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British stabbing victim on Spain’s Costa Blanca says trial delay and COVID rules mean she has no money to return home to Scotland
Mhairi Campbell says she can t pay her bills and cannot stump up €2,000 Scottish hotel quarantine
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THE victim of a 2017 stabbing says that she’s trapped at her Costa Blanca holiday home because she cannot afford to return to Scotland.
60-year-old Mhairi Campbell has been at her Quesada apartment for five months awaiting the trial of William McDonald who is accused of trying to kill her.
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The Caribbean country last week said it was dropping the requirement for a negative PCR test for British visitors. Its tourist board told Telegraph Travel: “The country, one of the most popular in the Caribbean for the British Market, will no longer require a negative PCR test to be presented on arrival. No vaccination is required either, which will mean that younger audiences and families, who may not have been fully vaccinated can still take a trip to the destination this year.”
It added: “The Dominican Republic is unfolding the most aggressive vaccine campaign in the Caribbean and Central American region and has already fully vaccinated more than 754,000 people. One million people have also already received their first dose.”
COVID-19 levels fall in UK as health officials review variant found in India
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Last Updated: May 13, 2021, 09:29 PM IST
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The Imperial College London-led Real-time Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT-1) study comes as it emerged that the government s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) is holding a review meeting on Thursday to discuss the Variant of Concern (VOC) first identified in India.
During a primary school visit in north-east England on Thursday, Johnson admitted the VOC named B.1.617.2 has been spreading and the UK wants to grip it .
The number of people infected with the coronavirus in England fell by almost half over the past month marking the lowest level of COVID-19 cases since last year, according to new statistics released in London on Thursday as UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said cautious steps were being taken on the virus variant first identified in India.
An armed conflict in the Middle East between Israelis and Palestinians has become more vicious and much broader far quicker than anticipated, potentially altering the calculations of regional and global powers eager to ignore the long-simmering crisis. The latest sequence of events began with attempts by Israeli settlers to appropriate Palestinian properties in Jerusalem and Israeli armed forces raids on the al-Aqsa mosque considered the third.