The founder of Dewsbury-based arts organisation Manasamitra is set to open the Cultural Assembly at the Southbank Centre in London on Sunday, September 3.
XBB.1.5 is a new Covid subvariant that was first detected in October - nicknamed The Kraken, it has surged through the US and Canada recently.
It has been exactly 60 years since Her Majesty the Queen, along with her husband, Prince Philip, The Duke Of Edinburgh, went on their first historic state visit to the two Commonwealth nations of India and Pakistan in summer 1961.
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