Shay was just 13 when he died nine months ago
Monday, 28th June 2021, 6:00 am
A mother who lost her teenage son to a brain tumour is taking part in a hard-hitting campaign launched this week by the national charity Brain Tumour Research.
Niki O’Dea Patel from Woburn Sands lost her 13-year-old son Shay in September 2020.
She is sharing her tragic story in the advertisement campaign Stop the Devastation, which raises awareness of brain tumours and exposes the history of underfunding for research into the disease. People are encouraged to donate to help find a cure.
Shay Patel was just 13 when he died
In the latest stage of the vaccination programme, the NHS is now inviting all those aged 60 or over to get a life-saving COVID-19 vaccination.
This week, around two million people between the ages of 60 and 63 will be invited to book an appointment and receive their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Across England, there have now been 16.5 million people who have received their first jab - just over a third of the whole adult population.
Praising the ongoing vaccination programme, Professor Stephen Powis, the NHS’s national medical director, said: “The NHS vaccination programme, the biggest in the health service’s history and fastest in Europe, goes from strength to strength.
After temperatures have been dropping the council's gritting teams have been preemptively deployed to keep driving conditions safe across Milton Keynes.
This morning (27/02), it was annouced that gritting teams would be deployed all across Milton Keynes as a precautionary measure due to dropping temperatures.