Northern Ireland). In England, working in the construction industry remained a reasonable excuse for employees to leave their home for work purposes and allowed construction sites to stay open.
The government s
COVID-19 Response – spring 2021 (22 February 2021) introduced the government s roadmap out of the third lockdown, explaining how restrictions will be lifted over time.
Industry and government guidance
Industry bodies continue to publish useful guidance to assist businesses dealing with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The seventh version of the
Site Operating Procedures (SOP) was published by the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) on 7 January 2021. The SOP provides guidance on how to protect your workforce and operate sites during COVID-19. The changes are minor according to the CLC, including updated guidance on self-isolation and shielding and the removal of the requirement to display a QR code in site canteens .
Flood protection project continues on the Ouse Washes
Further year of work ahead as the scheme to raise the banks of the Ouse Washes flood storage reservoir continues.
From: Works to raise the banks of the Ouse Washes
The project to raise the Middle Level Barrier Bank to improve the Ouse Washes flood storage reservoir will maintain the standard of flood protection to more than 2,000 properties and 67,000 hectares of agricultural land.
As the washes are an internationally important habitat, construction work will continue during summer and early autumn to avoid disturbing breeding and over-wintering birds.
The improvement works underway will ensure compliance with recommendations made by the reservoir inspecting engineer. As such, it has a statutory deadline for completion under the Reservoirs Act 1975.
Scotland s answer to Cornwall (without the crowds)
George Orwell declared this remote Hebridean outlier as extremely ungetatable
Forget Cornwall – head to Jura instead
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There is something about Jura; there must be. George Orwell declared this remote Hebridean outlier “extremely ungetatable”, but then spent years writing his darkly dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four here, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty (aka the KLF) torched a cool £1 million there in 1994, and this year Greg Coffey, the retired Australian hedge fund owner, will launch a golf course already hailed not only as one of the best in Scotland, but anywhere.
Not that the population of 6,000 deer takes much notice; on Jura (which means “deer” in Norse) they are more interested in munching on grass in the mountains that frame perhaps the most inspiring and off-the-wall of Scotland’s Inner Hebrides.
Near Forres, Morayshire From the north of Scotland to northern Africa, lore associating the daffodil with new beginnings and prosperity is found wherever these jolly harbingers bloom. A place to see hosts of the golden flowers is Brodie Castle in Morayshire which has been associated with daffodils since it held its first specialist exhibition in 1899. Over the next decades, Ian Brodie, the 24th laird, developed over 400 varieties. Many of Brodie’s were subsequently lost, and the National Trust for Scotland is still recovering what varieties it can. A few years ago, two extremely rare types were returned after being discovered in Australia, and now spring visitors can enjoy more than 100 varieties in the grounds of the rose-coloured turreted castle, which is also home to the National Collection of Narcissus.
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