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Video messages have been produced in languages including Somali, Swahili and Yoruba HESITANCY: African-Caribbean people have been urged to come forward for the vaccine (Image: via Getty Images) NHS STAFF have urged members of the African-Caribbean community in London to take the vaccine. Doctors, nurses and other frontline staff have come forward to reassure communities that receiving the jab is safe and has undergone testing to the highest standard. To increase vaccine take up clinicians have recorded messages in parts of the capital that have the most non-English speaking people to ensure ...

BBC News Published image captionAlexia Walenkaki was playing on a rope swing when a tree trunk fell on her in 2015 A council has been fined £330,000 after a five-year-old girl died when a swing set collapsed on her in east London. A court hearing on Wednesday heard Tower Hamlets Council failed to carry out an annual safety check which would have identified rot in the tree. The council was fined having previously admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. It was also ordered to pay costs of £6,204. image captionTower Hamlets Council previously admitted breaching the Health an...

Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/36604 An Open Letter to my fellow Labour councillors Submitted by martin on 12 January, 2021 - 10:45 Author: Joshua Bennett Lovell Dear colleagues, The past decade in local government has been defined largely by one thing: cuts. And if this government has their way, this will be the story for the next decade too. Rishi Sunak has heaped yet more misery on councils. His budget provided £5bn less than the Tory leadership of the Local Government Association said is necessary just to “stay afloat”. Following the disastrous impact...

AJ 40 under 40: Stefanie Rhodes and Tom Routh 17 December 2020 By Will Ing, illustration by Simon Hayes The AJ 40 under 40 architects co-founded Gatti Routh Rhodes after winning the commission to redevelop an east London church Stefanie Rhodes and Tom Routh, both 39, did not know each other well when they co-founded their practice. It began over pizza in Bethnal Green, east London, when they were brought together by their mutual friend – and now co-director – Richard Gatti, who is 45. They discussed an emerging commission to redevelop a nearby church, which had been obliged t...

off an overpass on to a transit facility near the bronx zoo. three of the dead are children. cnn's susan candiotti joins me now by the phone. susan, what's the latest on this? >> reporter: well, it's a terrible, terrible accident, certainly, alison, but we're hearing from the police that it's either a car or a van with four adults and three children inside, all dead. they were on an expressway called the bronx river parkway, and the car crossed over the median into the opposing lanes of traffic, flipped over the bridge, and fell a sizable number of feet. we don't know how far, but it...