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A man who killed his neighbour and injured a pregnant woman with a crossbow had altered the bolts to make them lethal , an inquest has heard.
Anthony Lawrence, 55, shot Shane Gilmer, 30, and his partner Laura Sugden in their home near Driffield, East Yorkshire, on 12 January 2018.
He fled the scene and was found dead two days later in a lay-by in North Yorkshire, Hull Coroners Court heard.
Jurors were told there was evidence the killer had grown cannabis at his home.
BREAKING A&E staff nurse first to be vaccinated for Covid-19 at Portlaoise hospital marks historic day in Laois
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Aidel Aurel Casabar, staff nurse ED, is the first person in the Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise to be vaccinated . She was vaccinated by Mary Gilligan, Clinical Placement Co-ordinator. );
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A staff nurse at Portlaoise s busy Emergency Department (ED/A&E) is the first person to be vaccinated for Covid-19 in Laois.
Aidel Aurel Casabar received the Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at the Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise on Thursday, January 7. She was vaccinated by her colleague Mary Gilligan, Clinical Placement Co-ordinator.
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Uncanny in a row? It’s a Jólabókaflóð miracle! “The Bottomless Martyr” tells of Rang, a young woman who keeps dying and being brought back to life by her stepmother, Death. With each resurrection she delivers a boon to those around her and a punishment to everyone else. Raiders die in a random whirlpool. A typhoon destroying her village ceases. Weapons for defense appear out of nowhere. But is her situation a gift or a curse? Or both?
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Kastra chafes under her father’s narrowmindedness and oppressive traditions. She longs to take up with one of the adventuring crews that pass through her father’s tavern on their way to glory and thrills. The more he refuses to let her go, the more she aches to leave. A. T. Olvera tells the story from the perspective of Kastra’s sister who learned the hard way to see their father’s mantra of “We are not like them. We were not made for their
Vaccine brings glimmer of hope to frontline workers at Sutter Davis Hospital
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Sutter Davis ER nurse Fiona Moore received the COVID-19 vaccine from fellow nurse Laura Caban on Friday morning. Moore is among the frontline hospital workers receiving doses from Yolo County’s first batch of the Pfizer vaccine. Courtesy photo
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Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Fiona Moore has been one of those healthcare workers on the front lines.
A registered nurse in the Sutter Davis Hospital emergency department, Moore has spent the last nine months treating COVID patients as they’ve arrived some who walked in with a cough or fever, others who arrived code three in an ambulance needing to be intubated.
The government must talk to church leaders
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The government must talk to church leaders
December 16, 2020 11.43pm
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THE CONVERSION BILL
The government must talk to church leaders
Barney Zwartz’s article (Comment, 15/12) raises deeply troubling issues about the Victorian government’s potential attack on religious freedoms within its conversion therapy prohibition bill. If this is enacted as it stands, according to Zwartz, it could interfere with or limit many basic religious practices, areas which are none of government’s business.