DR CONSTANCE HUNTER (nee Wilton) passed away aged 86 in April. Born and raised in Heywood in Lancashire, she studied medicine at Leeds University in the 1950s.
As a teenager she went to post-war Europe with a group of young socialists, obtaining travel permits to visit areas that had seen some of the worst that fascism wrought. Travelling through France, Germany and Austria helped foster in her a life-long commitment to fight fascism, defend workers’ rights and help the disadvantaged however she could, professionally and privately.
After qualifying as a general practitioner, as a staunch believer in the new NHS, she knew the London medical schools were not for her when at an interview the professor’s face fell and he sneered at her reply when she was asked what she thought of the NHS.
Women fined for blocking ambulance on emergency call in Aveley
Diana Filip, aged 36, of Hillrise Road, Romford was charged as follows:
On July 30th, 2020 at Aveley without reasonable excuse, obstructed or hindered by parking your vehicle in front of the ambulance and refusing to move, preventing the ambulance crew from attending an incident,, a person employed by East Of England Ambulance Service in the provision of ambulance services, while that person was responding to emergency circumstances
On July 30th, 2020 at Aveley drove a Vauxhall van on Stanford Gardens, Aveley without due care and attention.
On July 30th at Aveley, with intent to cause two women harassment, alarm or distress, used threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour or disorderly behaviour, thereby causing that person or another harassment, alarm or distress.
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Maryland bills would support high school students with children
By TOM HINDLE
Isabella Wise had a child when she was just 15 years old and it changed her life.
She dropped out of high school to support her often-sick daughter, and battled postpartum depression.
“My life became chaos, between gang violence and foster care, I did not get my GED until I was 21,” Wise, a Montgomery County resident, said during a state legislative hearing on Jan. 27.
Wise’s story is familiar to many Marylanders hundreds of students who are parents attend high schools across the state.
And now, state legislators are working to make sure that those instances of violence, depression, and occasionally, poverty become far less frequent.