MP Gordon Henderson steps in after Sittingbourne teachers offered Covid vaccine
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Updated: 16:08, 28 January 2021
MP Gordon Henderson has stepped in after some school teachers in Kent were offered the coronavirus vaccine ahead of others.
Invitations were emailed to schools in Sittingbourne yesterday asking for teachers mobile telephone numbers so they could attend The Chestnuts Surgery in East Street today to have a jab.
The vaccine is currently only available to certain groups - and that does not include teachers
According to Government policy only those in the first phase of the priority group roll out, such as those aged 80 and over and frontline health workers, are entitled to the vaccine at the moment.
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Strange Bedfellows: Churchill and Stalin s Uneasy Alliance in World War II
The alliance that defeated the Nazis in World War II brought truth to the old adage, ’The enemy of my enemy is my friend.’
Here s What You Need to Know: Though British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premiere Josef Stalin were suspicious of one another, they were compelled to cooperate early in World War II.
In the Grand Alliance volume of Winston S. Churchill’s memoirs of World War II, the British prime minister lambasted Soviet Premier Josef Stalin and his inept government for failing to anticipate Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, which began on June 22, 1941.
Kent Test should be scrapped due to coronavirus lockdown school closures, say campaigners
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Updated: 12:42, 08 January 2021
The Kent Test should be scrapped this year if schools are to be shut for a prolonged period because of Covid-19, say campaigners against selection.
The test, which used to be called the 11 Plus and is sat by about 16,000 pupils each year, is scheduled to take place In September. But last year the date was moved back to late October amid uncertainty over the impact of the pandemic.
If home learning continues for a prolonged period the Kent Test should be scrapped, campaigners say Stock picture
Politics in Kent dominated by Brexit and coronavrius
Published: 06:00, 02 January 2021
It was a truly turbulent year in politics, dominated by two words - Brexit and Covid. The two converged to conclude an annus horribilis for Kent as the French authorities blocked travel from the UK amid Covid fears. Political editor
Paul Francis looks back at the highlights and lowlights.
Brexit Gets Done
A Brexit deal was agreed in the 11th hour
After securing a comfortable majority at a snap election at the end of 2019, the government finally managed to get its Brexit Bill through Parliament in January.
Unlike the furore and raucous late night debates and votes when then Prime Minister Theresa May was striving to get a deal done, the formal passage of legislation marking the end of four decades in the EU went through with barely a murmur.