L To R Ammar & Perouz From The Iranian Church With Jackie & Peter Hall. Provided by the family. Free for use by all BBC wire partners . Tributes have been paid to a selfless charity worker who could say hello in more than 40 languages and would collect donations for refugees on his days off. Peter Hall was a well-known figure in Croydon and spent many years working with the homeless and refugees in South London. He was born in Thornton Heath, one of nine children, and lived in South Norwood for the past 35 years. He passed away aged 66 at Croydon University Hospital on January 24 where he had been battling coronavirus for three weeks. Peter was diagnosed with lung cancer about six months ago and was undergoing treatment at the Royal Marsden in Sutton.
How Croydon became a hotbed for vaccine misinformation
Misinformation on social media is turning BAME groups against the vaccine. Community leaders say they expect the problem to get worse
6 February 2021 • 1:49pm
When a TikTok user filmed himself shouting “liar” at England’s chief medical officer in a London food market this week, the video gave a glimpse of the fevered Covid conspiracies spreading among young people on social media.
Particularly in diverse parts of the capital, researchers are raising the alarm about online misinformation which is fuelling intense government mistrust and persuading Black and Asian minority ethnic (BAME) communities, already disproportionately affected by the virus, to shun the vaccine.
Hero NHS doctors, nurses and staff that have died on the frontline of the coronavirus battle
Yet this list is still likely to be missing many of the true number of workers who have died
04:00, 6 FEB 2021
Ann Shepherd who died after contracting the Covid-19 virus (Image: Derbyshire Healthcare NHS)
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Sweet support: community gives back to NHS workers with chocolate
Jessica (left) and Tamiyah (right). Pic: Jessica Edwards
Tamiyah Barbour, nine, and her mother Jessica Edwards, 31, were watching their third or fourth news report from a Covid ward when they felt the urge to do something. “We knew it was heartbreaking, we knew it was exhausting, but when you see the NHS nurses talk about how it’s actually impacting their lives, that was it for me,” says Edwards.
They started their NHS chocolate campaign in mid-January with their local hospital, St George’s in Tooting. “Me and my daughter were going to donate 50 chocolate bars with individual uplifting messages so it would feel personal to whoever received them.” Edwards’ chocolate business, TrufflezNTreatz, provided the opportunity to facilitate this gesture. “They were just like little kids. A picture can give you an idea but actually being there and seeing them happy is priceless”, she says. After witnessing the