The dispersal sale from the foothills of Exmoor A westcountry auctioneer has seen its most successful ever sale of farm machinery - and this year s sales have already topped £1.75million. Stags Auctioneers’ report their third collective online timed auction of tractors, vehicles and excavators, farm machinery and agricultural sundries, of 2021 to be their most successful sale to date with 1,162 lots offered for sale with a total clearance rate of 82 per cent. In the first quarter of 2021 alone more than £1.75million of second hand farm machinery has been sold through their online auction. A surge in values driven by export trade, the increasing cost of new machinery and Covid-19 inflicted waiting lists means there are plenty of buyers on the lookout.
This is such a difficult time to lose someone: grieving and social distancing just do not work together, wrote the daughters of one victim who died in April.
According to the county s coroner, as of March 26, 2021, some 974 people had died of COVID-19 here since the pandemic took its first local life a year ago, on March 26, 2020.
Many have had their lives recounted on the obituary pages of LNP | LancasterOnline, but only a small number of those tributes have publicly confirmed that their deaths were related to COVID-19.
Here are 85 coronavirus victims whose LNP | LancasterOnline obituaries or other reports publicly cited the disease s role in their deaths. They are but a fraction of the ongoing pandemic s local toll so far.