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The 3.9 million project at King Edward VI School involves the design and build of an extension to an existing building and the construction of a new modular building to provide much needed replacement teaching and other spaces.

Phase one of works involves the construction of a new three-storey extension on the site of a former swimming pool which was demolished prior to commencement and is expected to be completed in spring 2021. The extension will provide replacement teaching and extra spaces, as well as an administration area on the lower ground floor, which will be the location of the schools new student services area.

Phase two, which is expected to be complete in winter 2020, involves the demolition and replacement of existing accommodation, providing modern and enhanced science laboratory teaching facilities at the school.

This is the second contract secured by G F Tomlinson through the Staffordshire Construction framework for Staffordshire County Council, led by Entrust Property Services.

During the work, the site management team will perform virtual live site tours for the school to report project progress and allow them to raise any queries they have.

Chris Flint, a director of G F Tomlinson, said: We are pleased to be able to commence construction works for our client Staffordshire County Council, particularly in the current climate. The works will maximise space and upgrade the existing buildings at King Edward VI School. These important renovations will optimise teaching spaces and improve the overall educational experience for students and staff.

It has been rewarding to engage with Entrust Property Services again and we look forward to working for them and Staffordshire County Council to deliver this project, whilst continuing to build strong relationships with Arc Partnership and our other local supply chain partners over the course of both phases.

Councillor Philip White, cabinet member for learning and skills, said: These works are being completed to ensure the site can accommodate an increased demand for pupil places at the school, as a result of new housing in and around the city. Once finished, the work will enable the school to expand by 150 pupils.

We have been planning for this for a while, and construction is taking place over the course of a year to minimise disruption as much as possible. Im sure pupils and teachers will enjoy using the brand-new accommodation in September 2021.

John Doherty, chief executive of Entrust Support Services, said: We are proud to see works commence at King Edward VI School following Entrusts master planning of a multi-faceted brief across a split campus.

"This is a complex project which we are proudly project managing with our preferred contractor and we look forward to working with G F Tomlinson, Staffordshire County Council and the school to complete it. Once finished these new teaching spaces will benefit the school and its pupils well into the future.

Jane Rutherford, head at King Edward School, said: With additional students joining us each year, this project will provide all our students and staff with access to improved facilities. We are looking forward to seeing the project completed during the coming academic year."

The council is leading the project, with project management from Entrust, G F Tomlinson acting as main contractors and Arc partnership acting as architect and structural engineer.

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On the morning after the general election, Boris Johnson told the country that parliament must change. No legislature can be expected to be preserved in aspic. There is a need for our systems of governance to be made more pluralistic and representative. However, Mr Johnson has seized an opportunity in a crisis to concentrate power rather than diffuse it. The end of online voting and the quelling of parliamentary debate will reduce the Commons to a rubber stamp for whatever Mr Johnson wants.

What is being done away with for the next month is effectively the pivotal role assigned to parliament: the scrutiny that improves the quality of government, which, given the economic and public health emergencies facing the country, has never been needed more. Since early May, a hybrid parliament has been operating. MPs debated proposed laws and voted in virtual divisions. This was considered an imperfect but makeshift arrangement necessary to observe the social distancing guidelines. These rules, instituted to save lives, have not changed.

Yet the government has decided to end remote voting and online interventions in debates. Ministers want only a few dozen MPs in the parliamentary chamber to ask questions, and those who wish to vote must queue up to cast their vote in person at the dispatch box. MPs who have been advised to stay home and shield can no longer take part in debates or votes and will have to rely on their whips to find opponents to pair with. It is wrong that parliament should proceed without provision for remote participation when many elected representatives cannot attend in person.

The system was given a dry run on Tuesday and was hardly an advert for parliamentary oversight. Instead of a digital voting system in which all MPs could be involved, we have a ludicrous queueing system in which only two-thirds of parliamentarians can participate. Online voting took 15 minutes, its replacement three times as long. That the new system is slower, more dangerous and less inclusive undermines ministers argument that the previous one was not fast enough to deal with the volume of legislation.

One suspects that there will now be fewer votes scheduled, which is a step back for democracy. Ministers evidently see no loss in the absent MPs unable to participate in debates on legislation. The message is very clear: we are dealing with a cabinet that is responsive at a stretch to the ruling party, but not to the Commons. Parliamentary democracy is fragile and can easily be disrupted if a powerful group of its members does not accept its rules.

