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Pic: Bleakhouse Library in Oldbury is welcoming back book lovers to browse its shelves. Pic: Google LIBRARIES in Oldbury and Blackheath are welcoming book lovers back to browse their collections this week. Blackheath Library and Bleakhouse library in Oldbury are open for people to browse - there is no need to make an appointment - but people won't be allowed in unless they can show their library card. Face masks must be worn unless people are exempt. A spokesman for Sandwell Council said: "To keep you safe, we will be limiting the number of customers allowed into any library at any o...

3 hours ago Going ahead, I will never be able to unsee the dining dead. At restaurants my eyes will skip from the eager, carefully dressed couples wading through try-hard conversation, the comfortably jaded ones with their inside jokes, the exhausted ones coaxing their children to eat the spinach, and land finally on the pairs of faces tight with shame and irritation. Their fingers picking at the tablecloth, restless in discomfort and grudging boredom. The space between these couples is so thick and miserable that even disagreement doesn’t inject into it. Only the sounds of waiters gliding ...

Director of Public Health at Essex County Council, Dr Mike Gogarty said: "It is really positive and reassuring to see that so many tests have already been distributed in such a short space of time, and that is testament to the residents of Essex doing the right thing and protecting others by making sure they are doing regular testing. "As restrictions ease and people start to meet up with others outdoors, the need for people who aren’t showing symptoms to take part in regular testing is more vital than ever." Additional Library Collection sites and the dates they will be operation from:

ADDITIONAL collection points for Covid self-test kits are being set up at libraries and venues across Essex. From May 4, 34 library collection points will be in operation across the county, with 14 new ones joining the 20 launched last month. There will now be sites in each of the 12 districts of Essex. More than 150,000 individual Covid test kits have already been collected from libraries since the new collection point system launched. Essex County Council set up the sites to make asymptomatic testing more accessible for residents. Director of Public Health Dr Mike Gogarty said: ...

14 more sites are being added to where residents can pick up Covid tests in Essex.