Published:
4:59 PM March 8, 2021
Updated:
8:16 AM March 9, 2021
These blue stones have been created by Rosie s Plaque to honour local women in Norwich for International Women s Day 2021
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Painted blue stones have been placed across Norwich to celebrate the achievements of local women on International Women s Day.
The Rosie’s Plaques project are behind the scheme and they have said it was a convenient way to highlight those women who built our city .
International Women s Day was celebrated on March 8 on a global scale to celebrate the contributions women have made to society.
A blue stone painted by Rosie s Plaques to honour Joanna Scott on International Women s Day.
Unite representative Ameera Sheikh, an intensive care nurse, said Government support shown earlier in the pandemic now felt fake .
She said: We have treated people from the lowest socio-economic backgrounds to quite literally the leader of the country [Boris Johnson]. We have sacrificed so much and that includes moving out of our family homes to live close to the hospital and in isolation. We are facing an increasingly dangerous workload in intensive care.
And few were impressed with claims that they had received a 12 percent pay rise over the last three years and their average salary was around £34,000.
Nurse Kelly Robbins, who works in Brighton, said: We listen to them on TV and they are lying. It s just painful and really debilitating to hear them say that.
Published:
11:30 AM March 5, 2021
Morrisons supermarket on Victoria Road in Diss, where Krystian Kilkowski was detained by police. Picture: Archant
- Credit: Rebecca Murphy
A man died on his birthday as a result of complications suffered while he was being restrained by police officers, an inquest has heard.
Krystian Kilkowski, a machine operator who lived in Diss, died in hospital last year, following an incident with police in the town on August 10.
It happened on Victoria Road, outside the Morrisons supermarket and saw Mr Kilkowski taken seriously unwell after being detained under the Mental Health Act.
Mid Norfolk MP George Freeman voiced his support for a UK-wide lockdown on Twitter.
- Credit: Victoria Pertusa
A Norfolk MP has called for a bigger rise for the lowest paid frontline workers instead of a 1pc blanket pay rise for NHS workers.
The government has been criticised for the proposal by NHS staff and health service unions as a kick in the teeth and disappointing .
George Freeman, MP for Mid Norfolk said there was no magic money tree and the chancellor was right to insist public spending discipline but the lowest paid NHS workers should receive a bigger share.