YOUR WEEKLY NEWS UPDATE
- You have heard of ‘elf on the shelf’. Santa Claus uses a particular strategy to deliver presents to children and families isolating due to Covid at a hospital in Lima, Peru. Since these are Covid areas, anyone cannot go in directly, but Santa and the fire brigade provided a solution. Riding on a fire truck’s cherry picker and accompanied by a firefighter, Santa was able to deliver wrapped presents to children leaning out the windows, as health workers on the ground outside cheered and danced.
- David Stewart, a wildlife sound recordist, has spent more than 30 years collecting rarely heard sounds of Australia’s wildlife. His bird recordings have been used on the album. When the album was released on 3 December 2021, a social media campaign was launched to get the album into Australia’s Aria music sales charts – and it worked. Songs of Disappearance has made history as it becomes the first album of its kind to chart in the top five.
- New Covid rules were announced in England last week to limit the spread of the Omicron variant. As a result, the Premier League told clubs to return to emergency measures, including social distancing and wearing masks. Tottenham’s Europa Conference League match against Rennes was called off last Thursday after 13 positive tests at the North London club. Their Premier League game at Brighton, scheduled on Sunday has been postponed as well.
- Half of all women have felt unsafe walking alone in the dark according to recent research from the Office for National Statistics. The ‘WalkSafe’ app will include a live map where your family and friends will be able to chat with you and track your location in real time. For now, its unique selling point is a map which allows people to plan their safest route home. It encourages people to have precautionary measures to avoid crime rather than reactionary measures when in an unfortunate situation.
- The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge chose a family photograph taken on a Jordan visit as the image for their official Royal Christmas card this year. Prince William, pictured in shorts and a khaki polo shirt, is sitting on a gold footstool alongside his wife in a long-sleeved green summer dress. Princess Charlotte and Prince George sit on either side, with Prince Louis in front on a sheepskin-style rug. The festive card is sent to friends, family, associates and their charities.
- Demi started the Trade Me Project in May 2020 and swapped many things along the way, including a pair of earrings, an iPhone and three tractors. The 30-year-old, from San Francisco, California is now the owner of a house in Nashville, Tennessee. Inspired by Kyle MacDonald, who traded his way from a single red paperclip to a house in online trades in 2006, Ms. Skipper swapped the hairpin for a pair of cheap earrings. From trading, Ms. Skipper also got a Mini Cooper convertible.
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