The newly-announced strikes will see staff walk out for a total of 20 days, covering spring bank holiday and school half-term holidays.

BBC: British Airways strike dates announced

And lungworts (Pulmonaria), one of the first shade-loving perennials to return each spring, have white polka dots covering their spiky green leaves.

WSJ: It's Better in the Shade

Novruz, Nowrouz, Nooruz, Navruz, Nauroz or Nevruz marks the New Year and the beginning of spring across a vast geographical area covering, inter alia, Azerbaijan, India, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Turkey and Uzbekistan.

UNESCO: Culture

But in recent years, live-blogging has also become the default approach to covering much harder breaking news stories: the uprisings of the Arab spring, the phone-hacking scandal in the UK and the Norway shootings, for example, were all covered in live blogs on almost all major news platforms.

CNN: The global appeal of 'sticky' live blogs

As of spring 2011, the administration had granted more than thirteen hundred waivers to employers covering an estimated three million people or families.

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