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this is bbc news with the latest headlines. manchester united says its captain, harry maguire, has pleaded not guilty to charges related to an alleged altercation with police on the greek island of mykonos. uk tourists who've been on holiday to croatia, austria and trinidad and tobago now have to isolate for m days when they get back. being in croatia there were only a few options, which were to get to slovenia or to get to italy and neither were possible. after france and now croatia, no holiday can be guaranteed. hundreds of thousands of people in north west england are told not to socialise with anyone
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outside their household to stem coronavirus infections. russian opposition leader alexei navalny is receiving treatment in berlin after being airlifted out of russia, where he fell seriously ill. and philippa thomas hears from people about how covid—i9 has changed their lives. that's in "coronavirus: your stories", in half an hour, here on bbc news. good afternoon. manchester united says the club's captain harry maguire has pleaded not guilty after he appeared before a state prosecutor in greece of mykonos on thursday.
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after a disturbance at a bar on the island of mykonos on thursday. he has been cleared to fly home. the england defender — seen here leaving the court building — was one of three men arrested on thursday. in a statement, manchester united said the 27—year—old has pleaded not guilty to all charges. it is understood there will be a further hearing on tuesday. our sports presenter olly foster gave us more details. after two nights in police custody, harry maguire and those two other men appeared before this regional prosecutor in syros to face these charges that have been, these allegations that have been laid against them. worth reminding ourselves just what's happened over the last 48 hours or so. police in neighbouring mykonos, they arrested the three men after they'd been called to break up some kind of disturbance outside a bar around midnight on thursday. it was then that they claim that one of their officers was verbally abused and also assaulted, and then there was a further altercation with their officers back at the local police station with these three british men. it's then that they opened a file on this case.
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the accusations of violence against officials, bodily harm, insult, and attempted bribery as well of an official. we do not know, still, the exact specifics of what harry maguire, the worlds most expensive defender, is accused of, but we do know that his greek lawyer yesterday said that he denied all the allegations. we understand that manchester united's legal team is now in position and they've requested that a court date should be set in the future. we understand that that has been set for tuesday. what we don't know at the moment is whether he'll have to return to the uk, be allowed to, or whether he'll have to stay on syros and let his lawyers represent him on tuesday. british tourists who've been on holiday to croatia, austria and trinidad and tobago now have to isolate for 14 days when they get back. new quarantine restrictions came into force overnight. many on holiday in these countries — which have seen a spike
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in coronavirus cases, tried to change their flights to beat the deadline. simonjones reports. it was a frantic race for thousands of people to get back to the uk before the new rules kicked in. some spent a fortune on new flights. but from today, anyone returning from croatia, austria and trinidad and tobago must quarantine for two weeks, like these holiday—makers arriving at gatwick. looked for alternative ways of getting back before the deadline, but being in croatia there was, there were only a few options, which were to get to slovenia or to get to italy, and neither were possible. after france and now croatia, that no holiday can be guaranteed as being safe, and if you go outside the uk this summer, or this year even, you can expect something like this to happen. that poses problems for families in england, wales and northern ireland, whose children will miss the start of school. almir vladic from manchester was unable to get back from croatia in time. our kids will definitely
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miss their first week in school, and our question is whether that absence will be treated as unauthorised or authorised absence. despite the busy beaches in croatia, it is the rise in coronavirus cases there that has prompted the british government to act. some holiday—makers who didn't leave on time are resigned to a fortnight at home on their return. we are going to stay and see what happens, but we're planning to go back monday so we're gonna stick to that, i think. carry on drinking! the croatian government will lobby their british counterparts for their country to be removed from the quarantine list next week, but it's another warning to holiday—makers that they need to be prepared for all eventualities. simon jones, bbc news. our correspondent frankie mccamley is at gatwick airport... watson's reaction did you get from
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those people arriving back in the uk to these new restrictions?” those people arriving back in the uk to these new restrictions? i think it was a bit of a mixed reaction. we had two flights coming back from croatia this morning all within about an hour of each other and i would say that people are feeling very mixed about it. we've had some people coming back saying, you know, this was a risk we took we took the mystical rod and tried to find sunshine but it didn't pay off this time. —— it was a risk we took to go abroad and try to find sunshine. i spoke to a family of three children who were very angry and said they hadn't had enough time to make arrangements and said when they try to make arrangement all the flights we re to make arrangement all the flights were full and that leads me into another group of travellers who said they were in fact due to fly back yesterday and they got to the airport their boarding passes didn't work and they were told that their flight had work and they were told that their flight had been overbooked so they we re flight had been overbooked so they were forced to fly back this morning so were forced to fly back this morning so that group were extremely envious that they were going to try to find some form of compensation. it is not
