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No. 142
Mountsorrel quarry donates PPE AN EMPLOYEE at Tarmac’s Mountsorrel Quarry has answered a personal plea from his NHS frontline wife by donating personal protective equipment (PPE) to the local hospital where she works as a deputy sister. Duncan Green, an asphalt supervisor at the quarry, approached the site management team after his wife returned home from work at Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, concerned that low supplies of PPE meant they could run out. Usually based on the endoscopy ward, as more patients have been admitted with COVID-19, Duncan’s wife has been moved to a respiratory ward. Duncan explains: “Although the hospital currently has supplies of PPE my wife was understandably worried that there Pic: NHS staff with the donated items could come a time when the right kit health guidance, helping to keep the wasn’t available. roads, highways and railways open so “I knew the team at work would want health and social care staff can get to to help any way they could and I was work, emergency services can operate really pleased to be able to pass on safely and key resources such as food some FFP3 face masks, gloves and viand fuel can move around the country. sors.” Mountsorrel works manager, Trevor Mountsorrel Quarry is an important Warren, said: “We’re really proud of manufacturing hub for essential materials, required to maintain critical regional work the team is doing to support vital infrastructure at this important time. We and national transport infrastructure. know that many people in our team have The team there is working in strict acpersonal connections to the NHS and cordance with government and public
Virus stalls plan LEICESTER CITY Council’s Draft Local Plan, which includes a site for 611 new homes south of Thurcaston, has been stalled by the coronavirus pandemic. A statement on the Council’s website says: “The Draft Local Plan consultation has been postponed until further notice due to the Coronavirus emergency. Further updates will be available on the council website and Twitter.” All the documents relating to the draft plan are still available to view on the city council’s website, from its Consultation Hub page. The Draft Local Plan covers the period 2019-2036 and states that 21,291 homes will be built in Leicester, with 30% affordable housing on greenfield sites.
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other care workers and it’s always been important to us to support our people and local communities wherever we can. “We are so grateful to Duncan’s wife, her colleagues and everyone in the health service for their work and providing some PPE was the least we could do.” The donation made by the team at Mountsorrel is part of a wider employee led campaign in Tarmac which has seen sites donate PPE to NHS and social care workers up and down the country.
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Scheme helping those in need THE ROTHLEY Good Neighbours Scheme received dozens of offers of help as the Covid-19 pandemic struck. Spokesman Steve Mitchell said: “These are indeed extraordinary times and as one would expect from a tight knit community when faced with a challenge, Rothley was not found wanting. “From mid March when the coronavirus was becoming a daily factor in all our lives, The Rothley Good Neighbours Scheme received many offers from local people all offering to join the scheme to help with the high level of expected tasks that were to come our way.” The normal jobs that the original RGNS volunteers carried out, mainly lifts to hospital and doctor appointments, were very quickly replaced by a deluge of requests to collect prescriptions from Rothley Pharmacy and deliver to locations in Rothley and Mountsorrel. Steve said: “We would like to thank those that offered their help and hope that those whose registration, for ID &
DBS checks, has been delayed will understand that immediate deliveries of prescriptions were our top priority. “We are also aware that many, many informal arrangements were set up in streets and localities where people helped out the elderly and vulnerable
‘next door or down the road’. Thanks go to these networks too for their continued efforts.” RGNS is also checking by phone on a regular basis with their known clients to ensure their wellbeing.
Steve said: “We are sure that the whole of the community would like to say a huge thank you to the local workers at the Post Office and Bradley’s for keeping us supplied with food items, the staff at Corts for supply of pet foods and essential household supplies, local postal workers and to the local council workers like the bin lorry workers for carrying on in difficult circumstances. “Also, a massive debt of gratitude is due to the staff of the Rothley Pharmacy for processing prescriptions as quickly as they can in order that those most in need are being supplied with essential medication.” Anyone seeking any kind of help from RGNS should contact 0756 1596 873. If you need a prescription collected and delivered you need to provide these details: • who the prescription is for • the date on which it can be collected • the address for delivery
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