Paramedic praised for extra shifts to help with vaccination programme
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Updated: 11:06, 25 January 2021
A newly qualified paramedic has been praised for going over and above to help the NHS during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Lewis Samways-Head spent three years on a paramedic science degree course at the Medway campus of Canterbury Christ Church University, and qualified in April this year as the pandemic worsened.
Lewis Samways-Head working at Tonbridge Cottage Hospital
But alongside working in his role for South East Coast Ambulance Service, Lewis has also started helping Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT) with the vaccination programme, doing temporary or bank shifts.
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Research from the University of Kent has demonstrated a decline in son preference by women of childbearing age in Bangladesh. However, the study also shows that fertility decisions are still influenced according to son preference.
The paper, Is son preference disappearing from Bangladesh? , surveyed a nationally representative sample of Bangladeshi women of childbearing age, born between 1975 and 1994, to assess how son preference is evolving.
The term son preference refers to any situation where parents value sons over daughters and make resulting choices accordingly, which can have a strong economic and demographic impact.
The study finds that among women of childbearing age in Bangladesh, son preference is giving way to a desire for gender balance, a consequence of increased female education and employment. However, in contrast to these stated fertility preferences, actual fertility decisions are still shaped by son preference.
Kent s forgotten jail - Canterbury Prison which held the Kray twins and double murderer Michael Stone
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Updated: 15:32, 29 January 2021
The quiet market town of Canterbury began to swell in the 19th Century, ramping demand for a new jail house, or gaol.
And so Canterbury Prison was built on land adjoining the Roman road of Longport, which exists today.
Canterbury prison. Photograph: Alan Wells
Architect George Byfield in 1805 drew plans for not only a jail but a separate workcamp, or âhouse of correctionâ joined together by a âsessions houseâ, or court.
Completed in 1808 to the tune of £14,856, the plot would become a wholesale mini-village designed to hand out criminal justice, and replace Her Majesty Prisonsâ less ambitious jail in St Dunstan.
Kent students call for university tuition fees to be reduced amid third lockdown
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Updated: 16:19, 08 January 2021
Thousands of Kent students are calling for tuition fees to be lowered as they are forced to once again study remotely due to the pandemic.
They have signed a petition calling for the Government to help reduce university fees from £9,250 to £3,000 - as lockdown rules mean the majority of students will be learning online until at least mid-February.
Louis Eaves is among thousands of students calling for tuition fees to be reduced. Picture: Louis Eaves
It has already garnered more than 500,000 signatures, with Canterbury among areas with the highest number of signatories.