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just croatia that have seen these new restrictions, we've seen in austria, trinidad and tobago, and we have two two flights leaving to portugal this afternoon whether restrictions have actually been lifted so it's going to be interesting to see how many people are taking those rights and taking this risk. i will correspond and taking this risk. i will correspond in that gatwick airport neil warnes and his family cut short their holiday to austria and spent £2,000 to get back to the uk before the quarantine deadline. he joins us from margate. neil, it's ended up being about the more expensive holiday than you anticipated. when did you find out that you were going to this pool, the prospect of a quarantine has been introduced? it was actually thursday evening, quite late thursday evening, quite late thursday evening, quite late thursday evening at that. one of our friends told us about it. we weren't
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aware and we contacted the travel company and they said they were going to try to do something follows on friday but we did look at the flight on friday but we did look at the flight straightaway and realise that we have to make a decision pretty soon and that's what we did. we had to go out of the country to get a flight to go out of the country to get a flight home. so where did you end 7 flight home. so where did you end up? well, we got a two o'clock the morning to munich which was two hours away and flew in at seven o'clock in the morning yesterday morning yesterday morning and got into london at eight but u nfortu nately into london at eight but unfortunately it was to heathrow so we then had to get a cab from heathrow to gatwick to come home because our car heathrow to gatwick to come home because oui’ car was at heathrow to gatwick to come home because our car was at gatwick. you seem because our car was at gatwick. you seem fairly designed to what happened. with hindsight, do you have any regrets about deciding to go away? yeah. i think from the monetary point of view, yes. we were on nearly our last day, sean, so we had had four orfive on nearly our last day, sean, so we had had four or five great days away. it didn't actually enter my
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mind that austria would be one of the country is going into quarantine, it really didn't come out so, you know, it's not something that would put us off in the future but i think we might wait until things are going to be resolved before we try again. yes, i can understand it. as you say, austria leaves earlier in the air had a very good record in terms of bringing down the rate of infection. what signs were there as you are travelling around in austria that people were still taking this very seriously? because it is one of the countries, for example, when mass we re countries, for example, when mass were introduced quite early on in public places, things like that. well, direct flights weren't introduced until the ist of august, so we got over their public transports, everyone was dave into the mask, wearing masks, in the shops everyone was at dealings wearing masks, in our hotel we had to have three saint—saens sizes just on the ground floor and we spoke to
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the staff when we did it actually did find out that we had to go home that they were tested on a weekly basis paid for by the austrian government is that there was never any indication, you know, that the virus high in that area. no one really discussed it, to be quite honest with you. do you think this could be managed differently? this process of bringing countries in and out of the quarantine restrictions? because one of the frustrations we heard certainly from some of the travellers to croatia was that they felt, you know, they couldn't understand why they couldn't have been given, i dunno, another 48 hours or something so that it would perhaps even out the sudden rush to the airport because the case are flights being overbooked and people couldn't get back anyway even though they had been told they had a flight. it they had been told they had a flight. it just adds they had been told they had a flight. itjust adds to the frustration. yeah, ithink flight. itjust adds to the frustration. yeah, i think they could be. the time limits, that was pretty short, saturday at five o'clock, and innsbruck is not a very large airport, sean, and i think there were very few flights getting
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out of it so we had got the country. we were lucky unlike, you know, i feel safe for the tories have croatia who were not able to do, weren't able to do that. if you do have that extra may be full 24, 48 hours you can then plan, probably your plans are made either downright easier. —— i feel sorry for the tourists out of croatia. as soon as you get given that information you have got to try and run with it. you made your choice. welcome back andi you made your choice. welcome back and i hope you get some decent weather here to enjoy. thank you so much. he is in margate, sunny margate. good place to go for a holiday if you fancy one anyway. people living in the english town of 0ldham — and parts of blackburn and pendle — will no longer be allowed to mix with anyone from outside their household from this weekend. the extra restrictions are to stem the spread of coronavirus, but workplaces, childcare facilities and businesses, including restaurants and pubs,
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will remain open. the labour leader of pendle borough council — mohammed iqbal — says there is a lot of frustration locally about the perceived lack of clarity from central government. we've been trying to get clarity. we've been in discussions with government officials all week about what they wanted to do and we believed in pendle that any further restrictions was not the right way because the community volunteers who have been out on the doorstep persuading people to go and get tested, there's been a fantastic response in return. but we asked the government to do three things. one was, where people were tested last weekend, they still haven't had their results, and what we said to government was that now is too soon to do any further restrictions. number two — we said give us additional resources to do more testing in pendle, and, in fact, over the last couple of weeks we have been the highest testers in the north—west of england. thirdly, for those people who test positive, one of the big things that i was getting feedback on was that if somebody tests positive, they were having to go into self
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isolation for 14 days at the risk of having no income into their household, and for many people living in deprived areas, that's a big concern, because do they self—isolate for 14 days, or do they continue to go out and put food on the table for their family and children? and that's something that we have asked of government. and yet yesterday, against local approval, they have gone ahead and imposed these extra restrictions only in parts of pendle, which is not right. councillor mohammed iqbal. let's get the thoughts now of professor chris smith — consultant medical virologist and a lecturer at the university of cambridge. this is turning into an almost weekly check—in with you! there is frustration in some parts of the country that people don't see the connection between what they are seeing now in the restrictions. they think, hang on a mate, it doesn't