A government that controls parliament can suppress information or inquiries which are to its disadvantage, sometimes by refusing to supply information. Team Johnson appears to be both scornful and fearful of scrutiny silencing scientists who might depart from the script during the damaging Dominic Cummings affair and delaying the publication of the last intelligence and security committee report on Russia. More pertinently, the coronavirus crisis requires an effective parliamentary audit of the far-reaching powers placed in the hands of the executive.

It was a former Tory lord chancellor who warned that human nature being what it is, every human being and every human institution will tend to abuse its legitimate powers unless these are controlled by checks and balances, in which the holders of office are not merely encouraged but compelled to take account of interests and views which differ from their own. A system was in place that allowed MPs to vote, speak and represent their constituents. In rescinding that, the government has left many voters unrepresented. Mr Johnson betrays a view of the lower chamber as a bystander in governance. A vigilant, inquiring and effective Commons is essential to prevent the misuse of formidable powers in a pandemic. It is extremely bad news for the country that Mr Johnson does not want such a parliament.

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Creditors are likely to try to keep Thai Airways International (THAI) afloat to pay off debts, raising hope the airline's rehabilitation plan will pass the court's scrutiny, according to a source in the Finance Ministry.

The creditors are not out to seize the airline's business. If rehab plan fails and the airline cannot make an income, it will head for default and the creditors knew they would be in trouble too if that were to be the case, the source said.

The best way forward is to keep THAI flying and that would be a "win-win" formula for both the creditors and the airline, the source added.

Before the cabinet decided to let THAI file for bankruptcy and seek debt rehab, the Finance Ministry had other plans, he siad.

The ministry wanted to offload part of the government's stake in the airline to Dhanarak Asset Development Company Limited, which is supervised by the Treasury Department. The intention was to maintain THAI's status as a state enterprise for which the Finance Ministry would be legally permitted to guarantee a bailout loan.

The plan had also called for a replacement of the airline president and revamp of the company, including restructuring ticket sales that relied heavily on agents.

The source said the plan met with public resistance as it required pouring taxpayers' money in to prop up the cash-strapped airline. In the end, the cabinet chose to subject THAI to rehab via the Central Bankruptcy Court which accepted the airline's petition for examination last week.

The source said the rehab plan prepared by THAI stands a good chance of sailing through creditor vetting and winning their approval. Many major creditors based in Thailand are state enterprises including PTT Plc which supplies petrol to the airline.

However, a hurdle ahead for the rehab executors has to do with the inevitable downsizing of an airline with more than 20,000 employees. It is reported that this retrenchment will affect one-third of the workforce, which is certain to run into internal opposition.

The airline's union, disbanded when THAI lost its state enterprise status, has already voiced its resistance to the airline's extension of salary cuts to the end of this month.

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U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy the military unless states halt violent protests.Trump said Monday he would mobilize the military to end "lawlessness," blaming anarchists and Antifa for fomenting unrest during demonstrations against police violence.

Trump said if governors throughout the country do not deploy the National Guard in sufficient numbers to "dominate the streets,"thenthe U.S. military would step in to "quickly solve the problem for them."

Protests and clashes have erupted across the U.S. in reaction to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Floyd died last week after being pinned to the ground by a police officer who put his knee on the handcuffed black man's neck until he stopped breathing. The officer, Derek Chauvin, has been charged with third-degree murder, but protesters are demanding that three of his colleagues who were at the scene be prosecuted as well. All four officers have been fired.

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Just prior to Trump making his comments in the White House Rose Garden, police and National Guard soldiers started forcing back hundreds of peaceful protesters who had gathered in Lafayette Park,across the street from the White House, so that the president could walk to a nearby church and pose for a photo while holding a Bible.

While most of the demonstrations in the U.S. have been peaceful, others have turned violent with looting and cars set on fire.The National Guard has been deployed in at least 15 states.

Gunfire was reported early today amidprotests in Las Vegas and St. Louis.One police officer was reported to have been shot in Las Vegas, while four officers were hit by gunfire in St. Louis.Read more on this story here.

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Signs were prepared to facilitate physical distancing in Camden Market in London, England on Monday as outdoor markets reopened following an easing of the lockdown restrictions in the U.K. Some non-essential stores and car dealerships were also allowed to resume operating.

Four Chrtien-era cabinet ministers are among 58 former Canadian diplomats and politicians who added their names to a letter calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government to show stronger resistance to a proposed Israeli annexation of a large part of the occupied West Bank.Among the signatories are former ambassadors to Israel who served under both Liberal and Conservative governments, as well as many other diplomats who represented Canada's interests in the Middle East.Read more about the letter here.

