A CAR believed to have a family inside became stranded while trying to cross a causeway during rising tides prompting a rescue mission. Emergency services - including a coastguard crew which led the operation - were called to Quay Lane, Kirby-le-Soken, at about 4pm on Thursday. Eyewitnesses reported seeing fire engines, ambulances, police cars and it has been suggested lifeboat crew members also attended. The reason for the emergency response came after a vehicle got stuck on the flooded causeway leading to Horsey Island and the Hamford Nature Reserve. Tilly Watts, 17, was out walking with her friend towards the backwaters when she spotted the blue flashing lights.
Amid the whirlwind of changes to campus life during the early days of COVID-19, the Yale Center for Genome Analysis was among a handful of Yale facilities with the specialized technology necessary to investigate the biological and chemical functions and mechanisms at play within the virus. In an interview, Shrikant Mane director of the center and of the Keck Biotechnology Resource Laboratory, and professor of genetics discussed the center’s COVID-19 research.
Early in the pandemic, Alison Galvani, Burnett and Stender Families Professor of Epidemiology and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, and her team began analyzing various scenarios for COVID-19’s spread in the U.S. and how self-isolation rates by symptomatic individuals could affect demand for Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds. In early April she discussed the urgency of self-isolation even for those who were even “mildly symptomatic.”
The Irish coastline is home to a huge number of uninhabited but habitable islands.
A limited number of these are in private ownership and their sale attracts wide interest among the merely curious and those seriously interested in an off-shore property.
Ownership of a private island is often regarded as a badge of wealth and celebrity. John Lennon and Yoko Ono once owned Dorinish, a 20ac island in Clew Bay, which they bought in 1967 for £1,700.
The recent sale of the 124ac Castle Island in Roaringwater Bay, off the coast of Cork, just a 20-minute journey by rib from Schull, drew interest from all over the world, according to Peter Kenny of selling agents Knight Frank.
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