It was a pleasure to meet local legend Brian Kokoruwe this week to learn about the challenges COVID-19 has presented with the deaf or hard of hearing community.
As someone who is deaf in one ear I know that the wearing of face masks has made it even harder to hear and engage with people in shops.
That is why it is so important in retail, hospitality and leisure face visors are used to enable lip reading, is one way which can help.
Brian will send me a full list of what can be improved to help make sure deaf and hard of hearing people are able to have better access and this will be sent in to government.