In a time of ultimate economic uncertainty caused by COVID-19 and the lockdown to fight it, this week's shuffle at the top of Canada's central bank will only add to the confusion.As CBC business columnist Don Pittis writes, that's not to say that the newly appointed governor of the Bank of Canada, Tiff Macklem, who takes over from Stephen Poloz on Wednesday, will do a bad job. But just as when Poloz replaced media darling Mark Carney, who set off to an even more glamorous and demanding job at the Bank of England only to be followed by a relatively stodgy and unknown replacement, changes of leadership style at the top matter.Read more about the change at Canada's central bank.

Approximately 700 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Toronto area were not flagged to public health officials because of a mix-up between two hospitals, CBC News has learned.The positive tests were completed as far back as April, but the 12 public health units involved were only notified about the oversight in the past few days. The bulk of the cases involve people living in Toronto, and nearby Peel Region and York Region. The oversight means thousands of contacts of the confirmed cases were not traced by public health workers, potentially contributing to wider spread of the coronavirus in recent weeks.Read more on this story here.

We're answering your questions about the pandemic. Send yours toCOVID@cbc.caand we'll answer as many as we can.Masks can feel uncomfortable and difficult to wear. Sara M. wrote to say it's particularly hard for people like her who suffer from anxiety and lung disorders like asthma. So what should they do? Dr. Samir Gupta, a clinician-scientist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, said while there's no evidence that masks trigger underlying lung conditions, some people will find it harder to breathe through a mask especially if they have chronic lung disease. "For these people, and those with anxiety, if they can't wear a mask, they can only physically distance but this would be a minority of people," Gupta said. Dr. Sumon Chakrabarti, an infectious diseases physician at Trillium Health Partners in Mississauga, Ont., agrees, and said that some people may feel claustrophobic when wearing a mask. For them, he suggested only wearing one when you need it.Read more from our Q&A here.

Now for some good news to start your Tuesday:The pandemic has put the kibosh on any plans the students of Minto High School in Minto, N.B., had of having a normal graduation, but that doesn't mean the community isn't marking their accomplishments. The 29 graduates from the school are being celebrated with banners displayed on utility poles along the town's main street. Each banner features a graduate's photo and name. Mary-Faith Mazerolle, whose son Owen is a part of the graduating class, is one of the people behind the villagewide celebration. With COVID-19 shutting down regular graduation plans, she said people wanted to show the grads they're thinking of them. "We wanted something to show them that their accomplishment is still recognized in the community and that we're very proud of them," she said.Read more about how the community is honouring its graduates.

Despite making up only 13 per cent of the population, black Americans represent about a quarter of all people killed by police. Today on Front Burner, we speak to civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson about the concrete steps he thinks could be taken to deal with the problem of race-based police violence.

1917:Fighter pilot Billy Bishop, a 23-year-old from Owen Sound, Ont., stages a solo attack on a German airfield during the First World War. His actions make him the first Canadian airman to win a Victoria Cross.

1953:Queen Elizabeth II is crowned in London's Westminster Abbey. Elizabeth was 27 when she assumed the throne 16 months earlier upon the death of her father, King George VI. She had married Philip Mountbatten in 1947, and at the time of her coronation they had two children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne. Elizabeth's coronation was the first to be televised.

1983:A fire breaks out in a bathroom aboard an Air Canada jet, which is forced to make an emergency landing in Cincinnati. Twenty-three people die, including Canadian folk singer StanRogers. Eighteen people survive.

2002:Prime Minister Jean Chretien fires Finance Minister Paul Martin, saying they no longer had a viable working relationship. Martin is replaced with Deputy Prime Minister John Manley.

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By: Express News Service | Chandigarh | Published: May 31, 2020 2:13:58 am Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh

Rejecting allegations of withdrawal of free power to Punjabs farmers, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday said his government is ready to forego the portion of fiscal deficit enhancement offered by the Centre but would not compromise with the farmers interest at any cost.

Dismissing the Centres suggestion on replacement of free power to farmers with DBT as totally unacceptable and a direct attack on the federal structure of the nation, the Chief Minister said he will take up the issue with the Centre for trying to impose such an anti-farmer condition on the cash-strapped state in the guise of extending fiscal support amid the Covid pandemic.

Amarinders statement came a few days after his Cabinet cleared the proposal of Centre to enhance the borrowing limit if state forgoes free power to farmers in the state. The Opposition then took on the government and Amarinder announced on Friday that free power would continue.

Asserting that the free power facility for farmers would continue till his government is in power, Amarinder said his government will take loans to bridge the fiscal deficit, and the Government of India cannot dictate the terms of a sovereign loan being taken by a state government.

