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NEW CORONAVIRUS RESTRICTIONS IN BOLTON AS ANOTHER SALFORD SCHOOL GROUP BUBBLE SHUTS
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Star date: 8th September 2020 HARROP FOLD YEAR 11 BUBBLE SHUTS DUE TO POSITIVE COVID-19 TEST The Government has, this afternoon, imposed further restrictions in Bolton as the town hit 120 cases per 100,000 people, the highest rate in the country. The new clampdown means that all restaurants, cafes, bars and pubs are to close, apart from takeaways, and all venues must close between 10pm and 5am, while the ban on mixing households will be enforceable by law. Today Harrop Fold School, on the Little Hulton Salford/Bolton border, closed its Year 11 bubble "with immediate effect due to positive COVID-19 test..." Full details here...
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Bolton, which shares a border with Salford, now has the highest rate of coronavirus cases in the country, with 120 cases per 100,000 people, and, this afternoon, the Government imposed further restrictions in the town. Speaking in the House of Commons, Health and Social Care Secretary, Matt Hancock, said that "The rise in cases in Bolton is partly due to socialising by people in their 20s and 30s. We know this from contact tracing. And through our contact-tracing system, we have identified a number of pubs at which the virus has spread significantly. We are therefore taking the following action in Bolton, starting immediately. "We will restrict all hospitality to takeaway only and we will introduce a late night restriction of operating hours, which will mean all venues will be required to close from 10pm to 5am" he added "We introduce urgently further measures that put the current guidance – that people cannot socialise outside their household – into law. "I want us to learn the lesson from Spain and America and France – not have to learn the lesson all over again ourselves through more hospitalisations and more deaths – and take this action locally in Bolton" he explained "But, crucially, we all have a part to play. Young people don't just spread the virus to each other. They spread the virus to their parents and their grandparents. They spread it to those they come into contact with. And to others who they love. "I know social distancing can be hard and how it will be extra tough for students who will soon be starting university" he added "But please stick with it and play your part in getting this virus under control." The Government has also restricted visitors to care homes and hospitals... "And I want to say this directly to everyone living in Bolton: I know how anxious this can be. And I know the impact that these measures will have" he concluded "We are asking you to take a step back, at a time when we all just want to get on with our lives and what we love, and back to normal. But we need to take this crucial step to keep this virus at bay. Because as we have seen elsewhere, if we act early, and control the virus, then we can save lives..." Responding to the news, a spokesperson for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority said: "This decision was taken by the Government in consultation with Bolton Council. Neither the Mayor nor the Council leaders of the nine other boroughs in the city-region were involved. We recognise the serious situation in Bolton and have offered any support they may need..." Meanwhile, Harrop Fold School in Little Hulton, on the Salford Bolton border, today shut its Year 11 bubble. In a message to parents the school wrote... 'Year 11 group bubble is closed with immediate effect due to positive COVID-19 test. All other year groups will attend school as normal this morning...' Today, there have also been two further sad virus-related deaths reported at Salford Royal Hospital...
See also this morning's Salford Star article on case numbers, mental health wellbeing and more - click here
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Darren born bred wrote
at 12:41:57 on 14 September 2020 |
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| Let's get back on subject about this Chinese killer flu in our Salford schools and public places. What are we going to do to protect our lovely kids in schools. What are we going to do to protect our elderly and vulnerable people in Salford. When we are out in public, should we be wearing facemasks and gloves or hazmat protection suits. |
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ROSSI wrote
at 12:04:50 on 14 September 2020 |
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| No Darren, I was thinking about you going without. Me, I just pop round yours when you're debt collecting and shag your wife. |
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wrote
at 09:54:01 on 14 September 2020 |
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| rossi you are under the control of the state are you not if you do not do has you are told the state stops your money or sanction you that is if you are not lying about being on the dole and you are a subject of a monarchy and where is the uk bill of rights or constitution in this free country get off your arse numb nuts go on a protest against some state policy you dont agree with you may protest until a cop comes along tooled up and mobbed up and will soon explain about control. |
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Darren born bred wrote
at 07:29:47 on 14 September 2020 |
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| During the Lockdown many shops and businesses like restaurants, barbers, pubs, hairdressers and massage parlours shut down, oh wait, yes MASSAGE PARLOURS, our outspoken critic on the broadwalk flats said this in his last comment, he must have missed these massage Parlours because these was shut. The bloke on the broadwalk is getting about £75 a week(JSA) and he must treat himself to a £40 session every month. |
