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Some health professionals are advising pregnant women not to get the Covid vaccine despite an edict of the NHS that should encourage them to get the jab. One in six of the most seriously ill Covid patients requiring vital care are unvaccinated pregnant women, figures released last week show.However, messages sent to the Vaccine and Pregnancy Helpline, launched Aug. 20 to help pregnant women navigate vaccine information, suggest that some midwives are advising against the vaccine.One said: "At first I really wanted to get vaccinated and then a midwife advised me not to apply it." Another wrote: “I got my first dose before I knew I was pregnant. Now that I am pregnant, they have told me that I am not allowed the second one ”. Another reported: "The midwives advised me not to get vacci...

One of the world's best-known pieces of furniture, Salvador Dalí's Mae West Lips Sofa, began as a sketch on the back of an envelope, an investigation revealed in the archive of a Sussex farmhouse.The sketch was unearthed in West Dean near Chichester, the former home of Dalí's patron Edward James, and experts say it reveals the extent to which James was involved in the creation of the 1930s sofa. lobster, also the fruit of a collaboration between Dalí and James, is one of the emblems of the surrealist movement.The find was made as part of ongoing preparations at West Dean to digitize and share James's 2,300-item archive, which includes a tantalizing array of correspondence, first editions, and sketches from a host of great 20th-century artists. linked to Jaime. These include Dalí, whose...

A Russian actor and a film director have returned to Earth after spending 12 days on the International Space Station filming scenes for the first movie in orbit.Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko landed as scheduled on the Kazakh steppe early Sunday, according to images broadcast live by the Russian space agency.They were transported back to the mainland by cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, who had been on the space station for the past six months.Yulia Peresild receives help to exit the Soyuz capsule after returning from the International Space Station on Sunday. Photograph: ROSCOSMOS / Reuters“The descent vehicle of the Soyuz MS-18 manned spacecraft is upright and safe. The crew feels good! "The Russian space agency Roscosmos tweeted.The filmmakers had taken off from the Russian-leased Baikonu...

I met Victor Gregg on a frosty afternoon in 2009 when we were going to talk about his experiences in WWII.He was 90 years old and he had emailed me saying he would pick me up at Winchester station. When I arrived there was no sign of him. After 10 minutes, a car parked on the road turned its lights on. It was Vic practicing a routine he had learned more than 50 years earlier in the western desert, when Rifleman Gregg was assigned to Vladimir Peniakoff, the founder of "Popski's Private Army," a British special forces unit. Vic's job was to drive thousands of miles, alone, through the dunes, bringing supplies and intelligence to Popski's contacts. Vic said Popski had told him, "Before you go in, find out how you're going to get out." This was a life lesson for Vic, he had just “take...

–It is explained for two reasons that have to do with the change in consumption habits that the pandemic produced. In an initial phase there was a psychosis of gathering basic and essential products such as milk and its derivatives. And then, with confinement and teleworking, there was more time for consumption - more time for breakfast, to prepare toast, for baking - and there was a clear upturn in household consumption. The growth in fluid milk consumption was of the order of 7% in the peak months of the state of alarm. -Effectively. The consumption of liquid milk in Spain has been decreasing for 25 years. It is ...

IIf you're reading these pages, chances are you don't like anything more than taking a good look at other people's houses. Below is a selection of five of the best house museums in the world: inspiring, creative, but ultimately delightfully domestic spaces that have been preserved as they were when the owners lived in them.Casa Luis Barragán, Mexico City, MexicoCasa Luis Barragán is the home of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect, who built his home in this former working-class district of Tacubaya in Mexico City. Completed in 1948 and inhabited by Barragán until his death in 1988, it is widely regarded as the purist expression of Barragán's "emotional architecture" and is the only Unesco world heritage site of its kind.From the outside, the vast concrete facade, barred and austere, ...