{"id":3033,"date":"2025-07-23T15:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T14:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmhazards.org.uk\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:35:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:35:42","slug":"one-of-our-own-caroline-shelton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmhazards.org.uk\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/one-of-our-own-caroline-shelton\/","title":{"rendered":"One of our own, Caroline Shelton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"557\" height=\"429\" src=\"https:\/\/gmhazards.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Caroline-Shelton.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gmhazards.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Caroline-Shelton.jpg 557w, https:\/\/gmhazards.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Caroline-Shelton-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:32px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d4eaf7\">Veteran safety campaigner Caroline Shelton died on Saturday after a long and painful battle with cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d4eaf7\">Caroline was a long-standing widely-respected TUC tutor at the Workers\u2019 Education Association and regular participant in the National Hazards conference at Keele, and at London Hazards Centre trustees\u2019 board meetings since 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d4eaf7\">London Hazards Centre board of trustees elected Caroline as honorary president in May in our grateful appreciation for her many years\u2019 service as a determined fighter for a safer London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d4eaf7\">Caroline&#8217;s funeral will be on Thursday 31st July in Saint Botolph&#8217;s, Northfleet, Gravesend DA11 9EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d4eaf7\">Words and photo from Steve Ballard London Hazards Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/jul\/30\/caroline-shelton-obituary\"><mark style=\"background-color:#8ed1fc\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/jul\/30\/caroline-shelton-obituary<\/mark><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran safety campaigner Caroline Shelton died on Saturday after a long and painful battle with cancer. Caroline was a long-standing widely-respected TUC tutor at the Workers\u2019 Education Association and regular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news_item","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmhazards.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmhazards.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmhazards.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmhazards.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmhazards.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/gmhazards.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3109,"href":"https:\/\/gmhazards.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions\/3109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmhazards.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmhazards.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmhazards.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}