‘The vaccine spells hope to me’

Retired actress and teacher Sue Herdman will “most certainly” have the vaccine “as soon as they call me”.

Says the 81 year-old: “I am an aged person, classed as vulnerable. I think the knowledge of having the vaccine will instil faith in me. It spells hope. That means a great deal to all of us.”

And her advice to anyone offered the vaccine – “go for it”.

Sue, who “hasn’t coped well with the second lockdown”, added: “Life may gradually return to a semblance of normality once more.

“COVID, and the fear it brings, makes prisoners of us all – if not in the confines of our own home, in the fear it breeds.”