Meet some of the local key workers you have already told us about.
The Halesowen & Dudley News and the Stourbridge News would like to thank all the local key workers who have stepped up and stepped out to work during the coronavirus pandemic.
From nurses to shop workers, postmen to firemen and binmen to care home workers – we can never thank you enough.
Next week will be publishing a list of names of those local key workers who have kept us safe and kept us going throughout the pandemic in a special pull-out supplement.
Here are just a few of the local key workers who you have already told us about.
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Key workers - We salute you
"Send us the name and job for a Black Country coronavirus lockdown key worker who deserves our thanks and recognition, you can add a picture too."
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What is your response?Richard Thomas Hughes , Richard Manley both mechanics at Netherton service station . A massive thank you to them and all the other workers at the garage for continuing to be dedicated to provide there services throughout these difficult times .
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What is your response?Amy Louise Hughes is a heath care assistant at the AMU In Russel Hall Hospital . A massive thank you to her for how dedicated she is not only during this hard time, But every single day . We’re proud of you Amy !
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What is your response?Jody Taylor final year student nurse . Working on palliative care nursing covid patients whilst also being a wife and mother and studying to complete her degree. Amazing
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What is your response?Hannah White is an infection Control nurse at Birmingham Woman’s and Children’s Hospital, despite the massive workload we are facing she still comes to work smiling and happy
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What is your response?Jodie Buckley -staff nurse at Russell’s Hall Hospital. She has not had her two little girls for eight weeks, after choosing to protect them whilst working on her ward which had turned into a Covid-19 ward. Fingers crossed they will be reunited very soon
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What is your response?I want to say thank you to Emma Newey.She has worked on ITU at New Cross since the pandemic began. She has worked tirelessly on a different ward and came home to look after her young son.
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What is your response?Claire Thompson and Lydia Parker have now been locked down at Brockswood, a local animal sanctuary, away from their homes now for 8 weeks! They are stopping there to ensure they remain safe and healthy so that the animals are still cared for 24/7 while other staff are shielding. Not officially recognised as key workers but animals still need to be rescued/cared for too at this time.
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What is your response?Joanne Davies working all the way through this awful pandemic at Asda. Currently getting up at 2am to provide everyone with home shop! Also she has not held her new granddaughter yet which is awful! Proud daughter xx
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What is your response?Thank you Tim Cheetham from Russell's Hall Hospital.
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What is your response?The Deteriorating Patient team at Russells Hall Hospital - William Dainty, Siân Annakin, Michelle Pugh, Fallon Hickman, Nic Byng, Ros Anslow and Glen Barker
What is your response?All ready for another day in the office @ Critical care unit Russell’s Hall Hospital
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What is your response?Gaynor Pearson-Jenkins - Community Staff Nurse - Nights. Caring for patients in their own homes, often those in the last hours of their lives.
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What is your response?Pamela Smith care assistant at Oaklands Nursing Home, Kingswinford - Thank you for everything you do.
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What is your response?The fantastic Trauma theatre team at Russells Hall Hospital, led by Sister Westwood. Team include Luz Tranter, Fred Williams, Sarah Copeland, Mark Turner, Alex Dudu, Asiah Rauf and Jared Aston-Baugh. Many others contributed to the team effort too! They’ve provided a full Trauma service throughout the COVID-19 crisis.
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What is your response?Would like to say a special thanks to our daughter Kerry Pearson who works as a 'Community Staff Nurse'
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What is your response?Karen Winmill carer at Netherton Green Nursing Home
What is your response?Nikki Share carer at Netherton Green Nursing Home
What is your response?Dawn Dunkley - works on the Children's ward at Sandwell Hospital
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What is your response?Marie O’Toole is a specialist cardiology nurse working at Russell’s Hall Hospital. She has been partly redeployed to the Covid wards to work on treatment research, whilst also still managing her own case load of cardiology patients. Marie is a mum to 3 children, grandmother to 1, and a huge fan of Take That!
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What is your response?Sue swift from Blackheath offering pharmacy support to over 4500 independent pharmacies
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What is your response?Thank you to, all of Kingswinford and Brierley Hill district nursing team, helping to keep people safe in their homes and care homes. You do an amazing job
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What is your response?Nicky Hill, doctor's receptionist, Dudley Wood Surgery
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What is your response?My wonderful mom Maggie Traynor. A nurse for over 30 years, now working in the community. Has tirelessly worked through the pandemic supporting her team, managing community beds and dealing with the crisis that unfolded in her care homes. Always putting her patients first!!!