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feel like that. can you perhaps explain perhaps why we are perhaps not in the best position ourselves tojudge how great not in the best position ourselves to judge how great the risk has become? well, the approach that has been taken has been to try to minimise the chains of transmission, because the more contacts that i would between people, the more opportunities there are four viruses tojump, and the more cases you are going to see, so if you minimise that main avenues that we believe are leading to the most number of cases then that should lead to a reduction in the number of cases. now, there are some parts of the country which are of these flare—up hotspots, and it looks like the way in which it is spreading in those areas is mostly in the domestic setting, and in areas where they have a higher population densities and high household occupancy rates, and high household occupancy rates, and for that reason, trying to minimise the chances of households gathering together while not at the same time encroaching on people's lives too much, because that that
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means that fewer people are likely to go along with the regulations, others as an opportunity to try and break that chain of transmission and try and keep this in check. so that really gets to this thing that will have puzzled a lot of people, which is why are these restrictions being imposed and yet places like pubs and restau ra nts imposed and yet places like pubs and restaurants where people are inevitably going to mix and come into co nta ct inevitably going to mix and come into contact with each other, i'll beat with social distancing, they can stay open? that is the explanation is a? that they are not the places where it is thought the introspection is spreading most rapidly? well, 80 to 9096 of transmission secure in the domestic setting and that is an obvious thing to happen because of the way we live, we live with our families and we don't go around socially distancing ourselves from the person you're married to other i suppose you're married to other i suppose you could if you didn't get on with them very well... will push over that one! the point about pubs is if you look at the regulations if you go to you look at the regulations if you gotoa
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you look at the regulations if you go to a pulp of places that the government have dubbed venues, business retail outlets and so on, the intention is that you go is a household unit, so it doesn't really matter whether you sit at home and have a peach, watch the match and have a peach, watch the match and have a peach, watch the match and have a beer at home with your family are going to do that was in a pub premises. you are not mixing with other hassles in those particular areas. “— other hassles in those particular areas. —— sit at home another pizza. in other parts of the country if you go to in other parts of the country if you gotoa in other parts of the country if you go to a pub you are mixing more with more than one of the household, remember that you can bring to house all together under one roof elsewhere in the country that is the maximum. it is actually not really increasing this way much beyond that engendered by being in your household anyway. —— increasing the risk very much. we are clearly going to have to get used to local dance isa to have to get used to local dance is a fact of life that is going to come. what do we lack at the moment that would make this process more effective, do you think? is there anything that we need to get right in this country to kind of maximise your ability to do this and actually control the levels in particular
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areas, and control them quickly?” think vladimir putin's crystal ball would be rather nice? ! he tells the russian government when he unveiled their vaccine that this would work for two years and i don't know how he knows that unless he has a crystal ball and if so can we borrow it! this is a learning exercise, we have never been in this position before, we have had to find a way and find out what works for us because different countries have different population demographics, they have different population densities, they have got different people working in different places getting to work in different ways, so therefore what works in one country won't necessarily work in another. there are some commonalities but there are important differences. it is learning what they trigger factors are in our country and what works in our country to earn the best bang for our buck or lock them because it was so that we minimise the impact on people's lives for the greatest
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maritime book written the greatest benefit in terms of decreasing transmission anything that is using the benefit of local knowledge, people were public health professionals and public health specialists who really know the area, no the population and know their location i a where these updates are likely to occur. if you hit this in the board early with decisive measures that are really clear and easy for people to understand and follow and i think thatis understand and follow and i think that is one of the area that we might need to be looking at here. i think there has been a lot of difficulty for people to follow different messages because we have got different countries doing different things and people are finding that difficult so we can simplify that too then i think we're going to be in good shape to meet the winter months which are arguably going to be another big challenge to face. yes, and as you say, we don't know what form that challenge will ta ke know what form that challenge will take but there is enough evidence from around the world to believe that we have to be very cautious about what lies ahead. professor
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chris smith, biologist and lecturer at the university of cambridge. thanks very much for being with us. -- via thanks very much for being with us. —— via biologist. —— virologist. the headlines on bbc news... manchester united says its captain, harry maguire, has pleaded not guilty to charges related to an alleged altercation with police on the greek island of mykonos. uk tourists who've been on holiday to croatia, austria and trinidad and tobago now have to isolate for 14 days when they get back. hundreds of thousands of people in north west england are told not to socialise with anyone outside their household to stem coronavirus infections. it is actuallyjust approaching 20 past two. the russian opposition leader and one of president putin's fiercest critics, alexei navalny, is being treated in hospital in germany after a suspected poisoning. mr navalny collapsed onboard a plane after drinking a cup of tea at the airport.