Amarinder also lashed out at Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Badal for trying to pin the blame for the Central governments misdemeanors on the state government, which had unwaveringly been providing free power to farmers since taking over in March 2017, despite the massive fiscal crunch it had inherited from the erstwhile Akali-BJP regime.

The Chief Minister asked Sukhbir to immediately quit the ruling NDA at the Centre, and demanded Union Minister and Akali leader Harsimrat Kaur Badals resignation from the Union Cabinet, pointing out that it was the Government of India that took the decision directing the states to withdraw the free power, and also failed to come to the rescue of the state, and any section of its people, in the wake of the unprecedented Covid crisis and lockdown.

Terming their allegations malicious and mischievous, and totally unsubstantiated, Amarinder hit out at the SAD leadership for not fighting for the rights of Punjab and its people, including farmers, at the Centre or in Parliament, and resorting, instead, to petty and shameless politicking even on such a grave issue of national concern.

If you have even an iota of shame, you should leave the NDA coalition, of which you are a part, immediately, and join my government in working for the people of the state, the Chief Minister said, criticising Sukhbir and Harsimrat over their pathetic attempts to mislead the people of Punjab with their patent double standards, blatant falsehoods and unfounded allegations.

Amarinder clarified that the state Cabinet had, in its last meeting, given an in-principle approval to undertaking certain reforms to become eligible to avail additional borrowing of 1.5% of Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) amid COVID-19, as mandated by the Government of India. While allowing an enhancement of fiscal deficit of states under FRBM Act from 3% to 5%, the Government of India had linked a portion of the same to certain administrative reforms.

It is for the BJP and its alliance partner SAD to explain why there is an attempt to force such a condition on Punjab, he said.

Earlier, during the day Panchayats and Rural Development Minister Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa also came up to defend his government on the issue. Showing the Centres letter asking state to do away with subsidy, Bajwa asked Harsimrat to resign from Modis Cabinet or get the state an unconditional enhancement of borrowing limit.

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An artist's impression of what the new Toll Bar Roundabout will look like has finally been revealed, as work is due to start next month.

North East Lincolnshire Council are due to carry out a major redevelopment of the controversial roundabout, which will see additional lanes added to it in an effort to improve traffic flow.

The work on the roundabout is due to begin in July and will last for five months.

The local authority is looking for contractors to do it.

The redevelopment of the Toll Bar Roundabout has been a highly debated issue in North East Lincolnshire for a number of years after plans were originally drawn up to remove it and replace it with traffic lights.

These plans were backed by the approval of a huge 400 home housing development on land beside the roundabout, which demanded the replacement of the traffic lights.

This decision sparked a long series of protests by local residents, who formed the Toll Bar Residents Action Group and had weekly demonstrations at the junction.

However this decision was reversed after the Conservative Party took control of the council in last year's local elections. This was one of their key campaign pledges at the time.

Cabinet member for transport and the environment, Councillor Stewart Swinburn, said once the contractor is appointed, further details will be known on how traffic will be managed during the works programme.

He said: We are acutely aware of the potential issues to residents and businesses while the works are undertaken.

To that end, we have asked potential contractors to review options on ways to reduce the impact of the works on the local community and businesses affected by the works.

If residents or businesses have any specific concerns, they are encouraged to get in touch with the delivery team ahead of the works beginning in July, we will write to all nearby residents and businesses directly in the coming weeks to discuss any access arrangements.

The image we have released illustrates the significant changes being made while retaining the roundabout. Hopefully, once completed, residents and businesses will feel the disruption was worthwhile.

The new housing development has committed to plans to build a 33 space drop off point for the nearby Toll Bar Academy.

Councillor Swinburn said: Although the parking facility is subject to the housing development progress, we are already looking at ways to increase this capacity and improve road safety in the area.

"If were able to provide a proper parking facility, this will help us implement additional parking restrictions on the busy link road between New and Old Waltham to make sure pedestrians are as safe as possible."

The council has said that it will be engaging with local stakeholders ahead of the start of the redevleopment.

Residents or businesses with a specific issue regarding the project should contact the delivery team by email at Tollbarjunction@nelincs.gov.uk or write to Toll Bar Junction Improvements Engagement Team, New Oxford House, George Street, Grimsby, DN31 1HB.

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HGTV Home Town fans, this ones for you!

Last week, Home Town featured not one, not two, but three firsts for the Laurel, Mississippi-based home renovation show, including its first 90-minute episode, first loft apartment renovation, and first Airstream renovation.

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While were excited for all of the firsts, its that last one that grabbed our attention the mostespecially since weve been nothing short of obsessed with Airstreams since Miranda Lambert added one to her fleet.

