Derry’s health heroes: you sent us photos of friends and family on the frontline - now we salute them

It’s a simple gesture – but one that captures the heartfelt praise so much of us want to offer to everyone on our health service front line, as well as care workers, key workers and those in other essential roles.

The #healthheroes campaign - which follows the regional press campaign #ThereWithYou - goes far beyond hospitals. It also shines a light on those other vital key roles from carers and shop workers to refuse collectors and bus drivers as they play their part.

So that is why today more than 100 titles across jpimedia have come together to say thank you and salute those who are making a difference in our community.

Today we are celebrating those who are making a real difference in the fight against this virus.

Our readers have spoken of their pride in our health workers and they have shared photos of those on whom we have rarely depended more and they have shared their heartfelt messages of appreciation to those who are making the ultimate sacrifice to keep us safe and healthy.

Jeremy Clifford, editor-in-chief, said: “We have heard so many great stories of key workers who are continuing to work that we wanted to pay tribute to these in a big statement across our portfolio of products.

“As a result of an appeal to readers, we have been inundated with photos and messages. We hope that by putting them on our home pages and front pages, we are playing our small part in thanking those workers.”

And for jpimedia’s titles it is an opportunity to join together as a collective force to celebrate and champion those in the heart of our communities. After all, we live in those areas, we love those areas and we care about those who live there. They are quite simply our heroes - and they mean so very much.

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