After the big freeze.the big thaw: Dozens of flood warnings are in place as winter gives way to spring and melts ice and snow that fell last week with temperatures set to hit 61F by Saturday - warmer than Athens
Flood alerts are in place in large parts of Scotland, while there are six flood warnings in parts of England today
The flood warnings are in parts of Cambridgeshire, as well as in Norfolk, and a cluster in East Riding of Yorks
It comes as temperatures are set to soar this week, bringing an end to the Big Freeze which brought icy blasts
A SPECIAL school in Worcester is opening the city’s first ever sensory lending library for pupils and parents to enjoy during the lockdown. Fort Royal Primary School in Wyld’s Lane has launched the initiative to help support pupils and their families with much needed sensory equipment. A spokesman for the school said: “The children’s concentration span is often limited and many different specialised learning tools are needed, to purchase these individually would be prohibitive for the majority of families and often difficult to know what to buy unless you can try it first. The Friends of Fort Royal asked if we could help secure funding to set up a free sensory equipment lending library so that families could have access to the pieces of equipment that they needed.
TV drag queen Ginny Lemon made allegations against the University of Worcester this week after they shared a photograph of her in support of LGBT+ Month. The Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK contestant and non-binary activist made several claims about the university relating to alleged discrimination in a series of Twitter posts and asked them to remove the picture they had used. A University of Worcester spokesman said: “The photograph about which a request was made to be taken down is a publicly available image taken from the 2018 Worcestershire Pride Festival, which was supported by the University of Worcester.
RuPaul s Drag Race UK star Ginny Lemon. (BBC)
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK star and non-binary icon Ginny Lemon has alleged that the University of Worcester “hounded” them out of a job “for being gay“.
Ginny is a former student and staff member at the University of Worcester, but when the university posted a photo of them at the beginning of LGBT+ History Month, they responded: “Please remove my photo.
“As I was hounded out of a job for being gay while working at the uni I certainly DO NOT want you using my image to promote your lies.
“Happy to give more details of the abuse I suffered and the unsuccessful ‘investigations’.”