THIS week’s MPs column comes from Robbie Moore, Conservative MP for Keighley and Ilkley. It has been over 10 months since the Prime Minister announced to the nation that we would enter our first national lockdown. Since then the nation – like the rest of the world – has battled to keep this deadly virus under control. It has been a sad start to the year for our nation as the death toll surpassed 100,000. My thoughts go out to every family across the country who has lost somebody to this indiscriminatory virus. There is, however, light at the end of the tunnel with the rollout of the Covid vaccination programme which is the largest vaccination programme the NHS has ever run.
By Keighley & Ilkley MP, Robbie Moore IT has been over ten months since the Prime Minister announced to the nation that we would enter our first national lockdown. Since then the nation – like the rest of the world – has battled to keep this deadly virus under control. It has been a sad start to the year for our nation as the death toll surpassed 100,000. My thoughts go out to every family across the country who have lost somebody to this indiscriminatory virus. There is, however, light at the end of the tunnel with the roll-out of the Covid vaccination programme – which is the largest vaccination programme the NHS has ever run.
Man taken to hospital after kitchen fire at block of flats in Keighley A MAN was taken to hospital after a kitchen fire in a block of flats in Keighley. A pan of oil caused the fire in a flat on the seventh floor of Leylands House, Parkwood Rise, at 1am today. The man, 41, was initially found unconscious in the flat and was taken to Airedale General Hospital for a check-up for smoke inhalation. Fire crews from Keighley, Shipley, Fairweather Green and two engines from Bradford attended the incident. The fire itself was out when crews arrived at the scene, said a spokesman for Keighley Fire Station.
THE number of Covid-19 patients being treated at Airedale General Hospital doubled in a week, figures have shown. The data was released by the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health Care Partnership on Thursday, January 14, which said 62 patients who had tested positive for the virus were being treated at Airedale, up from 31 patients the previous week. The same data showed a combined total of 788 Covid patients currently in hospitals across West Yorkshire and Harrogate. Of this total, 70 were in intensive care. At the weekend, NHS England said there had now been 202 Covid-related deaths at Airedale Hospital since the pandemic began. A spokesman for Airedale Hospital NHS Foundation Trust confirmed the patients being treated are all from the local district.