Durham University alumna Florence Jackson is set to swim across the English Channel in order to raise money for Tom’s Fight, the charity set up in order to raise funds for the recovery and rehabilitation of fellow student, Tom Lazarides.
Following a swimming pool accident in June 2020, Tom suffered significant spinal injuries, fracturing his neck in two places, sustaining a serious spinal cord injury, and then contracting rhabdomyolysis in hospital, a condition where damaged skeletal muscle breaks down rapidly.
70% of young people with spinal injuries end up in care-for-the-elderly homes.
Tom is a student at Hild Bede, studying Business Management, and before his injury, he played county-level cricket, rugby, and Durham University Golf. Florence Jackson, a family friend, has already completed two fundraising swims in aide of Tom’s Fight and the spinal injury charity Aspire.
The Royal Mint has begun the countdown to the 50th anniversary of D-day . Not the World War II beach landing, that was in 1944, but decimalisation day .
On 15 February 1971, UK coinage was reorganised into the way we know today, with the old system of 12 pence in a shilling and 20 shillings in a pound abolished. Instead, a pound would be worth 100 pence, rather than 240, as it had before.
The UK was slightly behind the curve on this, with Russia introducing a decimalised ruble in 1704 and the US in 1792, while a previous effort to do so in Britain failed in 1824.
The Royal Mint has released a 50p coin to commemorate 50 years since the decimalisation of British coinage in February 1971
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