READERS have had their say on what they are most looking forward to doing following news of a roadmap’ for easing England out of lockdown was announced last week. After the first stage in March, further lifting of the rules will happen if certain conditions are met. The aim is for all restrictions to be lifted, which will happen by June 21 at the earliest. This is what our readers have had to say. Carol Shaw said: “Just be glad to get back to work and some kind of normal routine – that will do for now, one step at a time.”
Dundee New Year baby believed to be one of the first born in Scotland in 2021
Olivia Ravenhill
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One of the first babies born in Scotland in 2021 was brought into the world at Ninewells in Dundee.
Little Olivia Ravenhill was born less than fifteen minutes after the bells at 12.13am to happy parents Tracey Clark and Simon Ravenhill.
Olivia Ravenhill with parents Simon Ravenhill and Tracey Clark
Olivia is the couple’s second baby born at Ninewells, with their son Ellis being born in Dundee Midwifery Unit three years ago.
Then, the real work started. It was way above her reading level, Waldrop realized. Her third-grader grew frustrated with the assignments on Hall County, Georgia s online platform, especially when her teachers were slow to respond to her questions. She also missed PE, art and music.
Waldrop sent her back into her elementary school.
Tracey Clark, a mother in Cobb County, refused to do that. Schools aren t structured for social distancing, she said. A former teacher, she devised a plan to give her two boys, one in third grade like Waldrop s, the other in fourth, what they had been missing online.
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The San Aotea II, pictured leaving Timaru s port in early June, berthed back in Timaru in August 2020.
A rescue and a retrieval featured prominently in June’s news coverage out of South Canterbury, writes Doug Sail in the sixth instalment of our series looking back on the year that was. Sanford deep-water fleet manager Darryn Shaw said the trip to the South Georgia Islands was necessary because of the impact of Covid-19, which had made it difficult to get people out of the Falkland Islands. ‘‘Normally we would bring our people back by air, via South America, but that is not possible at this time with borders closed into that region,’’ Shaw said.