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North Wales Chronicle
4 days ago
- Automotive
- North Wales Chronicle
Menai Bridge road to close for blockage clearance works
Isle of Anglesey County Council has issued a notice confirming that a section of Penlon, Menai Bridge, will be closed to all vehicles, except for emergency services, from August 27. The closure is expected to last until August 28. The council has provided an alternative route for affected traffic. From the northern end of the closure, drivers are advised to travel in a westerly direction through Penlon Estate to the junction with the B5420, Pentraeth Road, and turn left. Traffic should then continue in a south-easterly direction along the B5420 to the junction with Hill Street, where another left turn is required. Drivers should proceed in an easterly direction along Hill Street to the junction with Tyddyn To, and turn left again. The route then continues in a north-westerly direction along Tyddyn To, passing Ysgol Y Borth and Cil y Graig, to the junction with Penlon Estate and the opposite end of the road closure. The same diversion applies in reverse for traffic travelling from the opposite direction. The council has stated that the order will remain in force for up to six weeks to allow for any unforeseen delays, although the works are expected to be completed within the two-day period. For more notices affecting YOUR area, visit our Public Notice Portal
North Wales Chronicle
6 days ago
- General
- North Wales Chronicle
Blaenau Ffestiniog roads to close for gas pipe works
The Square, New Road, and the rear access road to numbers 26-32 The Square will be affected. The Square will be shut from a point by number one to the junction with Wynne Road. New Road will be closed from its junction with The Square up to its junction with the Rear Access Road to 26-32 The Square. Gwynedd Council has announced a temporary traffic order for the roads, which will block through traffic in both directions. The closure is set to last for about 18 days, ensuring the safety of the public during the upgrade works. An alternative route has been set up. Drivers can head south on Dorvil Road, then turn left at The Square junction. From there, they can travel on this road and Wynne Road in a south-easterly direction. Atthe Wynne Avenue junction, drivers should turn left to travel north-east up to the closure. The route is reversed for vehicles travelling in the opposite direction. Residents will still have access during the works. The order will be in place for up to a month, although the work is expected to be completed in just over two weeks. For any further information regarding the closure, people can contact the applicant, Mark Morris, on 07980 892 567. For any further information about the order itself, people can contact the Transportation and Countryside Service on 01286 679437. For more notices affecting YOUR area, visit our Public Notice Portal
Yahoo
13-04-2025
- Yahoo
Road closures to watch out for in and around Falmouth this week
Public notices in Falmouth this week include several road closures and probates. For the latest public notice updates in Falmouth and Cornwall, visit the Public Notice website. A busy road will be closed for two days for cabling work. Maenporth Road, Falmouth, will be shut between Hard To Come By Farm and Maen Valley Park from April 16 to April 17. The closure, issued by Cornwall Council, will be enforced between 9.30am and 4pm on weekdays. A diversion will be clearly marked, and access to properties will remain open for both pedestrians and vehicles. The closure is part of a temporary traffic regulation order, set to last until April 17. For further details, visit or contact Sunbelt Rentals Ltd on 03700 500792. Road closures have been announced for sewer cleaning works. Cornwall Council will block traffic on North Parade, Tehidy Terrace, and Stratton Terrace, Falmouth, from Monday, April 28, to Friday, May 2, under the County of Cornwall (North Parade, Tehidy Terrace, Stratton Terrace, Falmouth) (Temporary Prohibition of Traffic) Order 2025. The closure will be in place on weekdays between 9.30am and 5pm. Alternative routes will be signposted. For more information, visit or contact Kier, on behalf of South West Water, on 0344 346 2020. Pedestrian and vehicle access to properties will remain open. The closure is necessary for sewer cleaning works. A road closure will affect Mylor Bridge for two days. Comfort Road will be shut between the junctions of Cogos Park and Bells Hill on Tuesday, April 29, and Wednesday, April 30, for poling works. The closure will be in place between 9.30am and 2.30pm on both days, with an alternative route signposted. Cornwall Council has said the closure is necessary for poling works. The council has noted that pedestrian and vehicular access will be maintained to properties. For any further information, people can go to or contact Sunbelt Rentals Ltd on 0370 500 792. A Penryn road is set to close for a day for poling works. The County of Cornwall (Road From Bohelland Road To Junction At Bissom Bungalow, Penryn) (Temporary Prohibition of Traffic) Order 2025 will come into effect on Friday, May 2. The closure will be in place from 9.30am to 3.30pm. An alternative route will be available, but pedestrians and vehicles will still be able to access properties. For more information, visit or contact Sunbelt Rentals Ltd on 0370 500 792. The closure is being organised by Cornwall Council under Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.
