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Tributes have been made to a 29-year-old healthcare assistant who died with Covid-19 after giving birth to her fourth child.
Becky Regan, who worked at North Tyneside Hospital from January 2020, was remembered by family and colleagues on Friday with a one-minute silence.
PA reports:
In a statement, James Mackey, chief executive of Northumbria Hospitals NHS Trust said:
“It’s with deep sadness that we mourn the loss of one of our own team who has tragically died this week.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has written to education minister Gavin Williamson to urge him to reinstate special funding for London universities worth £64 million which the government has withdrawn as part of a stated commitment to rebalance education spend towards other regions.
A 2019 report by KPMG for the Department for Education suggested that higher education costs 14% more to deliver in the capital.
Your letter has let slip the Government’s mask on this – that the levelling up agenda is actually a front for levelling down London.
Levelling up is a critical challenge within London as it is across England as a whole. Our city is grappling with deep and entrenched inequalities.
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