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Weekly News Digest
Thursday 21st January 2021
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MP launches Ashfield's Got Talent competition in lockdown
Ashfield MP Lee Anderson is launching a Sunday night local talent competition for his constituents during February. The idea came to the MP when the third national coronavirus lockdown was introduced...
Theatre and museum help teachers and pupils reach the Arts during lockdown
Mansfield Palace Theatre and Mansfield Museum have put together a new education pack to help those teaching during the coronavirus lockdown — and beyond...
Are you afriad of needles and injections?
A mass vaccination programme against Covid-19 is now being rolled out in the UK. Although the government is working to ease the fears of those who are worried about the safety of the vaccine, some people have an even bigger fear — the fear of needles...
Firm gifts a photocopier and more to
A visit to provide a quote for new photocopying and printing equipment prompted a Shirebrook-based business to make generous donations to a social enterprise project...
Hospital 'superhero' volunteers at vaccination centre
Ashfield Independent councillor Dale Grounds, who volunteered for the NHS as Spiderman before the coronavirus pandemic, visiting children’s wards at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, to take children’s minds off serious health conditions...
Covid testing launched at college
Following an update to guidance from the government before the Christmas holidays, a team of staff at Portland College jumped into action to create an asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre, which opened this week...
Community worked together to deliver festive food project
ATTFE College and its community interest company Let’s All Eat, based at Sutton, worked in partnership with Swiftool Engineering, Portland College, chef David Marshall, volunteers and Ashfield District Council to provide 500 chef-cooked Christmas dinners for food parcel recipients in the Sutton area...
Community Fund to continue through third Covid-19 lockdown
Nottinghamshire County Council’s £1m COVID-19 Community Fund is set to continue to support vulnerable residents impacted by the pandemic...
Giving vulnerable women the chance to be creative
Mansfield Museum is launching a two-year project aimed at empowering local vulnerable women to take positive control of their lives...
Helping others to have a better time
A caring mum of three who works in Pleasley Vale helped give disadvantaged children a better Christmas. Martina Booth, scheme administrator at NAPIT, inspired donations and volunteering over the Christmas period...
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