As the first Muslim female council leader in the North of England, Arooj Shah feels her decisions come under more scrutiny than those of her white, male counterparts.
05.11.2021 - 12:53 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A Dumfries woman has decorated the front of her house with knitted poppies in the run-up to Remembrance Day.
Betty Kerr, of Georgetown, created more than 70 of the poppies during lockdown to give her something to pass the time.
And now she has displayed them outside her home and they have gone down well with passers-by.
The 72-year-old, pictured, said: “I knitted it myself in lockdown.
“I thought I might as well do it and put it up.
“It seems to have gone down well as a lot of people look at it as
As the first Muslim female council leader in the North of England, Arooj Shah feels her decisions come under more scrutiny than those of her white, male counterparts.
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Queen Elizabeth II is resting after spraining her back over the weekend.
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