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Peter Fenwick is a neuropsychiatrist and neurophysiologist who has undertaken various studies in the end-of-life phenomena. During an interview he explained what “deathbed visitors” are and when they may appear.
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Speaking to Dr Jens Rohrbeck, Dr Fenwick said: “A few weeks before you die you get deathbed visitors.
A BRADFORD councillor is hoping to “champion and celebrate” women from across the district as she prepares to host a special Zoom event this evening. Councillor Fozia Shaheen, of the Toller ward, has stressed the importance of recognising women’s “successes and achievements” – especially amid the pandemic – following on from International Women’s Day earlier this week. Cllr Shaheen, who is also the founder and director of Dream Big Aim High – a Girlington-based organisation which aims to support people with issues around mental health, learning disabilities, education, fitness and employment – added that many of the women who have been working tirelessly on the frontline against coronavirus are often overlooked.
Rachel Reeves MP A WEST YORKSHIRE MP is set to speak at the University of Bradford today, invoking the words of Harold Wilson s famous white heat of technology speech. Rachel Reeves (Lab, Leeds West), Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office, will be speaking at the Harold Wilson Lecture from 6pm to 7.15pm, delivering a talk entitled, Revisiting White Heat in an Age of Insecurity . Before entering politics, the MP worked as an economist for the Bank of England and for HBOS and is the author of two books. Rachel Reeves said: “I am excited to be delivering the Harold Wilson Memorial Lecture on what would have been his 105th birthday. Wilson left Britain a more modern, more free and more equal country. As a West Yorkshire MP, I have always looked to him for inspiration.
A BRADFORD park is set to transform into a site better equipped for the effects of climate change as part of an innovative tie-up between the Council and a Netherlands city. Horton Park will be used as a site to carry out wildlife research by city students among others, after Bradford Council joined forces with Dordrecht and digital technologies hub IMEC on the project. LIFE CRITICAL is an EU project that adapts older city neighbourhoods so they are equipped for the effects of climate change. It achieves this with natural landscape design and getting the local community involved in monitoring the changes to temperature, air quality, wildlife and plants.
SAS launches free data skills programme for job seekers
Pro bono data skills programme, in tandem with job placement agencies, has the aim of training 10,000 people
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SAS has launched a free programme to train 10,000 job seekers in data skills, called STEP.
The programme has come out of an internal SAS UK and Ireland employee competition, provoked by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ahead of launch, Roderick Crawford, vice-president and country manager, SAS UKI, described the programme’s origins. “We asked ourselves, beyond giving access to our software for free, we wanted to do something with a big impact, and so asked our employees what they wanted to do, and this was the winner,” he said. “It took our breath away.”