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More organisations join Wirral’s emergency food hub AN emergency food hubs efforts to ensure vulnerable people across Wirral are not going hungry during lockdown have been bolstered by support from organisations who have joined to help out. Within days of the latest national lockdown being announced, Wirral Council and Wirral Foodbank joined forces to get the borough’s Emergency Food Hub up-and-running again, with more than 350 food boxes delivered to local people in need i...

Updated: January 25, 2021, 7:35 pm The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have sent a message to staff at NHS Tayside thanking them for their work and wishing them well on Burns Night (Kensington Palace/NHS Tayside) Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up The royal family have wished Scots around the globe a happy Burns Night with ...

Royal family wish Scots happy Burns Night Updated: 25/01/2021, 7:34 pm The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have sent a message to staff at NHS Tayside thanking them for their work and wishing them well on Burns Night (Kensington Palace/NHS Tayside) The royal family have wished Scots around the globe a happy Burns Night with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s charity sending NHS workers a traditional Scottish treat. Staff from a Dundee hospital enjoyed a celebration lunch of haggis, neeps and t...

Royal family wish Scots happy Burns Night Updated: January 25, 2021, 7:34 pm The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have sent a message to staff at NHS Tayside thanking them for their work and wishing them well on Burns Night (Kensington Palace/NHS Tayside) The royal family have wished Scots around the globe a happy Burns Night with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s charity sending NHS workers a traditional Scottish treat. Staff from a Dundee hospital enjoyed a celebration lunch of haggis, neeps...

Over the festive season Melita Ltd made donations totalling €27,500 to various charitable organisations. These donations went to The Malta Community Chest Fund Foundation, Puttinu Cares, Dar Bjorn and Dar tal-Providenza. Harald Roesch, CEO at Melita Ltd, said: “At the end of a tough year, Melita remained committed to helping the community as much as possible. In addition to these donations, we continue to wholeheartedly support the work of The Melita Foundation, which continually welcomes a...

A global assessment commissioned by the UN Forum on Forests concluded that COVID-19 has affected forests across the globe – hurting ecotourism, impeding conservation efforts and in some parts, crippling forest management budgets. But the authors are optimistic that the role of forests in post-pandemic recovery has never been clearer The Sierra Juárez forest, in the state of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. The UN Forum on Forests was among the first intergovernmental processes to take steps to a...

Sloans demolition project in Wick needs additional funding to fix gable end By David G Scott  |  Updated: 17:38, 21 January 2021 Get the Courier and Groat sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the days newspaper An additional funding of £12,000 was approved by the Caithness Committee today to fix "inappropriate and unsatisfactory" stonework after demolition of the former Sloans building in Wick. Members of Highland Council’s Caithness Committee approved...

IPS A long-running gag says “in Zimbabwe there is freedom of speech, but no freedom after the speech”. But for journalists and activists who have been forced to endure nights in the country’s overcrowded and filthy holding cells, this is no laughing matter as prison inmates have no personal protective equipment to guard against COVID-19. And when government spokesperson Nick Mangwana warned ominously last year that, “No one is above the law,” it only confirmed what many here have alwa...

LifeCycle Malta Foundation Donates €25,000 to UM Research Trust (RIDT)   The LifeCycle Malta Foundation is donating a sum of €25,000 to the University of Malta’s Research, Innovation & Development Trust (RIDT) for its investigation into polycystic kidney disease (PKD)!     The foundation’s chairperson, Dr. Shirley Cefai, thanked Nestlé Malta for making this sponsorship possible, referring to it as a ‘team effort despite the challenging times’.     The research, ‘Genotype-Ph...

  Article PICTURES: Ross-shire review of 2020 - concluding part of a look back over the year no one will forget By Hector MacKenzie  |  Updated: 08:37, 16 January 2021 Get the Ross-shire Journal sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the days newspaper John Gordon with daughters Savannah (9) and Alexa (7) at The Egg Box. DOES 2020 already seem like a distant memory - or has the continued concern over the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic made not just the days, ...