First published on Mon 21 Dec 2020 05.41 EST
A shadow minister who became the first female MP to be admitted to hospital with Covid-19 has described the “unbearable pain” caused by coughing fits and pneumonia as the disease took hold.
Yasmin Qureshi, the Labour MP for Bolton South East and a shadow minister for international development, said she was left “anxious and concerned” after being taken by ambulance to her local hospital in October.
Two months later, she is slowly returning to normal but still struggles to take her once regular walks.
In her first interview about her experience, Qureshi, 57, said that, as for many others, her illness began with a fever and developed within a week into a continuous cough.
The man set to take over top job at Greater Manchester Police. for now
Ian Pilling, the current deputy chief constable, will step up on an interim basis
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Rochdale bids for £25m from Towns Fund Date published: 17 December 2020
The redevelopment of the former Central Retail Park site in Rochdale is one of the projects the funding would support
A bid for £25million has been submitted to the government’s Towns Fund for a number of projects in Rochdale.
The creation of a brand new advanced manufacturing institute and the building of almost 1,000 new homes on brownfield sites are among the projects being put forward by Rochdale s Towns Fund board, which is made up of public and private sector partners from across the borough.
Spearheaded by the Department for Housing, Communities and Local Government, The Towns Fund is a £3.4bn pot of cash set aside by government to help drive economic regeneration in selected areas. One hundred different towns from across the UK were given the opportunity to bid for a share of the money.
A look at December in Georgetown County throughout history . . .
125 years ago, 1895
A private car came on Monday bringing Messrs. Woods, Fisher, Weister and others to enjoy some of our fine sport, shooting ducks, as the guests of Gen. E.P. Alexander on South Island. . . Attention, Georgetown Rifle Guards! You are hereby summoned to attend a drill of your company on Tuesday, December 10th, at 9 oâclock sharp, at your armory. Every member is urged to attend. H. Schenk, Secretary. . . Under the management of several young ladies of the Episcopal Church, a program of melody, wit and music will be given at the Standard Theatre on Thursday, the 19th of December. The object is to raise funds to repair and tune the church organ. The management is pledged to a bright program without any tedious waits. The public is promised a rich and racy treat. Adults 25 cents. Children 15 cents.
Grooming gangs come from “diverse backgrounds”, a long-awaited review by the Home Office has concluded.
Prompted by high-profile cases of sexual grooming in towns including Rochdale and Rotherham, the work was commissioned by former Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, to better understand the scale and nature of group-based child sexual exploitation, including the characteristics of offenders, victims and the context in which these crimes are committed.
The research was published on Tuesday (15 December) after the Home Office had initially said releasing the paper would not be in the public interest .
The paper sets out the limited available evidence on the characteristics of offenders including how they operate, ethnicity, age, offender networks, as well as the context in which these crimes are often committed, along with implications for frontline responses and for policy development.