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Thousands of workers remain unvaccinated, but they seem to represent a fraction of California's 2.4 million healthcare workers.

AN INCREASE in Covid cases is causing disruption in the final week of the school year with proms cancelled and pupils and staff having to self-isolate. Most Dorset schools are scheduled to break up for the summer holidays on Friday but the final week of school, which is traditionally reserved for sports days, summer fêtes and other events, has been one of disappointment for many students and teachers amid rising coronavirus cases. Organisers of the proms at Weymouth's Budmouth Academy have decided to postpone all three of the planned events - which were for Year 11 (class of 2021), Yea...

STUDENTS at a Weymouth secondary school and sixth form celebrated being the the first to receive a new award recognising their achievements inside out and outside of school. Aspirations Academies Trust Co-founders and trustees, Steve and Paula Kenning visited the Budmouth Academy to congratulate the first recipients of the Aspirations Edge Award. The Aspirations Edge Programme is designed to encourage students to demonstrate key personal skills such as leadership, resilience, initiative and communication. The programme enables students to become accredited at the levels of 'Apprentice...

Marvin Strombo was behind Japanese enemy lines on a Pacific island during World War II when he realized the other five men in his squadron had moved on without him. The young U.S. Marine, part of an elite scout-sniper platoon fighting a 1944 battle on Saipan, nervously scanned the terrain. He spotted a body on the ground, a dead Japanese... Military Jul 14, 2017 Ninety-four-year-old 2nd Lt. John Pedevillano is finally receiving a Purple Heart seven decades after his service. The World War II veteran was a bombardier in a B-17 that was shot down over Nazi Germany in April 1944...

Peter Pipe given suspended sentence for engaging two girls in sexual communication A 70 year-old man posed as a teenager in a "subtly creepy" way to have sexualised online chats with two 12-year-old girls. Peter Pipe visited sites popular with teenagers pretending to be a boy of 15 or 16 years old, Norwich Crown Court heard. Barnaby Shaw, prosecuting, said the first victim told him she was 13, although she was in fact 12,  and he had engaged in sexualised conversations with her. Mr Shaw said the mother of the victim contacted police after she discovered the messages and when Pipe was ...