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Having taught about this as part of the future of UK high streets, today I went to an Amazon fresh shop with justwalkout technology. It feels very weird but it’s easy and with a new customer discount, lunch for 3 cost less than £2 - in London!

My favourite one for this year…….

Thank you to Richard Huish College for their donations 💙💛🇺🇦💪

Hello £200k beach huts, goodbye primary school - the Welsh village hollowed out by second homes Abersoch was once an ordinary fishing hamlet. Now, holiday flats sell for £1.5m. We talk to locals whose community is disappearing under a flood of outsiders’ cash

Eunice and landing a plane 😬👏🏻

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Globalisation / hazards…….Tonga enters Covid lockdown after aid delivered https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-60210867

Tonga enters Covid lockdown after aid delivered Cases are detected among port workers as humanitarian aid arrives after a volcano and tsunami.

A debate outside the geography / geology classrooms at college. Any suggestions?!

Merry Christmas all 🎄🎁

Any broken inflatables this summer…. Post them to these people who will up cycle them! 😊 https://www.wyattandjack.com/pages/faqs

Two jobs working with animals……

There are a couple of amazing animal care opportunities on offer at RSPCA West Hatch Animal Centre right now - check them out here:

https://uk.indeed.com/job/animal-care-assistant-9184-acbc152640f86284

UPDATE: if the link doesn't work please search on indeed for the role with the job title Animal Care Asssitant and the role number 9184. Good luck!

https://www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk/apprenticeship/-621543

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-57406136.amp

G7: 'Mount Recyclemore' of leaders made from electronic waste in Cornwall The sculptor says his work highlights the need to make electronic devices more reusable.

Not very geographical but still important!

Then and now: Pandemic clears the air https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57149747

Then and now: Pandemic clears the air Air pollution is highly damaging to the environment, but Covid lockdowns show we can clear the air.

Sales of peat compost to gardeners to be banned from 2024 Funding for restoration of peatlands and tripling of tree planting in England also announced

Saint Vincent volcano: 'Explosive' Soufrière eruption sparks mass evacuation https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-56693406

Saint Vincent volcano: Soufrière erupts amid mass evacuation Over 16,000 people were evacuated ahead of the eruption of La Soufrière on Saint Vincent island.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/22/we-monitor-every-breath-mount-etna-war-room-catania?fbclid=IwAR0RXeMN0i774J8wxOY4Ve6Ft9NIdKh5NVoJ4akHp3cyCOxdw6tu8o6Y6yk

‘We monitor its every breath’: inside Mount Etna’s war room In the city of Catania, at the foot of the volcano, scientists are trying to explain its recent unusual behaviour

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-iceland-volcano-starts-erupt-23762608.amp

Iceland volcano erupts spewing molten lava into skies as red glow seen for miles A Reykjanes volcano has erupted in Iceland with all air traffic at Keflavik International Airport grounded as the eruption begins on the Reykjanes Peninsula

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Exceptional Etna volcano eruption as seen last night from Lipari (Aeolian Islands), Italy. Feb 20th. Thanks to Gabriele Costanzo for the report - posted with permission.

"I became a cleaner during the pandemic to give something back to the country which took me in as a refugee five years ago.

I’m from Damascus in Syria. During the uprising in 2011, I was arrested for protesting and was beaten very badly by the secret police. Both my arms were broken, my ribs were smashed and I almost lost my left leg because they beat me so much.

I didn’t feel safe anymore and ended up going to Turkey. There I paid people traffickers to put me in a dinghy to western Europe, but it sank and we were picked up by the coastguards and returned to Turkey.

Further attempts followed and eventually I made it to the UK.

When the pandemic hit, it brought up those same feelings of fear and anxiety that I had back in Damascus. There were similarities; the people queuing for food, empty shelves, the state of emergency and lockdowns.

I felt I needed to do something. I was obsessed with finding out how I could help. I came across an urgent job post for a hospital cleaner at Whipps Cross which is 10 mins away.

I applied and the next day I was in the hospital. I was terrified. I’d experienced a lot trying to get to the UK, but with this I was terrified because it was invisible and no one knew what was happening.

I was pretty shocked by what I saw on the wards. It was unreal to be honest. We didn’t have an empty bed for two months. There were always Covid patients in and out. Out to their homes recovering, or out in body bags. It was insane, so many people died. I’ve never been around that much death before.

I was doing over 20,000 steps a day, so physically and mentally it was exhausting.

I ended up cleaning for 65 days until they closed the ward. It was one of 12 Covid wards. Most of my colleagues there were not from Britain. It was as if we were all working our hardest for the country that we had decided to make our home. That’s what united us."

Hassan Akkan, Waltham Forest

📷: Hassan Akkan

🎄12 Days of Christmas

Caribbean volcanoes rumble to life as scientists study activity not seen in years Authorities near La Soufriere have issued warnings as an ‘effusive eruption with visible gas and steam’ is reported

Storm Bella helps UK set new record for wind power generation On Boxing Day more than half the country’s daily electricity came from wind turbines