A CUMBRIAN nurse has died with coronavirus. The announcement made by NHS North Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group said that Chris Buckingham, a nurse in the Continuing Health Care Team, had passed away with the virus. Mr Buckingham had joined the CCG in March last year and was well known in the health and social care community. He had worked at A&E at the Cumberland Infirmary, Keswick Community Hospital and Scarborough Hospitals after a nursing career that started in the Royal Army Medical Corps. A statement released by the CCG said: “It is with great sadness we pay tribute to our friend and colleague Chris Buckingham who has passed away with covid.”
8 Feb 2021
HELP FOR VETERANS: Jan Downie meeting Princess Dianna. Right, Jo Ferguson, from Staindrop
A FORMER army doctor from Staindrop has revealed how a charity scheme has not only helped her through the Covid-19 lockdown but has also found her a new friend.
Jo Ferguson has retired from the Royal Army Medical Corps after 30 years’ service.
She signed up to the Women’s Royal Army Corps association’s Buddy Buddy scheme in the hope of providing support to another woman at the start of the pandemic. What she did not realise at the time was that she would strike up a friendship with 70-year-old fellow veteran Jan Downie who lives hundreds of miles away.
A second NHS frontline worker in north Cumbria has died after contracting coronavirus. Tributes have been paid to Chris Buckingham, a nurse in the Continuing Health Care Team, who has been described by his peers as a cheerful, hard-working and kind man . He had joined North Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group in March last year and was well-known in the health and social care community. The news of his death comes only a day after it was announced that Linda Parkinson, a health care assistant at the Cumberland Infirmary, had also passed away with Covid-19. A nursing leader has spoken of his incredible sadness at losing two members of the profession.
In the run-up to Lorenzo Manché’s 100th death anniversary on February 16,
Louis Borg Manché and
Edwin Borg Manché give a detailed overview of the life and achievements of the ophthalmologist, educator and philanthropist.
This is part one in a three-part feature.
A century ago, Malta mourned the loss of a highly-gifted ophthalmologist who had a profound sense of compassion for the poor and the illiterate.
A portrait of Lorenzo Manché by Edward Caruana Dingli
Lorenzo Manché was considered a leading authority in Europe on ophthalmology, particularly following the publication of his groundbreaking textbook in 1885 on the subject.
Foremost among his many achievements is his pioneering work in the fight against trachoma, a serious eye disease prevalent in Malta during the latter half of 19th century, primarily among those in the lower socio-economic strata of society.
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By Kate Scotter
image captionBasil Brown was an archaeologist who worked for Ipswich Museum
Archaeologist Basil Brown unearthed some of the greatest treasures ever found in the UK. The story of the Sutton Hoo discovery is being retold in the new Netflix film The Dig. Who was Mr Brown and what was his role in revealing the Anglo-Saxon finds?
Who was Basil Brown?
Born in 1888, he was the only child of farmer George and Charlotte Brown.
He spent almost his entire life in the Suffolk village of Rickinghall and left the local school there at the age of 12.