Joy as care homes welcome indoor visitors for first time in months
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Updated: 20:47, 08 March 2021
Olive and John Chubb, from Herne Bay, were among many delighted to hold hands and see one another face-to-face for the first time in months, as retirement homes welcomed visitors indoors at long last.
Resident Olive Chubb is visited by her husband of 60 years, John, at St Brelades Care Home in Herne Bay. Picture: Barry Goodwin
Care homes first closed their doors to visitors when the pandemic broke out about a year ago. Since then, guidelines have changed on multiple occasions, but no visits have been allowed to take place during the current lockdown.
Year in Review Part 4: December
Dec. 30, 2020 at 6:00 am
The Santa Monica Police Department added a new canine to the team that will allow it to conduct sweeps for guns and other explosive devices like never before. Jack, SMPD’s newest canine recruit, can sniff out weapon parts, ammunition, carbon, gun oils, cleaning solvents, fireworks, black powder and several other components related to firearms from nearly 50 yards away.
As daily COVID-19 case rates reached record highs, L.A. County issued new health orders closing playgrounds, limiting business capacities and banning all gatherings between households.
Winterlit returned to Downtown Santa Monica. On Promenade, residents could see tens of thousands of lights illuminating the outdoor retail and dining storefronts. Holiday-inspired art installations came to life in window displays and through the murals that were created by local artists who were asked to interpret what the holiday season means to them during an unprecedented
The show must go online
Dec. 21, 2020 at 6:00 am
Few art forms have been as crippled by the pandemic as the performing arts, which necessitates an audience by nature. Diane Collins of DC dance, however, has decided that the show must go on and stretched the company’s creative capacities to safely film a 30 routine dance show.
Collins rented a warehouse space, transported a dance floor, assembled a camera team, and meticulously followed COVID restrictions to produce the annual holiday show in a virtual format.
For her students who have spent months cooped up at home behind computer screens, the opportunity to continue dancing has been an invaluable outlet.
Victims of a doctor who used a truth serum to paralyse and rape at least 130 children as young as ten at a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s and 70s have received an apology from Matt Hancock.
Children at Derby psychiatric hospital Aston Hall were drugged, stripped and abused at the hands of Dr Kenneth Milner, a report revealed in 2018.
Victim Barbara O Hare, 59, previously revealed she underwent treatment, by Dr Milner, whom she describes as a monster, during an eight month stay at the hospital in 1971.
She was told to lie on a mattress, drugged and awoke the next morning with no memory of what happened.
Government says sorry to victims of horrific abuse at Aston Hall
Scores of children were abused
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Aston Hall was a mental hospital near Derby (Image: Derbyshire Live)
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Traumatised victims of horrific sexual abuse at a Derbyshire psychiatric hospital have received a letter of apology from Health Secretary Matt Hancock.