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WORK has started on building a brand new school refurbishment in Flintshire. The £11m Plas Derwen (PPRU), Ty Calon - Community Hub and Queensferry Primary School refurbishment will provide much needed regeneration for the site. Dan Hampson a representative from Kier performed the official turf cutting ceremony on Monday, 21 December which was also attended virtually by councillors, officials and representatives of the company building the facilities, Kier Group. For Plas Derwen a new two storey school is being built on the existing tennis courts and will accommodate up to 111 pupils....

There's one word describing the north's current COVID-19 situation: concerning.  Cases are still surging while hospitalizations are also on a steep incline, which is pushing the health care system in the region to its max, where resources were already limited before the pandemic landed in March.  Christmas break has also started for schools throughout Northern Health, something that may be needed for the time-being as the list of exposure events has rapidly expanded over the past month.  But perhaps the most concerning part is that Northern Health currently has the highest positivity r...

B.C. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry. (via THE CANADIAN PRESS) COVID-19 numbers remain high throughout B.C., while the north saw a flurry of activity related to the virus.  In a written statement today (Dec. 11), Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced 737 new cases recorded in the last 24 hours for a new grand total of 40,797.  Of those, Northern Health has 41, which brings the authority's recorded number to 1,240. The northern region has 421 active cases with 46 in hospital and 17 of those in ICU. There are 9,589 people listed as active for COVID-19 throughou...