Many of us here in Swindon have enjoyed spending time at the Oasis Leisure Centre over the years, including my own family, so I was extremely concerned to see this important and much-loved community amenity close. The Save Oasis Campaign has been doing an excellent job of raising the profile of the Oasis and has attracted support from former Olympian Sharron Davies MBE, former Olympic Swimmer Rebecca Adlington OBE and our very own Olympic swimmer Jazz Carlin, who has fond memories of swimming at the Oasis Leisure Centre as a child. Justin Tomlinson MP and I am keen to find a way forward that will allow the Oasis to reopen and for improvements to be made to this much-loved amenity. I contacted GLL this week to press for the lease to be handed back, I was informed by them that they are still working to surrender the lease and that they are hoping that this will be concluded shortly.
27 January 2021 - Submitted by Olivia Powell Submitted by Olivia Powell on 27 January 2021
De Vere Cotswold Water Park, part of De Vere’s collection of house estates, hotels and event destinations, has announced that it will be donating laptops to schools in Swindon and Gloucester to support families with home schooling as part of the government s Get Help With Technology scheme.
As schools have had to pivot to online learning due to the current lockdown, De Vere Cotswold Water Park is donating ten laptops to the Dorcan Academy, Swindon, to help ensure students can access learning resources during the pandemic.
Peter Sangster, venue director at De Vere Cotswold Water Park, said: “It is a challenging time for families facing home schooling, especially those who don’t have the equipment they need, so we are absolutely delighted that we are able to donate laptops to schools in Gloucester and Swindon. We want to ensu
DfE laptops for home-schooling found to contain malware
‘Small number’ of machines affected by what users say is a worm that contacts Russian servers
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26 Jan 2021
Laptops distributed to schools as part of government’s £250m programme to support remote learning have been found to feature malware that reportedly causes the computers to “contact Russian servers”.
Posts on an online forum for teachers, first reported on by the BBC, revealed that some schools had found that, upon activating devices they had been given for the first time “it was discovered that a number of the laptops are infected with a self-propagating network worm [called] Gamarue.I”.