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Mass testing starts in Bible belt village and a typical Dutch town Photo: Depositphotos.com Regional health board officials have begun a mass testing programme in the Bible belt local authority area of Bunschoten in Utrecht province, in an effort to find out why it has such a high rate of coronavirus infection. Bible belt towns dominate the list of places with the most infections per head of the population, and health experts suspect this may be because strict Protestant families tend to be la...

/PRNewswire/ -- Catapult Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel cancer treatments, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...

The likes of Geri Halliwell ignore the dull dreariness of true conservation work 7 February 2021 • 6:37pm ‘Oh my God!” squeaks Geri Halliwell, addressing a substantial owl perched on her leather-gauntleted forearm, “I feel like you’re looking into my soul. He wants to tell me something.” The owl looks underwhelmed. Possibly it would like to tell Geri that it is a she, not a he. The white-bearded owl-wrangler overseeing Geri’s introduction to birds of prey for her arrestingly eccen...

Fans at the Lowlands Festival (Photo by Paul Bergen/Redferns) European festivals have spoken about their hopes of returning this summer, with the Dutch government setting up trial events next month and stating that festivals should be possible from July. Following the recent cancellation of Glastonbury in the UK due to complications from the coronavirus pandemic, anticipation now surrounds how the rest of the festival season will play out. In the UK, festival organisers are calling on the gover...

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Photo: DutchNews.nl MPs have drawn up a list of controversial subjects which remain out of bounds to parliament until a new cabinet has been appointed after the March 17 general election. The list has been drawn up earlier than usual because the current coalition is already acting in a caretaker capacity after resigning last month in the wake of the childcare benefit scandal. The list includes opening Lelystad airport to commercial traffic, increasing paid parental leave, further limits to publ...

Advertisement Now, European festival bosses and artists have added to the concern and anger from artists and music industry bosses, calling on the government to “take this seriously and fix it”– as well as spelling out that the current lack of arrangements could mean less and less UK acts being booked for festivals across the channel. Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches performs on the Heineken Stage during day 1 of Lowlands Festival 2016 on August 19, 2016 in Biddinghuizen, Netherlands. (Phot...

Building under way on the control tower. Photo: Depositphotos.com MPs have agreed to leave the issue of opening Lelystad airport to commercial traffic to the next government. The decision means the plan to start commercial flights to and from Lelystad later this year may not now happen, given that it could take months to form a new coalition after the March vote. Infrastructure minister Cora van Nieuwenhuizen told television programme Buitenhof on Sunday that as far as she is concerned, the air...

Riots broke out across the Netherlands over its COVID-19 curfew, with people torching a virus testing centre and attacking a police station Mia Jankowicz A car set on fire in front of the train station, on January 24, 2021 in Eindhoven, after a rally by several hundreds of people against the COVID-19 policy. Riots and looting are spreading in the Netherlands in defiance of its new COVID-19 curfew. Cities including Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Eindhoven were in uproar. ...