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A DISABLED pensioner was furious to be given a £70 ticket for parking on double yellow lines with his blue badge while getting a coronavirus vaccination. Colin Young, a 70-year-old with rheumatoid arthritis, had left his car there as the car park at the nearby Barbara Castle Way Health Centre giving out the jabs was full. But he had failed to notice faded yellow markings on the kerb signalling No Loading rendering his concessionary permit invalid. When he returned, a Blackburn with Darwen Council civil enforcement officer has placaed a Fixed Penalty Notice on his windscreen. He immediately appealed the fine but was swiftly told he had to pay the penalty, reduced to £35 if settled swiftly.
IT was part of the concrete revolution of the 1960s. When if was opened in October 1968 by the then deputy minister of health, Blackburn’s Larkhill Health Centre was seen as being a state-of-the art facility which would be at the forefront of health provision for the town. By 2011 it had closed, replaced by another state-of-the art facility - the £21m Barbara Castle Way Health Centre. Larkhill lay unoccupied for four years and was regarded as an eyesore on one of the key routes into the town before the demolition crews moved in. Work commenced in June 2015 having been bought be developers for just over half a million pounds and the distinctive looking building was soon little more than a pile of rubble and twisted girders.
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Health bosses have apologised after dozens of elderly people were left to queue for hours in the cold at a Covid-19 vaccination centre.
Kathryn Holden said it was an utter shambles as she waited for three hours for the jab at Blackburn Cathedral.
Lancashire s vaccination director Jane Scattergood said a marquee and heaters had since been installed.
But she urged people to turn up for appointments on time as some had been as much as two hours early .
She said: We ve tried to get as many people through as possible. We recognise people are really keen to get this vaccine.
RETIRED nurses Colin Foster and Cllr Jackie Floyd are helping fight coronavirus by volunteering as vaccinators. Their return to scrubs is part of the drive to get vulnerable groups immunised as soon as possible. Mr Foster, 70, who is working at the vaccination centre at Blackburn Cathedral, said: “The vaccination programme is such a massive event, I just thought every little will help. I would assume I still retained the skills that I had previously so I just volunteered to come back. It helps the tedium of lockdown as well so it’s a bit for myself and a bit to give back.