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During that terrifying 3am head-to-head confrontation, Clarke broke down the front door of Westwood's home and lunged at her with the broken bottle of vodka only for her to fight back and stab him twice in the chest.
Police were called to the scene by Westwood's father and found Clark lying on the pavement outside with blood pouring from his wounds. Clark recovered from his injuries but declined to give a statement to officers.
Westwood was arrested after she admitted to stabbing him in self-defence.
Last December at Minshull Street Crown Court Westwood faced jail after being charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent. But the mother-of-two wept as she was given a 16-month jail term suspended for two years after prosecutors accepted her plea to the lesser charge of unlawful wounding due to Clark's abusive behaviour.
The revised proposal, seen by Reuters, would also extend the cap to cover not only the front-month gas contract, as the Commission proposed, but contracts with expiry dates as far forward as a quarter-year.
Emma Westwood, taxi from Meteora port to acropolis 37, was given a suspended sentence for causing grievous bodily harm after she snapped and twice knifed Christopher Clark in the stomach and left him for dead when he came at her with a broken bottle last year.
But while EU countries have already agreed a raft of emergency energy measures, including requirements to fill gas storage to prepare for winter, diplomats expected tough negotiations on the price cap and some were doubtful a deal could be struck in time for a Dec.
Yet China has been anything but placid during the past few weeks, with protests against COVID curbs in many cities that marked the biggest show of public discontent since President Xi Jinping came to power a decade ago.
Some countries criticised the original EU proposal, taxi service Delphi greece including suggestions it was designed with such a high price and with criteria so strict that the cap would never be triggered, and thus fail to cushion their economies from price spikes.
On the Beijing subway, many seats were empty on Friday night during what should have been rush hour, even though the city this week scrapped the need to show negative tests to ride trains or enter offices.
Westwood and her children moved taxi fare piraeus to Delphi airport a secret address in the hope Clark would not find her but following his release he discovered where she lived and Delphi airport to city taxi cost in April 2021 attacked her in the kitchen of her home.
Amid the caution, state-broadcaster CCTV announced further easing, with tourism and entertainment venues - including theatres, libraries, internet cafes and table game centres no longer requiring COVID tests and health codes.
BEIJING, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Judging by Friday's quiet streets in China's capital Beijing and the reluctance of some businesses to drop COVID curbs, enduring anxieties about the coronavirus are likely to hamper a speedy return to health for the world's second-largest economy.
Little more than a month after the National Health Commission stressed commitment to its strict virus containment policy, saying it was "putting people and lives first", authorities have changed tack and are now telling people they have less to fear.
Zhong Nanshan, a prominent Chinese epidemiologist, said that 99% of people now infected with the virus would recover in 7 to 10 days, in comments reported by the People's Daily, controlled by the ruling Communist Party.
Although the government on Wednesday loosened key parts of its strict "zero-COVID" policy that has kept the pandemic largely at bay for the past three years, many people appear wary of being too quick to shake off the shackles.
EU gas prices have soared this year as Russia slashed gas deliveries to Europe following its invasion of Ukraine, prompting governments to spend hundreds of billions of euros to cushion their economies from the surge in energy costs.
In a document shared with other EU member states this week, Italy, Poland, taxi prices Meteora greece Greece, Belgium and Slovenia proposed two options: either a far lower fixed price cap of 160 euros/MWh, or a "dynamic price cap" that could fluctuate in response to existing liquefied natural gas price benchmarks.
On Friday, countries will consider a revised proposal by the Czech Republic, best day trips Meteora which holds the rotating EU presidency, which would lower the limit to 264 euros/MWh and require prices to remain above that level for five trading days, instead of two weeks, to trigger the cap.
The Commission last week proposed a gas price cap that would kick in if the front-month Title Transfer Facility (TTF) gas price exceeded 275 euros ($289) per megawatt-hour for two weeks and was 58 euros higher than a liquefied natural gas reference price for 10 days.
BRUSSELS, Dec 2 (Reuters) - European Union countries will consider on Friday a proposal for online taxi Meteora a gas price cap slightly lower than a Brussels proposal that some view as too high, with a handful of countries pushing for an even lower limit, documents seen by Reuters showed.