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jis supporters believe it had been laced with poison. russian doctors said they found no trace of any poison. damian mcguiness reports from berlin. after days of stalemate, kremlin critic alexei navalny has arrived here, at the charite hospital in berlin. on thursday, he collapsed into a coma on an internal flight to moscow. russian doctors say they found no evidence that mr navalny had been poisoned. but his family and supporters believe he was. they hope he will recover, now that he's in germany. i'm sure that they can treat him and do everything to eliminate this toxic agent from his body. and i hope that in germany they have such a high level of medicine, we have no such opportunities in russia as german doctors have. the flight to germany was organised by a berlin based ngo, that has also helped other russian activists in the past.
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he's in critical condition. the most important thing is that he's stable after the flight. but this doesn't mean anything for the future. this hospital is very used to dealing with controversial political figures. just two years ago, another russian political activist was also treated here, also for suspected poisoning. now, we don't know for definite if alexei navalny was in fact poisoned or not. but hat‘s what german doctors here are going to have to try to find out. alexei navalny is russia's highest profile opposition leader and he is a ferocious critic of vladimir putin, who he accuses of corruption. last year, he fell ill but whatever german doctors here discover, germany's government will be keen to avoid this turning into a diplomatic row between berlin and moscow. damien mcguinness, bbc news, berlin.
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let's get the thoughts now of the anti—corruption journalist — ilya lozovsky who joins me now from sarajevo. what was the first thing that went through your mind when you heard that mr navalny had been taken in in this way? i thought, that mr navalny had been taken in in this way? ithought, oh that mr navalny had been taken in in this way? i thought, oh no, that mr navalny had been taken in in this way? ithought, oh no, not that mr navalny had been taken in in this way? i thought, oh no, not him, because he really is the most prominent opposition politician and one of the most effective investigators of russian corruption, and it was really shocking and, you know, i am and it was really shocking and, you know, iam reallyjust and it was really shocking and, you know, i am reallyjust thinking of him and hoping he'll recover. it is one of those moments where you'll remember where you were. i'm sure that many of his supporters and admirers will feel the same and are looking for those updates out in a hospital in germany. i suppose i think people are most interested to know apart from his condition is what actually happened, whether he was poisoned or not, because the
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russian doctors were saying we couldn't find any traces of anything, they thought it was a metabolic reaction? well, this is one of those cases where it's going to be hard ever to know definitively what happened, and in the past when kremlin critics, opposition leaders, journalists have been poisoned there's never been an effective investigation so that the strategy of plausible deniability. we may never know definitively what happened and he was behind it and it is very, very unlikely that any independent investigation will ever be launched when they are saying that one of the reasons may be that he was kept for several days in 0msk before being allowed to be evacuated was to allow time for the poison if there is a need to clear his body, so this is just a really fundamental feature of the system that vladimir putin has built in russia. it is not a system where independent courts can resolve these things. can you explain to our viewers what impact alexei navalny has been able to make and how he's done that, because it seems that a lot of his targets have
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not really been politicians, they've been people in the business community, for example. how has he managed to expose some of the things they would prefer not to have been exposed? he is a really clever and really effective investigator. you know, one of the clever things he did very early in his career was he bought shares in russian oil companies which entitled him to have some rights to know, to view internal financial documents of those companies, and that is how he did some of his very first investigations when he was still basically just a investigations when he was still basicallyjust a blogger doing it by himself, and since then he has built a really effective team around himself. you know, ispoke a really effective team around himself. you know, i spoke to one of his researches yesterday, and these arejust his researches yesterday, and these are just really... you his researches yesterday, and these arejust really... you know, i work foran arejust really... you know, i work for an invested organisation, the organised crime and corruption reporting project so i know how these things work, and these people are these things work, and these people a re really these things work, and these people are really top class not only in the depth of the investigation they are able to do but in how they present these things to russian viewers and how they make it understandable and how they make it understandable and how they make it understandable and
