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Best of 2021: We love a good animal yarn at RNZ here are some of the best the last year.

HUNDRED of businesses from across Lancashire have taken part in a government backed programme aimed at sharing knowledge and skills. The Peer Networks programme aims to bring together owners and managers in a series of structured virtual sessions to help them learn from each other. One such business owner, of the 320 to take part so far, has been Dot McCarthy, from Cronkshaw Fold Farm in Rossendale who is currently offering goats from her farm for hire on video calls for a fee. She said: “We had an idea that we could film or show the animals with a note, for things like a gender rev...

BBC News Covid: The goat for Zoom hire named after Jackie Weaver Close A farm in Lancashire has earned £50,000 by hiring out goats for Zoom meetings during lockdown. Owner Dot McCarthy said she was originally kidding when she suggested the idea but the new income has helped to pay staff's wages and invest in making the farm more eco-friendly. The animals from Cronkshaw Fold Farm in Rossendale have made appearances on more than 10,000 calls at virtual meetings around the world. The farm has even named one of the goats after Jackie Weaver, who was at the centre of a social media storm when...

Repetitive virtual meetings over the past year have sapped morale in many workplaces. So companies are hiring four-legged guests—sheep, goats, tortoises, llamas, bearded dragons and more—to paint smiles back on the faces of jaded employees.

Channels Television   Updated February 13, 2021 Demonstrators burn an American flag on February 7, 2021, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti during a protest to demand the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse, who seeks to extend his term of office until February 2022, which according to the constitution ends this February 7. (Photo by Valerie Baeriswyl / AFP)   This is a selection of news photographs taken around the world this week which includes people protesting against a military coup, marking the beginning of the Year of the Ox (Lunar New Year), migrants crossing to a better life, and much m...