Tag: London (England)
London Schools Are Determined to Stay Open. Staff Illnesses Make It Hard.
LONDON — Evelyn Forde hoped that January would bring some relief.As the head teacher at Copthall School in north London,…
Despite Omicron Wave, Britons Are Set on Not Losing Another Christmas
LONDON — Under the exuberant Christmas decorations strung above one of London’s most famous shopping streets, presents filled the arms…
Selling Luxury Apartments Where Oliver Twist Once Asked for Gruel
When the building was threatened with destruction, in 2007, Professor Black and a charity devoted to Georgian-era architecture tried to…
U.K. System Strained as Health Care Workers Get Covid Themselves
LONDON — In the hospital in southwest England where Joanna Poole works as an intensive care doctor and anesthesiologist, the…
U.K. Weighing Lockdown Amid an Omicron Wave and Political Turmoil
LONDON — With coronavirus cases in Britain exploding, driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant, the government is leaving open…
‘Social Detonator’: In Artist’s Work, and Life, Different Classes Collide
LONDON — When he was a boy, Oscar Murillo told his best friend he was moving to London, but his…