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News today. Spike (for the uninitiated, Spike is my 13 y-o grand-daughter) is getting her vacc tomorrow (if the doses appear), but today her class was down to 50%, all absences due to Covid.

At the Junior School where I am a governor 25 students, 2 teachers and 2 TAs all tested positive on Monday.
Local Authority, following DoH guidelines says this isn't an outbreak, so no special measures needed.

CO² monitors not yet received.
Vaccine deliveries slow and intermittent. (Price Waterhouse Cooper)

Deaths today: 223. Yesterday we were the proud possessors of the world record total for the day, 20% of all global cases were in the UK.

2p short? Fuck off and starve.

Pupils will not be allowed school meals if they are more than a penny in debt, according to a letter to parents.

The cook at secondary Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle, in Penygroes, Gwynedd, has been "instructed not to give food to any child" if debts are not cleared.

Strategic head teacher Neil Foden's letter said the decision was due to a deficit in the school meals budget.

Gwynedd Council told North Wales Live anyone "having difficulty" paying for school meals should get in touch.

Mr Foden's letter said he was "very surprised to learn at the end of the last half term that there was an unexpected deficit in our school meals budget".

"Closer inspection revealed that this was because a handful of pupils had run up debts totalling more than £1,800."

Father-of-five Darren Owen, 43, said he was "absolutely fuming" after his wife showed him the letter they had received.

"I understand that people should pay their bills but, at the same time, people are struggling," he said.

"We owed 36p and we had a letter," said Mr Owen, from Penygroes, who has two children at the school.

"Surely they know who the parents are. Can't they help them? he said...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-59242195

Strategic head teacher (whatever one of those is) Neil Foden seems to be a bit of a cunt.