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Animals are being put at risk because panic buying and supermarket purchase limits is making it difficult to feed them, a zoo owner has warned.
Chris Moiser, who runs Tropiquaria Zoo in Somerset, said his staff had been "scouring the shops for food".

He said if food becomes "unaffordable" many zoos will have to close and he will have to "consider euthanasia of some, if not all" of his zoo's animals.

Mr Moiser urged people to donate spare fruit and vegetables to local zoos.

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Yep.  The sooner we get used to not doing things as usual the quicker this virus will be overwhelmed. 

[Hurdity]

It's not going to be quick unfortunately. Some form of measures will probably need to be in place until a vaccine is developed so the restriction periods will come and go in waves so the peak will undulate (multiple peaks?) - the aim being below the level at which NHS is overwhelmed.  This was mentioned somewhere on the radio this eve. I doubt that events as we know them will be back and happening for many months, and the stock market will stay low too I expect. Not that that is a bad thing. It's about time the whole notion of continuous growth as being desirable, is challenged and will do wonders for the environment. Would be great if world economies looked towards sustainable growth as the new maxim as we crawl our way out of this.....

Hurdity x

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Apparently fish can be seen in Venice and the smog has gone from China ...........

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A nurse proposed to his girlfriend in a branch of Iceland after a romantic trip to the country of the same name was cancelled due to the coronavirus.

Robert Ormsby popped the question in an empty aisle after their holiday to Reykjavik was called off on Monday.

Patsy Murdoch said "yes", but admitted she was "laughing hysterically" as he got on one knee in the Tonbridge store.

A photo of the proposal has gone viral and the couple said they were happy to spread some joy at this tough time.

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Many Zoos have closed across the UK 

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Camping and Caravan Company sites closed.  The antique shop has closed where I sell my jewellery through    ........ not unexpected.

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The 2020 Olympic Games will be postponed by one year because of coronavirus, says International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound.

It comes after the chairman of the British Olympic Association said Great Britain would be unlikely to send a team to Tokyo this summer.

Australia and Canada have already said they will not compete in Japan.

"On the basis of the information the IOC has, postponement has been decided," Pound told USA today.

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British F1 Grand Prix at risk

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Now chocolate is at risk 

Convenience stores selling Easter eggs are facing interference from heavy-handed officials trying to restrict the range of goods they can sell under coronavirus curbs, a trade body says.


Some shops have been told by police and local councils that the chocolate eggs are considered non-essential goods.

[They haven't asked a premenstrual or menopausal woman then  ]

The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) blamed ?overzealous enforcement and a misreading of the rules?.

It has told shopkeepers to carry on selling a full range of goods.

The government have defined which stores can remain open, and that includes convenience stores, including newsagents and off-licences, said ACS chief executive James Lowman.

There is no government definition of which products can be sold within those stores.

In the cases where officers have challenged retailers and shoppers in this way, it's brought confusion, distracted retailers in the busiest weeks of their lives and increased the interactions between people at a time when the government is trying to minimise them.?

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Police again  - it doesn't take long for some to get power crazy 

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Christmas events are already being cancelled due to coronavirus.

West Suffolk Council has said it is calling off this year's Bury St Edmunds Christmas Fayre to "help public services concentrate on tackling" their response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Fayre was due to be held between 26 and 29 November 2020

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A RIVAL supermarket has come to the rescue after Tesco banned care home staff from shopping during the dedicated slots for NHS workers.

Asda contacted the Pendine Park care organisation in Wrexham to say their employees were more than welcome to come to their store in the town at the allotted times.


My sister told me last night that she, as a carer/Nurse for 25 mentally ill people, doesn't qualify for the 'dedicated slots'.

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Not just the kids stellajane - I love my Easter Eggs 

Taz x

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 .  Power Crazy.  Thinking that chocolate isn't essential, obviously male then  like they haven't enough to do?