[MTVN]

Will Sturgeon comment on this?

[arista]

[arista]

[arista]

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by arista

...that’s just so terribly sad, the two brothers from Yorkshire who drowned......their poor, poor family...

[Cherie]

Poor lads, their cousin managed to save himself, how will he ever get over it

[Ammi]

...some of the job losses through COVID times...

Company Sector Date announced Jobs lost
British Airways Aviation 28 Apr
12,000 jobs lost
Rolls-Royce Aviation 20 May
6,000 jobs lost
Centrica (British Gas) Energy 11 Jun
5,000 jobs lost
SSP (Uppercrust) Hospitality 01 Jul
5,000 jobs lost
Swissport Aviation 24 Jun
4,556 jobs lost
Boots Retail 09 Jul
4,000 jobs lost
Debenhams Retail 11 Aug
4,000 jobs lost
Virgin Atlantic Aviation 05 May
3,550 jobs lost
The Restaurant Group Hospitality 10 Jun
3,000 jobs lost
Ovo Energy Energy 19 May
2,600 jobs lost

[bots]

Police in north-west England broke up two wedding receptions on Sunday for breaching coronavirus restrictions.

Officers in Blackburn found more than 100 guests attending one reception, while in Greater Manchester a fixed penalty notice was issued to the organiser of a wedding with more than 50 guests and a marquee.

Both areas are subject to local restrictions to prevent people socialising with other households. Elsewhere across England, sit-down wedding receptions of up to 30 people are allowed.

The wedding in Whalley Range, Manchester, was one of 54 reported coronavirus breaches between 15:00 BST and 23:00 on Sunday in Greater Manchester, police said.

Deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester Police Ian Pilling said most people were "doing the right thing" so it was "incredibly disappointing that these people are being continuously let down by a small majority, who are selfishly flouting the very guidance that is there to keep us safe".
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that's why Manchester has problems

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

Police in north-west England broke up two wedding receptions on Sunday for breaching coronavirus restrictions.

Officers in Blackburn found more than 100 guests attending one reception, while in Greater Manchester a fixed penalty notice was issued to the organiser of a wedding with more than 50 guests and a marquee.

Both areas are subject to local restrictions to prevent people socialising with other households. Elsewhere across England, sit-down wedding receptions of up to 30 people are allowed.

The wedding in Whalley Range, Manchester, was one of 54 reported coronavirus breaches between 15:00 BST and 23:00 on Sunday in Greater Manchester, police said.

Deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester Police Ian Pilling said most people were "doing the right thing" so it was "incredibly disappointing that these people are being continuously let down by a small majority, who are selfishly flouting the very guidance that is there to keep us safe".
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that's why Manchester has problems

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...some of the job losses through COVID times...

Company Sector Date announced Jobs lost
British Airways Aviation 28 Apr
12,000 jobs lost
Rolls-Royce Aviation 20 May
6,000 jobs lost
Centrica (British Gas) Energy 11 Jun
5,000 jobs lost
SSP (Uppercrust) Hospitality 01 Jul
5,000 jobs lost
Swissport Aviation 24 Jun
4,556 jobs lost
Boots Retail 09 Jul
4,000 jobs lost
Debenhams Retail 11 Aug
4,000 jobs lost
Virgin Atlantic Aviation 05 May
3,550 jobs lost
The Restaurant Group Hospitality 10 Jun
3,000 jobs lost
Ovo Energy Energy 19 May
2,600 jobs lost

I'd guess really much worse to come too, once the furlough scheme is stopped.

Certainly no good news here in those figures with no good news to come in the future, short to medium term too.

As well as continuing rising losses of lives, lives too shattered by long term and permanent organ damage, even brain damage, from this virus.
Millions left grieving and heartbroken too.

For likely over a million or even millions to come, also their security, employment and livelihoods destroyed following this virus too.

I'd love to look for optimism and positives but frankly those things I've listed, leave me only seeing the devastation left behind daily by this virus.

With only still more negative uncertainty to come in the short to medium term future at least too.

[Ammi]

Sharon Stone asks for prayers after sister hospitalised with COVID-19: 'One of you non-mask wearers did this'...


https://uk.yahoo.com/news/sharon-sto...081025461.html

[Ammi]

Call for more volunteers after 100,000 register for future vaccine trials...

