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PARENTS of children with complex needs have described the new short breaks service introduced by the county council as a disaster.

A community news service in New York’s Hudson Valley is finding out the hard way.

The 6ft soldiers in Hampton Court, west London, were hand-made from scrap metal collected by Dan Barton ahead of this years Poppy Appeal.

New cases have approximately doubled in each of the last three weeks. Cumbria’s case rate of 76 per 100,000 population remains below the national (98/100k) and regional averages (233/100k). 19 of the top 20 worst affected Local Authority areas are in the North West. Infection rates vary significantly between age groups, with rates in the 12-24 age group in Cumbria sitting at 243/100k compared to just 16/100k among the over 60s. This high case rate among young people is being seen mo...

Forian Inc.  (NASDAQ: FORA), a provider of technology, analytics and data science driven solutions for the healthcare and cannabis industries, today announced results for its fiscal first quarter ended March 31, 2021. "This quarter was transformational for Forian. We completed a strategic business combination with Helix Technologies and further positioned ourselves to be a disruptive leader in delivering high value technology and information solutions to customers across the healthcare and ev...

For the three months ended March 31, which includes 29 days with Helix under its umbrella, Forian saw revenue jump year-over-year to $1.6 million from...

The The AdvisorShares Pure US Cannabis ETF (NYSE:MSOS): dropped 6.3%. The The The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY) was up 0.9%, after recovering from Thursdays losses on Friday afternoon. One move that pretty much flew under the radar: Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., owner of Circle K, boosted its stake in Canadian cannabis company Fire & Flower Holdings Corp.  (OTCQX:FFLWF), converting roughly $52 million it held in debt to equity. Following the transaction, the retail giant will own 1...

Shannon Douglas, from Consett, joins Fagron A NORTH-EAST pharmaceutical firm is gearing up for growth after kick starting the year with a new hire. Personalised medicine firm Fagron, based in Newcastle, has strengthened its UK team with a Shannon Douglas, a County Durham woman who previously interned for AstraZeneca. Personalised medicine, or pharmaceutical compounding, is the design, development and production of customised pharmaceutical products, for example with an alternative dosage ...

Soon shell be speaking with language keepers and mentors from all across the province, beginning with those here on the traditional territory of the Lheidli Tenneh. "My inspiration truly was my late grandmother Mary Gouchie and just being an Indigenous person knowing that languages are such a vital part of our culture," she said. There are very few Lheidli language speakers left and Gouchie knows that even within that language there are different dialects and to preserve the language for fut...

Superhero artwork lands in Keswick Wonderwoman An exclusive collection of limited edition superhero artwork from the DC Comics universe is on display in Keswick. Art gallery Treeby & Bolton, on Lakes Road, is the only gallery in Cumbria to display the artwork by DC and Marvel illustrator Alex Ross. The collection includes illustrations of the much-loved superheroes Wonderwoman, Superman, Batman and villains including Batman’s arch nemesis The Joker. Ross is one of the most sought-after com...