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Carer Pete Cox swapped his overalls and spanners for a new life with a Norfolk home care company earlier this year - and has already won an award.

Urgent calls have been made for in-home care workers to be supplied with lateral flow testing (LFTs) kits.

Trevor Wicks ran the Hollywood Cinema chain until it went under in 2019. - Credit: Antony Kelly According to that old movie cliché, the sequels are never as good as the original. But that's not something that Trevor Wicks would necessarily agree with after a complete career change saw him become an award-winning care visitor. Mr Wicks, from Hethersett, ran the Hollywood Cinema chain for three decades before it went bust in February 2019. At the start of the coronavirus pandemic last year, he decided to take on a completely different role as a care visitor for Norfolk care provider Extra Hand...

Extra Hands carer, Tamara Proctor. Picture: Ian Burt - Credit: Ian Burt Despite her inauspicious start, the carer from west Lynn has gone on to become a "key member of the team and a trusted friend" to the people she visits from the company's Heacham office. She said: “I still don’t know what happened that first day – I wasn’t unduly anxious, I’d had a good breakfast and I was prepared, but I passed out completely. “An ambulance had to be called and they said I’d probably overheated. You may also want to watch: "It was a strange way to start – phoning the careline is suppose...

Tamara things around in spectacular fashion to win company award.