Luke Nola and Friends
After Covid-19 separated them for a year, two sisters finally reunite with their family in an emotional reunion. Plus, we witness a legendary Spitfire WWII fighter fire up its engine for the first time in 73 years.
Two teen sisters have finally been able to reunite with their parents in Australia, after Covid-19 separated them for almost 12 months. When Paige, 15, and Ella Hughes, 13, farewelled their family in early January, little did they know it would be almost a year until they could hug their parents again. Paige and Ella study and board at St Peter’s School in Cambridge and normally fly home to Australia’s Northern Territory during term breaks, but this year border closures meant this wasn’t possible.
Commercial contractors win school lunch tender
20 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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Eat My Lunch, whose chef Michael Meredith was pictured at Māngere Central School, is one of only two non-commercial operators to win new contracts for free school lunches. Photo / Jason Oxenham.
Big companies have won most of the contracts to provide free school lunches next year, despite ministers initial hopes that the scheme would create jobs for small-scale community groups.
The social enterprise Eat My Lunch and the University of Canterbury Students Association, a registered charity, are the only non-commercial operators that have won contracts to supply school lunches - to 19,412 students in 53 schools - from the start of the new school year.