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A Fenland councillor called for Royal Family support to get the Queen Elizabeth Hospital at King’s Lynn re-built.

A Fenland councillor called for Royal Family support to get the Queen Elizabeth Hospital at King’s Lynn re-built.

A Fenland councillor called for Royal Family support to get the Queen Elizabeth Hospital at King’s Lynn re-built.

(WDSU) COVID-19 cases in southeast Louisiana are on the rise at a startling rate mainly due to the Delta variant, and New Orleans is the metropolitan epicenter of all things COVID. New Orleans businesses have already started to respond. Three well-known popular music establishments are now requiring proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test from the past 72 hours to enter. Starting this weekend, Tipitinas, Maple Leaf Bar and d.b.a. will not let you in just because you say you were vacci...

While State Sens. Karen Carter Peterson and Troy Carter largely agreed with each other during Louisiana Considered’s 30-minute debate Friday, the two Democrats also offered differing views on a couple of key topics, including health care, the minimum wage and whether they’d support a boycott of Louisiana events if the state legislature passed restrictive voting measures. There were also several testy exchanges between the candidates over some of the recent campaign rhetoric and advertisemen...

While State Sens. Karen Carter Peterson and Troy Carter largely agreed with each other during Louisiana Considered’s 30-minute debate Friday, the two Democrats also offered differing views on a couple of key topics, including health care, the minimum wage and whether they’d support a boycott of Louisiana events if the state legislature passed restrictive voting measures. There were also several testy exchanges between the candidates over some of the recent campaign rhetoric and advertiseme...

While State Sens. Karen Carter Peterson and Troy Carter largely agreed with each other during Louisiana Considered’s 30-minute debate Friday, the two Democrats also offered differing views on a couple of key topics, including health care, the minimum wage and whether they’d support a boycott of Louisiana events if the state legislature passed restrictive voting measures. There were also several testy exchanges between the candidates over some of the recent campaign rhetoric and advertisemen...

Cllr Gavin Booth, of the Liberal Democrats, said: “When this came to the overview and scrutiny committee, we said this year wasn’t the right year to be changing it because it does hit those on the lowest incomes. “From the [public consultation] feedback, you can see a lot of those people are working but on very low incomes. He added: “What you’ve got here is hitting the very poorest in society at a time when they are being hit with the constraints of having to work with Covid-19 aroun...

Published: 9:09 PM February 26, 2021    Updated: 5:24 PM March 1, 2021 Cllr Will Sutton tells other Fenland councillors a little dickie bird told him MP Steve Barclay had asked his local Conservative association to return a £10,000 lockdown grant - Credit: FDC/House of Commons Independent councillor Will Sutton claims that MP Steve Barclay called for his constituency association to return a £10,000 small business rate relief grant they received from the Government.   Mr Barclay, the MP f...

Published: 11:59 AM February 24, 2021    Updated: 12:00 PM February 24, 2021 Fenland councillors observed two silences on Tuesday: firstly for Capt Sir Tom Moore. Then a second silence for all those in Fenland who have died of the coronavirus. - Credit: Archant Fenland councillors paused twice yesterday (Tuesday) to hold a minute’s silence.  Firstly, they were invited by chairman Alex Miscandlon to a observe a minute’s silence to remember Capt Sir Tom Moore.  Cllr Miscandlon describe...