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What is your response?Janet Knowles, activity coordinator at Prestwood Lodge, has kept all residents spirits up during a difficult time and helping families keep in contact with there loved ones.
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What is your response?Tracy Weston Nurse doing a fab job
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What is your response?Aimee is a support worker and has been for the last 6 years at her local hospital. Aimee has worked so hard during this pandemic and continues too do so. She puts her own life at risk too help others. She always puts her patients first no matter what, and I am so proud too call her my girlfriend. She never expects any thanks, she just carries on spreading her love and joyful personality. She is truly amazing
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What is your response?My Dad Andy Bree C5, Sister Shannon Bree theatres , Mom Jenny Bree Divisional Chief Nurse. All work in covid wards
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What is your response?Gemma Pitts, 1st year qualified nurse working at Russell’s Hall in A&E. Diane Pitts, Semi-retired District Nurse who has increased her shifts to over full time throughout the crisis.
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What is your response?This is my son Leon Jones. I’m so proud of Leon being a paramedic and caring and helping people through this tough time and being on the frontline. Leon is based at West Bromwich ambulance station xxx
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What is your response?This is my friend and colleague Karen Westwood. She is very experienced orthopedic theatre sister. Since patients have been attending hospital with covid our theatres were turned into more itu spaces. Karen has gone above and beyond caring for patients and making sure emergency surgery has continued. She has been loving after covid patients from day one and hasn't even seen her son or her new baby grandson who was born just before lockdown restrictions were put in place.
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What is your response?Both my daughters Kerry Tolley and Kirsty Tolley working in care homes keeping residents safe and happy. As well as doing her job, Kerry also been doing mine and her dad's shopping credit to both my girls
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What is your response?My mummy who works at Russell Hall Hospital as a support worker
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What is your response?My daughter Kelsey Lowe works at Iceland Merry hill and as walked to work and back 40 minute walk there and 40 minutes back to make sure she can get in when there’s been no other way of getting there .
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What is your response?Paul Speight West Mids Ambulance Service
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What is your response?Kerry Louise Pearson Community Staff Nurse
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What is your response?LJM Homecare have been providing care within the Dudley borough a big thank you to all staff
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What is your response?Natalie and Ryan Matthews Cleft service manager at Birmingham Children’s and Police Officer
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What is your response?Heidi Hart - care worker. Working her feet off looking after the elderly 12 hours a day sometimes 6 days away well done xxx
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What is your response?Lisa Bingham NHS community Staff Nurse
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What is your response?Thank you to my husband Neil Yardley, site manager at Brierley Hill Primary School, keeping school open for key workers children and getting school safe and ready for the 1st June.. Me Isabel and Liam are so proud of you. Love you x
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What is your response?Jane Gulliford. Nurse in ICU Intensive care unit at Russell's Hall hospital
What is your response?Michelle Jukes ODP at Bushey Fields Hospital has helped keep our clinic running during COVID 19.
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What is your response?This is Pat Heaney who works on Malvern ward at Bushey Fields Hospital. During the Covid 19 pandemic she worked additional nights to ensure patient safety. Pat also arranged lots of gift donations from local community and businesses. Thank you Pat 🌈
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What is your response?My husband Scott Lycett. Bus driver for Diamond. Photographs of him with our twins Kara and Sam. We absolutely adore him and always try to make the most of his days off. The shifts are long and tiring and we’re always glad when he’s finally home.
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What is your response?Thank you for all your hard work at the Co-op Mol â¤ï¸ lots of love Ell
What is your response?Sharon Hutchinson from Halesowen Goes to work every day serving regular customers with a smile for all their essential banking ...well done Sharon
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What is your response?Lizzie Andrews, Halesowen - Nurse - Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham
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What is your response?Pauline Vaughan from Halesowen, she deserves a big mention, she works cleaning in an old peoples home, not the most glamorous of jobs but one of the most important in the current climate, she's always chatting to the residents, one of a very few people they will speak to that day, smiling and joking with them, trying to keep their spirits up ... keep up the good work Pauline x
What is your response?To a truly fabulous friend Jacqui Taylor who visits patients in their homes everyday to provide essential care xxx thank you xxx
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What is your response?My wonderful sister Pauline Vaughan who goes to work to clean and take care of the needs of the residents of the care home where she works xxx thank you xxx
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What is your response?My wonderful sister Sharon Hutchinson who goes to work at the Halifax bank on Stourbridge High St to ensure that people can manage their cash flow, pay bills and gives them help with online banking features to save them having to make unnecessary journeys xxx thank you xxx
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What is your response?A porter at russels hall hospital
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What is your response?To all the Key workers at Biffa Tipton, thankyou!