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how they tie it all together and show that these are fundamental features of modern russia and i think that has stoked so much outrage and that is how he has become so well—known and so effective, even though he has never been allowed to really take on public office, you know. whenever he i’u ns public office, you know. whenever he runs for office he is disqualified in various technicalities so he can't really break through using normal politics, so he has really made a name for himself and really exposed to salt of the rotten heart of this system through his video investigations, which are really remarkable in quality and, you know, we alljust remarkable in quality and, you know, we all just really remarkable in quality and, you know, we alljust really admire even though it's not strictly speaking journalistic sometimes because, you know, it is not like he is a journalist he must remain evenhanded and who needs to give the other side and who needs to give the other side an opportunity to speak, so, you know, he is still an activist, he is still a politician, but the way he communicates this to his audience and really effective. he is a social media career in some ways on the way that he kind of pops up and i saw
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the work he did —— social media guerilla. some of the work he had been exposing prime minister... had been exposing prime minister... had been seen by a huge proportion of the population as a result of that. you can imagine that he has made a lot of enemies. do you think you might this instance, assuming he recovers and obviously everyone hope she does, that he might rethink its role? because he has for example stayed out of that whole debate about whether or not mr putin should be able to extend his time in office so he seems to have become a little bit more selective about some of his political campaigning. he doesn't strike me as a kind of person who is going to give up, and he has been targeted before, you know. he has been threatened with jail time, he has been attacked with caustic chemicals before, there was a potential even more minor poisoning last year, i think, or may be the year before, which may be... it's not really clear what happens. but the point is he has been targeted repeatedly and he is not given up before and i don't think he will, i
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certainly hope not. but that is for him to decide and he has a family and he has to think of his safety too of course. he certainly does. an anti corruption journalist there, thank you very much for speaking to us on thank you very much for speaking to us on bbc news. a 64—year—old man has beenjailed for four weeks on the isle of man for failing to self—isolate on his return to the island. he was held in custody overnight and appeared before court via a live video link this morning. six years ago, the life of the pakistan schoolboy, ahmad nawaz changed forever when his school was targeted by taliban gunmen. the attack left more than 130 children dead. ahmad — then aged 14 — only survived by playing dead. the road to recovery has been long, but ahmad's life is about to change again — he's accepted a place to study at oxford university. bbc asian network's shabnam mahmood reports. that was a horrible day. i will never be able to forget the things that happened that day.
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december 2014, over 130 children and their teachers died in an attack by the taliban on a school in peshawar, in pakistan. my friends being killed, of course, in front of my eyes, and that's one of the pictures i will never be able to forget. ahmad nawaz, who also lost his younger brother in the massacre, was shot in the arm. it shattered the bone at that time, and i had to go through 11 surgeries. so severe were his injuries, he was flown to a birmingham hospital, which specialises in trauma surgery. i met him shortly after his operation. he explained how he'd played dead to stay alive. i kept quiet and showed myself dead to them and my shirt was fully red and my face also was fully red so therefore
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they think that he has died. having made the uk his home, ahmad is determined to do well. now, he has secured a place at oxford university to study philosophy. i feel extremely proud having come from such an atrocity a few years ago. i feel this is a success not only for myself but also all the people who were shot in that attack. like his friend malala yousafzai, who also survived a taliban attack he is no less ambitious. i would also like to help people through my own organisation which i am setting up to try and empower people to eradicate extremism from the world. going to oxford university is a dream come true for the teenager who lived through one of the deadliest terror attacks. i think my survival was a miracle in a sense, and now i am just
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trying my best to make sure that i can do something in the second chance that i have been given. very good luck to him when he starts at oxford. small music venues are being thrown a lifeline this week, with 135 of those most at risk of closing getting emergency funding. the troubadour in london, where adele and ed sheeran performed early gigs, and the jacaranda in liverpool, where the beatles held early rehearsals, are among the recipients of the government's culture recovery fund. here's lizo mzimba with more. artists ranging from chrissie hynde to paul young and bands ranging from motorhead to u2 have played here at the horn in st albans. it's one of 135 music venues across england that are receiving emergency grants from the government. the money's been welcomed by hard—hit venues that might otherwise be facing closure over the next few months. after that, though, there's still uncertainty. whether it's going to be enough long—term, i doubt it.

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