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MAJOR plans to build a new supermarket, nursery and doctor s surgery on the edge of Ledbury were rejected. Herefordshire Council rejected a proposal to build a new Lidl supermarket as well as a medical centre and nursery on land next to the Old Wharf Industrial Estate off Leadon Way and Dymock Road. Planning officers feared building a supermarket on the outskirts of Ledbury would have negative effect on the town centre. Applicants Deeley Properties and Countrywide Farmers said the plans would have created 200 construction jobs and 65 jobs once built. A total of 190 car parking spaces would have been built for the supermarket, nursery and medical centre.
Chief executive Paul Robinson and an assistant director known to have got jabs
Jonathan Fitzgerald-Guy proudly posted about it on his social media page
But today council insisted it had done nothing wrong and followed rules
It said the vaccine would have otherwise gone to waste so decision was taken
NHS body gave it to those providing essential services responding to pandemic
MILITARY: Soldiers will be deployed to hospitals in Worcestershire to help ease pressure; CCG director Mari Gay (bottom right) HOSPITAL bosses have asked for soldiers to be deployed to Worcestershire to help ease pressure due to the high numbers of sick staff due to Covid. The non-medically trained military staff, who continue to be sent to hospitals across the country, would be be arriving to help with porterting and similar jobs. As many as 530 staff at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, which includes Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Worcester, were off sick or absent due to coronavirus. Mari Gay, managing director for the county at Herefordshire and Worcestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), said health bosses were looking to bring military personnel to the county s hospitals to ease the significant pressure brought on by staff sickness.
A PERSHORE pensioner has called for better local information on Covid-19 vaccines after being directed to Birmingham for his jab by the NHS website. Alan Ellis, 83, has since been offered the inoculation at Abbottswood Medical Centre in Pershore but only having been left concerned over having to make a 40-mile round trip. Some vaccinations have been taking place there with other Pershore residents asked to go to Upton-upon-Severn. Mr Ellis said he had found the experience off-putting but his main concern centres around elderly people without digital skills feeling left in the dark I had a letter from the NHS, not Abbotswood, and when I went online it kept trying to fob me off with a place in Birmingham, he explained.