JOHN STOBART

‘My lovely wife died of cancer within 12 weeks of its diagnosis all within the lockdown. We couldn’t have visits by her friends to see her nor could we have a proper funeral, just a miserable pinched affair of eight people who had to stay well apart listening to recorded hymn singing. Rage? Yes, I feel rage and always will. My wife’s name was Anne Stobart and we had been married for 43 years having first met at university in the 1970s.’