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More than 600 British passengers are stranded on virus-hit Caribbean cruise ship

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More than 600 British passengers – many of them elderly – were tonight stranded on a cruise ship in the Caribbean after it was blocked from a string of ports after a coronavirus outbreak onboard. Five people on the Braemar, operated by British cruise firm Fred Olsen, have already tested positive for Covid-19 and passengers … Read more

Emma Thompson swaps virus-hit, flooded Britain to become a citizen of (virus-hit, flooded) Venice 

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Dame Emma Thompson memorably once described this country as ‘a tiny little cloud-bolted, rainy corner of sort-of Europe, a cake-filled misery-laden grey old island’. Now, reportedly in the wake of Brexit, the Oscar winner is quitting these shores to seek more happiness – and sunshine – in Italy. Dame Emma and her husband Greg Wise, … Read more