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bob wrote
at 19:16:35 on 13 September 2020 |
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| I aint been to Bolton or Manchester Centre for over 4 years so I dont know how many dossers are on the street.I dont use the word dosser as an offensive term against these people. Darren had the answer the other day. That block of flats on churchill way.. you could get tons of furniture from that church near the library. You could stick about 200 of them in there. There the homeless charity food place mentioned the other day.If you are homeless on the street, a flat like that is a palace to you. Because they would have an address,they could get dole. they could be charged rent from housing benefit, that money each week would provide money to do the place up.Give me the fucking keys to that place and i could get it moving without a penny in my pocket.I would just need a phone.There are probably hundreds of better qualified charity workers who could do the same or better.Helping these dossers would make a profit. But you lot dont get it do you. Them dossers are there for a purpose. 2 purposes in fact.The torys like them there because it shows you lot where you will end up if you dont tow the line. The labour like them there for the same reason, and also to blame the torys for it all. This is what happens if you dont vote labour they say.At one time ,they used to jail people for vagrancy,they dont anymore cos it costs too much to keep them in jail.Tell you what,I would give them a good excuse to put me in jail. I would rather go to jail with a bed to sleep in, a roof over my head 3 meals and a telly, than freeze to death on the street. they soon found a roof for these people when covid was all the rage.I was in Hull the other week.On local telly they were rowing about them putting assylums in the royal hotel there, a 4 star hotel.If that is the right place for these unfortunate people from overseas, then it is right to put our unfortunate people from here in a similar standard of place.There is no place in our country for people to be treated in a different way because of race ,ethnicity, religious belief or land of origin. It makes me sad,it makes me mad. |
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wrote
at 16:40:05 on 13 September 2020 |
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| Hey Rossi, I agree with you that people are ignoring the huge amounts of confusing, conflicting and downright nonsensical rules they are bringing out. Too many Covidiots out there who believe all the nonsense. The government admitted lying about the figures (of course they said they were changing the way they distributed the data-another way if saying they made them up). U.K. is fourth worst hit country....yet we have such an amazing NHS...work that one out? £40k deaths even with a lockdown, compared to 5k deaths in Sweden without a lockdown, work that one out?!?! The government have told us what we can wear, where we can go, who we can see, how long we can spend outdoors, in other words they totally control us (communist China and South Korea do this too) and you covidiots that think it’s acceptable need your sheeplike heads examining. Fed bullshit by the media and you soak it up. Yes people have died from Covid, but not the numbers they have said and the vast majority were over 70s who were ill anyway and normal flu or a little fall would have probably killed them too. The whole response has been ridiculous and if you can’t see how controlled we now are then you are stupid, simple as that. |
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ROSSI wrote
at 09:53:52 on 13 September 2020 |
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| Darren, people don't give a monkey's because of all of the confusion brought about by the Government's woeful mixed messages. And also their rank hypocrisy with the likes of Special Adviser, Dominic Cummings. The Government have been absolutely shocking. For the first three months they said that masks weren't necessary. That there wasn't any proof that they worked. Then literally over night they did an about turn. Suddenly, masks were compulsory, and you could be fined a hundred quid for not wearing one.
Fact be, Darren, the Government has behaved as abysmally as expected. I'd even go so far as to say that they've performed even worse than expected. Everything that they did has been catastrophic. From the furloughing of workers on 80 percent of their salaries (Suprise suprise, now many of them have got a taste for free money, they don't want to go back, as it's "too dangerous!") To the closing down of nearly everything for months, be it shops, schools, massage parlours - everything ... To the absurdly shambolic Testing Centres ... where it's virtually impossible to get a test ... well it is if you go on NHS Gov.com.
What all of this hysteria shows me is that you're a man who is easily rattled, Darren. Where's your stuff upper lip, Boy? Where's your Rourke's Drift Spirit? No, you're a panicking little boy, Darren, believing whatever you have been told by Pravda ( the BBC). And after reading your latest diatribe, which I read while sitting on the toilet trying to squeeze out a log, I would say that if the human brain was made out of freeze dried spunk, then your head would be infertile. Your head's an empty place, Darren, as empty as the Gobi Desert. I'm going now boy ... going back to bed for a kip. Later I'll go to the Precinct to buy some wotsits from Poundland. I might even buy a couple of cans of Monster from Heron, they've got a deal on, four cans for three quid.
