ludicrous Operation Midland , the lesson had been learned.




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There is no point ‘locking up’ the over 70s, says ANN WIDDECOMBE



I have been grateful for the restrained response of this government towards the coronavirus outbreak but the new proposal to lock down every single person over the age of 70 for three months, regardless of health and strength, seems woefully lacking in logic.




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My call to address business flexibility, says ANN WIDDECOMBE



THIS is a story of two businesses and of two very different approaches to our current exigencies.The first concerns my local laundry CleanCall, which devised a means to keep going and contributing to the economy.




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Social distancing needs to be reasonable, says ANN WIDDECOMBE



SO, BORIS, where is your land of liberty now? Where is proportionality and reason?




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This coronavirus lockdown policy makes no sense, says ANN WIDDECOMBE



I'M QUITE enjoying this lockdown but I know just how blessed I am. I actively like solitude. I have the moors on my doorstep, a large garden, a job which I can do from home, a dependable pension, good health and a keyworker neighbour who can drop off fresh milk, bread and veg.




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Do not tell Piers to mind his language, says ANN WIDDECOMBE



OH, FOR pity's sake! Death is stalking the country, the NHS is over-run, the economy is crashing on a seismic scale but Ofcom is pontificating about broadcaster Piers Morgan's mimicry of a Chinese accent calling it "offensive and racist". Get a life, dears!




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The age-old argument is not fit for purpose, says ANN WIDDECOMBE



BACK ON Wednesday, March 18, I wrote that as the overwhelming majority of people who were dying were reported as having underlying health conditions it would make sense to lock down anybody with such a condition and let the rest of us get on with keeping the economy and the volunteer effort going.




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Callous lockdown lacks compassion, says ANN WIDDECOMBE



BY AND large I resist the temptation to roar at my TV screen but a few days ago, I did just that, when the tearful sister of twins who had died from the virus commented that she could not even be with her parents. Why the hell not? I shouted, feeling close to tears myself.




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Lockdown for over-70s? I won't put up with this ageist claptrap, says ANN WIDDECOMBE



AT LAST there appears to be some momentum gathering behind what I have been saying for weeks: that it is wrong to lock down people on the grounds of age alone.




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Save Our Shows: 'Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist' tops 2020 survey with record-breaking support

"Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist" topped USA TODAY's 23rd annual Save Our Shows poll with a record 67% of voters urging NBC to save it.

      




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20 of the best Mother's Day sales to shop this weekend

Retailers like Kohl's, Wayfair, and more are celebrating Mother's Day 2020 by hosting tons of amazing sales on apparel, tech, home goods and more.

      




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Looking for toilet paper, disinfecting wipes or hand sanitizer? Try bartering on Facebook and Nextdoor

Welcome to the real sharing economy. Friends and neighbors set up trades on Facebook and Nextdoor for household essentials like toilet paper, eggs and bread.

      




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Man who recorded Ahmaud Arbery's shooting on video was just a witness, his lawyer says

The lawyer for William "Roddie" Bryan, the Georgia man who recorded video of two white men shooting Ahmaud Arbery, says his client is not a vigilante.

      




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Opinion: Who really benefits from Jim Harbaugh's draft proposal? Michigan football, of course

Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh's proposal on rules for college players thinking NFL could help reduce talent base at programs like Ohio State, Alabama.

      




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What we learned in Tara Reade's interview with Megyn Kelly about the Biden assault claim

In her first on-camera interview since Joe Biden denied her assault allegation, Tara Reade told Megyn Kelly it "changed everything about my life."

      




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Save the dates: Check out new dates for postponed Indiana events

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly altered the events calendar in Central Indiana. Check out eight rescheduled dates.

       




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Retro Indy: 1977 Hollandsburg massacre left 4 dead and a survivor to testify

Four boys were executed in a Parke County, Indiana, mobile home on Feb. 14, 1977. There was only one survivor: Betty Jane Spencer.

      




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Stay united to beat this killer virus, says JUDY FINNIGAN



HI FOLKS, how are you guys doing? This cheery text arrives on my phone several times a week, so now I share it with you. I hope you're all well, coping, and haven't yet reached the end of your tethers.




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It is time for Mother Nature’s reality check, says RICHARD MADELEY



I CAN'T help feeling that this is all a long-delayed return to normal. I know the lockdown feels abnormal, and I suppose it is, in that we've never seen anything like it before. But beyond that, I have a powerful sense that normal relations have merely been resumed; the age-old see-saw relationship between man and planet re-established.




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Poet Pam taking no prisoners, says JUDY FINNIGAN



IN THESE uncertain days of lockdown, I sense a strange inversion of intergenerational strife.




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Ministers’ silence is deafening, says RICHARD MADELEY



I'VE NEVER seen or heard anything like it. Or rather, NOT heard. I was on the green roof of London: Kite Hill, the highest spot on Hampstead Heath, and summit of my daily permitted exercise routine.




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Is this lockdown worth the risk, says RICHARD MADELEY



THE RISKS of lockdown are threatening to become greater than the risk of catching the coronavirus.The blunt instrument of social and economic shutdown may soon begin to bludgeon more people to death than the microscopic bug it is meant to protect us from.




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Right time to bench the B-team, says JUDY FINNIGAN



I FEAR that holding Downing Street media briefings about the virus every single afternoon is now totally counterproductive.




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Trump’s bleach blond bombshell, says RICHARD MADELEY



SIX WEEKS into lockdown and every day brings fresh headlines and behaviour you simply couldn't and wouldn't have predicted when you went to bed the night before.




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Mourning sickness on TV is ‘bad news’, says JUDY FINNIGAN



I'VE BEEN feeling increasingly uncomfortable watching the nightly news on television. We both have. Bulletins - particularly those on the BBC - are increasingly more like a newspaper's obituary page.




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Film crew play it by the book, says JUDY FINNIGAN



WE'RE living in strange times all right. But the weird world of Covid isolation took on a dreamlike quality for me and Richard the week before last. That was when we filmed our week-long series about lockdown reading for Channel 4, five shows which were broadcast this week from our living room.




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Expert’s advice doesn’t add up, says RICHARD MADELEY



PROFESSOR Neil "do as I say, not as I do" Ferguson has had a bad week, which he brought entirely on himself.




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Letters: Teachers sacrifice family life, financial stability to educate Hoosier children

This year, I am currently making over $12,000 less a year then I was supposed to when I was hired in 2004, a letter to the editor says.

      




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Letters: Increase Hoosier teacher salaries to match neighboring states

Education is the smartest investment an individual or a society can make, a letter to the editor says.