Friday, 5 March 2021, 9:09 am
Hiring a programme director from a commercial dance and
electronic music radio station to take charge of a public
broadcaster’s classical music programme, with a view to
getting rid of it, is a small but nevetheless typical
instance of the shambles that is Labour’s broadcasting
policy under its current Minister, Kris Faafoi.
After
doing nothing to halt Radio New Zealand’s ill-conceived
youth music plan despite knowing about it for at least six
months, Faafoi is set to follow that meltdown with an even
bigger catastrophe merging Radio New Zealand and TVNZ
into a new media entity.
Anglesey Council has unveiled plans to transform Holyhead’s Grade-II listed Plas Alltran into social housing. Built by Arthur Baker in 1890 as the town’s first purpose built doctor’s surgery, it subsequently served a variety of purposes including rented housing, a classrooms for a girls’ training institute, district nurse accommodation and boarding house. But having stood empty since the 1970’s, in September it was listed on the Victorian Society’s top 10 UK endangered buildings list, describing Plas Alltran as “empty and crumbling.” The society went on to say, “The owner, based in South Korea, has no known plans for it.
New figures show that Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) has administered more than 10,500 vaccine jabs so far, the highest number of any health board in Wales. The data, which was first published by sister site Deeside.com today, about BCUHB was circulated to officials and politicians this morning shows the health board vaccinated 2,234 […]
Updated: Thu 7th Jan
This article is old - Published: Thursday, Jan 7th, 2021
Almost 50,000 covid-19 vaccines have been administered across Wales.
Data released by Public Health Wales today shows that 49,428 people have been vaccinated up to the week ending January 3.
In the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) area, 5,884 people have been vaccinated.
25 people of those people received their second dose of the Pfizer BioNtech vaccine. This was before a decision was made to introduce a 12 gap between the two doses.
These figures will not include the numbers who have received the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine which was rolled out on Monday.
More than half of beds at Tees hospital now occupied by covid-19 patients as medics warn of pressure
There are now five-and-a-half wards of covid-19 patients at North Tees as cases climb again
19:23, 29 DEC 2020
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A senior medic has urged the public to help take the pressure off Teesside hospitals as covid-19 cases hit record numbers.