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Subscriber only A witness has spoken about a disgusting attack on a man with a disability by young teenagers at a Kin Kora McDonalds on Thursday. Sue Ellen Walk wrote on social media about the brazen attack she witnessed about lunchtime. She said a group of pre-teens and teenagers were making fun of a man with a disability and had even poured soft drink and ice cream all over him in the car park. The disgusting behaviour and language from a group of pre teens/teens was shocking, Ms Walk said. (They were) laying over the chairs and tables, shoes up on the tables, putting food, drink everywhere and making fun of a man with a disability.
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SIR – You report that, out of the 40,000 retired doctors and nurses who applied in March to return, 30,000 were eligible but only 5,000 were given jobs by July.
We also read of venues, from racecourses to conference centres, offering space for jabs to be administered – and being ignored.
The NHS’s bureaucracy will delay the vaccination programme. While it insists that it can cope, it is all too apparent that every single resource must be used if the millions of vaccinations required are to be achieved.
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SIR – The Brexit trade agreement secured by Boris Johnson is not the perfect deal that many of us dreamt of when we voted to leave the EU in 2016. But that was never going to happen – and, while the devil is in the detail, it appears to be much better than I had recently imagined.
I predict that our future relationship with the EU will be far more cooperative and mutually beneficial than it has been over the last 40 years. We were always the unwelcome party guest (even though we brought lots of presents) and we knew this, yet we kept returning in the hope that things would change.