The first woman consultant cardiac surgeon in Wales has been made OBE in the New Year Honours.
Professor Farah Bhatti, 55, was the first British woman of Pakistani heritage to be appointed as a consultant cardiac surgeon in the UK.
She was also the first female cardiac surgeon and first Muslim woman to be elected as a council member of the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) England.
In 2007, she was appointed as a consultant cardiac surgeon at Morriston Hospital in Swansea, south Wales.
Prof Bhatti, who was born in Birmingham and brought up in south London, has been honoured for services to diversity in the NHS in Wales.
31st December 2020
The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall were busy this year promoting local and organic foods and farming, literacy, the importance of reaching out to isolated elders, and supporting the Commonwealth and the UK through a devastating pandemic. Today, let’s take a look back at their year!
Prince Charles sent a video message to the people of Australia following the devastating bush fires in the country; later, he was announced as the first UK patron of the International Rescue Committee.
Mid-month, Charles paid a visit to Oman to attend the funeral of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said on behalf of The Queen.
It said the hub will use state-of-the-art digital streaming technologies to transform learning and research.
The digital hub To keep the project on schedule for completion in late 2021, construction team BAM quickly adapted to the safety restrictions in place, creating a Covid-safe working environment for its employees that has enabled the project to move forward on time and on budget. In January, existing buildings were demolished and the site cleared, ready for construction to be begin. Then in February a huge tower crane arrived, to lift materials on to, and around, the site for the duration of the development. Work then started on strengthening and lining the basement walls.
The Very Reverend James Atwell, Dean of Winchester who was a popular pastor in the city – obituary
Atwell took a dynamic approach to tackling the cathedral s financial problems and dwindling congregations
Atwell: a genial personality
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The Very Reverend James Atwell, who has died aged 74, was Dean of Winchester from 2006 to 2016, and before that spent 11 years as Provost and then Dean of the Cathedral of St James at Bury St Edmunds.
In both places he was greatly admired and valued for his genial personality combined with a dynamic approach to the development of cathedral life.