Praise for the NHS – but don’t forget our other key workers, too

Letter from: Peter Bartram, The Meadway, Shoreham
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We’ve rightly heard praise for NHS staff, care workers and others in the public sector during the present crisis.

But there are two other groups who I believe deserve our profound thanks.

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The first are the people who staff our local supermarkets and corner shops. In some ways, they face potential dangers as difficult as those of health workers.

Yet in my experience of shopping in Shoreham, they carry out their work with quiet efficiency and cheerful friendliness.

The second group are the postmen and women who help to keep us in touch with the outside world.

Theirs can’t be an easy job at any time, let alone the present. Yet the post arrives on time every day, just as it did before the crisis broke.

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So those of us who live in the Adur District should raise three cheers for these groups who – in difficult times – make our lives easier.

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