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Volunteers step forward for vaccine drive
Published: 24/03/2021
VOLUNTEERS have signed up to support a Whitehaven pharmacy roll-out of Covid-19 vaccines.
Seacliffe Pharmacy, Kells, began offering vaccinations on Monday (March 22) and 15 volunteers signed up to help.
The volunteers work in four-hour shifts, and are involved in vehicle marshalling, parking, checking identification and people management. Some volunteers have signed up to multiple shifts per week.
James McNabb, volunteer and resident of Kells, said: “I want to help my local pharmacy and get us out of the current situation quickly.”
Polling cards on their way to Copeland residents
Published: 23/03/2021
COPELAND residents will be sent their polling cards next week ahead of elections in May.
Residents will go to the polls to elect a Police and Crime Commissioner for Cumbria on Thursday, May 6. There are also by-elections for Copeland Borough Council’s Whitehaven Central ward - for a vacant seat alongside sitting councillors Eileen Weir and Charles Maudling - and Parton Parish Council.
Nominations for candidates open on March 25 and can be made until April 8.