In The Final Analysis, Darren, I'd say that this has all been pretty good for me. I haven't had to sign on or do job search for five months. Or go on any of those crappy courses run by The Growth Company. I suspect that I've even had Covid, but I couldn't verify this as I wasn't able to book a test. Still, here's hoping that I'm immune when the dreaded Second Wave comes roaring in. Communist Party of China, I thank you ... 😁 |
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Darren born bred Salford. wrote
at 23:51:43 on 12 September 2020 |
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| People still don't give a monkeys. People still don't give a shit.. People are still having parties and barbeques with about 30 people. People still not wearing face masks and social distancing in all supermarkets and shops and on eccles, Swinton and Pendleton precinct.. On the subject of schools, it will be a good idea to test ALL kids for this Chinese flu every Friday afternoon after school on the school grounds and then take the test away to be tested for the weekend and then have the results back for Monday morning before school reopens and any kids tested positive over the weekend are to stay at home for 2weeks. At the moment there is a reported 65cases at schools in the greater Manchester areas with about 7cases in Salford schools where a whole school year has been sent home from school.. I again passed a Salford high school this morning and seen lots of kids in crowds of 10/15 pupils and not social distancing going into school.. Moorside high school has over 1000 pupils with 120 staff, walkden high school has over 1200 puplis with 140 staff, buile hill high school has about 800 pupils with about 90 staff, no way can you do social distancing in these schools. I know kids need education after being off for 6months, but I think it's about time to open up a few old schools buildings sites in Salford that are being used for other uses or been left derelict and maybe spread the school years groups into these old school buildings.. The old school sites buildings that should be brought back for school use are old saint Ambrose high on Shaftesbury rd Swinton. Saint lukes primary on eccles new rd (behind the coach and horses pub) it's not been used for about 4years. The broadwalk primary school of belvedere rd, i know this is used I think as a teacher training centre and a pupils referral unit for misbehaving kids.. we can also use as temporary schools Clarendon recreation centre, pendlebury recreation centre and Eccles recreation centre because these have large sports halls on site. Just a thought. We have to protect our children and families. That's it, I'm off to have a snooze in my hazmat protection suit. Be safe. |
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Arnold Rimmer wrote
at 10:36:52 on 09 September 2020 |
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| I see ROSSI is one of the covidiots. I suppose you think vaccines cause autism too?
I don't wear a mask to protect me, that's not what they are for. I'm in my mid 30s and healthy, I may have already had it and not even know and if i do get it, i'll probably be fine.
It's for everyone else who is more vulnerable.
If it only protected the wearer, then i wouldn't mind as when the covidiots catch it and die, the average IQ of the nation would increase.
Those that don't wear a mask are just selfish. It's a mask, what's the big deal. Just wear one.
By your logic about government control I shouldn't follow the law about wearing a seatbelt as I've never crashed my car so they have done nothing to protect me in 18 years of driving so therefore they are pointless.
I was in Keswick last week and it was rigorously enforced there with no exceptions. Staff member at the door of Booths and the Co-op that refused entry to anyone without one. IT was excellent. All coffee shops/cafes etc. had "no mask, no service" signs. |
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ROSSI wrote
at 09:44:42 on 09 September 2020 |
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| God bless you Darren, you're the Salt of the Earth, a veritable Ebenezer, after his visit from The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. Pretty soon I'm sure that you'll be buying huge turkeys for the poor and impoverished among us, and tipping everyone who does something for you, well over the top.
