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March 2 - BLiTZ. The InoSMI publication, citing an article by journalist Mark Blacklock for GT, reported that Moscow and Kyiv would have entered into a

Mark Blacklock, a columnist for the Chinese Global Times, believes the coming winter will be a period of discontent among Europeans due to...

Kamloops Mounties who took 156 impaired drivers off the road have been honoured.
 On April 27, Roxanne Engli, Kamloops community leader for Mothers Against Drunk Driving, attended the Kamloops . . .

Readers have been giving their views on figures which reveal almost three-fifths of adults in Cumbria have not been to a dentist in the last two years. Figures from NHS Digital show 58 per cent had not been seen by a dentist within the recommended longest interval between check-ups. This was up from 53 per cent not seen in the two years to December 31 2019. In Cumbria, 29,732 youngsters were seen in 2020. This is down from 55,950 the year before – meaning just 32 per cent of children ...

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FOUR books from Australia are among the contenders for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, with the announcement coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the author’s birth. The longlist has 11 books in contention for the £25,000 and was revealed yesterday. Two of the Australian books are not yet published in the UK. Settings of the books on the list range from Tudor, Victorian and Edwardian England to Borneo, Tasmania, Indonesia, Japan, the US, Russia and East Africa. The 2...

The longlist has 11 books in contention for the £25,000 and was revealed on Tuesday. This year’s longlist includes four books from Australia, two of which are not yet published in the UK. Hinton, by Mark Blacklock (Granta) The Tolstoy Estate, by Steven Conte (HarperCollins Australia) The Year Without Summer, by Guinevere Glasfurd (Two Roads) A Room Made Of Leaves, by Kate Grenville (Canongate UK, Text Publishing Australia) Mr Beethoven, by Paul Griffiths (Henningham Family Press) Afterlives,...