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/call-more-...230100634.html

[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

Police in north-west England broke up two wedding receptions on Sunday for breaching coronavirus restrictions.

Officers in Blackburn found more than 100 guests attending one reception, while in Greater Manchester a fixed penalty notice was issued to the organiser of a wedding with more than 50 guests and a marquee.

Both areas are subject to local restrictions to prevent people socialising with other households. Elsewhere across England, sit-down wedding receptions of up to 30 people are allowed.

The wedding in Whalley Range, Manchester, was one of 54 reported coronavirus breaches between 15:00 BST and 23:00 on Sunday in Greater Manchester, police said.

Deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester Police Ian Pilling said most people were "doing the right thing" so it was "incredibly disappointing that these people are being continuously let down by a small majority, who are selfishly flouting the very guidance that is there to keep us safe".
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that's why Manchester has problems

There were worse breaches than that too.

Andy Burnham has said though that some restrictions may be lifted in some of the borough's this week too as the rate has come down in all but Oldham area. This may change after the weekends shenanigans though

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

I'd guess really much worse to come too, once the furlough scheme is stopped.

Certainly no good news here in those figures with no good news to come in the future, short to medium term too.

As well as continuing rising losses of lives, lives too shattered by long term and permanent organ damage, even brain damage, from this virus.
Millions left grieving and heartbroken too.

For likely over a million or even millions to come, also their security, employment and livelihoods destroyed following this virus too.

I'd love to look for optimism and positives but frankly those things I've listed, leave me only seeing the devastation left behind daily by this virus.

With only still more negative uncertainty to come in the short to medium term future at least too.

...so many losses in so many different ways, Joey...it’s often being reported how cancer diagnosis has had delays for many through these overstretched medical resource, times...and the focus of research into COVID vaccines/medication is taking away from much needed cancer possible new medication...just so many impacts for a very long time...

[user104658]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Will Sturgeon comment on this?

It's a disaster but the decision is made at board level in each healthcare trust. My sources (OK... my wife's sources... my sources by proxy) inform me that exactly the same thing was occurring in many (very possibly the majority) of English trusts - so prepare for this breaking as a nation-wide story at some point.

[Nicky91]

https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lif...at-coronavirus

Emma Weymouth about Longleat, Safari Park in Lockdown times, and also talking about the death of her father-in-law to covid-19

[bots]

public health england is likely to be disbanded this week, there have been issues there for a while. I think the lessons learned are starting to come through now, which i'm happy to see

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

public health england is likely to be disbanded this week, there have been issues there for a while. I think the lessons learned are starting to come through now, which i'm happy to see

Not our Yvonne losing her post

[Liam-]

If the people of PHE are losing their jobs, their boss Matt Hancock should be the first one to lose his

[Oliver_W]

I'd honestly not even heard of PHE before all this would it be a great loss if they were replaced?

[bots]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

I'd honestly not even heard of PHE before all this would it be a great loss if they were replaced?

PHE was created in 2013 - as part of an overhaul of the NHS in England under former health secretary Jeremy Hunt - with responsibilities including preparing and responding to health-related emergencies such as pandemics.

[user104658]

The ultimate head of PHE is and always has been the Health Secretary so disbanding PHE without also lobbing ol' Hatt Mancock to the back benches and replacing with someone new is hilarious hypocrisy. Not unexpected of course - not ever, really, but cetainly not after the Cummings fiasco.

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

The ultimate head of PHE is and always has been the Health Secretary so disbanding PHE without also lobbing ol' Hatt Mancock to the back benches and replacing with someone new is hilarious hypocrisy. Not unexpected of course - not ever, really, but cetainly not after the Cummings fiasco.

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

PHE was created in 2013 - as part of an overhaul of the NHS in England under former health secretary Jeremy Hunt - with responsibilities including preparing and responding to health-related emergencies such as pandemics.

It could be argued that both haven't been up to scratch tbh

[Ammi]

Exams U-turn: Teacher grades to be used in England and Wales as algorithm scrapped...


https://news.sky.com/story/exams-u-t...rades-12051173

[bots]

the u turn makes sense. The results weren't going to accurately reflect ability anyway, so at least make it something that satisfies the consensus