Published:
7:00 AM May 14, 2021
If volunteers do not clean up the foreshore at the Isle of Dogs, litter gets carried out to sea on the tide
- Credit: Thames21
A campaign to clean up the Thames and rivers up and down the country is being launched to prevent litter ending up in the world’s oceans.
Organisers from the Thames21 and Hubbub environment charities are battling to reduce litter - especially plastics - polluting rivers and eventually being carried out to sea.
Hauling garbage from Isle of Dogs foreshore. even this supermarket trolley
- Credit: Thames21
The campaign, which launched in Docklands today (May 14), calls for businesses, community groups and the public to get involved along the Thames and River Lea.
A FOUR-YEAR battle to bring a pharmacy to Townhill has finally been remedied by its opening last weekend. Repeated objections and appeals delayed the opening of the Loch Street premises by nearly three years after Mohammed Ameen was given the go-ahead originally for the business in September 2018. Rival chemists in Dunfermline did not welcome the competition and tried three times to put a spanner in the works, despite strong support from local politicians and community representatives. Mr Ameen, who has left his business in Ayrshire to focus on the Townhill pharmacy full-time, told the Press: After a four-year application process with the health board we are thrilled to be opened and offer important pharmacy services to Townhill residents and the wider area.
By Lewis Berrill @LewisBerrill Chief reporter - east London and west Essex
(Stock images) Essex Fire crews rescued a collapsed horse in Waltham Abbey yesterday. Photos: Unsplash/Essex Fire Firefighters rescued a 31-year-old horse after she collapsed in a field Crews were called to a farm in Lippitts Hill, Waltham Abbey on Saturday, May 1 at 2.58pm after Cara, a 31-year-old horse, got stuck in her field. A crew from Waltham Abbey worked with Chelmsford s Animal Rescue Unit to get Cara back on her feet. Watch Manager Gavin Ellis said: The horse was 31 years old, 500kg and had been stuck for more than an hour so her owner was concerned.
It s the obituaries folder.
Last month, when Prince Philip died, newsrooms around the world will have opened their own obituaries folders.
A story, likely started decades ago and gradually updated over the years, will have been printed out. Specific details will have been added - the date of the Duke of Edinburgh s death and his funeral arrangements, for example.
Broadcast reporters will have voiced the stories up, print reporters will have given it one last glance over.
And, within minutes of Buckingham Palace s announcement, stories painstakingly crafted over a period of years, in some cases involving five, maybe even 10 journalists, finally saw print.