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What is your response?My best friend heidi malko, she is a staff nurse looking after people with covid 19
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What is your response?Amy wilkinson. She is a ward sister at Russell Hall hospital. Hasn't seen her son or family since this virus, so she can take care of all the patients with covid 19
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What is your response?Looking out for children with disabilities. Visiting homes schools within the community working long hours to make sure everyone is safe and sound
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What is your response?Ruth Simpson is a recently qualified pediatric nurse. She is such a caring, considerate and focused nurse who is passionate about caring for children and their families. She is a true credit to the NHS. She also has a passion for the community and seeing needs met and people thriving.
What is your response?My partner Scott Gibson,has worked so hard throughout this lockdown,only having 2 days off work,while I waited for my covid 19 results (negative). He is a carer for people with learning disabilities & does a fabulous job,but doesn't get the recognition he deserves.
What is your response?My sister Clare Goble from Stourbridge is a pediatric nurse for Birmingham Childrens hospital. We are so so proud of her. Thank you for keeping the children safe and well.
What is your response?My beautiful fiancee PAULA BANNISTER and her colleagues who work in imaging at Russells Hall hospital, tirelessly xraying all the potential and confirmed Covid patients. She's also a Mom & step-mom to 4 gorgeous children and also suffers with MS â¤
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What is your response?F P GAUNT FUNERAL DIRECTORS, Blackheath, Rowley Regis I would like to thank my colleagues at Gaunts and our other branches for the hard work and sacrifices they put in to their job to maintain our berevered families still got the best from the team during the Covid-19 outbreak. They all should be very proud of themselves . Excellent job done!!
What is your response?Maz started the Brierley Hill Baby Bank and supports parents at one of the most vulnerable times. Providing packs that are just amazing as well as referring to other charities and agencies to to help support parents and their children.
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What is your response?My dad works for the NHS he has to go to care home's and delivers bed's and has been working so hard throughout the pandemic
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What is your response?Brierley Hill Project workers Tracey Tromans, Stacey Simpson, Jen Hartnell and Eden Fellows. Keeping the Black Country Foodbank in operation so well.
What is your response?Stacey Simpson, Jen Hartnal, Eden Fellows and Tracey Tromans Youth and community workers at The Brierley Hill Project. Providing help and support to the most vulnerable in society. The Brierley Hill project has also continued to run their foodbank service throughout the pandemic.
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What is your response?Key workers, husband and wife Caroline and Craig Chalmers. Craig is a paramedic and Caroline is an ambulance dispatcher. They do all this whilst raising four children. It is also their 10th wedding anniversary on Friday 22nd May. We think they are amazing!
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What is your response?This is Emma Gennard my daughter-in-law. She returned to work just prior to the lockdown following a hernia operation and has worked throughout at Sainsbury's as a retail assistant
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What is your response?Rachel Lamb, community midwife
What is your response?This is Dale Gennard my son he has worked throughout the lockdown travelling into Birmingham by public transport working at the Coop .
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What is your response?This is Stuart Gennard my son he has worked throughout the lockdown at Sainsburys
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What is your response?Steven Hill - Paramedic Carol Hill - Patient transport Gail Nightingale - Care Worker Kirsty Hill - Registered Dental Nurse @ QEHB
What is your response?Aaron Chawro and Sam Worrall - West Midlands Ambulance Service
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What is your response?C3 and Forget me not Unit at RHH for the excellent care they give our older people
What is your response?Amy Humphreys - Teacher @ SLB, Hob Green Primary School. Thank you for going above and beyond to ensure your children in your class are doing ok and keeping in touch throughout. Also ensuring parents are ok too. Mental health is just as important. the children are lucky to have you as their teacher.!
What is your response?Big thank you to Shezan Raza, Amir Farooq , Nigat Ditta , Abbie Jinks and rest of the team at County Pharmacy, Redditch.