But it wasnt just the Airstream that made us watch in wide-eyed wonder. It was the fact that the shiny silver automobile was gifted to Home Towns husband-wife duo Erin and Ben Napier by country singer Chris Stapleton and his wife Morgane.

During the episode, Erin and Ben gave the Stapletons a virtual tour of the rebuild, to which they were as delighted as we were.

On Tuesday, May 26, Erin took to Instagram to share her gratitude for the gorgeous renovation. After thanking the Stapletons and all of the expert teams who worked to rebuild, reupholster, and re-design the camper, she went on to share how her little family is putting it to good use.

Weve taken 3 camping trips since quarantine began and have 4 more scheduled before summers end, she wrote. We have had our sweetest memories as a family to date inside this little airplane without wings and I cant wait to show Helen the USA as she grows up.

If you missed the episode, head over to HGTV.com or download the HGTV app.

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A Norwegian couples home renovations have revealed what archaeologists suspect is a 1,000-year-old Viking grave, reports David Nikel for Forbes.

The pair were pulling up the floorboards of their house near Bod in northern Norway when they discovered a glass bead, an axe head and several other iron objects, report Preben Hunstad and Sondre Skjelvik for local newspaper Bod Nu.

Experts recruited to identify the artifacts dated them to the ninth century A.D.close to the beginning of the Viking Age, which lasted from roughly 800 to 1100 A.D. At the time, Norway was beginning to adopt Christianity and become a unified kingdom, Nordland County archaeologist Martinus Hauglid tells Bod Nu.

The Vikings were a war-like, seafaring Scandinavian people known for raiding and pillaging sites across Europe, according to Encyclopedia Britannica. Also called Norseman or Northman, the Vikings were mostly Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.

Mariann Kristiansen and her partner discovered the glass bead after removing dirt and sand from beneath their floorboards. Kristiansen tells Truls Naas of Norwegian broadcast station TV 2 that her partner initially thought the bead was part of a toy.

It wasnt until later that we realized what it could be, says Kristiansen to Andreas Nilsen Trygstad and Benjamin Fredriksen of Norwegian state broadcaster NRK. We first thought it was the wheel of a toy car.

Once the couple realized the significance of their find, they phoned local authorities. Archaeologists from the nearby Troms Museum arrived to investigate the next day, reports Forbes. If the artifacts are definitively dated to the ninth century, they will be automatically preserved, as Norwegian law mandates the safeguarding of any artifacts or monuments that show traces of human activity prior to 1537.

Hauglid tells the Local that the iron axe head likely dates to between 950 and 1050 A.D. The dark-blue glass bead is likely just as old. The couple found the array of 1,000-year-old funerary items beneath stones that probably represent a cairn, or mound of stones erected as a memorial or landmark, says Hauglid.

The house-turned-archaeological site is now being fully excavated; the glass bead and iron artifacts have already been taken to the University of Troms for closer inspection, according to Forbes.

Viking burial sites are not uncommon in Norway, but as University of Troms archaeologist Jrn Erik Henriksen tells NRK, This is the first time I have experienced something like this [that] appears under a house.

Excavations have already yielded several new artifacts, including unidentified bones and an iron arrowhead. Henriksen tells NRK that he thinks the site may be a waste pit of the type often found near Iron Age burial mounds.

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Restoration Hardware has released a copy of chairman and CEO Gary Friedmans annual letter to shareholders addressing what he sees as the next phase of the companys development including housing and international initiatives.

Friedman declared that fiscal 2019 was an outstanding year for the team at RH, with revenues up 5.4% over the year earlier to $2.65 billion, adjusted operating margins reaching 14.3% and adjusted diluted earnings per share increasing 49% to $11.66. The company, he stated, also generated $330 million of free cash flow in 2019 and achieved return on invested capital of 35.3%.

Under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, Friedman noted that RH had deferred new business introductions and capital spending, while reducing costs to navigate through the short-term challenges of the crisis. He added, though, that RH is well positioned to take advantage of the many opportunities that present themselves during times of dislocation particularly due to the means most of the companys customers can tap at a time when they may be considering their domestic spaces whether on their own or through interior professionals. He asserted that the company strategy of opening new design galleries in every major market will unlock the value of a vast assortment, generating revenues of $5 to $6 billion in North America and positioning RH to become a $20 billion dollar global brand.

Friedman asserted that the company envisions:

Friedman added that the entire business ecosystem will come to life digitally as the company transforms its website into The World of RH, a portal presenting products, places, services, and spaces. He asserted that the ecosystem RH plans to create can expand globally, multiplying the market opportunity to $7 to $10 trillion.

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