it was multi disciplinary artist bristol based valda jackson, who was chosen to design the windrush 75th anniversary coin. she arrived in the uk from jamaica at the age of five. it s quite an honour, really, and a privilege to be given the opportunity to represent us and the generation before us in this way. it is quite a. it s a big deal. valda started work on the image almost two years ago and spent months perfecting it. i want them to be obviously representing the group, the windrush group, the people who are most likely to suffer from prejudicial behaviour. once valda had finished her artwork, it was sent to the royal mint, who used specialist 3d software to turn the paper drawing into a coin.
in the uk or around the world. 95% of people from the windrush generation who were wrongly classed as illegal immigrants in the uk are still waiting to receive compensation, four years after the scandal first emerged. a scheme was set up in 2018 to help those who were denied health care, housing or the right to work, despite having lived in britain for decades. now a report from a group of mps has called for the scheme to be taken out of government control warning that it s causing further trauma to those who were wrongly accused of being in the uk illegally. our home affairs editor, mark easton, reports. archive: the empire windrush brings to britain 500 jamaicans. many are ex servicemen who know england. the windrush compensation scheme was supposed to right the wrongs of a scandal that rocked the government and the nation. thousands of british residents, mostly of caribbean heritage, had been wrongly classed as illegal immigrants by the home office, denied the right to work,
it s notjust the individual case, and i pay tribute to lissie, but it s also the fact that in the last year 10,000 convictions for assaults on emergency workers have taken place. so it s notjust individual cases, it s the scale of it. we think as we come through this pandemic and build back stronger, fairer, in all sorts of ways, we should increase the sentences for those attacks or murders, or unlawful killings i should say, of emergency workers. we want them to know that we ve got their back. pc harper was chasing a group of suspects when he became caught in the tow rope of their getaway car. he was dragged for over a mile at speeds of more than 40 miles an hour. teenagers henry long, albert bowers and jessie cole were convicted of manslaughter. they were cleared of murder and so did not automatically receive a life term. welcoming the planned new law, his wife lissie said emergency service workers went into the depths of danger on a regular basis