What is your response?Stephanie Hanzel, Joan Barker, Wendy Atchison - all support workers for Trident Reach
What is your response?Hannah White lives in Halesowen. She is an infection control nurse at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital. She will soon be starting her new job at Russell’s Hall Hospital
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What is your response?Selina Reay Infection control nurse - Birmingham Children’s Hospital
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What is your response?Maggie Chawro works for Russell’s Hall, her husband and son are paramedics and have been seen on the telly in the ambulances, Keith and Aaron and her daughter works in the call centre as a despatcher. I am so proud of them all and Maggie also does a lot for charity . She is a MAD Wolves fan...
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What is your response?Amy Hughes Higher clinical support worker at Russell’s Hall Works so hard always and especially through this hard time always got tine to put a smile on everyone’s face and keep everyone’s spirits high
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What is your response?Rebecca Garner clinical support worker hard at work through this pandemic
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What is your response?Sister Charlotte John - at Russells Hall hospital - an amazing person, an absolutely amazing nurse who has worked hard through this pandemic
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What is your response?Tonia Bradley Higher clinical support worker Fantastic care assistant who has been a ray of sunsunshine through all of this
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What is your response?Lead nurse Laura Postin who is an absolutely fantastic boss. She has supported all her 70 + staff amazingly thorough this epidemic I couldn’t think of no better boss
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What is your response?Sister Emily Dudley and Sister Bali Dredge - both sister’s on acute medical unit at Russells Hall This photo was taken before all this began but these 2 ladies have only been qualified a few years and as they had intensive care experience they had to leave the ward they worked on to do some time on the intensive care unit with all the patients who had covid 19. Not once did they complain even after so proud of them both.
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What is your response?Kimberley works for Superdrug been working so hard to help every person.
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What is your response?Robinson and Sproson Opticians in Hagley have remained open for emergencies throughout the pandemic. Although they cannot offer routine sight tests during lockdown, they have been offering emergency spectacle repairs for other keyworkers, and have been available by phone for patients who have concerns.
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What is your response?Karen Villa, who works at Russell’s Hall as a Theatre Nurse who hasn’t missed a day since this started. A true heroine , saving lives in tough circumstances.
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What is your response?Marie Bayliss Carer in care home. Thank you for all your hard work. Xx
What is your response?Dee Garland and the health staff at Old Park specialist school They have gone above and beyond the school nurses duty so need to be recognised they are an amazing team or care about each child at our amazing school based on the thorns road
What is your response?Mike Stokes, HGV Driver
What is your response?The Rapid Response End of Life Team, a community based nursing team that has dealt with patients in their own home who have had a Covid 19 diagnosis from which they will not recover due to other health problems or fragility due to age. The ethos of the team was to enable the patients a comfortable passing in the environment of their choice thus respecting the patients last wishes. The team was previously a palliative care team but were redeployed to meet the current crisis. The team has been very well supported by the Community Nursing Management Team.
What is your response?Me and my daughter Mollie Kendrick are community carers and have been working through out lock down
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What is your response?Emily Willis Caroline Hough Tom Hill Rachel Tyson
What is your response?Aaron Chawro - Paramedic at West Midlands Ambulance Service
What is your response?My cousin Lauren Evans who is over 20 weeks pregnant, works at Himley Mill care home as a senior care assistant on a unit that specialises in dementia. They have had confirmed cases on her unit but she does her best to ensure the residents are looked after to the highest standard of care
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What is your response?The guys at national tyres in Stourbridge hard working in these very tough times
What is your response?His name is Ricky Morgan. He is my son. He works in IT for the NHS. He is dedicated to his job and even though times have been rough lately he still turns up for work on time . At any time he could of give in and decided to stay at home and protect he's young baby and mom. But he knows how important his job is not only to him and his family but to the hospitals,doctors and chemists x
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What is your response?Mercy Johnson - Springview Care Home manager
What is your response?Mary Bytheway, works in the therapy department at Dudley Group NHS FT.
What is your response?Carl Sparrow, works at Styrotech where they supplied to the NHS to ensure PPE was packaged and delivered
What is your response?Sarah Cross Luke Cross Both work at Tesco
What is your response?Maggie Cartwright, works at Tesco
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What is your response?Katie Sparrow, works for Black Country Healthcare NHS FT and Volunteers for St John Ambulance
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What is your response?Thomas Bytheway, Paramedic / HALO from Dudley working at New Cross Hospital
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What is your response?Michelle Ashmore - care home manager for Oakleigh Lodge Care Home As you can see by the Photograph she has kept all spirits up during an awful time.
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