As we wave goodbye to 2019 and embrace a new decade, Durham schoolgirl Kayleigh Llewellyn’s gift of life is the greatest present any family could receive.
Our condolences and thanks go to the loved ones of the deceased donor, yet to the grieving.
The Daily Mirror’s successful campaign to change the law on transplants in England, copying opt-out systems adopted in Wales and Scotland, is a life-saver.
The passing of a decade and birth of another is a moment to count our blessings and look forward to what the future holds.
Kayleigh is living proof that dreams sometimes do come true. Happy New Year.
The right notes
Labour contenders hoping to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as party leader are falling over themselves to be patriotic.
This illustrates how much they recognise the party suffered from a perception the outgoing leader didn’t believe in his country.
Corbyn insisted during the campaign that he did, but poison spread by his enemies had turned too many voters against him.
Rivals for a tarnished Labour crown are echoing Tony Blair and Gordon Brown who, in the party’s successful era, constantly wrapped themselves in the flag.
Loudly declaring in today’s Daily Mirror that they sing God Save the Queen is a chorus of politicians serious about winning elections.
For Greta good
Sir David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg have done more than anyone else on the planet to raise awareness of the dangers of impending climate change emergency.
The mutual admiration between the British master of the natural world and his Swedish apprentice reflects how – when it comes to saving our world from cataclysmic global heating – we really are all in this together.
