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Covid-19 School decision: It’s like the Vicar of Dibley – no, no, no, no… yes.

The following piece was publishd on the BBC News website on 5 January, 2021. Thousands of pupils expecting to return to school in Essex learned…
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Before Covid-19, working from home was a luxurious oddity. For many it is now the norm

When James and Jo Williamson first started working from home together, everything was fine. “We both had our desks set up in our home office.…
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Covid-19 Vaccine: Portraits of Hope

As Covid-19 vaccinations began last week across the UK, I was granted access to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital to meet some of those…
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Covid-19: The chaplains at the front line of end-of-life care

Coronavirus has radically altered the working life of hospitals. But it has not just affected the doctors, nurses and ancillary staff. While the main role…
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Covid-19: Southwold and Lowestoft

Lowestoft and Southwold sit just 14 miles apart on the eastern edge of England. As the coronavirus outbreak took hold, one was bustling with people,…
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Elections, elections, elections: The thoughts of people in Canvey and Peterborough

Recently dispatched to Canvey Island and Peterborough to photograph the faces of the electorate voting in the European elections and the Peterborough by-elections, here are…
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Music at the Margins: Creativity in the wake of Gang Violence

Ipswich, Suffolk. Two rival groups of boys and young men engage in a “turf war”, in this case J-Block versus Neno. They start trading insults…
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The Funeral of Margaret Thatcher

I have been having a look back over a number of assignments from the past few years. One of them was the funeral of Margaret…
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NHS at 70: A&E in single words

Last year I was part of a team that reported live from inside a hospital emergency department. I was interested to know what single word…