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Manchester Floating islands to create park wildlife haven

A series of innovative floating islands are taking shape in a Manchester lake as part of plans to clean up the city’s green spaces, paid for by an airport windfall. The islands, designed to boost wildlife and biodiversity and improve water quality, are being installed in the former boating lake at Boggart Hole Clough. The …

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World Social Work Day held in Liverpool

World Social Work Day Liverpool

SENIOR managers met with social workers in Liverpool to mark World Social Work day to celebrate the invaluable contribution they make to local communities. Liverpool City Council has social workers in both adults’ and children’s services and also in its contact centre, Careline. Bernie Brown, Assistant Director in Children’s Services, said: “We welcome the opportunity …

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Cumbrian man launches charity for orphaned boys in Kenya

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A new UK charity to help young people in Africa will be officially launched by a Cumbrian aid worker in April.      The Noah Initiative (UK), which is the brainchild of 25-year-old Elliot Berry from Troutbeck Bridge, will work with fatherless children and young men in the slum of Kambi Teso in Eldoret in western Kenya. …

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