As a nurse working up at the mass vaccination site in York it has been great to hear of people’s experiences of using the facility. However, I feel that we should also thank the volunteers who are day in and day out directing traffic and people around the site. They have been outside in seriously cold temperatures and continue to do their jobs with a smile! The site is really well organised, everyone is enjoying working there and it is a credit to all involved.
Jayne Keeney, Elvington, York
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Pumps, pipes and sandbags ensured that Tower Street remained free of flooding and open Picture: Mike Laycock Cover your face when clearing up after this week s floods, City of York Council is advising. Today it issued advice on what to wear while dealing with the aftermath of the recent heavy rain. They include wearing rubber boots, waterproof gloves and an apron and a face covering. The advice goes on to say that hands should be washed thoroughly and any cuts should cleaned and covered with a waterproof plaster. Floodwater contains all sorts of organisms and substances picked up on its journey downstream which it then deposits elsewhere.
EVERY week in our ‘Adopt a Pet’ column - written in conjunction with the RSPCA’s Landing Lane animal home - we feature a different pet in need of a new home. Often the animals were taken in by the RSPCA when they were in a desperate condition. Their previous owner may have died; or they may have been abandoned, or lost, or simply found wandering in the street. After being nursed back to health by RSPCA staff, many of them go on to new homes with new owners. But how do they get on? Here, we look at four adoption ‘success stories’.
Vanessa Warn reading to children at Little Green Rascals THE owner of a York chain of nurseries has called for staff to be treated as if they were healthcare workers and prioritised for Covid vaccination and given regular testing. Vanessa Warn, who runs Little Green Rascals, which employs 240 staff at seven nurseries across York and looks after about 600 children each day, said parents were ‘hugely grateful’ that they were all staying open during this new lockdown. But she said a small number of staff had said they would not be coming in to work - despite being young and healthy - after reading in the media how bad the coronavirus rates now were in York.
JCT600 to open first Porsche satellite Centre in York
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JCT600 will begin development work on a new type of Porsche showroom in York early next year.
The satellite Centre is designed to support its larger, parent Porsche Centre in Leeds, so the new showroom and workshop in York is consequently smaller with space for four cars and a service department with eight work bays.
It will be the dealer group’s fifth Porsche showroom and is the first satellite Porsche Centre in the UK.
Work is due to start in mid-January and the new dealership is expected to open its doors in September 2021.