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Sara Royle

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  • Journalist and Copywriter, Freelance
  • Broadcast Journalist, BBC
Sheffield
As seen in: BBC, Terra, Lancashire Telegraph, The Westmorland Gazette, The Big Issue in the North, Sheffield Tribune, Silent Radio
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The legendary garage in the 'lesbian capital of the north'

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By Sara Royle Verified
| Sheffield Tribune Verified
By Sara Royle The banners were painstakingly strapped to the ‘Welcome to Sheffield’ signs on the city’s main entry roads. As the cars zoomed past, some of the drivers peered out at the block lettering, checking they’d got it right the first time. ‘Sheffield: Lesbian capital of the north.’ The woman behind the banners, Ros Wall, was just one of three gay women who ran Gwenda’s Garage — one of the only all-female owned garages in the country.
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A scalpel and cuts

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By Sara Royle Verified, Antonia Charlesworth Verified
| The Big Issue in the North Verified
Betsy Evans knew that she wanted to work in medicine from just 12 years old. “My father was very unwell,” she said. “He had issues with his heart. That’s not why I became a cardiac surgeon but he was in hospital for many months and I saw how significantly transformed he was by good medical care and attention.” The daughter of a doctor (her mother was an anaesthetist), Evans (pictured) would go on to blaze a trail in her field.
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‘What are we going to do without carers?’

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By Sara Royle Verified, Christian Lisseman Verified
| The Big Issue in the North Verified
Unrelenting schedules, poor pay and burnt-out staff leaving in their droves – that’s the picture that’s been painted of the UK’s social care provision by the people that know it best. Speaking to Big Issue North, carers from across the North describe shifts with no breaks, working weeks of up to 70 hours and colleagues leaving for better paid jobs with fewer responsibilities.
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