Mourners lined the streets this week to pay their respects to Donna Coleman, a teacher who died of coronavirus aged just 42.
An inspirational tutor, Donna went back to teaching at Burnley College when schools reopened, despite the fact she didn’t feel safe.
Today, her sister Vicki backs the Mirror’s call for an urgent vaccine for teachers on the coronavirus frontline. “We need teachers to be vaccinated as soon as possible,” she says.
Donna’s family wants to know why the government is failing to protect teachers. “Donna told me in September that she was scared,” her sister Vicki, 45, says. “Don’t get me wrong, she wanted to go back - she loved her job - but she said staff members were terrified.” Donna had no underlying health conditions.