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Een verpleegafdeling van het Beatrix Kinderziekenhuis in Groningen blijft ook de rest van de week dicht, omdat er vorige week een muis rondliep. Afgelopen weekeinde werd een muis gevangen in een val. Het zou de enige muis kunnen zijn, maar voor de zekerheid blijven plaagdierenbestrijders de komende dagen zoeken. Als er toch nog andere muizen zijn, willen ze die ook vangen.
Het kinderziekenhuis maakt deel uit van universitair ziekenhuis UMCG. Dat laat alle mogelijke openingen en kieren op de afdeling dichtmaken, om te voorkomen dat muizen weer op de afdeling kunnen komen.
De jonge patiënten op de afdeling werden vrijdag naar andere kamers in het ziekenhuis gebracht. Het UMCG erkende "dat dit vervelend en onrustig kan zijn voor patiënten en hun ouders". In december was de afdeling ook een weekeinde dicht nadat er een muis was gezien.
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MoneySavingExpert founder has said changes that will lead to some graduates in England and Wales paying more are ‘not moral’
A fairly technical-sounding change to student loans tucked away in last November’s budget has become the catalyst for an increasingly bad-tempered row pitting the UK consumer champion Martin Lewis against the chancellor, Rachel Reeves.
In one interview, Lewis – the founder of MoneySavingExpert.com, who boasts a vast following – said he did not think the planned change to repayment terms “was a moral thing”.
Continue reading...Iran’s leaders now face unprecedented peril. The regime has lost its footing, and the global mechanisms to avoid conflict no longer work
Dr Sanam Vakil is the director of Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa programme
Forty-seven years on from the Iranian revolution, Iran is confronting a strategic reality it has never faced before – a simultaneous crisis of domestic legitimacy and a credible threat of external attack so severe that regime survival can no longer be taken for granted. Until now, Tehran has survived wars, sanctions, assassinations, mass protests and international isolation through a strategy of projecting strength abroad, repressing dissent at home and generating a permanent crisis to justify poor leadership and political failure.
Today, Donald Trump has mobilised an “armada” to the Middle East that includes the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group, guided-missile destroyers, an expanded air presence and missile defence systems. This force projection suggests the US is no longer focused on containing Iran but rather compelling a final resolution of a long-running conflict. The choice at hand is either the acceptance of a US-imposed settlement or the destruction of the Islamic republic as it exists today.
Continue reading...Layers of eastern spice and flavour run through these mini bulgur wheat balls in a spicy sauce of pepper and pomegranate molasses, and there’s a sprightly fennel and herb salad on the side
I have always dreamed of a return to the golden age of Arab trade, when spices, fruits and ideas voyaged across deserts and seas, creating extraordinary food cultures through exchange and curiosity. I’ve imagined bringing new flavours home, letting them transform the kitchen – but with all the madness in today’s world, that dream must stay a dream, for now. So, these recipes become my journey, a way to reconnect with that spirit and taste the magic of the Arab golden age today.
Continue reading...Bristol Beacon
If the comic’s political fervour is dialled down, there is much to enjoy in a show delivered with flair and 10-ton sarcasm
Inner peace and contentment are not always gifts to the comedian, and – who knows? – maybe that’s why Bridget Christie’s latest show is a teensy bit less thrilling than its predecessors. For Christie has found her happy place: serenely single, professionally triumphant (on the telly too, after years not finding a niche there), and absolved by menopause of the need to give a toss about almost anything. There’s comedy in that freedom from care, and Christie mines it plentifully in an entertaining 90 minutes majoring – like her Channel 4 show The Change – in what life looks like for women (or at least, this woman) when oestrogen gets out of the way.
But Jacket Potato Pizza feels like a placeholder of a show, lacking the fervour or clownish fury of her best work. Its short first half begins by contrasting quotations from Presidents Obama and Trump – but that gives a misleading impression of what’s in store. More indicative is the routine that follows, in which Christie re-enacts a story as told by her menopausal pal, a banal tale of a night out turned into a symphony of digressions, malapropisms (mixing the Benjamins Zephaniah and Netanyahu, most memorably) and vocabulary tantalisingly out of reach. It’s as much sketch as standup, and our host brings it to life with characteristic pop-eyed dismay.
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