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Kingdom FM At this year s Brit Awards, winners were given two trophies - their main statuette and a secondary award, to honour someone else worthy of recognition. Dua Lipa, who picked up the prizes for best female solo artist and best album, used her first acceptance speech to pay tribute to Dame Elizabeth Anionwu, an emeritus professor of nursing at the University of West London. In front of a Brit Awards crowd made up of key workers as well as celebrities, the star was met with rapturous applause as she called on Boris Johnson to give a fair pay rise to NHS staff. But who is Dame Elizabeth, the woman Lipa described as her best British female of the year ? ....
Last modified on Thu 10 Dec 2020 04.06 EST When Elizabeth Nneka Anionwu was a child, she had severe eczema â bad enough to need daily dressings and slatherings of coal tar paste. Brought up in care until she was nine by nuns at the Nazareth House convent in Birmingham, she remembers this as torture. âNone of the nuns were deliberately trying to hurt me, but they would tear the bandaging off and my skin would come with it,â she says. The exception was when a nun dressed in white, rather than the usual black habit, turned up to look after her. âShe would tell rude jokes and use bad words like âbottomâ as a form of distraction therapy,â says Anionwu. âI adored her.â When she discovered the nunâs habit was in fact a nurseâs uniform, it put her on a path. âI decided pretty early on that I didnât want to be a nun, I wanted to be a nurse.â ....