But the fact is, and it is indisputable, unquestionable fact, Bolton is NOT LA's Skid Row. Your description of Bolton doesn't stack up with the reality of the place. Nice try boy, but no cigar. |
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paulkelly wrote
at 23:43:58 on 08 September 2020 |
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| This governments weak leadership at the start of the covid pandemic and the continuing contradictory messages which as led to some smart arses acting daft pretending they do not know which rules to adhere to so they can excuse a selfish attitude of i will do what i want because no body controls me well you really need to wake up thank yourselves you did not suffer what the mining communities got off this state whole areas of this country were locked down and under brutal control by the police/state women children and miners were treated in scenes worthy of being seen in a dictatorship beaten abused arrested sent to prison with the police an occupying army for over a year in many pit villages behaving in a disgusting manner sealing people in areas civil liberties and the rule of law suspended control you idiots do not know the meaning of the word.covid is real many thousands of people have died and we need a concerted effort to beat this virus boris and co have been negligent again like at the start they are not learning the lessons now the school children are returning and students it is obvious that the infection rate will rise why no plan to use empty buildings and recruit retired teachers and make class sizes smaller why no extra buses to ease the burden on the private transport system buses are now full with 22 people on yet today i could not get on a bus it was packed with school kids i do not blame them it is this inept governments fault and for a country that can spend billions on arms why are masks and sanitiser not being made freely available for all we need to pull together winter is close many old people die each year because they cant afford to heat there homes and families will suffer from the cold if we have a further lock down we all suffer that is no conspiracy that is a fact. |
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Alice wrote
at 18:49:06 on 08 September 2020 |
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| I am usually a patient person understanding why people are tempted to break the Corvid rules. But I have been sheltering for six month now and denying myself the comforting hug with my children and grand.children. Today I have become irritated by the casual attitude of some people who can’t follow the simple Covid rules. So now the numbers of infections are rising and more people are dying. I am so disappointed that people can’t carry out the simple rules. I have a son and granddaughter now teaching children who are being put under threat, I also have a daughter in law who is a Doctor and working most days in full PEP and exhausted with daily threats. For goodness sake keep the distance; it isn’t painful; it isn’t difficult. Make some effort and show you CARE |
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Darren born bred wrote
at 18:33:53 on 08 September 2020 |
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| Two weeks ago, me, my missus and 2kids went to Bolton town centre on a Saturday afternoon for a bit of shopping and bite to eat. We travelled by car and on the outskirts of the town centre, we seen the poor beggers everywhere,, yes there was loads of homeless people stood at traffic lights with bits of cardboard in there hands saying "please help, need food". These desperate homeless people was dirty and the clothes they was in were dirty and these people needed help. We went down the main shopping street in Bolton Newport street towards Victoria Square and half the shops were closed and shutters down and lots of "shop to let" signs everywhere. We seen lots of desperate homeless people everywhere on street corners, outside shops, outside car parks and outside pubs around Bolton begging and I thought market Street and Piccadilly gardens was bad in Manchester. Then we walked it over to the retail park where the Sainsbury's and Morrisons is and again seen the desperate homeless people everywhere.. Is this why Bolton has highest cases at the moment. These people need help.. Ps, before any of you start going on with yourself like that bloke from the Pendleton flats on the broadwalk, I did not give the homeless any money at all. There was this one homeless guy, he looked starved, cold and had a dirty face and a scruffy beard. I seen him when we parked up in a side street. He had a shopping trolley with him full of dirty bags and it must have been all he had in life in them bags. I got back to the car after 4hours and he was still around the traffic lights so I got out of my car and gave him my old Berghaus coat with a warm fleece that I've had for the last 5years, i also gave him 3sandwiches i had bought from the supermarket, after about 10minutes chat with him, he said he's been homeless for 6 and a half years. I sadly got back in the car and thought about this homeless person on way back to Salford.. These homeless need help.
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ROSSI wrote
at 17:58:21 on 08 September 2020 |
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| That's poor Arnold. You're behaving like an old woman. Where's your Bushido Spirit? Come on boy, this is the first time in British history that its inhabitants have behaved like wimps. Thousands of years of courage and now this, half the population walking around in a mask, and looking as if they're gonna plop a log in their pants when they see someone sneezing.
Don't you understand that this is about control? The government have now had it confirmed that the majority of the uk population are sheep. This, in my opinion, will be the beginning of the eradication of United kingdom's citizens rights. Just look at what's happened to this nation. I'm a Christian, and yet this virus has literally closed organized religion down. There have been very few dissenting voices. For months everything has been closed down ... and all because everybody is terrified of being mortal. People were even grassing on neighbours for going outside. It is truly absurd, and when the mist settles, and the heat ceases to boil, and we all view the situation through the cathedral's window .... Only then will we realise how ridiculous this has all been. Covid19 is not Apocalypse Now.
P.s. I remember four months ago people were selling hand sanitizer on Ebay for twenty five quid a bottle. In Home Bargains it would normally be about one pound fifty. Ironically, it was alcohol free. Get A Grip People ... Get A Grip. |
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Arnold Rimmer wrote
at 16:31:58 on 08 September 2020 |
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| Swinton Asda had about 15% of people in it without masks yesterday. Asda/all shops should grow a pair and refuse those people service. Anyone with a medical need can get a note from their GP.
The spread is due to these covidiots not wearing masks. Even if your stupid enough to think they don't help, it doesn't matter, it's the law. Wear one.
If one of these idiots was approaching me in Asda, I just positioned my trolley to block them and made them wait until I was done before they could approach. |
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