The tender and consent process for the Assessment, Treatment and Rehabilitation new build would begin at the end of this month and start in September or October. South Canterbury District Health Board interim chief executive Jason Power said Covid-19 had impacted on the supply of materials with delivery of items such as lino, vinyl and fixtures extending out.
JOHN BISSET/Stuff The cafeteria build was slowed down by the issue. Power said to counteract the delay of a 20 to 25-week delivery times orders may need to be place ahead of time. It is expected the entire hospital redevelopment will be completed in three years.
Welsh gym owners to march on Senedd over prolonged leisure industry lockdown
They have been told they face £10,000 fines if they flout rules and open their doors
Gym members work out at Ultimate Fitness Gym as indoor gyms, swimming pools and sports facilities can reopen as part of the latest easing of coronavirus lockdown measures in England (Image: PA)
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When stars more than thirty times bigger than our sun explode, they produce a type of young neutron star called a magnetar –the most magnetic stars in the universe, with gravity a billion times Earth’s and a magnetic field one-quadrillion times stronger than our Sun’s. A blast from magnetar could blow our atmosphere into space, leaving Earth a lifeless rock. Astronomer Phil Plait describes death by a magnetar should you venture too close as “the tides tearing you to pieces, the fierce heat vaporizing you, the magnetic field tearing your atoms apart, or the intense gravity crushing you into a thin paste an atom high.”
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The San Aotea II, pictured leaving Timaru s port in early June, berthed back in Timaru in August 2020.
A rescue and a retrieval featured prominently in June’s news coverage out of South Canterbury, writes Doug Sail in the sixth instalment of our series looking back on the year that was. Sanford deep-water fleet manager Darryn Shaw said the trip to the South Georgia Islands was necessary because of the impact of Covid-19, which had made it difficult to get people out of the Falkland Islands. ‘‘Normally we would bring our people back by air, via South America, but that is not possible at this time with borders closed into that region,’’ Shaw said.