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In March, JoJo and Gran-Gran became the first animated show focused on a black British family to launch in the UK. In doing so, it has helped to offer a unique depiction of a familiar tale.

As we begin Ramadan 2020, I remember that the first four doctors who lost their lives while treating patients with COVID-19 were Muslims; Dr Adil El Tayar, Dr Amged El Hawrani, Dr Habib Zaidi and Dr Alfa Sa’adu. They all left behind grieving families who will be spending Ramadan without one of their loved ones.

Author J.K. Rowling paid tribute to the first three doctors who died by saying, “May we NEVER forget what immigrants, and their children and grandchildren, have given this country, especially our health service.”

The truth, as we all know can come in many different guises: Your truth, my truth, their truth; all relatively true, but all through potentially very different lens.

R.I.P Dame Jocelyn Barrow.

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A heavily pregnant NHS Nurse has become one of 45 known NHS members of staff to have tragically passed as a result of Covid-19. Mary Agyeiwaa Agyapong, 28 and a daughter, wife and now Mother passed away on Sunday.

Channel 4 reports that Mary Agyeiwaa Agyapong who had worked at Luton and Dunstable Hospital for 5 years was admitted to the hospital on the 7th of April. Confirmation came from Bedfordshire Hospitals themselves who confirm that she had:

Last weekend, Keir Starmer decisively won the Labour leadership. The three month contest started with six candidates and ended with three including Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy. Starmer won 56.2% of votes, more than double Long Bailey’s final tally, and more votes of the two finishers combined.

These are most unusual times: Part scary, part boredom - particularly if you have children - but it’s also a unique opportunity to do things that you wouldn’t ordinarily do, and if this lock-down is to last at least another four weeks, then there’s a lot of time to it.

So, in the first few weeks of ‘lockdown’ what have you learnt about yourself, about loved ones, about things around you, you never really noticed?

I’m not quite sure of the date when I met first met my hero Bernie Grant. I know it was in the 1990’s probably 1995. I was a volunteer for Charter 88, a democratic reform organisation run by Andrew Puddephatt. I was asked to go to a meeting that Bernie was speaking at at Tonybee Hall in Holborn. Back then most radical meetings were held at Toynbee Hall.

An admired and respected senior heart surgeon-Jitendra Rathod, 62, has died after catching Covid-19.

A statement posted on the Cardiff and Vale University health board website paid tribute to Rathod, saying that he had worked in the cardiothoracic surgery department since the mid-1990s.

He was an incredibly dedicated surgeon who cared deeply for his patients,”

the health board said.