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VANDALISM at a youth sports facility weeks before youngsters are due to return to play has been described as making Knighton look more like Beirut. Simon Dodd, chairman of Knighton Community Sports Association, said coronavirus had already ruined the season for football, rugby and hockey-mad children in the town, and now says it has been ruined by idiots. Simon was referring to damage caused to the pavilion at an area of the town reserved for youth sporting activities known as the ‘Bryny’, a patch of land next to Knighton Town Football Club’s Bryn-y-Castell ground. Simon reported that vandals had ripped off a down pipe attached to the cricket pavilion on Thursday, April 8, while a day later the front windows of the pavilion had been damaged. He likened the damage to making the playing area look more like Beirut.
Testing sites LOCAL community Covid-19 testing is now underway in West Berkshire. Burghfield Community Sports Association and Hungerford Rugby Club will open today (February 22) as community (lateral flow) Covid-19 testing sites, helping to protect those most at risk and to drive down transmission rates. Tests will be conducted using rapid turnaround tests supplied by NHS Test and Trace. These two new sites join the existing sites at Highwood Copse Primary School, Newbury and Thatcham Rugby Club as part of the community testing initiative run by West Berkshire Council in partnership with the Department of Health and Social Care. Around one in three people who are infected with Covid-19 have no symptoms and could be spreading the disease without knowing it. Broadening testing to identify people showing no symptoms will mean that positive cases can be found more quickly, helping to break the chain of transmission.