A MUM from Whitehaven has joined an illustrious and select group including footballer Marcus Rashford and Malala Yousafzai by winning a prestigious Fred and Ann Jarvis award. Julie Rayson, now deputy mayor of Whitehaven was a parent at the troubled school when she and others formed Whitehaven Academy Action Group in 2016. She was nominated by NEU’s Cumbria District. The award recognises the central role you played in the campaign to expose and challenge Bright Tribe Trust’s management of the Whitehaven Academy. The campaign also drew attention to wider issues in the trust’s management and in so doing exposed some of the worst excesses of academisation .
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There were only nine patients with COVID-19 in Windsor Regional Hospital on Friday.
Yet, starting Monday, elective surgery will be cancelled, for the third time in the last year.
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We’re not preparing for a surge here. It’s to accommodate patients from Toronto, Ottawa and other cities where cases are soaring.
Like the third lockdown announced last week and the second stay-at-home order this week, largely to check runaway spread in other regions, Ontario’s edict cancelling elective surgeries will be bitter news to people whose procedures are postponed, God forbid, a second or third time.
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People ages 55 and older can now get the AstraZeneca vaccine at pharmacies.
It’s difficult to describe the relief that flooded through me when the government announced this.
But as much as I want it, it’s difficult to justify. I’m not a priority. Not any more.
I’m healthy. I don’t live in a postal code that’s a hot spot. My office is my kitchen counter. My husband also works from home.
My risk of being infected, or infecting others, is much lower than that of essential frontline workers who can’t work from home, like teachers and grocery store and factory employees.
Poultry breeder expected to re-launch bid for chicken farm near Perthshire village
Aviagen withdrew plans for the unit to be built close to houses and the local school in Murthly, but the company is expected to put forward a new proposal on an alternative site
Murdo Fraser and Anne Jarvis believe a fresh application will be submitted (Image: perthshireadvertiser)
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