All the Coventry and Warwickshire people recognised in the 2021 New Year Honours List
The list recognises the achievements and services of extraordinary individuals across the UK
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Councillor David Skinner was one of those recognised in the 2021 New Year Honours List
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A KINVER doctor who has played a central role in the NHS’ fight against Covid in the Black Country has been awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours. Dr Paul Harrison has been in charge of Covid testing of tens of thousands of patients in hospitals across Dudley, Sandwell, Wolverhampton and Walsall. He and his ‘swabbing hub’ team have been working flat out to ensure results of Covid tests were turned around quickly and accurately through two waves of the virus. He has also been responsible for one of the biggest antibody testing programmes of patients and staff in the UK.
A WOMAN whose Stourbridge school helps ‘disengaged’ youngsters get ‘back on track’ has been awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours. Janet Lear is the founder and head teacher of the Black Country Wheels School based on the Gainsborough Trading Estate in Stourbridge’s Rufford Road. The school evolved from “The Wheels Project”, which was instigated by Jan in 1999. She listened to the needs of the young people she worked with and presented them with a learning platform that they were interested in, engaging them in life skills and improving their chances of future employment. The Black Country Wheels Project was formed in 2003.
COVID hero Louise Hadley has been awarded a BEM in the New Year’s Honours for the work she did to support customers and staff at her M&S store during the pandemic. The Wordsley mum has a ‘whatever it takes’ attitude to looking after her shoppers and colleagues and has gained her award for services to customers and the community. During lockdown Louise, a section manager at M&S Simply Food in Harborne, regularly went to work hours before her shift started to do shopping for customers who were unable to leave their homes due to Covid-19. She took calls from customers at home and then came into store with their shopping lists, doing their shopping for them and delivering it to their doorsteps before starting her own day job.
Haleema Yousaf SANDWELL Council s Haleema Yousaf has been awarded an MBE in the New Year s Honours List 2021 for services to children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Haleema, who is team leader of the council s Fair Access, Exclusion and Reintegration Team, said she was humbled to receive the honour and described it as an achievement for the whole team. Haleema said it was brought home to her how far she had come during a conversation with a Sandwell headteacher, who had taught her as a child at school in Birmingham. She said: She was visibly moved by the thought that someone she had taught would one day lead a team unequivocally committed to making a difference to children and young people with SEND.