Yahoo
12-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump takes advantage of our collective COVID amnesia
Five years ago, the World Health Organization announced that COVID-19 was officially a pandemic and the whole world embarked on a shared experience like nothing before in any of our lives. Although the quick roll out of vaccines and accumulated knowledge about how to treat the illness saved millions, the pandemic lasted for over two years and took 1.2 million lives in the U.S. and over seven million worldwide. Many people were left with serious lingering effects of the virus the reasons for which are still being studied. Hospitals and morgues were overwhelmed and the world economy was brought to an abrupt halt in March of 2020 which quickly brought mass unemployment and a shortage of goods as the global supply chain was disrupted. We learned very quickly that the federal government under Donald Trump was so lacking in logistical and crisis management ability that America had one of the worst responses of any developed country in the world. The U.S. experienced 16% of the world's deaths with just 4% of the population. We should have seen it coming. As Judd Legum at Public Notice presciently posted on X: Months before that a prominent Democrat had warned the country about the possibility of a pandemic and the country's lack of preparedness: The President of the United States downplayed the threat and insisted that he wanted to "keep his numbers down" because he was beginning to understand that this was going to interrupt his plans for a triumphant return for a second term. On March 9, Trump made one of his most famous public appearances of the COVID era when he went to the Centers For Disease Control in Georgia and declared himself a genius: He said: Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for President. Over the next few months he proved that he had definitely not missed his calling as a medical expert or a president. In fact, it became more obvious than ever that his talents, such as they are, are completely useless in a crisis. Two days after that memorable visit, when the WHO made its announcement (an act which Donald Trump has never forgiven and so petulantly withdrew the U.S. from the organization) the world stopped. Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson announced that they had contracted the virus and the NBA suspended its schedule. The highly respected virologist Dr. Anthony Fauci testified before Congress that the pandemic could result in "many, many millions" of deaths. That night Trump made the only semi-dignified announcement of the crisis from the Oval Office, shutting down travel from Europe, but the order was typically poorly drafted and had to be repeatedly walked back over the following days. It was the beginning of the Trump COVID response and it was a horror show. Those of us who were not essential workers sat cloistered in our homes watching the unfolding horror on television as the news kept a countdown clock of cases, hospitalizations and deaths that grew exponentially over the weeks that followed. And unfortunately, it became clear that we were led by a man who was completely in over his head. Before long Trump was blaming Democrats, his go-to, for the pandemic because they suffered the greatest death toll in the big blue cities during the first wave. He demanded that they lick his boots before they could get vital medical supplies and forced them to bid against each other for them. If they failed to adequately grovel and praise him, he punished their states by delaying the needed supplies and publicly derided them as incompetent. He denigrated the use of masks, frequently mocking those who did and ignored the social distancing measures recommended by the experts because his "business friends" told him it hurt the economy. Within just a couple of weeks he was already exhorting people to stop worrying and learn to love the virus saying that "the cure cannot be worse than the disease," meaning that the crisis could not be allowed to disrupt his campaign. His main concern at this juncture was the effect it was having on the economy which he needed to be booming before the fall campaign. Unemployment was still very high and businesses were shuttered so he wanted them open immediately, whether people would die or not. He had signed the first relief bill called the CARES Act but did not want to extend any more government help and basically told the country he wanted them to get back to normal now. Unfortunately, the vaccines were still months away and new variants were springing up so he resorted to his usual tactics of pitting people against each other. He encouraged anti-mask and anti-shutdown MAGA people to rebel against all mitigation efforts. He trained his followers to distrust the science and the scientists by pushing snake oil cures on television (now linked to at least 17,000 deaths) and encouraging them to believe crackpot conspiracy theories. By the time the vaccines came online, his MAGA voters had such contempt for scientists that they rejected them, ironically denying Trump the great moment of victory he had craved. All that and much, much more happened with a federal government that still had a working CDC, NIH, HHS and friendly, cooperative relationships with the world's leading scientific research institutions and their countries' leaders. Now imagine what will happen if another pandemic comes a little preview of the kind of scientific expertise we'll be relying on going forward: Meanwhile, HHS is "reevaluating" existing contracts for MrNA vaccine development for a potential avian flu epidemic. Their plan is apparently this gobbledygook: It has struck me as very odd these last couple of years that the pandemic has gone so far down the memory hole that it's like it never happened. But it did, millions died and our society was scarred by the experience even if we don't want to admit it. Our political culture is divided even worse than before largely because the man in charge at the time didn't know how to deal with an emergency and was more concerned with his re-election than saving lives. Sadly, our national amnesia allowed that same man to be restored to the White House where he is furiously tearing up the federal government including the world class scientific research centers and public health institutions that were all that stood between him and millions more dead the last time he was confronted with a crisis. It will be a hundred times worse if it happens again on his watch.
