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ISSUE 7 | FEBRUARY 2021 Lord Mayor pays price of playing in the sun
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IKE many baby boomers, Lord Mayor Bob Dwyer is paying the price for a childhood spent under the unrelenting Australian sun. After a shock diagnosis of stage one melanoma, received just before Christmas, Cr Dwyer has had the cancerous spot removed from his head and a skin graft with skin from under his arm. The painful experience was made worse by how close the 70 year old came to delaying diagnosis, with earlier medical advice that the spot “was probably nothing to worry about”. But, after entreaties from his wife, Cr Dwyer sought analysis from the Melanoma Institute in North Sydney. “Even there, they didn’t immediately think it was anything, then after a biopsy, I got the phone call on Christmas Eve to say it was a melanoma in-situ, in other words stage one,” Cr Dwyer told the Parramatta Times. “So I go into hospital and wake up with battle scars on my head and under my arm.” Cr Dwyer said the damage was no doubt done in his youth when he was often under
protection in those days,” he said. “I want to send the message to all of us who played or sunbaked outside in the days before proper protection to not put off seeing to any suspicious spots on your skin, even if your doctor initially says it is nothing to worry about.”
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Complaints about internet services decrease ETWEEN October and December 2020, residential consumers and small businesses made 30,564 complaints about phone and internet services. This is a decrease of 11.2 per cent compared to the previous quarter. However, the seasonal comparison shows a 5.7 per cent increase when comparing July to December 2020 against the same period in the previous year. The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman’s Quarter 2 (Q2) 2020-21 Complaints Report shows while the number of complaints from small businesses decreased compared to the previous quarter, the proportion increased to 17 per cent of total complaints.
B A sorry and sore Parramatta Lord Mayor.
the sun playing sport in Dundas Valley with no protection. “We were always told to play outside and there was no such thing as sun
Demand for e-bikes shifts gears EMAND for E-bikes has soared with new figures revealing almost double the number of sales as a result of a COVID-induced health kick. E-bike sales shifted gears in 2020 with demand expected to double again in 2021, according to the head of one of Australia’s biggest bike stores, 99 Bikes. Founder of 99 Bikes, Matt Turner, said demand for all types of bikes was up 107% across NSW since 2018.
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