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V-Day heroine Margaret Keenan, 91, who became first patient in the world to have Pfizer Covid jab returns to hospital to receive second dose of the vaccine First patients to receive Pfizer’s Covid vaccine will receive second jab this week Margaret Keenan was the first to receive the jab, a week before she turned 91 … Read more
Anti-vaxxers have mocked and smeared V-Day heroine Margaret Keenan on social media sites amid a surge of ‘toxic misinformation’. A mob of online conspiracy theorists – some claiming to be NHS staff – used Facebook to spread slurs about the 91-year-old grandmother and her family after she became the first in the world to have … Read more
Jane Eyre (Blackeyedtheatre.co.uk) Verdict: Trusty literary classic Rating: Rent (Hopemilltheatre.co.uk) Verdict: Put your mortgage on it Rating: Red (stage2view.com) Verdict: Dark red Rating: Jane Eyre is one of the hardest working heroines in all of Victorian literature. She’s a cast-iron steam engine of a character who really puts in the hours, shuttling from stage to … Read more
Doctor Who FIRST LOOK: Jodie Whittaker’s time-travelling heroine is trapped in a space prison miles from her companions as the Daleks RETURN for Christmas special By Laura Fox For Mailonline Published: 19:17 BST, 8 October 2020 | Updated: 19:18 BST, 8 October 2020 Doctor Who fans have been given their first glimpse at this year’s … Read more
Strike: Lethal White Rating: Life isn’t fair. Tom Burke barely has to act as moody private investigator Cormoran Strike: He just stomps around with a scowl, lighting cigarettes and grunting. Yet his one-legged character gets star billing. As JK Rowling’s crime series returned, his name was the headline – Strike: Lethal White (BBC1). His assistant … Read more
She likes to celebrate the publication of each of her books with ‘a cold glass of champagne —with lots of bubbles’. But best-selling novelist Victoria Hislop may feel in the mood for a bottle of retsina this morning — if not a magnum. For I can disclose that she has just been awarded honorary Greek … Read more
What a shining example of selflessness we have been given this week from a woman who is among the most vulnerable to the coronavirus plague. Elizabeth Diacon was one of the many unsung soldiers — she would hate the word heroes — who worked as signals intelligence officers at Bletchley Park, where they cracked the … Read more
Mabel O2 Academy, Liverpool Touring until Wednesday Rating: Pop may not be as meritocratic as it once was, but it still beats most walks of life. Pedigree counts for very little – just … Read more
MEMOIR THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT by Sabrina Cohen-Hatton (Doubleday £16.99, 304 pp) There’s been an explosion in a tunnel. The air fills with the sound of sirens; dazed and bloodied people stagger out through the smoke as emergency services struggle to get their vehicles past dozens of cars abandoned in the road. Senior firefighter … Read more