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Service users of Aberdeen homelessness charity thank volunteers for support in 2020

Service users of Aberdeen homelessness charity thank volunteers for support in 2020 © Chris Sumner/DCT Media Members of staff from Aberdeen Cyrenians. The service users of an Aberdeen homelessness charity have thanked the organisation for their support during the Covid-19 pandemic. Aberdeen Cyrenians offers a helping hand to anyone experiencing homelessness or at risk of losing their home through poverty, crisis, abuse, mental ill-health or addiction. One man, known only as Paul, lost his job early in the pandemic and as his bills quickly mounted he was at a loss of what to do. When his card was declined at the supermarket, he contacted Aberdeen Cyrenians to access food for his children.

Toilet facilities to be upgraded at three Aberdeen primary schools

Toilet facilities to be upgraded at three Aberdeen primary schools © Jim Irvine / DCT Media Toilet facilities are due to be upgraded at three Aberdeen primary schools. Aberdeen City Council is currently undergoing a rolling programme of improvements in its school estate, with part of this looking at refurbishing toilets and bringing them up to a better standard. Now, the local authority has confirmed three more schools will have the upgrades to hygiene facilities take place. An Aberdeen City Council spokesman said: “These projects form part of our on-going rolling programme of improvements to the condition and suitability of our school estate. They have been planned for some time and are not connected to the Covid-19 pandemic.”

Prof Hugh Pennington: We have not seen evidence to support claim new Covid variant is more transmissible

Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A leading north-east microbiologist has called into question the reason behind the cancellation of eased coronavirus restrictions during the festive period. Professor Hugh Pennington says the scrapping of the four nations-agreed five-day Christmas bubble is a necessary move, but suggests claims the new variant is pushing the virus out of control to be questionable. The Aberdeen University professor said: “The big issue with the variant is that it’s no nastier than the first one that came in March.

P&J photographer Jim Irvine retires after 32 years

Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A Press and Journal photographer who spent 32 years with the company has finally put down his camera to enjoy his retirement. Jim Irvine, who started in 1988 in the dark room, worked through a revolution in photography, as technology progressed from film to digital. Over the years Mr Irvine became well-known around the north-east and particularly enjoyed photographing football matches and royal visits. © Jim Irvine / DCT Media Jim captured this joyful image of the Queen and Duke and Duchess of Rothesay at the Braemar Gathering in 2006.

100 operations cancelled as NHS Grampian faces Covid-19 surge

© Jim Irvine/ DCT Media Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Pandemic pressures have forced the cancellation of almost 100 operations within the last two weeks in the north-east. NHS Grampian bosses say a lack of beds and “surge” of winter activity has forced them to take the “last resort” measures in recent days. Following a sharp rise in the number of coronavirus cases, Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire both entered Level 3 of the Scottish Government’s restrictions last night.

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