Under lockdown, it can be very hard to get out and do the exercise we’re all meant to do. Spending our days at work in our homes, it doesn’t quite feel the same when we finish work, relocate to another part of the house or room, and try to relax for the evening. Even the daily walks have, by this point, started to become a little repetitive as we near a year since the first lockdown. As a journalist, I do spend some time out of the house as part of my job. But it’s not really exercise. While I’ve tried to keep up my fitness during lockdown, these dark, cold evenings are not the most conducive to getting out and doing a bit of exercise. So when I was contacted by Anne Evans, landlady of the Foresters Arms, about their fundraising through fitness, I leapt at the chance to give it a go.
A COUPLE who met and fell in love as the world around them descended into war have celebrated almost eighty years of marriage. Reginald Human was evacuated from London in 1939 at the age of 17 and sent to work in the office of Watson and Co, a firm that made specialist hospital equipment. It was there that he met the young woman who was to become his partner in life through the next seven decades.The 98-year-old explained: “I was a little evacuee so I joined the firm down there. All my mates were there and we used to go to parties, Pauline lived nearby so she often tagged along.”
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We are all guilty, ladies and gentlemen. You may think you live in a blameless village with a pretty church, a pub, a school, a newsagent and a duckpond. A village where the only thing of note to happen since the Norman Conquest was that time Gary, the postmistress’s nephew, changed the tyre on the Triumph Spitfire of Shelley from Bucks Fizz when she broke down on the B3199 in the summer of 1982.
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One pub that has managed to keep busy has been The Foresters Arms, in Adwick.
Landlady Donna Mourning said it had been tough, having initially re-opened on July 8.
They started doing takeaways as well as their usual drinks and meals, but for the last few months, those takeaways have been all they can do.
Takeaway Sunday lunches remain popular, and they have also tried a pie night.
Ian and Alison Blaylock, pictured at Doncaster Brewery Tap. Picture: Marie Caley NDFP-18-09-18-DoncBreweryTap-1
But next week the pub on Village Street starts another role – as the site of a food bank.
5 businesses in St Helens hit with fixed penalty notices after failing to comply with COVID-19 regulations
The rules have been in place to restrict the spread of Covid-19 FIVE licensed premises in the borough have been hit with fixed penalty notices after failing to comply with Covid-19 regulations. Under UK law, businesses must create a QR code for display in their premises, which customers can scan on arrival using the NHS Covid-19 app. Doing so helps the NHS to trace and stop the spread of coronavirus. Three takeaways have fallen foul of these regulations and were served with £1,000 FPNs after visits by St Helens Borough Council’s environmental health and licensing officers.