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The National Psychodrama of England’s Euro 2020

Sat, 10 Jul 2021 06:08:25 +0000

Is it really coming home?
Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images

There are many ways to tell the story of an international soccer tournament. Twenty-four ways in the case of Euro 2020, as it insists on being called, despite the fact that the pandemic pushed the tournament into 2021. Twenty-four teams, each with its own heartbreaks and triumphs, its own jagged line of peaks and valleys — twenty-four narratives that, as the defeated nations fall away, eventually flow into a single overarching narrative that culminates in a winner.

DMU’s Special Collections wins national accreditation

Sun, 28 Mar 2021 03:22:21 +0000

De Montfort College Leicester (DMU)’s Special Collections has been awarded Archive Support Accreditation in recognition of its do the job to develop, protect and increase access to nationally important product.

DMU’s archives span 1474 to the present day, and encompass DMU’s historical past as an establishment from its first times as Leicester Faculty of Art in 1870. Distinctive Collections also retains materials relating to athletics, arts, efficiency, and trend historical past as nicely as products on the heritage of Leicester.

Covid news live: Latest updates as Boris Johnson announces new national lockdown

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 21:07:35 +0000

Boris Johnson has announced that England is to enter its third national lockdown, which means the government is instructing everyone to “stay at home”, and that all schools will close from tomorrow.

The prime minister made the call in a televised address on Monday evening, in which he said the “weeks ahead will be hardest yet”.

“As I speak to you tonight, our hospitals are under more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic,” he said.