The mystery bidder has donated Alan Booth s auction items to the Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre. Alan Booth was the town crier in Scarborough for a record-breaking 31-years and died in October 2020, with the lot being auctioned off by his family at Ryedale Auctioneers, in Kirkbymoorside. The lot included the MBE, associated certification, and other medals including his Malayan Campaign medal and Freedom of the Borough of Scarborough Certificate, which was bestowed on him in 1999, in its silver presentation case. After a series of bids, the lot made more than double its top estimate with the hammer falling at £1,350. After fees and tax were applied it is thought that about £1,700 was paid by a mystery bidder, who has donated the possessions to the Scarborough museum.
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Boris Johnson said he would absolutely support a campaign to erect a statue in honour of Sir Captain Tom Moore, as the nation came together to mark his memory with a clap on Wednesday night.
Russia has contacted Germany to see if it can manufacture its Covid-19 vaccine there the day after clinical trial data showed that its Sputnik-V jab is 91.6 per cent effective.
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Staff are understood to have discovered the issue when they checked the fridge temperature early in the morning of January 8.
The Pfizer vaccine
Vaccine supplies were diverted to the hall so that all patients who were due to receive their first dose at the site could still do so despite the error, Rotherham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) said.
A CCG spokesman said: “Following a power-related issue with the fridge at a vaccination service site, a number of Pfizer vaccine vials were compromised as a result of not being stored at the required temperature overnight, which meant staff were unable to administer that batch of vaccines.
Up to 450 doses of the Pfizer jab have been wasted after a fridge was accidentally switched off overnight at a vaccination centre.
The vaccinations had to be binned after the power-related issue with a fridge at Montgomery Hall in Wath-upon-Dearne, Rotherham, last month.
Ninety vials of the vaccine, each containing up to five doses, were wasted after the fridge was turned off by mistake, the Press Association reported.
It comes as Matt Hancock today claimed he pushed the Government into the massive order for 100million doses of Oxford University s Covid vaccine instead of the originally planned 30million, saying he refused to settle for less .
Hundreds of vaccine doses wasted after fridge accidentally turned off
Around 450 doses of the Pfizer jab had to be binned
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Hundreds of coronavirus vaccines went to waste after a fridge was accidentally turned off in a vaccination centre, the PA news agency understands.