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Durham City MP, Mary Foy, has re-established the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), Friends of Durham University.
The group, which was first established by Foy’s predecessor, Roberta Blackman-Wood, is chaired by Mary Foy, and Richard Holden, MP for North-West Durham, Kevan Jones, MP for North Durham, Paul Howell, MP for Sedgefield, and Graham Brady, MP for Altrincham and Sale West, will serve as Vice-Chairs.
Peter Gibson, MP for Darlington, will serve as secretary, while Kate Osborne, MP for Jarrow, will be an officer of the group, with Durham University acting as the secretariat.
“By re-establishing the APPG, we will be able to increase academia’s role in policy-making and to promote the work of Durham University at a national level.”
KIRKLEES is among eight places across the country where people are being urged against all but essential travel in and out of the area. It s in a bid to bring the Indian variant of Covid-19 under control, with Kirklees one of the areas where it is spreading the fastest. Latest figures show it has the fourth highest infection rate in the country, behind Bolton, Blackburn with Darwen and Bedford. The other areas identified are: Bedford Borough Council; Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council; Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council; Burnley Borough Council; Leicester City Council; London Borough of Hounslow; North Tyneside Council. The Government advice states: The new Covid-19 variant spreads more easily from person to person. To help stop the spread, you should take particular caution when meeting anyone outside your household or support bubble.
by Rajan Philips
The government may have wanted to change the political channel from gloomy pandemic news to hopefully sunshine Port City news. Instead, the government is stuck on a split screen with double-whammy news stories. On the left half, you can see a botched-up Port City Bill, heavily bandaged by the Supreme Court, limping through parliament with as many amendments as there are commas. On the right half, is the daily and depressing news of rising Covid-19 infections, mounting deaths, multiplying variants, shortage of hospital beds, long winding queues for short supplies of vaccine, and new restorations of old restrictions. In the background, you can see the burning silhouette of Modi’s India, a subcontinent of mass cremations. The images sum up the Sri Lankan government’s quandary. Desperate for China’s helping hand in Port City, the government’s default setting for managing the pandemic in Sri Lanka has been to follow Modi’s disastrous footsteps in India.