BBC reporter tells of heartbreak after her parents died of Covid within six weeks of each other
A BBC journalist was left heartbroken after losing both her parents to coronavirus within the space of six weeks. Cathy Killick's father Ted, a former Army gunner, died on December 2 in his care home aged 87 and her mother Elizabeth died at home on January 12. Elizabeth, an ex-primary school teacher who had Parkinson's, tested positive for the virus in hospital after suffering a stroke two days before her husband's funeral. The couple lived together at a care home in Leeds, West Yorks, just ten minutes from Cathy's house and had been married for 63 years. Ted who had dementia, lived on the t...