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Jon Brady

NHS vaccination hero who lost husband to Covid given Jubilee honour by the Queen

A nurse who joined the NHS's fight against Covid-19 despite losing her husband to the disease has been awarded the British Empire Medal in the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Honours.

Maria Hewitt, from Paisley, is being honoured for services to nursing during the pandemic after working on Covid wards and then as a vaccinator for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

She only qualified as a nurse in 2019 - at the age of 55 - after deciding on a change of career after 30 years in the police, and began work on Ward 5 at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in her hometown.

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