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Rochdale Care Organisation celebrates Eid Date published: 26 May 2021 Imam Abdul Hakim, Dr Shona McCallum, Tariq Mohammed, Prof Michael Luger The Rochdale Care Organisation, which runs Rochdale Infirmary and community services, held a small Eid celebration on Friday (21 May) to mark Eid ul-Fitr which is a celebration that takes place at the end of the Holy month of Ramadan. Many staff were on annual leave when Eid was celebrated on Thursday 13 May, so this event for Rochdale Care  Organisation staff was held a week later when they would be back in work. The event was attended by Imam Ab...

Why is tonight’s full moon called a pink supermoon? Graham Readfearn If the clouds are accommodating, then tonight’s full “pink moon” will be a little bit bigger in the sky, as our planet’s only satellite is almost as close to us as its orbit allows. But there are a few misconceptions, says Australian astrophysicist Prof Jonti Horner, about the names some people give to full moons. Right about now in parts of North America, a native herb known as creeping phlox is coming into its pink bloom. “Last month it was a wolf moon,” says Horner, of the University of South...

“Last month it was a wolf moon,” says Horner, of the University of Southern Queensland. The pink moon is named not because it will take on a particular colour, but because of the colour of the flowering phlox. Modern skywatchers term tonight’s phenomenon a “supermoon” – a term coined by an American astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979. Technically, we get a supermoon when a full moon occurs around the time our satellite reaches perigee – its closest point to the Earth. Don’t miss out on an event that happens once in a Pink Moon! 🌕 Tonight, beginning...

MY goodness, what an apocalypse awaits an independent Scotland, at least according to Struan Stevenson ("The breakup of the UK will damage Scotland, Britain and the special relationship", The Herald, April 15). Post-pandemic economic meltdown, geopolitical catastrophe, devastated savings, public sector cut to the bone, eye-watering levels of taxation, soaring mortgages, plummeting pensions, sea of debt, bankruptcy, Joe Biden pacing the Oval Office in alarm… Well, there’s much to alarm President Biden, but I don’t think the prospect of Scottish independence will be top of his list. I...

Call for Coombe master to resign as report finds doctor took vaccines home Former master urges Dublin hospital chief to step down for undermining vaccine rollout about 2 hours ago Simon Carswell Public Affairs Editor Listen now 2:32 The Coombe: a former master of the hospital, Prof Chris Fitzpatrick, has called on Prof O’Connell to resign ‘in the interest of the hospital and in the public interest’. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/ Collins Your Web Browser may be out of date. If you are ...