Share your tributes: Help us remember the Bristolians lost to Covid-19

We want to tell the stories of people in the city whose lives were lost to Covid. Share your tributes to help us remember them.

Cable Community News 11th March, 2021

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_{Photo: Shawn Spencer-Smith}

It’s been a full year since we entered our first lockdown. In that time, the pandemic has taken an incalculable toll.

Life in Bristol will feel different for those of us emerging from the lockdown having lost loved ones, friends, or members of our community. So often, we’ve relied on data to help chart a sense of what’s happening around us. But behind those numbers are the deeper stories about who, and what, we’ve lost.

We want to remember people in Bristol who have died from coronavirus. So we’re compiling a selection of tributes as part of a project called Lives Remembered.

To do this, we are asking for help from readers. Please tell us if you know of anyone whose life was lost to Covid, and whose story we might tell. We will publish a selection of these stories in our April print edition and online.

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Maggie Moss

March 13, 2021 at 11:18 am

I REALLY hope remembrance of Covid victims will NOT be through the mass release of polluting, plastic balloons – A very badly chosen pic

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- Bob
  
  March 14, 2021 at 12:16 pm
  
  I think those are hot air balloons…
  
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Maggie Moss

March 13, 2021 at 11:20 am

I REALLY hope the remembrance of Covid Victims will NOT be via the mass release of plastic polluting ballons – a badly chosen pic I’m afraid

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