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This is how to apply for the government furlough scheme
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is now live - allowing businesses across the UK to claim towards staff wages. Under the scheme by the UK Government - which opened on Monday morning (April 20, 2020) - employers will be able to pay their employees
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Hospital lockdown anguish
A TERMINALLY-ILL woman begged her husband to get her out of hospital isolation after family visits were stopped due to Covid-19. As reported in last week’s Courier, Bill Hudson has been calling on health chiefs in East Lothian to let him visit his
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Art therapy charity makes services available online
A MUSSELBURGH-BASED art therapy charity for children with chronic conditions has been working hard to adapt its services in response to coronavirus. The Teapot Trust has made its one-to-one art therapy available via video conferencing and put in
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Coronavirus: 44 deaths recorded in East Lothian
THE number of East Lothian residents who have died from Covid-19 has been revealed as 44 as local figures were released for the first time. The National Records of Scotland disclosed that 21 deaths of people who lived in the county were recorded
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Wrong bus information was on sign at train station
VISITORS and commuters at North Berwick Railway Station thought they were in the wrong place, as a sign indicating bus times was displaying information for other towns. The error was spotted before lockdown by Harry Barker, chair of both East Lothian
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Lottery cash boost for The Warblers
THE Warblers, a small charity that works with people with chronic lung conditions in Musselburgh, has received a lottery cash boost. The grant of £4,000 from the National Lottery for All fund will be used to run weekly singing for lung health groups
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Kind customer’s donation to salon is a cut above
A BEAUTY therapist got very emotional when one of her clients paid for her treatment – despite not being able to receive it due to the coronavirus lockdown. Claire Marshall owns Beauty at Sunflowers, based on East Linton High Street, a salon she
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Hollies celebrates cash windfall for next two years
STAFF and members at the Hollies Day Centre in Musselburgh were celebrating a cash windfall just before the facility closed amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. They had heard they were to get a further two years funding from The Robertson Trust, amounting
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Volunteers doing their bit to help throughout Musselburgh
AN ARMY of some 70 volunteers are doing everything they can to get help to people who need it across the Musselburgh area as the coronavirus lockdown continues. The emergency efforts are being co-ordinated by Musselburgh and Inveresk Community
