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4:30 PM February 10, 2021
Peggy Hicks, resident at Anchor’s The Firs care home in Felixstowe, celebrates her 101st birthday
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Carers held a special birthday party to mark a 101-year-old s special day - which she toasted with bubbly and her favourite chocolate buttons.
Peggy Hicks celebrated turning 101 on Sunday, February 7 and was joined by her daughter on video call.
Centenarian Mrs Hicks blew out her candles at the party held for her at Anchor’s The Firs care home on Grange Road, in Felixstowe, where she has lived for 10 years.
Before she retired, Mrs Hicks was a nursing auxiliary at Ipswich Hospital and later worked at Felixstowe General.
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image captionJulia is doing well after her surprise arrival into the world
A mother who gave birth just 10 days after discovering she was pregnant thought she had put on weight in lockdown.
Samantha Hicks, from Portishead, North Somerset, attributed her baby Julia s kicking to sickness having been ill.
Her pregnancy was missed even when she was in Southmead Hospital in Bristol with Covid-19 in November . It never occurred to me I was pregnant as I had taken two previous tests which both came back negative, she said.
When Mrs Hicks was taken to the Covid ward in hospital, doctors asked if she was pregnant and she said no.
McDonald s and Burger King shunned by council bosses hoping to fill the Riverside in Kingsmead which will include Curzon cinema
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Updated: 11:44, 30 December 2020
Council bosses attempting to attract tenants for a £115 million leisure complex in the city say they hope to secure eateries where âpeople need cutleryâ.
Restaurants, cafes and shops are being sought to take spots at the The Riverside in Kingsmead, which will include a five-screen cinema run by Curzon.
A new CGI of the Riverside development, showing where Canoe Wild will be based
But fast food chains like Burger King or McDonaldâs are not on the menu of desired operators when it opens next year.