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Jeff Bezoss ex-wife MacKenzie Scott marries Seattle school science teacher Changes to Ms Scotts web presence indicate she has shared her estimated $53bn fortune with Dan Jewett, a teacher at a private school 8 March 2021 • 2:48am Dan Jewett, left, and MacKenzie Scott, in a picture posted to their Giving Pledge page Credit: The Giving Pledge/Dan Jewett and MacKenzie Scott MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has remarried to a high school science teacher in her adopte...

Marie Curie has launched a campaign titled National Day of Reflection - devised to bring the nation together to remember those who died during the pandemic.

Tuesday, 9 March 2021, 7:13 am (Left to right; Callum and Louise, Citizens Advice Bureau volunteers, sharing a moment at an event) The town of Wellsford | Whakapirau is the northern-most town in the Auckland region and sits midway between Auckland and Whangarei. Among its friendly residents are Callum and Louise, volunteers with the Citizens Advice Bureau. Louise began volunteering for the CAB in 1986 and celebrated her 35th year as a volunteer. “I was one of the originals, when the bureau ...

Bramcote boy wants to help find a cure for brothers rare illness that causes tumours 07:17, 8 MAR 2021 (L- R) Dylan Ward, 13 and Oscar Ward, nine, pictured at home in Bramcote, Nottingham. (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Nottingham Post) Never miss another Nottinghamshire story by signing up to our free email updatesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used i...

George Plumptre with Mary Berry at the NGS stand, Chelsea, 2019 Credit: Andrew Crowlet There’s no heart-warming tale from George Plumptre’s boyhood about how he grew to love gardens from helping his mother plant lupins in the herbaceous borders of Goodnestone Park or from watching a broad bean sprout in a bottle. The chief executive of the National Garden Scheme struggles to remember a single moment of horticultural awakening. No. He and his four brothers were too busy rampaging through the...

Monday, 8 March 2021, 7:54 am Resene customers have tipped the total number of cans of food delivered during the Hunger for Colour Appeal to a staggering 275,000 cans. Held every February for the last seven years, the Resene Hunger for Colour Appeal sees cans swapped instore for Resene testpots. The cans bolster The Salvation Army’s Foodbanks at just the right time. “Our Foodbanks are often depleted at the start of the year, when many people rely on them to put food on the table after mee...

“Families need it to help them balance work & caring responsibilities. NHS needs it too. Huge mistake.” Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt also questioned the lack of help for social care in Rishi Sunak’s Budget. While Mr Hunt welcomed an “impressive” and “reassuring” statement, he added there was “little hope” for the social care sector which had been “bruised and demoralised after most devastating year in its history”. “Understand money is difficult to commit at this ...

Prioritisation of COVID Vaccinations for Vulnerable Families Kia Ora Rt. Honourable Jacinda Ardern, As the largest charitable funder of child health research in New Zealand, Cure Kids urges the Government to prioritise our most vulnerable children ...

Help Us Feed South Jersey With Your Donation During Our Radiothon SoJO 104.9 and our fellow Townsquare Media South Jersey radio stations are holding a  Hunger is a very real problem right now. An ongoing one, even though weve come around to the one year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic reaching the Garden State. Thousands of our neighbors right here in South Jersey are living with food insecurity. In fact, according to Community Food Bank of New Jersey Southern Branch, 1 in 5 kids in the state ...

Thursday, 4 March 2021, 6:22 pm On the 27 th of February, youth across 7 cities in New Zealand came out in full force to join city-wide marches organized by Rise for Lives (RFL), a youth movement focused on bringing awareness and action for humanitarian causes. Youth members of R4L from across the country staged a peace march with the goal of bringing awareness to the crisis in Yemen, asking for the NZ government and international governments to take action and move in the direction of peace....