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Emma Sutton, Policy and Research Officer at Age UK, profiles 6 Black Britons whose lives and experiences provide positive inspiration.
loosened for 5 days over Christmas. At the time of writing, Germany and Holland have decided to ‘lock down’ over the festive season and neighbouring countries are considering it. With COVID-19 cases
because he is a very useful part of my life support,” continues Steve. “Basically, I'm locked in here for 24 hours a day. A prisoner gets more exercise than I do. Gareth’s in touch with
Dame Penelope, “but they weren’t the easiest things to do. Jim was in a portable phone box which was taken across the country for filming, and I used to be alerted when they were ready to shoot
the place where we can grow old. But more than three quarters of a million people over 60 are locked out from having that – simply because they rent where they live from a private landlord. With
was going on,” she explains. “Older people, in particular, felt they were going to be locked away, so I knew I had to find a way to bring what we’d been doing back into their lives as
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“What am I in charge of? There’s nothing here!” The next thing we knew, all these boxes started turning up. We had no idea what was in them. It was chaotic. Finally, we had some documents ... started to figure out what was in them. I was sent on a day course, and they explained that in the boxes was everything that was necessary to waterproof the engine of a vehicle. We guessed that this must